Kieran Griffin
Consultant | Innovation Strategy, Leadership & Growth
Kieran Griffin is a consultant at Telos Partners, specialising in innovation strategy and implementation, leadership development, people engagement, product and programme management, and event design and moderation.
An engineering graduate with 25 years' experience in senior global roles across industrial engineering and technology, Kieran has led innovation, marketing, strategy, people and product functions across the USA, China, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. He helps clients connect strategic ambition with practical implementation to create sustainable growth.
Experience and expertise
25 years’ experience in senior global industrial engineering and technology roles
Innovation strategy and implementation
Leadership and graduate development
People engagement and growth mindset
Product and programme management
Built £100m+ innovation pipelines
Event design and moderation
How Jeremy helps clients
Innovation strategy - Helping organisations identify where innovation can create value and translate ambition into a practical portfolio of initiatives.
Leadership development - Building the capabilities, behaviours and confidence leaders need to deliver growth and change.
People engagement - Helping teams create ownership, momentum and a growth mindset around strategic priorities.
Product & programme management - Bringing structure, prioritisation and commercial focus to complex innovation and transformation programmes.
How Jeremy helps organisations
Kieran works with senior teams that need to unlock innovation, accelerate growth or strengthen leadership capability. He combines commercial experience, curiosity and structured frameworks to help clients co-create practical solutions, engage people around them and build the momentum required for sustainable performance.
Client story
Kieran on innovation, leadership and profitable growth
Kieran supports organisations when innovation needs to move beyond ideas and become a repeatable source of growth. Drawing on senior leadership experience across strategy, marketing, people, product and innovation, he helps teams clarify priorities, build a coherent innovation pipeline and create the leadership and engagement conditions needed for implementation. His approach is collaborative and pragmatic, combining structured frameworks with a strong focus on commercial outcomes.
Questions Jeremy is regularly asked
What makes an innovation strategy effective?
An effective innovation strategy connects clearly to the organisation’s growth priorities. Kieran helps teams define where to focus, how to evaluate opportunities and how to build a balanced portfolio that can move from ideas to implementation.How do you turn innovation into profitable growth?
Innovation creates value when commercial ambition, customer need and delivery capability are aligned. Kieran works with leaders to create the structures, decision-making and momentum required to move promising opportunities through the pipeline.What role does leadership play in innovation?
Leaders shape the conditions in which innovation can succeed. That includes setting direction, giving teams permission to experiment, making disciplined choices and maintaining accountability for outcomes. Kieran helps leaders build those capabilities.How can organisations build a growth mindset?
A growth mindset develops when people are encouraged to learn, test assumptions and improve while remaining connected to clear objectives. Kieran helps organisations embed this through leadership development, engagement and practical ways of working.How should senior teams manage a complex innovation portfolio?
Portfolio management requires visibility, prioritisation and regular decisions about where to invest, adapt or stop. Kieran brings product and programme management discipline to help teams focus resources on the opportunities with the strongest strategic and commercial potential.
Insights & thought leadership
Discover innovation, growth and leadership insights from Kieran.
How innovation drives profitable growth
Building an innovation strategy that moves from ambition to implementation
Creating a growth mindset across leadership teams
Managing innovation portfolios for focus and commercial impact
Engaging people around strategic change and new ideas
Kieran discusses how innovation drives profitable growth
