Sarah Davanzo Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Leading the agency's "Innovation Engine" which is a global team (74 innovators, 4 continents, 5 COEs) of strategic services: Data, Analytics, Insights & BI, Cultural Foresight, Strategy, Digital Marketing, Influencers, Earned & Paid Media, and Innovation/New Product Development. Cultivating companywide Innovation behaviors with "curiosity science," Design Thinking, and techno-futurism. Managing a pipeline of innovations mostly using emerging technologies (Industry 5.0 tech). Driving AI transformation.

Contributing writer to Rolling Stone Culture Council on innovation, curiosity, and futurecraft. Rolling Stone Culture Council is a professional organization for influencers, innovators, disruptors and cultural strategists who are passionate about building businesses that impact culture.

New York, Us

I've been using AI in my cultural intelligence, foresight, futurism, and innovation work for over a decade, helping AI start-ups. NWO.ai is the most powerful user-friendly civilian AI platform that I've come across. I advise NWO.ai on functional improvements to make it more useful to cultural strategists, quantitative futurists, and strategic foresight professionals.

New York, Ny, Us

BrainReserve has been accurately forecasting the future for over 50 years. I advise the Think Tank on AI innovations, digital platforms, "exotic data" and predictive analytics, and quantitative foresight methods to enhance accuracy and equity.

Toulouse, Occitanie, Fr

Led consumer marketing, engagement, activation and experience innovation (media, content, social, CRM, PR, influencer, design) including data, analytics, foresight, and AI initiatives. DE&I champion. Technofuturist driving digital transformation while fueling omnichannel B2B2C growth. Applying "curiosity science" day-to-day with measurable impact. Winner ESOMAR’s top 250 insights professionals (2022).

Toulouse, Occitanie, Fr

Paris, Fr

H2/H3 new product development (innovation strategy, end-to-end process management, business planning, prototyping, user testing, optimization, launch strategy, etc.) for 35 brands (hair, skin, makeup), including moonshots, Beauty Tech (from devices to digital makeup). Open Innovation, Fast Track, Design Thinking, sprints, hackathons, accelerators, incubators. User voice, consumer insights, and strategic foresight. Beauty 2030 global innovation strategy with tech and science M&A roadmap. Cultural Intelligence System. USA Tomorrow Think Tank. DE&I Advisory Board.

New York, Us

Leader of the Cultural Intelligence and Cultural Strategy team producing cutting-edge analysis, insights and innovation for many of the world’s biggest brands, and important public institutions. Strategic consulting informed by insights, futures thinking, futurism and strategic foresight. Incubating technologies, and using AI to deliver better work. Client engagements: +100. Business growth: 35x. Expansion: 3 offices. Team: 40 people. Omnicom's fastest-growing boutique agency (2016). Ad Age’s "Agency to Watch" (2014). Driving agency growth through product, service, process, consulting, brand, business model, network, and marketing innovation.

New York, New York, Us

Prototyped, piloted, launched and scaled the Trends & Culture, Strategic Planning (Innovation) department, building it into a successful internal consultancy. Incubated digital platforms. Pioneered Social Listening & Search Listening agency capabilities. Led numerous Blue Ocean Strategy (innovation) sprints for clients. Helped Champion Athletic Apparel achieve #2 SOM. Contributed to new business wins valued at +$250M.

New York, New York, Us

Led market research, brand and portfolio strategy, and innovation projects for a dozen F1000 clients. Managed insights and foresight that informed new product roadmaps and innovation pipelines. Drove innovation strategy as a trusted advisor. Consulted to C-level executives of some of the world's leading brands. Contributed to 15 new business wins.

Managed the H1/H2/H3 innovation strategy, skunkworks NPD lab, and R&D pipeline of the South African gold industry—piloting, incubating and scaling disruptive ventures. Open Innovation ecosystem. Managed multinational teams of scientists, chemists, technologists, goldsmiths, and metallurgists. Responsible for new product development, R&D, retail innovation, digital innovation, brand innovation, business model and marketing innovation.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Responsible for innovation strategy, identifying strategic investments, marketing and branding. Managed innovation pipeline and R&D. Launched and scaled 2 eCommerce businesses. Founded the Gold of Africa Museum and an associated innovation lab. Produced +100 new products. Managed insights, market research, user testing, and new product research. Finalist Business Woman of the Year. Led Strategic Foresight for the company and category.

Senior Executive Programme Of South Africa, Executive Mba

Professional Certificate In Strategic Foresight (In Progress)

Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Tech & Exotic Science

Amp (Advanced Management Program) At Babson College

Msed, Master Of Science In Education

Ba, International Marketing And Advertising

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