Strategic Partner Innovation Point

InnovationPoint is a non-traditional management consulting firm focused on Strategic Innovation. We
help organizations achieve business breakthroughs that grow the topline - through opportunity
identification, new business creation, strategy development and new product, service and category
innovation. We help our clients build sustainable innovation capability by addressing strategic,
organizational and cultural challenges.

Based on our Silicon Valley heritage, we understand real innovation. Our firm's leaders come from
industry, having driven innovation internally at companies including Alegent Health, CHRISTUS Health,
Fairview Health Services, HP, 3M, Nestlé, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and Frito-Lay among others.

Soren Kaplan is a Managing Principal of InnovationPoint LLC
(www.innovation-point.com) where he works with leading companies in
the area strategic innovation for business growth. His recent clients
include CHRISTUS Health, Philips Medical Systems, Visa, Disney,
JPMorgan Chase, Dean Foods, and numerous others leading firms.
Prior to founding InnovationPoint, Soren started iCohere, an enterprise
software and consulting firm that supports web-based collaboration for
online communities of practice, virtual teams and e-learning. Soren
previously served as Manager of Business Strategy Consulting at
Hewlett-Packard where he led an internal consulting group that assisted
leadership teams across HP with strategic planning, product and service
innovation, and organizational change management. He has presented
and lectured at dozens of conferences and institutions, including the
Creative Education Foundation and the Harvard Business School.
Quotes and articles from Soren have appeared in numerous
publications including Fast Company, Strategy & Leadership, and the
Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, among others. He
holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Psychology.

Stu Winby's practice area focus is in strategy innovation, organization
strategy and execution, and individual and executive team development.

Stu has over 25 years management experience as well as cross-industry
international consulting experience. His recent work has been mostly
with CEO and executive team members of medium to Fortune 500 size
firms. Stu managed Hewlett Packard's Strategy, Organization, and
Change Organization for over ten years. Prior to this position he
managed HP's Factory of the Future organization and program. Stu was
Vice-President for Advisory Services at the American Productivity
Center (APC) where he was responsible for productivity management,
organization strategy and design, and work innovations research and
application. His work has been documented in numerous books, articles
and professional journals. Several Harvard Business School Cases
have been written on projects he has consulted to, as well as numerous
best practice case studies documented by the Conference Board and
others.

Stu has been an active member in numerous initiatives such the White
House Initiative on Productivity and the California Governor Workplace
forums. He has been a frequent guest lecturer at various Universities
such as Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Wharton, UCLA and USC business
schools. He received degrees from San Jose State University with
additional graduate studies from Stanford University. He is a graduate of
the Advanced Program in Organization Development and Human
Resources Management Colombia University, and Harvard's program
on Professional Services Management.