RiverStoneBlue

Helping medium and large organization to kickstart or level-up their Ideation, Incubation and Intrapreneurship activities in order to make a true difference and create real value for the challenges and opportunities you are facing.

Founder | Consultant | Trainer | Coach

The Tailored Intrapreneurship Learning Toolbox (TILT) is about creating innovative habits. It’s not a one-directed training that ends up in your drawer. It’s an applied learning approach to develop intrapreneurs that can independently generate value for your company!

Tailored Intrapreneurship Learning Toolbox

Storytelling is a fantastic way to share and inspire! I have experiences to draw upon and share – the good, the bad and the ugly. If you’re looking for an experienced and inspiring speaker – look no further. I’d love to work with you for other event-related work, such as event moderation, innovation panelist, and workshop host.

Exciting Keynotes

Having lived and breathed Ideation & Innovation as a practitioner, I can now provide you with hands-on advise as your trainer and coach. At the heart of successful, value generating ideation is setting the right question and driving a more intense collaboration. It’ll deliver higher implementation ratios and thus enable you to realize more value.

Enabling Training & Coaching

Hire me as your external Campaign or Community Manager, or completely outsource online ideation to me with the RiverStoneBlue All-In-One Ideation Pack.

Executing Online Ideation

SEIN - Expertisecentrum voor epilepsie en slaapgeneeskunde

Interim manager voor medewerker gedreven innovatieprogramma, oa verantwoordelijk voor:
- Publieke hackathon
- Begeleiden diverse innovatie projecten
- Opzetten en leveren van het “Ik innoveer” scholingsprogramma om intern ondernemerschap te stimuleren

Interim Innovatie Programma Manager

Limpid & co

Corporate Innovation Expert

Innovation Stickers

Chief Stickiness Officer

ROEL | Collaborative Innovation Management

Independent Business Owner

HYPE Innovation

Enterprise Innovation Consultant

Liberty Global

Responsible for international rollout and management of Liberty Globals's innovation program (Spark).

Innovation Program Manager

UPC Nederland

Focus on new business models and Next Generation Networks. Created and implemented the innovation program (Spark) for all UPCNL employees.

Business Developer/ Strategy Consultant

Furthering progress on SoD-project and other projects for UPC, like a new portal by which the operation can raise IT issues.

IT Project Manager

RealFlair B.V.

Assignments:

UPC NL: Project manager for a SOx-related (Segregation of Duties) project; 01/04/2008 - 31/10/2008
Start-up company: Market research, writing business plans and processes; 01/07/07 - 31/03/08
RealFlair: Managing of several research projects; 01/07/07 - 31/03/08
Friesland Bank: Implementing of the new strategy; 01/09/2006 - 30/06/2007

Junior Consultant

Friesland Bank

Process redesign and the compete introduction of the so-called PSU that helps account managers during their sales conversations and the communication with the back office.

Intern Business Improvement

Igniting innovation within corporate walls is my passion. For over a decade, I've guided corporate employees to unlock their creative potential and drive meaningful change from within their organizations.

Many talented professionals feel stifled by rigid corporate structures, struggling to bring fresh ideas to life. I bridge this gap, empowering individuals to become catalysts for innovation in their companies.

Through proven frameworks and hands-on learning experiences, I transform corporate employees into skilled intrapreneurs. My approach blends design thinking, lean startup methodologies, and business model innovation to equip professionals with practical tools for ideation and execution.

Participants in my programs consistently report increased confidence in pitching ideas, improved problem-solving skills, and a renewed sense of purpose in their roles. Many have successfully launched internal projects that have significantly impacted their organizations' bottom lines.

My tailored courses and workshops have helped hundreds of corporate innovators across various industries. From ideation sprints to long-term innovation capability building, I provide the guidance and support needed to navigate the complexities of corporate innovation.

If you're ready to unleash your innovative potential and make a lasting impact within your organization, let's connect. Together, we can transform your ideas into reality and propel your career to new heights.


CONTACT ME!

I’ve never knowingly refused an invitation to talk about innovation. If you want to include me as a speaker at your next event, have me as a trainer or workshop host, or get our help to set up your own intrapreneurship toolbox or innovation lab, 

Message me here on LinkedIn, 
Call me on +316 2251 0348, or 
Email me on roel@riverstone.blue.

Roel de Vries

Mark Famy

The Ideas Agency

The Ideas Agency is here to ignite the creative force in your people, so that together we can unlock new opportunity and positively impact the lives of your customers.

Business Designer

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

Strategy and Entrepreneurship - Associate Lecturer Executive MBA

The AIM Institute

Helping companies create successful new products by giving their practitioners, often product managers and engineers, the tools and knowledge to accurately understand customer needs.

With this customer-centric approach, more profitable growth is assured. Even better, when guided by customer insights, product development is faster, less expensive, more profitable, and more actionable.

𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 because with customer insight, feature decisions will be more accurate, reducing the need for additional prototyping rounds.
𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 for the same reason. Less money spent on prototypes and tooling, and less time spent by engineers as well.
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 - a customer-centric innovation strategy is the most proven path to product development success.
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 -  Powered by an ambitious Voice of the customer program, product management, marketing, business development and engineering will all be on the same page. Instead of arguing their personal agendas, they will make informed decisions based on actionable insights from customers.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗜𝗠 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀?
AIM provides training, SaaS software tools, coaching, certification opportunities, and a massive knowledge centre. Practitioners plug into AIM's proven systems and simply cannot fail. They are trained in leading Voice of the Customer (VoC) methods, jobs-to-be-done (JTBD), market research in order to build innovation, marketing, product development & customer experience capabilities.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀?
As Blueprinter trainer and coach, I guide you through the process to help you and your teams on the path to learn new skills that can be applied again and again in future product development.

Innovation Process Trainer and Coach - New Product Blueprinting 

Saint-Gobain Sekurit

A cultural transformation role to level up our approach to put our customers at the centre of everything we do.

Championing Customer Centricity 

Saint-Gobain

Formulating strategies, processes, and delivering sustainable innovation practices to High Performance Systems organisation within Saint-Gobain

Interface with businesses within HPS to help meet their goals and objectives using advising on appropriate innovation techniques and tools.

Be a central point of contact for HPS and for interest within Saint-Gobain for Innovation Tools and techniques

Innovation Development

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics

Formulating strategies and processes for internal and external idea management.

Work with the business to help meet their goals and objectives using advising on appropriate innovation techniques and tools.

Helps foster entrepreneurship within the company.

Improving our intellectual property idea process

Innovation Platform Leader ENC

•	Realisation and development of new business ideas within core markets or in completely new market segments.
•	Identification of potential new applications and customers.
•	Analysis of strategies & portfolios as well as the profitability, feasibility and risk analysis of new projects.
•	A central point for new business ideas and feasibility.

Market Development Manager

•	Innovation training for processes and tools most effective for promoting innovation within the company.
•	Determine innovation needs of strategic business units within Europe.
•	Facilitate innovation sessions for business teams to solve critical challenges.
•	Train, facilitate & coach personnel in innovation processes.
•	Continuously improve the innovation tools, training and application.

Innovation Process Manager

Project managing customer solutions for tolerance rings ensuring their success both technically and commercially for automotive and appliance industries.

Technical Project Manager

ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK & Ireland

Designing and identifying the introduction of new products from initial concept to full manufacture within the architectural hardware market.

Project Engineer

Shasonic Group

Sales Consultant in a leading independent retailer specialising in high end audio visual equipment. Duties included shop floor management, merchandising and dealing with customer complaints.

Audio Visual Consultant

Centre for applied science and technology information (formally HOSDB)

Provided scientific, analytical and technical assistance in Firearms and Protective Equipment Department. Assisting in a number of projects on-site as well as in the field.

Scientific Officer

📈 Innovation Strategy, Process and Culture - Design and Delivery of.. Keynotes, Events, Workshops, Coaching & Training for… Future Focussed Leaders 🔮 | Disaffected Product & R&D Managers 💼 | Corporate Changemakers ✊|

Want to know how you can understand your customers better than anyone else? Need someone to guide your teams to develop your next blockbuster Innovation? Interested to learn how true purpose can guide your company and yourself to your next level of growth? Follow me to learn more and connect if you would like a deeper conversation.

🔎 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗠𝗘

🕮 Growing up in London in an immigrant family exposed me many different cultures and perspectives. My first job was a sales advisor for an electronics store: I learned alot about sales.... the hard way. Ask me about my stories.

⛰️ - I’ve been fortunate enough to see lots of beautiful places around the world. My current favourite is the Amalfi Coast. Next on my list are the Rocky Mountains in Canada.

🍣 A welcome side effect of having exposure to lots of different cultures and travelling is getting to experience all types of food. Highlight so far is the Sashimi in Japan 

🎓 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗘 & 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗟𝗘𝗗𝗚𝗘
Renewed Innovation Strategy for Business Units totalling €7b in revenue – Working with each business, I helped them examine their unique capabilities to get new perspectives on how they can improve their core value proposition (Exploit Strategy) and find new markets (Explore Strategy)

Designed and Built New Innovation Process applied to 20+ Business Teams -  Incorporating Design Thinking, Lean Start-up, Business Experimentation & Agile Methods, I developed a world class Innovation Process for Projects. 

Developed and Delivered Online (Miro) Scenario Planning Workshops with C-Suite – Blindsided by the pandemic, I was tasked with developing a workshop to help the C-suite develop potential visions of the future to help the business prepare for an uncertain future.

💰 𝗠𝗬 BELIEF AND APPROACH
A strategic thinker that knows what it takes to uncover great ideas and how to make them happen. 
As a trainer, coach, facilitator and practitioner for Innovation and Creativity tools, I have learned how build to build respect, influence and trust at all levels of an organisation through effective leadership, collaboration and most of all, results

🔴 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗧 𝗠𝗘
✉ mark@withmark.co
🖥️ https://app.simplymeet.me/withmark

✅ 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦
Design Thinking, Design Sprints, Online Facilitation (Miro, Mural), Agile Methodologies , Creativity tools, Values, Business Design, Pretotyping, Prototyping, Business Experimentation and Validation, Innovation Strategy and Management, Change Management, New Product Blueprinting, Strategy, Product Design, Growth Mindset, Innovation, Purpose, Ikigai

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