C-level innovation leadership, for as long as you need it.
Work with George Krasadakis as your fractional Chief Innovation Officer: senior roles at Microsoft, Accenture, GSK and ResMed, five ventures of his own, a 2018 patent on voice-driven AI ideation, the book Innovation Mode, and Ainna, the agentic innovation platform he architected. He sets up your innovation function, runs its first phase and recruits the permanent leader who takes it over.
Four innovation centres designed or optimised; five technology ventures founded. Senior roles at Microsoft, Accenture, GSK and ResMed. Author of Innovation Mode.
- For
- Executives and senior leaders who need innovation leadership at C-level before the company can justify, or find, a full-time Chief Innovation Officer.
- Objective
- An innovation function with an approved masterplan, a core team and its first phase under way, and a permanent leader ready to run it.
- Structure
- A monthly retainer, agreed quarter by quarter: most days at the start, fewer as your team takes over. Reporting to your executive sponsor; on site for the key workshops.
A Chief Innovation Officer’s mandate, without the full-time hire
A fractional Chief Innovation Officer holds the CINO mandate for as long as the company needs one: a seat with your leadership team, accountability for the innovation function, and the authority to hire and lead. Where Corporate Innovation Advisory designs the function and the masterplan with your team, a fractional CINO runs them: works inside the organisation, reports to an executive sponsor, takes decisions with your leadership team, hires and leads your own people, and leaves a working function and the permanent leader who runs it.
What is needed at [the start of an innovation transformation] is a deep understanding of the innovation process and experience in architecting innovation programs.Innovation Mode
Four situations where a fractional CINO is the right call
And one where it is not: if you already have a strong Chief Innovation Officer, on-demand days or ongoing advisory beside them are the better fit.
- No innovation function yetYou are at the first levels of the Innovation Maturity Index and need the function designed and started before you know which full-time role to hire.
- A head of innovation without a seat at the tableYour innovation lead runs the work but reports below the C-suite. The fractional CINO holds the mandate with the leadership team while your lead grows into it.
- Between Chief Innovation OfficersThe interim role keeps the programme moving, and its sponsors engaged, while you recruit.
- A restart after innovation theatreLabs, hackathons and idea portals have produced activity but few results. The function needs a reset, a masterplan and measures the board will fund.
From the first assessment to the handover, and after
A monthly retainer, agreed a quarter at a time. The first quarter takes the most days; each quarter ends with a review with your sponsor of the scope, the days and whether to continue. The diagnostic comes first, as a fixed-price step of its own, and its fee is credited in full against the first quarter if you continue. The sequence follows Chapter 10 of Innovation Mode, and the engagement is designed to end: the core of an innovation team should be permanent.
- Weeks 1–3Before the retainer, the Innovation Maturity Diagnostic, at a fixed price: a short anonymous survey across a cross-section of the company and a briefing for your leadership teamOutputYour maturity level, the gaps and what to fix first
- Quarter 1Prepare, the quarter with the most days: the innovation vision and agenda with your executives, the first two hires of the core team, and the priorities for the first capabilitiesOutputAn Innovation Masterplan approved by your leadership
- Quarters 2–3Power-Up, with fewer days as the core team takes on the work: the announcement, the briefing for middle managers, the first innovation capabilities and the first innovation surveyOutputA programme under way, with a baseline to measure against
- Quarters 3–4Hand over: the permanent leader recruited with the hiring kit, a period of overlap, and the function transferredOutputYour Chief Innovation Officer in place, with the function they will run
- AfterOn-demand days: a prepaid allowance your new Chief Innovation Officer draws on for portfolio and board reviews, key hires and the difficult callsOutputSenior support when it is needed, without a retainer
Four ways to work together
Most engagements start with the diagnostic: it is the assessment a new innovation leader would run first, and it shows whether a fractional role is the right answer.
- 30 minutes
Strategy call
FreeYour innovation function, your leadership set-up and whether a fractional role fits, with George directly. No preparation needed.
Arrange a call → - Recommended first stepThree weeks
Innovation Maturity Diagnostic
€12,000, fixedThe assessment every new innovation leader should run first: your real level on the 7-level Innovation Maturity Index, where leadership’s view differs, and what to fix first.
Request the diagnostic → - Quarter by quarter
Fractional Chief Innovation Officer
Priced on proposalThe CINO mandate on a monthly retainer, agreed a quarter at a time: most days in the first quarter, fewer as your team takes over. The masterplan approved, the core team hired, the first phase running and your permanent leader in place.
Request a proposal → - After the handover
On-demand days
Priced on proposalA prepaid allowance of days your Chief Innovation Officer draws on as needed: portfolio and board reviews, key hires, and the difficult calls. No retainer.
Ask about on-demand days →
Ambitious about what innovation can become, pragmatic about what works today
George has led innovation inside multinationals and built ventures of his own, so he knows where large organisations stall and how start-ups move. He has patented AI systems for capturing ideas, written the method down, and architected the platform that runs it with AI agents. His stance is bold and practical at once: he knows what can be achieved with the current state of the art, and what comes next. As your fractional Chief Innovation Officer he holds the role himself, with your leadership team, from the first assessment to the handover.
- CorporateSenior roles at Microsoft, Accenture, GSK and ResMed; four innovation centres designed or optimised and 80+ projects shipped
- Start-upsFive ventures founded, the first in 2004, from data mining to blockchain and agentic AI
- 2018Patented voice-driven ideation session management at Accenture: an AI participant in the innovation room that captures, attributes and enriches ideas from live sessions, before AI meeting assistants went mainstream
- 2020Published The Innovation Mode (Springer), the corporate innovation operating model, followed in 2026 by the first published architecture for agentic innovation in a corporate context
- TodayArchitect of Ainna Enterprise, the agentic innovation platform, in production
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Also available: Corporate Innovation Advisory, the eight-week programme that designs your innovation function, and the fractional Chief AI Officer, for AI leadership on the same model. Hiring a permanent leader? Start with the CINO job description and hiring kit.
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