Focused leadership session
An in-depth conversation around a defined challenge or opportunity.
Speaking & advisory · Alon Melchner
Strategic Innovation Advisory
Identify an opportunity, develop a direction and define how to start, with the people who know the organization.
Alon Melchner · Founder & CEO, Mixed.Place · Futurist, entrepreneur & innovation advisor
Start with the people and the purpose
When a challenge is complex or an opportunity is still hard to articulate, a strategic conversation can connect the bigger picture with practical possibilities. Alon works with leaders, teams and founders on innovation questions.
The work brings together business understanding, creative thinking and technology. It starts with goals and users, explores alternatives and develops a direction grounded in the organization’s reality.
What happens in the session?
Understand the context
Goals, audiences, constraints and assumptions to examine.
Identify opportunities
Look at experiences, products and services from new angles.
Develop a direction
Create concepts, priorities and criteria for choosing.
Define an experiment
Turn the selected direction into a brief, pilot or next-step plan within the agreed scope.
Choose a starting point
Concept development
Work together on a value proposition, experience or new service.
Ongoing advisory
Thinking and working sessions with a leadership team through a process.
Founder advisory
Clarify the vision, differentiation, product experience and how to communicate them.
Outputs may include an opportunity map, concept directions, an experiment brief or priorities. Scope and responsibilities are agreed at the start.
From sessions and conversations along the way
Archival photographs show different forms of conversation and exploration. The content of your own session is shaped around your needs.
Adapted to your industry too
We can work around HR and learning, fintech, real estate, technology, marketing, retail or another industry. Even when topics overlap, the audience and purpose shape the approach.
Start with a conversation
How could innovation move your industry forward?
Tell us about your audience, challenge and what you would like to happen after the session. Together we can shape a keynote, workshop or process that fits.