Your biggest source of innovation isn’t R&D. It’s everyone else.

We help you unlock that potential by connecting operational excellence with creative innovation, making innovation practical, human, and part of everyday work.

When we include everyone from Finance to HR, from IT to Supply Chain, the innovation potential grows dramatically.

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Innovation for “Everyone Else”

If innovation lives only in new products or R&D, 80–90% of the company is left out.

When everyone can innovate on all types of problems, the organization becomes smarter, faster, and more adaptive.

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Innovation isn’t just about creating something new—it’s about improving what already works and finding better ways to deliver value.

Innovation isn’t a department. It’s a practice that lives in the work.

Everyone is creative. Anyone can Innovate.

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The truth is, creativity is a set of cognitive processes anyone can use to solve problems — to innovate. When people are given permission and support to experiment, they can build creative solutions to any problem.

Innovation starts with small, smart changes that improve how we work every day.

Increase Your Return on (Existing) Talent

Build your innovation capability while solving real-world business challenges with breakthrough solutions.

Our approach is grounded in cognitive and learning science, focusing on how people think, learn, and adapt.

Five-stage list: 1 Awareness, Listen and Discover — see where innovation already lives and how people adapt in real work. 2 Action, Activate Through Real Work — build confidence and momentum by solving live business challenges. 3 Learning, Reflect and Share What's Learned — turn experience into shared capability across teams. 4 Leadership, Coach and Enable the System — create adaptive leadership without sacrificing reliability. 5 Sustainability, Connect and Grow — make innovation a durable, self-reinforcing way of working.

We combine the best of executive education, consulting, and accelerators to give you usable results as you learn.

Trusted by Teams Across the World

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What People Are Saying

“You were the best strategic decision of my career. We needed to step back, see the bigger picture.”
— Director of US Supply Chain, Global Fast Food Restaurant
“I used to think I didn’t know much about my project’s technical area. Now I realise I have a lot to contribute.”
— Australian Public Service Leader
“I’ve had the same people working with the same data, finding the same solutions. You showed them how to think differently.”
— Customer & Commercial VP, The Coca-Cola Company

Built For the People that Keep Organizations Running

Enterprise Enablement, Operations and Commercial are built for reliability.

But in today’s world, reliability alone isn’t enough.

We help these teams become innovation engines that drive change and create business value without losing stability.

The result is operational excellence

  • Faster adaptation to change
  • Stronger team performance and culture
  • Responsible, human-centered innovation
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Expand your innovation potential.

Functions that once maintained the system now evolve it.

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Innovation is a Human Practice

The world doesn’t need more innovation programs.

It needs more innovators.

Behind every number and metric is the story of people discovering their capacity to innovate.

We start where people are, using practical, supportive experiences to build confidence and curiosity. Innovation grows through reflection, experimentation, and connection. It’s not just training.

When innovation becomes a human practice, organizations evolve from within.

Measuring Innovation With Impact

45 Direct Participants, 200 Total Stakeholders, 1200 Solutions Generated, 10 Tested Prototypes, 250M Annual Savings (forecast)

North American Supply Chain

People Rocket led six teams of participants from across the supply chain, from manufacturing to store, through a nine-month innovation-ish accelerator. The result was an approved initial business case, winning executive approval for multi-year funding.

80 Direct Participants, 250 Total Stakeholders, 45 Hours of Instruction, 3 Learning Formats, 7 Trainers Licensed

Australian Government Innovation

People Rocket facilitated a joint research project with three Australian departments to study methods of teaching innovation. Seven APS trainers were trained and licensed to teach the Innovation-ish as innovation catalysts in the government.

30 Stakeholder Interviews, 20 Workshop Hours, 21 Research Insights, 4 Strategic Opportunities, 175K Gallons of Waste Saved Annually on a single item

200,000 Gallons of Waste Saved

People Rocket mapped the route of a recipe from marketing to restaurant for the first time ever. Through interviews and workshops, four opportunities were discovered allowing for system-level improvements in four main areas.

We’re the Innovation-ish Consulting Firm, helping organizations turn insight into impact.

Authors, Design Educators and Consultants Rich and Tessa share their years of experience and lessons learned in the book Innovation-ish: How Anyone Can Create Breakthrough Solutions to Real Problems in the Real World.

For years, People Rocket has used the Innovation-ish Approach with our clients, creating breakthrough solutions to their most complex problems.

Learn more about this innovative approach at www.innovationish.com

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Let’s Build Your Innovation Practice

Turn your innovation from a program to a capability that drives impact every day.

Start Building

Build an organization that adapts faster, performs stronger, and stays ahead of what’s next.

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