Press and Media
Is your goal to endure or improve?
Leadership Advisor Cris Beswick asks a critical question to senior executives: "Real transformation disturbs, breaks, pushes, takes time. If you are counting in your place while your competitors are transforming, it becomes almost impossible to catch up after a certain point.
So every leader should ask himself the question: Do we just want to endure or really improve?"...
22nd December 2025
Innovation vs Bureaucracy: Author Cris Beswick On Strategies for Fostering Innovation Inside Big Business
This series aims to explore how leaders navigate and overcome the challenges posed by big business environments to bring fresh, transformative ideas to life. As part of this series, we had the pleasure of interviewing Cris Beswick...
12th December 2025
The Missing Link
Here's a critical point most leadership teams miss; innovation requires people to overcome millions of years of evolutionary programming because our brains are hardwired to feel potential losses about twice as intensely as equivalent gains – a phenomenon known as "loss aversion."...
7th November 2025
The Missing Link: How Leadership and Culture Drive Innovation Success
For two decades now, I've advised companies and governments worldwide on fostering innovation, and a troubling pattern remains consistent: organisations invest heavily in innovation tools, labs, methodologies, and even new technologies – yet often fail to achieve breakthrough results or drive growth... (from p27)
3rd November 2025
The Innovation Vanguard: Cris Beswick’s Blueprint for C-Suite Transformation
In a corporate world awash with jargon and stagnating under outdated consulting models, Cris Beswick is quietly leading a revolution in how organizations embed innovation from the top down. A globally respected strategic advisor and bestselling author, Beswick has become the go-to partner for CEOs and senior executives who are no longer content with surface-level transformation.
15th July 2025
Cris Beswick on Why Innovation Fails and How to Build It Into the DNA of Your Company
Cris Beswick has spent the better part of two decades inside boardrooms across the world, advising Fortune 500s, multinational giants, and ambitious startups alike on the core issue of innovation. Not the buzzword. Not the marketing tagline. Real, measurable, innovation, the kind that transforms organizations and actually sticks.
11th July 2025
Strategy, Culture, and Leadership: Cris Beswick’s Unified Formula for Innovation Success
In boardrooms from Silicon Valley to Singapore, Cris Beswick has established himself as the go-to advisor for organizations seeking to transform innovation from aspiration to organization-wide capability. His approach, which challenges Peter Drucker’s famous dictum that ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast,’ offers Fortune 500 companies and governments worldwide a more nuanced perspective: strategy, leadership, and culture must eat breakfast together, inspiring a new era of innovation.
26th May 2025
From Burnout to Breakthrough: Cris Beswick on Leading with Love and Innovation
What if innovation wasn’t about profit—but people? In this powerful and heart-centered episode, Barry Shore welcomes global innovation expert Cris Beswick for a transformative conversation on rethinking leadership, culture, and the true purpose of business. Together, they dive into the emotional undercurrents of entrepreneurship, the dangers of burnout, and how empathy, curiosity, and love can drive not just productivity—but human flourishing.
31st July 2025