Your team has been debating this for months. Let's end it.
Eksplora delivers a clear, defensible decision on your biggest innovation opportunity — fixed fee, fixed timeline, guaranteed outcome. No more alignment workshops. No more slide decks. A real answer.
Not sure if your opportunity is worth pursuing? Score it first.
The Innovation Go/No-Go Scorecard rates any opportunity across 7 dimensions in 20 minutes. Walk away with a defensible verdict you can put in front of your leadership team — before you spend a single euro on consultants.
Problem Clarity — can you state it in one sentence?
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Evidence of Demand — real customers, not hunches
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Strategic Fit — does it defend your core position?
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Speed to Signal — how fast can you test it?
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Cost of Being Wrong — what's the real downside?
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Owner and Team — who is actually responsible?
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Leadership Conviction — would your leader be furious?
Your score
24 / 35
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Services
One opportunity. One team. One answer.
Each service is a fixed-scope, fixed-fee engagement. You know exactly what you get, when you get it, and what it costs. No scope creep. No retainers. No surprises.
★ Start Here — Results in 3 Weeks
Innovation Sprint
"We have been debating this opportunity for months. Nobody can make the call and the window is closing."
You walk away with: a defensible go, no-go, or pivot decision and a 90-day action plan — after 3 weeks of structured work. If you don't walk away with something you can use, you don't pay.
What's Included
Week 1: Problem diagnosis and customer evidence audit
Week 2: Rapid prototyping and market signal test
Week 3: Decision framework and leadership recommendation
One-page executive summary your leadership can actually read
Remote or on-site (travel costs seperate)
90-day action plan with kill criteria built in
Team Scale
Innovation Campaign
"We have no idea pipeline. Leadership keeps asking where the next big thing will come from."
You walk away with: 50+ scored, prioritised ideas from inside your company plus a clear top-3 shortlist ready for Sprint validation. One campaign produces more signal than a year of strategy offsites.
What's Included
Campaign design and challenge framing
4–5 week structured ideation process
Full facilitation for up to 100 participants
Remote or on-site (travel costs seperate)
Idea scoring and prioritisation framework
Executive summary deck for leadership
Build Internal Muscle
Innovation Training
"We keep hiring consultants to innovate for us. We need our own people to learn how."
You walk away with: 20 trained internal innovators and a complete playbook — so you never need an external consultant again. One cohort replaces €30K–€50K/year in recurring consulting fees.
What's Included
Innovation maturity assessment
4 half-day workshops over 2–4 weeks
Design thinking, discovery, ideation, business modelling
Remote or on-site (travel costs seperate)
Complete innovation playbook — yours to keep
Facilitation guides for independent workshops
Ongoing Partnership
Entrepreneur in Residence
"We need a dedicated innovation operator — someone who is actually here, not parachuting in for one workshop and disappearing."
You get: 2 days per week of embedded innovation work — running structured sprints, coaching your team through decisions, and keeping the idea pipeline moving. Enough time to do real work. Honest about what part-time can and cannot replace.
What's Included
2 days/week of on-site or remote embedded work
Sprint facilitation, idea evaluation, and team coaching
Remote or on-site (travel costs seperate)
Monthly progress report and prioritised recommendations
Direct Slack/email access on working days
Quarterly review with your innovation lead or CPO
Try Everything · One Week
Hackathon in a Box
"We want to move fast, get cross-functional teams building together, and have something real to show at the end of the week."
You walk away with: 3 to 5 days of fully facilitated innovation under one roof — a defined challenge, mixed teams, structured sprints, and a final pitch day with scored prototypes ready for the next decision gate.
What's Included
Challenge design and pre-hackathon team briefing
Full facilitation across all 3 to 5 days on-site
Structured sprint methodology — not a free-for-all
Coaching for each team throughout the event
Final pitch session with scoring rubric and verdict
Post-event report: top ideas, next steps, kill criteria
✓
The Eksplora Guarantee
If you don't walk away from an Innovation Sprint with a clear, actionable deliverable you can immediately use — you don't pay. No questions. No awkward conversations. No invoices. Eksplora takes on the risk so you don't have to.
How It Works
A typical client journey
Each service stands alone — but they compound when combined. Most clients start with a Sprint.
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Scorecard
Self-diagnose in 20 minutes. Free.
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Sprint
Validate one big opportunity in 3 weeks.
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Embed
Keep momentum as your EIR.
