Our Partner Network

We work with trusted partners around the world to tackle complex challenges and deliver tangible results for international organizations.

Innovate Strategy is a boutique consulting firm that punches above its weight through a strong international network of senior experts.

Dr. Sebastian T. Vetter

Sebastian is the founder of Innovate Strategy, bringing over 15 years of experience in innovation and strategy consulting. His career spans roles as a university researcher and lecturer, an experience designer and management consultant with PwC Digital New Zealand. Sebastian has worked with international clients across Europe, the US, Africa, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, helping transform organizations across diverse industries. His work focuses on opportunity creation, strategic innovation portfolios, and corporate innovation structures.

Innovation | Strategy | Org. Design
Berlin, Germany
www.innovate-strategy.com

Jan Pauen

Sarah Clearwater

Sarah brings deep expertise in customer experience, strategy, and service design to our network. Across multiple strategy projects in New Zealand and remotely, she helps teams turn customer experience into an engine and north star, clarify journeys, declutter roadmaps, and align cross functional teams on critical initiatives that lift service delivery, grounded in people, purpose, and performance.

Customer Experience | Strategy | Service Design
Auckland, New Zealand
www.reframr.co.nz
Innovation | Power of Questions | Keynote Speaker | Author
Zürich, Switzerland
www.denk-partner.com
www.jeanphilippehagmann.com

Jean-Philippe Hagmann

J.P. has a sharp understanding of market dynamics with a clear view of how organizations actually work. As a three-time book author, he knows what it takes to make innovation stick beyond concepts and methods. We worked closely together on a recent project with a leading finance organization in Nigeria, where his thinking, curiosity, and pragmatism made the collaboration both effective and genuinely fun.

Matthias Lenssen

Creative Spaces | Community Building | Workshops 
Cologne, Germany
www.facilitape.de
www.auf-burghausen.de

Matthias has been a creative partner in our network for nine years. We have collaborated on multiple innovation projects, where his strength lies in creating spaces that spark collaboration and momentum. His passion for building communities is not just conceptual; it is lived. Today, he and his family live in a castle that has become a place for community, ideas, exchange, and making things happen.

Market Research | Innovation | Retreats | Spirituality
Mexico City, Mexico

Maria Barrera

Maria has been part of the Innovate Strategy network for six years. She is an intuitive and skilled facilitator who creates the conditions for strong collaboration and shared outcomes. Based in Mexico, she brings experience in market research and innovation across Latin America and the US. Her fluency in Spanish enables us to work with organizations across Latin America and Spanish speaking markets.

Anna Seider

Strategy | Service Design | Brand Design 
Berlin, Germany
www.kopfherzhand.eu

Anna combines strong strategic thinking with a talent for managing complex projects and challenging stakeholders, even when priorities shift and expectations are high. Her deep understanding of service design, effective teamwork, and innovation has made a real difference in every project we have worked on together. Anna has been part of our network for more than 7 years, and she continues to be a trusted partner when the work needs both rigor and momentum.

Jan brings more than two decades of experience working with international, often family owned organizations across Europe. He operates comfortably at board and senior executive level, with a strong focus on strategy and organizational design. As a partner of Innovate Strategy for more than six years, Jan is known for turning complex situations into clarity and for building productive structures, always with a lot of energy and a good sense of humor.

Strategy | Org. Design | Brand Design | Innovation
Berlin, Germany
www.kopfherzhand.eu