Mike is the Chief Innovation Officer at Shackleton Labs. He has spent the past decade as a purpose-driven executive leader in the not for profit and social enteprise sector.
Mike has helped not for profits, social enterprises and purpose-driven businesses embrace innovation thinking and practices. His approach is strategic and ambitious, focused on maximising revenue and social impact.
For purpose leaders know that innovation plays a powerful role in enabling growth, impact and scale. They just aren’t always sure how to start on their innovation journey and best practice to ensure it’s success.
Shackleton is here to guide leaders and their organisations on their innovation journey and to enable innovation in the for purpose sector. Meet Shackleton and explore our four service streams below-
Fractional Chief Innovation Offier (CIO)
This is for you if you want ongoing innovation leadership support, management and contribution.
Ideal for mid-sized not for profits and social enterprises that need ongoing innovation leadership but not a full-time executive.
The focus of this role would include innovation strategy, experiments and pilots, evaluation, overseeing an innovation council.
This may range from 2 days per month to 8 days per month depending on desired scope and intensity.
The benefit here is flexible and cost-contained executive level innovation leadership, support and guidance to ensure organisation-wide innovation efforts are best practice and support growth, social impact and scale.
Innovation Culture and Capability Track
This is for you if you want to build an innovation culture and equip leaders and your people as everyday innovators.
Ideal for organisations that are keen to design and embed cultural elements and capacity and capability building sessions to increase innovation potential, activity and impact over time.
These are time-bound programs with monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly sessions that are package into a custom program with clear objectives and outcomes measurement
This includes an organisation-wide innovation survey and report before and after program, leadership workshops on innovation ambition, mindset shifts, decision-rules, collaboration for impact as well as staff labs on design thinking, experimentation and idea-to-pilot pathways
The benefit here is a structured, time-bound and intentional approach to developing an innovation culture and matching people capacity and capability set
Innovation Masterclasses
Innovation Coaching
This is for you if you want an innovation session to inspire, activate and equip your people with applied innovation skills.
Ideal for organisations that want a specific session or activation for an all-staff day, executive or leadership off-site etc.
These are 90-minute to full day sessions that provide high-impact learning, inspiration and practical follow-through tools and guidance that can be applied by your leaders and people.
Such sessions can be tailored to a specific organisational goals or need and can include set office-hours to enable clear follow-through support and Q&A for your people.
The benefit here is low-cost and commitment way to test the Shackleton approach, whilst gaining an immediate uplift in innovation understanding, thinking, motivation, mindset and approaches.
This is for you or your leaders if you want 1:1 or group coaching to help solve innovation challenges or embark on opportunities.
Ideal for CEOs, executives, leaders, managers and teams who want to coaching on innovation leadership, strategies, tactics and approaches for success.
Can be standalone, individual, group and best bundled with any of the above services. Recommended to develop a package that runs across a minimum six-month or annual cycle with key success metrics set prior and tracked throughout.
The benefit here is a flexible way to ensure innovation readiness and skills uplift across your leadership team to ensure organisation-wide success of any major innovation efforts.