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Todd Holcomb

Strategist, Innovator, Designer, Futurist & Systems Thinker

ex-SYPartners

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PAST CLIENTS

I spark the moral imagination of those that desire to lead with audacity, creativity, and courage to create futures where human and planetary thriving go hand in hand.

Offerings

Consulting & Advising

For many years I was Vice President and Partner at SY Partners, where I had the pleasure of helping many CEOs and their leadership teams transform their companies through brand and business innovation, and I continue that work today.

I seek to: Spark the courage and moral imagination of executives and teams to lead differently in this human moment by bringing their highest selves and vibrant creativity in service of something greater than themselves. Build cultures of innovation, performance AND human-and-planetary flourishing. Cultivate passionate, humble learners with open minds.

Business Transformation

Business Innovation

Brand Innovation

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Projects

Todd in action

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Product design firm introduces offerings driven by Planet-Centric Design

Projects

Product design firm introduces offerings driven by Planet-Centric Design

♻️ Circular Economy🌱 Climate Change🤗 Inclusion & Accessibility+3 more

Repositioned Impossible with a new innovation offering, Planet-Centric Design, for businesses seeking to be more sustainable and regenerative.

Consulting & Advising

Brand Jordan

Brand Strategy & PositioningBrand Value ExtenderBranding & Identity+2 more

Revised Brand Jordan's purpose to represent the values of Michael Jordan rather than the individual, ensuring brand longevity.

Consulting & Advising

Building Communities of Well-Being

📚 Access to Quality EducationAudience EngagementBrand Strategy & Positioning+6 more

Developed a brand and online platform to foster communities of practice centered in well-being for teachers and students.

Expert Talks

Changing Behaviors: Belief Systems

📚 Access to Quality Education🗣️ Learning Ecosystems❤️‍🩹 Good Health & Well-being+5 more

Expanded the capacity of 80+ professionals to move beyond perceived limitations and enhance their coaching abilities.

Bring it Out of the Lab and into The World

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Bring it Out of the Lab and into The World

Brand Strategy & PositioningContent CreationContent Marketing+3 more

Bring the internet of the thing out of the HP labs and into the world be creating a world-wide e-services campaign ("HP Invents"), set world-wide brand standards for communicating the new brand, and create new 30,000 square foot briefing center, and e-services bazaars around the world to showcase the technology.

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IBM Summer Jam

💭 Intellectual PropertyAdvantage MultiplierBusiness Insights+6 more

When you want to invest in the future bring together 1,200 researches, executives, and summer interns to a series of one-day jam sessions at IBM's seven research labs around the world to jam on the future, projecting what might be, technologies that will make it so, and product innovations that can spring from IBM's vast research capabilities.

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Possibility Thinking

🗣️ Learning EcosystemsCapability BuilderChange Enabler+6 more

If traditional education can't help students with a sense of purpose and possibility, develop a curriculum that lives outside the classroom walls that can. Dream Directors across the country were trained in the Possibility Thinking curriculum, and offered the tools to engage young people in public schools across the country with it.

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The Girl: A Compendium

📚 Access to Quality EducationAudience EngagementChange Catalyser+4 more

To bring awareness and action to helping girls around the globe achieve their full potential, created a printed pocket-size compendium that elucidates where girls stand in the world, the momentum behind movements to support girls, the issues they face, and innovations that might be break-out strategies to help girls realize their full potential.

Consulting & Advising

XQ: The Super School

📚 Access to Quality EducationCapability BuilderChange Catalyser+5 more

Reinvent the American high school experience when the current one is failing. Working as part of a multi-disciplinarian team over the summer of 2015, designed and launched the XQ Super School Project, and initiative to attract diverse teams from across the US to compete to reimagine the American youth learning experience.

Consulting & Advising

IBM Smarter Planet

💭 Intellectual PropertyBrand Strategy & PositioningCategory Crasher+3 more

When it's time to take new and emerging lab technologies, like AI from Watson computing, bring them to life through a powerful campaign. Working with the CMO, and other leaders, helped develop the Smarter Planet strategy to showcase how AI can make all kinds of business processes work better in many contexts (smarter businesses, smarter cities, smarter planet). Strategy led to world-wide campaign.

Areas I'm passionate about

As creative leaders with a shared commitment to quality, collaboration, and creativity, we're proud to pursue out most meaningful work and deliver the best every time.

MAIN PASSION

🌱 Climate Change

Why so? — I'm inspired by the potential for innovative solutions to create a more sustainable future for all by reducing the greenhouse gases and protecting the natural ecosystem

♻️ Circular Economy

Pods

Neol's Creative Leader community gets together in expert pods to explore the edges of their practices and the timely challenges industries and societies face

Climate

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David Scott

Creative Director, Designer and frequent Copywriter, Brand & Marketing

ex-Godfrey Dadich Partners

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Jade Gray

Design & Product Lead

Julian Ellerby

Design and Innovation Strategist

Jonas Altman

Innovation Partner. Learning Designer. Creative Facilitator.

Elisabeth Graf

Strategic Design for Climate Resilience | Founder of IMMA Collective

doug morwood

Systems Entrepreneur; Place-Based Innovation, Regenerative Design

ex-Business Models Inc

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Hsing Wei

UX & Product Designer, Creative Technologist, Strategist, Facilitator

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Marc OBrien

Climate Designer / Strategist

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Lisa Baird

Design strategy clairvoyant.

Fanny Eliaers

Holistic Sustainability Advisor: Guiding organizations in harmonizing their Environmental and Social initiatives / Circular Design Strategist / MIT Candidate

ex-Sid Lee

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I believe in Neol because there has never been a more critical time to seamlessly assemble nimble, creative teams with diverse skills, talents, and experiences to tackle urgent and complex problems.

Todd Holcomb

Strategist, Innovator, Designer, Futurist & Systems Thinker