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Campaign
Tap ideas from the whole team.
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Train
Build the muscle to sustain it.
Testimonials
What leaders say
Real feedback from innovation leaders who have worked with Jeffery.
"led multiple global ideation campaigns using the HYPE Innovation platform, generating impactful ideas and projects adopted across several BUs."
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Hiroshi Maeda
Global Innovation Manager, SHV Energy
"I would highly recommend Jeffery for any project. With his strong work ethic, dedication, and structured approach, he is well-equipped to contribute to complex, large-scale initiatives"
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Jens Stevens
Customs Manager, Action
"As a result, Jeff strengthened innovation capability across multiple parts of the organization (Brazil, India, Ireland, UK, Poland and Italy) and helped move priority health and safety initiatives forward, leaving the team measurably more equipped to innovate independently."
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Matt Masters
Global Innovation Manger, SHV Energy
Jeffery Hansen, Eksplora Innovation
7 years in corporate innovation, consulting, and project management. Built global innovation programs, trained hundreds of people across 3 continents, facilitated ideation campaigns generating 1,330+ ideas, and delivered strategic projects supporting millions of euros in annual revenue pipeline.
The operators I have worked alongside at the companies below shaped how I think about innovation — not as a buzzword, but as a decision-making process. That is what I bring to every engagement.
MSc Innovation Management · BSc Applied Anthropology · Based in Frankfurt
Previously at
Board of InnovationSHV EnergyAirPlus / LufthansaAction
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"I had the pleasure of working closely with Jeff, and he was instrumental in building innovation capabilities across the organisation. He played a key role in designing and delivering the Level-Up training programme, tailored to Sponsors and Functional Leaders, Innovation Leads, Ambassadors and Allies, helping create a shared innovation language and stronger ownership.
Jeff also led multiple global ideation campaigns using the HYPE Innovation platform, generating impactful ideas and projects adopted across several BUs.
In addition, he facilitated hands-on innovation workshops in different business units, supporting the practical rollout and scaling of a common innovation methodology.
I highly recommend Jeff to any organisation looking to scale innovation capabilities in a structured, pragmatic and results-driven way"
Jens Stevens
Customs Manager, Action
"Action opened its first store in Switzerland in 2025. As Customs Manager at Action, I was responsible for setting up a customs solution to support daily cross-border deliveries to Switzerland. The focus was on regulatory requirements, the management of customs data, and the implementation of a robust, compliant cross-border process, guided by simplicity, flexibility, and scalability.
For the Switzerland project, Jeffery was assigned as the commercial project manager to lead the Swiss customs initiative. This was a completely new domain for him, as well as for many other colleagues, as Action had no prior export experience. The project proved to be a great success. Despite having no prior customs background, Jeffery invested significant effort in understanding the subject matter, translated this into effective actions, and supported the team in navigating the organization.
Thanks in part to Jeffery's contributions, Action successfully opened its first stores in Switzerland on time and completed its first exports outside the European Union.
Today, one year later, we continue to operate using the same process, delivering daily to 10 stores, with further expansion planned this year.
I would highly recommend Jeffery for any project. With his strong work ethic, dedication, and structured approach, he is well-equipped to contribute to complex, large-scale initiatives."
Matt Masters
Global Innovation Manger, SHV Energy
Our Global Innovation team needed to set up a corporate innovation capability while simultaneously advancing critical health and safety innovation projects as our #1 business priority.
Over more than two and a half years of Jeffrey being part of the team, Jeff led innovation capability development globally across our businesses units, designing and delivering training that builds lasting internal expertise. In parallel, he provided hands-on support to our most important health and safety innovation projects, consistently bringing a more considered, reflective perspective to complex challenges.
As a result, Jeff strengthened innovation capability across multiple parts of the organization (Brazil, India, Ireland, UK, Poland and Italy) and helped move priority health and safety initiatives forward, leaving the team measurably more equipped to innovate independently.
I wholeheartedly recommend Jeff to any team seeking to cultivate significant corporate innovation capabilities. He adeptly merges training expertise with practical project delivery, and his thoughtful methodology positions him as a truly invaluable asset. Furthermore, Jeff possesses a remarkable aptitude for introducing alternative perspectives and innovative problem-solving approaches. His genuine concern, understanding, and empathy in addressing stakeholder needs are consistently evident, as is his profound passion for making a meaningful impact. These strong traits and his belief system are aspects Jeff certainly brings to any team.
