Mike works with boards. C-Suites, Senior leaders, and founders to help them make sense of the rapidly changing landscape in which they operate. He brings the unique combination of skills of a battle-hardened operator, as well as an award-winning professor and public speaker, along with an obsessive appetite to stay hyper-current on technology and business trends and business models to each and every engagement.
Mid-cap, large-cap, or mega-cap — every advisory engagement starts with a specific, measurable outcome the work can be held accountable to. Pick the one that maps to where you actually are.
University programs building startup talent pipelines and innovation capabilities. Mike brings 15+ years of teaching across MIT, Rutgers, Brown, and Berkeley. He designs curricula, builds mentor networks, and creates connections between students and real-world innovation.
Corporate teams tasked with building innovation capability without disrupting core business. Mike advises on innovation governance, ecosystem partnerships, venture investing strategies, and how to build an internal culture that actually ships new ventures.
Founders who need a strategic advisor on product strategy, market expansion, team building, and navigating the journey to Series B or Series C. Mike has been in the founder’s seat five times. He advises on what actually works.
A structured process to identify where innovation opportunities exist in your market or organization. Includes competitive landscape analysis, emerging technology assessment, and a clear roadmap for what to build first.
End-to-end support for building customer-centric products and services. Covers discovery research, prototyping, testing with real customers, and moving quickly from concept to MVP.
Building or strengthening your organization's connections to startups, accelerators, universities, and innovation partners. Includes venture capital strategy and how to structure partnerships with external innovators.
Custom programs for boards, leadership teams, and faculty building innovation capability. Designed to create shared frameworks and decision-making structures. Not awareness. Action.
A standing advisory relationship. Mike is available for time-sensitive calls. Provides independent perspective on major innovation decisions and strategy questions.
An intensive 8 to 12-week engagement with a defined output. Could be innovation strategy, new product roadmap, ecosystem partnership plan, or curriculum design. Mike works directly with your team.
An ongoing relationship for founders, CEOs, and innovation leaders. Typically two sessions per month. Strategic dialogue with no prescribed deliverables.
Most innovation advisors teach about innovation. Mike still does innovation. He builds companies. He teaches at major universities. He mentors startups. The advice comes from current practice.
Here are some of the ways I have created value for the organizations I advise:
Bring Mike to your next event, or bring him to the table for your most consequential innovation and AI decisions.
Mike Grandinetti is a globally recognized expert in corporate innovation, disruptive business model innovation, AI, and entrepreneurship. He is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and faculty at Brown University's School of Engineering. He teaches executive education at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon. Oxford, NYU Abu Dhabi, Babson College, and Harvard Professional and Executive Development.
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