Impactful Innovation
Organizations don't innovate - people do!
Innovation is not confined to R&D labs, startup hubs, or strategy decks. It shapes how we engage with the world, how we solve problems, and how we create progress that lasts.
Impactful Innovation is a bold, practical approach for turning emerging ideas into meaningful results — with responsibility, human sustainability, and real-world relevance at the center.
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The Innovation Management Book
Driving sustained success from inspirational ideas
A practical guide to understanding how innovation happens — and how to turn ideas into meaningful, sustained impact.
Impactful Innovation helps you spot opportunities, navigate uncertainty, connect ideas, and turn emerging insights into real progress.
Combining real-world experience, academic research, practical frameworks, and insights from international leaders and innovators, Teresa Valerie Mandl explores how innovation creates value in business and society.
Discover:
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how autonomy, competition, and collaboration enable breakthroughs
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what moonshots, AI, and biotechnology teach us about innovation
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how constraints, risk, and failure can accelerate progress
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why responsibility and sustainability matter when shaping the future
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what business, the arts, and social movements can teach us about creating change
Written for innovation leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, board members, decision-makers, students, and practitioners, who want to think more clearly about how innovation happens, make better choices, and turn ideas into action.
Get your copy — paperback, e-book, or signed edition.
The book features insight by recognized leaders from business, technology, innovation and the arts:
Daniel Lamarre - Head of the Board Cirque du Soleil | Maurizio Cheli - Astronaut and Entrepreneur | Marian Goodell - CEO Burning Man Festival | Kerstin Schmeiduch - Director Corporate Communications Purina Europe | Gary Ware - Founder Breakthrough Play | Frank + Patrik Riklin - Artonomists | Bernhard H. Tinz - Founder Tinz.Style | Zenia Tata - Futurist | Ellen Petry Leanse - Neuroscience Educator and Innovator | Felix Moesner - CEO + Consul of Swissnex in Japan | Shaherose Charania - Partner at Unshackled Ventures | Samuel West - Founder Museum of Failure | Michael Braungart - Founder of "Cradle-to-Cradle" Concept |
Nice to meet you!
Dr. Teresa Valerie Mandl
Turning needs and opportunity into impactful innovation
I am an innovation strategist, lecturer, board member, and keynote speaker helping organizations develop successful products, services, and business models through deliberate, sustainable innovation.
Based in Switzerland, I have more than two decades of international business experience. My passion is to help companies use technologies and market opportunities to create successful solutions for clients ranging from startups to global corporations.
Since 2011, I have been teaching innovation and marketing at various higher education institutions. My research focuses on product and innovation management, entrepreneurship, and customer experience.
I studied economics in Hohenheim and Zurich. My doctoral thesis explored how sporting goods companies can co-create breakthrough products with top athletes as lead users.
After roles with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Arthur Andersen, and IBM in the United States, I founded T.V.T. swissconsult gmbh.
Today, I advise organizations, I serve on boards, and I speak on innovation strategy, customer-centric innovation, and sustainable growth.
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My innovation mission
I grew up in a family business dedicated to product design, engineering, and entrepreneurship.
Many of our conversations revolved around improvement, problem-solving, and the values behind business decisions. We asked simple but important questions: How can we make this better? Why does this not work? What kind of impact do we want to create?
These early experiences shaped my view of innovation. I became fascinated by the human capacity to imagine the future and turn ideas into successful products, services, business models, and meaningful change.
Today, I believe innovation should not be limited to research labs, startups, innovation teams, or corporate strategy decks. Too often, innovation is seen as risky, abstract, or accessible only to experts. That mindset excludes people from a process that should be far more open and relevant.
My mission is to make innovation more accessible, more courageous, more responsible and more fun.
I want to help individuals, teams, and organizations engage with innovation as a human capability.
If we succeed, innovation will feel less like a black box and more like an invitation:
to explore, to build, and to shape a better future together.
Igniting the spark to more accessible, human and responsible innovation
Keynotes for leaders who are shaping what's next
Fresh perspectives. Meaningful conversations. Actionable takeaways.
Teresa Valerie Mandl speaks on innovation strategy, customer-centric innovation, AI and innovation, and the future of value creation.
Her keynotes are created for executives, boards, innovation leaders, and organizations that want to move beyond trend language and engage with what truly drives progress in practice.
Whether the setting is a conference keynote, executive event, leadership offsite, webinar, or innovation forum, the goal is always the same: to create clarity, challenge assumptions and deliver insight that leads to action.
Interested in a keynote tailored to your audience?
Let’s discuss the theme, format, and message that will create the greatest impact.
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Ideas matter.
What we do with them matters more.
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