Michaela Hildebrandt your partner for

Innovation Managers

Michaela Hildebrandt
your partner for

Innovation Managers

Michaela Hildebrandt
your partner for

Innovation Managers

Practical design solutions to uncover opportunities, engage stakeholders, and make change stick

From research to systems — designing products that work, scale, and delight.

Practical design solutions to uncover opportunities, engage stakeholders, and make change stick

Drive meaningful innovation with methods that turn ideas into lasting business outcomes.

Your Challenges

As an Innovation Manager, you drive change inside established organizations. Common hurdles include:

• Difficulty uncovering real customer needs

→ projects risk misalignment.

• Stakeholder resistance

→ hard to get buy-in for new approaches.

• Innovation theater

→ ideas generated but not implemented.

• Lack of collaboration

→ silos block experimentation.

• Scaling new practices

→ tough to embed design thinking across the org.

Your Challenges

As an Innovation Manager, you drive change inside established organizations. Common hurdles include:

• Difficulty uncovering real customer needs

→ projects risk misalignment.

• Stakeholder resistance

→ hard to get buy-in for new approaches.

• Innovation theater

→ ideas generated but not implemented.

• Lack of collaboration

→ silos block experimentation.

• Scaling new practices

→ tough to embed design thinking across the org.

Your Challenges

As an Innovation Manager, you drive change inside established organizations. Common hurdles include:

• Difficulty uncovering real customer needs

→ projects risk misalignment.

• Stakeholder resistance

→ hard to get buy-in for new approaches.

• Innovation theater

→ ideas generated but not implemented.

• Lack of collaboration

→ silos block experimentation.

• Scaling new practices

→ tough to embed design thinking across the org.

How I Help

I enable meaningful, lasting innovation:

• Service Design & Research

→ Ground innovation in user and business value.

• Design Thinking Workshops 

→ Engage stakeholders and create buy-in.

• Prototyping & Testing 

→ Move from ideas to validated concepts quickly.

• Agile Product Leadership 

→ Embed innovation practices into delivery.

How I Help

I enable meaningful, lasting innovation:

• Service Design & Research

→ Ground innovation in user and business value.

• Design Thinking Workshops 

→ Engage stakeholders and create buy-in.

• Prototyping & Testing 

→ Move from ideas to validated concepts quickly.

• Agile Product Leadership 

→ Align, create shared vision.

How I Help

I enable meaningful, lasting innovation:

• Service Design & Research

→ Ground innovation in user and business value.

• Design Thinking Workshops 

→ Engage stakeholders and create buy-in.

• Prototyping & Testing 

→ Move from ideas to validated concepts quickly.

• Agile Product Leadership 

→ Embed innovation practices into delivery.

Methods That Work

• Service Design

→ Map and improve end-to-end experiences.

• Design Thinking

→ Collaborative, human-centered innovation.

• Prototyping & User Testing

→ Evidence before investment.

• Agile Product Leadership

→ Make innovation sustainable.

Methods That Work

• Service Design

→ Map and improve end-to-end experiences.

• Design Thinking

→ Collaborative, human-centered innovation.

• Prototyping & User Testing

→ Evidence before investment.

• Agile Product Leadership

→ Make innovation sustainable.

Methods That Work

• Service Design

→ Map and improve end-to-end experiences.

• Design Thinking

→ Collaborative, human-centered innovation.

• Prototyping & User Testing

→ Evidence before investment.

• Agile Product Leadership

→ Make innovation sustainable.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have any other questions, please email us.

We’ve run workshops before, but nothing stuck. How is this different?

I ensure follow-through by linking workshops directly to actionable pilots.

Our stakeholders are skeptical. How do you help?

By involving them early in co-creation, turning resistance into ownership.

How do we embed innovation beyond one project?

I set up repeatable methods—so innovation becomes part of how your org works.

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