Stimulus-led Workshop & Innovation Sprint Capability

Teams navigating new and ambiguous territory need more than facilitation. Teams get stuck optimising what they already know with the wagon framing and stimulus.

I specialise in the upstream work, bringing frontier technology signals, human insight, oss cultural context, industry movement and emerging human behaviour help me. and cross-sector evidence into the room to shift what's possible in the conversation.

Recent workshop engagements

Ranging from 12-week innovation sprints to single-day provocations, across energy, consumer tech, healthcare, telecoms, and design studios.


OVO Energy

Smart Home Innovation Sprint

A 12-week program spanning research synthesis, creative workshops, envisioning, and executive pitch. Built the workshop architecture and navigated internal dynamics to create space for new thinking.

12 weeks Smart home Multi-workshop

Lenovo

Emerging Technology Futures

Two workshops in San Francisco exploring the human and product opportunity in emerging tech — moving beyond making existing experiences faster toward defining entirely new value propositions.

San Francisco Consumer tech Futures

Johnson & Johnson

50-Person Innovation Workshop

Two intensive days in Jacksonville with scientists, engineers, designers and marketers. Used real-time AI image generation to accelerate concept visualisation across a large, mixed group.

50 people Jacksonville AI-assisted

Deutsche Telekom

Product Vision Design Sprint

A week-long design sprint in Bonn, balancing customer needs, leadership ambitions, manufacturing constraints, and brand distinctiveness. Also embedded as expert advisor on an earlier product vision workshop.

Bonn Week-long sprint Advisory

Logitech

AI Impact on Product Portfolio

Leadership workshop in Cork with the senior team — exploring the strategic impact of AI across the MX portfolio and identifying where AI creates genuine new value rather than incremental improvement.

Cork Leadership team AI strategy

Map Project Office

Circular Design Provocation

Challenged the team to reimagine a product they'd already shipped — Sky Glass TV, designed in 2019. A fictional scenario pushed the team beyond sustainability compliance into genuinely new circular thinking.

Provocation Circular design Day session

When to bring us in

  • Expert team, unfamiliar territory

    Your team is world-class at what they build. But in unfamiliar territory, the wrong first move is expensive.

  • Many directions, no way forward

    Your vision means something different to every function. Without alignment, every month is a month lost.

  • No funding without vision

    You know where this should go. But the board or investors need to see it, believe it, and fund it before you can start building.

★★★★★

  • “Matthew is an exceptional designer, one of the best I’ve worked with. He inspires all those he works with."

    Chief Strategic Design Advisor, LG Electronics

  • “I enjoyed Matthew's positivity and most of all his flexibility and outstanding creativity!"

    Global Product Manager, Logitech

  • “Matthew works like Usain Bolt runs at the Olympics”

    CPO, Head of Autonomous Humanoid Systems

  • “He became one of my most trusted advisors. I have complete trust in Matthew from a creative and operational standpoint”

    Partner, Innovation Venture Fund, BDC

  • “Everyone was buzzing. Your lens on the question was exactly what we needed"

    Head of Design, Global Strategy Consultancy

  • “Matthew gets us from 0-1 like know one else I know.”

    Investor, Hardware Scale up

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