Karin Kiesl

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About Karin Kiesl

I support corporates and SMEs in all activities focusing on Brand and Product Innovation. Creating new ideas and transforming them into successful businesses, products, or services. IDEAS WHICH WILL WORK / IDEATION WORKSHOPS With my help, you and your team will generate ideas to help your brand and business grow healthy. IDEAS TO GROW YOUR BRAND/ BRAND YOGA I am specialized in brands in challenging situations, we will find together a way to stretch and grow your brand and overcome barriers and outdated positionings. BRING IDEAS FROM PAPER TO SHELVES / INNOVATION SPRINTS I support your team in the concrete implementation of ideas from “being on paper” all the way to the market by helping to take the right decisions on all critical details like pricing, assortment, and design. CREATE A COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUTURE / INNOVATION STRATEGY Together we develop an innovation strategy to lead your company into a successful and plannable future. 🦊EMPOWERING YOUR OWN INNOVATION CAPABILITIES / INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM I support in the creation of an innovation culture and an innovation ecosystem, which fits your company's decision and management culture and which will empower your team to foster creative work and implementation of innovation in your company. SKILLS TO EMPOWER CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP/ INNOVATION TRAINING I train your teams to enable them to perform better innovation activities in the future without any “external help” ( creating a self-running innovation system). My background: I am a passionate brand innovation strategist with over twenty years of experience in the field of brand and marketing innovations. I support companies in implementing brand and product innovation strategies that help their business to grow healthy. My passion is here to build a customized innovation ecosystem that fits the decision and innovation culture of the companies. The power of storytelling is my magic tool to build bridges between the different disciplines you need to create successful corporate innovations. I have worked for 16 years in several corporates like Microsoft, AOL, and Beiersdorf in different positions like business development, researcher, and strategic marketeer before I took all these learnings on “how ideas manage to survive their journey through big decision marathons” and turned it into our consulting company “Facts and Stories”.