Treehouse Innovation | Named Consulting Agency of the Year 2023 | Legal Innovations Consultancy of the Year We bring your teams together to solve your hardest problems, and teach them how to keep doing it

We are an innovation consultancy in London, founded in 2010. We do three kinds of work: shaping innovation strategy, designing new products and services, and training teams to do both for themselves. All of it is delivered with your people rather than handed over as a report.

Large organisations, most often the leadership, innovation, transformation or product teams inside them. Clients include the FCA, AstraZeneca, Sky, DLA Piper, eBay, Amazon Web Services, Fujitsu and Tate & Lyle.

Yes. We are based in London and work with organisations worldwide, in person and remotely. Our case studies include work across North America, Europe, the Middle East and East Africa.

We work across sectors, with dedicated practices in legal, healthcare, consumer goods, and media and entertainment. A lot of our work is in regulated and risk-averse organisations, where the hard part is usually not the idea but getting it adopted.

A small multidisciplinary team, all of them experienced design thinkers. Our people have led teams and built businesses at IDEO, Fujitsu, PwC, EY, Phuel and Sumo Digital.

Email hello@treehouseinnovation.com or book a 30 minute call with one of our senior advisors. We will talk through what you are trying to change and tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.

Yes. Our innovation and design thinking case studies cover work with the FCA, Sky, AstraZeneca, DLA Piper, AB InBev, Airbus and others, and each one sets out the problem, what we did and what changed as a result.

Between half a day and two days, depending on the workshop and what you need from it. Longer programmes are usually built from several sessions spaced out over weeks, so teams can apply what they learned in between.

Either. Every workshop we run can be delivered in person or virtually, and we design them differently for each rather than putting the same session on a video call.

Usually 8 to 20, and up to 30 for some formats. That range lets a whole leadership or project team take part together and leave with the same understanding, which matters more than reaching the largest possible audience.

No. Our AI workshops are built for leaders and teams making decisions about AI, not for engineers building it. We bring the practical tools and demonstrations. You bring the problems worth solving.

Something you can act on that week: a prioritised set of opportunities and a roadmap, tested solution concepts and prototypes, or an adoption plan for leaders, depending on which workshop you run.

Yes, and it usually is. We work on your real challenges rather than a case study, because teams apply what they learn far more readily when they have already used it on something that matters to them.

Yes. Our facilitation training teaches people to run high impact workshops, sprints and innovation projects on their own, and the Facilitation Mastery app gives them something to practise with afterwards. Most clients who want this are trying to stop depending on outside facilitators.

A way of solving problems that starts by understanding the people affected, generates a wide range of options before committing, and tests them cheaply before spending real money. In practice it mostly means finding out you were wrong early, when being wrong is still cheap.

Starting with problems worth solving and working back to where AI genuinely helps, rather than starting with the technology and hunting for places to put it. It brings design thinking together with practical AI capability, so the tools fit how your organisation actually works.

With assessments built for it. Our Innovation Impact suite measures both individual and team capability for innovation and the return on innovation projects. We developed it with Professor Jeanne Liedtka of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

An assessment that measures the human skills people need to work through constant change, and shows where a team is strong and where it is thin. Teams use it to decide what to develop rather than guessing.

Yes. Sprintbase runs design thinking projects and remote sprints, the Facilitation Mastery app builds facilitation skill, Innovation Priorities helps a team agree what to work on, and Law 2035: Illustrated Futures is a workshop in a box for legal teams.

ExperiencePoint, for innovation and change simulations used worldwide. Professor Jeanne Liedtka and her co-authors at Darden, for our assessments. And The Design Fiction Company, for work that makes possible futures tangible.

That is most of what we do. It usually means building the skills first, then putting them to work on a real project so they stick, with the tools and routines left in place for you to carry on.