Having spent over a decade as a successful entrepreneur in the design industry, Cris is now recognised globally as a thought leader on innovation strategy, leadership and culture and a pioneer in the field of measuring corporate innovation maturity.  Cris is the co-author of 'Building a Culture of Innovation’, an Amazon bestseller, and voted one of the CMI’s top books on innovation in 2017. He is the co-founder of innovation thought leadership platform The Future Shapers, a board advisor at The Innovators CoLab and The Global Innovation Institute and an executive faculty member at several global business schools including Cranfield School of Management and Henley Business School.  He is also the founder of the boutique innovation advisory firm OUTCOME which has helped some of the world’s most ambitious CEOs, visionary leaders, Fortune 500 companies and Governments solve their most complex innovation challenges, develop game-changing innovation capability and build a culture of innovation.