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The first
domino
matters.

Most teams can generate ideas. What's missing is the discernment to know which ones to act on. We help teams build that capability — from ideation to discernment.

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Innovation
Is your team solving the right problem — or optimizing the wrong one?
Facilitation
The best sessions don't just decide — they build trust and unlock honest conversation.
Strategy
The first domino you tip determines everything that follows. Sequence matters.
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Jason Kehrer

Practitioner first.
Advisor second.

Jason Kehrer is a strategist, facilitator, and innovation leader who helps organizations think differently and move boldly. His work sits at the intersection of creativity and execution — where big ideas meet pragmatic action.

With a background spanning Fortune 500 leadership, design-led consulting, and nonprofit development, he brings something most facilitators don't: discernment. The ability to help a team make sense of what they're seeing, frame the right problem, and move with conviction. Jason works with CEOs and executive teams when the organization needs a clear path through complexity — and with teams that need to rapidly generate new ideas across product, service, and business, then refine those ideas into concepts that fuel better decisions and real growth.

Jason is based in West Michigan and is husband to Molly and dad to five. He loves LEGO, the outdoors, and reading.

Innovation is only about products... right?

Sure, product innovation is where most people start — and it's real work we do. Next-generation concepts, product roadmaps, new-to-world ideas.

But the same principles that help a team build a product pipeline can be applied to almost any challenge in your business. We've helped organizations innovate on processes (from manufacturing workflows to IT response times), organizational design, physical spaces, consumer experiences, employee onboarding, and go-to-market strategy.

The question isn't "do we need product innovation?" The question is "where is new thinking going to create the most value?" Sometimes that's a product. Often, it's not.

The First Domino process.

There are only so many ways innovation actually works. The difference isn't the process — it's having someone in the room with the judgment to know which tool to reach for, and when.

Every engagement starts with the same question: where is new thinking going to create the most value? The answer shapes everything that follows.

Frame Where will new thinking create the most value? Business model · Experience Adjacencies · Process · CapEx Explore Generate broadly. Provoke deliberately. New ideas · Drawer pulls Trends · Cross-functional input Discern Filter, merge, converge. Which ideas, and why now? Desirability · Viability Feasibility · Strategic fit Embed Build capabilities that outlast the engagement. New · Redefined · Redeployed Strategy · Process · Talent · Tech New capabilities create new value.

How we work.

The best ideas are already in the room. The work is creating the conditions to surface them — and the clarity to act on the right ones.

In-person is always best — but we're built for virtual and hybrid, too. We work the way you work.

HALF-DAY / FULL-DAY
Strategy & Facilitation
For leadership teams that need to align on direction, make a hard call, or have the conversation they've been circling. We design the room where your best thinking happens — and leave with clear next steps, not another meeting.
Strategy alignment & decision clarity
Executive team co-creation
Off-site & workshop design
Resolving the question behind the question
1–5 DAYS
Innovation Sessions
Your team walks in with a foggy brief and walks out knowing where the real opportunity is — whether that's a new product, a better process, a different business model, or an organizational shift nobody's named yet.
Product, service, process & business model ideation
Opportunity framing & growth strategy
Innovation sprints & workshops
Insights to action
MULTI-MONTH
Innovation Capability
Build the muscle, not just the moment. For organizations that need more than a single session — we stand up the operating model, embed the capability, and transfer it so it stays after we leave.
Innovation operating model design
Embedded capability building
Fractional innovation leadership
Roadmapping & scenario planning
Extended capabilities — brought in when the work calls for it
Pre-session customer & empathy research Live concept sketching & visualization In-session GenAI acceleration & rapid prototyping Industrial design & UX concept refinement Post-session build support — AI, IoT, cloud, custom electronics

Ideas worth sharing.

Thinking on leadership, innovation, and why transformations succeed or fail at the human level.

Innovation
The Curiosity Tax
Brittle companies don't fail because they stopped growing. They fail because they stopped asking questions. Over-optimization isn't efficiency — it's a tax on curiosity paid quietly, until it isn't.
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Leadership
Coordination Isn't Integration
Most cross-functional teams are good at coordination — meetings, updates, lanes. What goes unowned is the whole: synthesis across functions, tradeoffs made explicit, thinking made visible. That gap is where initiatives stall.
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Strategy
The First Question
What an organization asks first in a hard decision reveals who it truly serves. The structural advantages of closely-held companies come down to a single question — and who gets to ask it.
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The right conversation starts here.

Whether you're navigating a strategic shift, an ideation challenge, or a need to build innovation capacity — or you just need a skilled facilitator to design the room — reach out. The work matters most when the stakes are real and the answer isn't obvious.

Location
West Michigan — working globally

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