Internal politics can wreck your innovation project if you don't know how to keep everyone happy.

Stakeholder Management

Improve your project's chance of success by successfully navigating power dynamics in your organization. This workshop teaches you the stakeholder engagement skills you need to maintain relationships with relevant parties by aligning your goals and metrics with theirs.

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Who It’s For?

For innovators who need to map out the stakeholders to better understand their relationships and find the best way to influence the group overall.

How It Works

Our experienced coach guides you through each step, giving you direct feedback on your work and helping you develop innovation as a core competency. You will use your own projects to ensure that the theory is immediately applied to real-world scenarios.

Real Projects

Get individual feedback on your real projects.

Focused Guidance

Develop new skills with a small cohort and direct coaching.

Interactive Sessions

Run live exercises with an expert coach during our weekly sessions.

Materials & Frameworks

Get self-study learning materials and frameworks.

What You Learn

How to identify common stakeholder groups

How to use customer discovery techniques to identify stakeholder needs

How to map influence within an organization

How to align goals and metrics with your sponsors

Designed by Successful Entrepreneurs and Experts

Nic Werner

Nic enjoys taking solid core products and expanding into the adjacent opportunities. He champions user-centered design, coaches junior PMs in core skills, and boosts senior PMs with their goals. Nic has been working for over a decade as a serial entrepreneur and consultant to Fortune 500 firms.

Tristan Kromer

Tristan Kromer works with innovation teams and leaders to create amazing products and build startup ecosystems. He has worked with companies from early stage startups with zero revenue to enterprise companies with >$1B USD revenue (Unilever, Swisscom, Salesforce, Fujitsu, LinkedIn).

Andi Plantenberg

Andi Plantenberg is an entrepreneur and principal at FutureTight, an innovation consultancy that builds entrepreneurial capabilities in the enterprise -- based in San Francisco, California. She's also Faculty member at Lean Startup Co, and a long-time mentor for startups in Silicon Valley (500 startups, IndieBio, Singularity University, Draper University).

Testimonials

Kromatic’s hands-on introduction to Lean Startup and its guiding principles was a complete wake-up call for my startup, forcing us to launch our MVP and learn fast.

Ryan Bruels, Vice President of Engineering, Knock

Kromatic’s workshop was incredibly engaging and interactive. Every detail was carefully thought out, from the design-thinking approach to clear and visually engaging material.

Kathryn Haydon, Innovation Strategist, Sparkitivity

It helped to think through a new lens on how to measure the middle space between initial vanity metrics and long-term revenue/product results.

Kyle Smith, Senior Manager, American Family Insurance

Rigorous is a great word to describe Kromatic. The pace is fast and intense. It’s part of their ethos that you need to learn and fail quickly.

Brendan Sheehan, Chief Financial Officer, CBUSA

Our coach helped us to identify the most important steps to take, and we always had a clear objective and action plan at the end of a conversation.

James Bryce Smith, Founder, Magnetize

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Customizable Curriculum

Each workshop is a component of the greater innovation library. Programs can be curated to include all the workshops you need to make real progress and show impactful results. Whether you are part of an innovation team, you are coaching teams, or leading a business unit as an innovation leader, our library will give you the tools and skills to succeed.

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