Outpace Change. Outthink Competitors. Outperform Your Industry.

The FAST Innovation® Mastery Program equips leadership teams with a proven system to accelerate innovation, align priorities, and turn change into lasting competitive advantage.
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Enrollment is limited to a select number of organizations each year.

FAST Innovation in Action

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Does it feel like the world is changing faster than your organization can keep up?

Markets shift overnight. Competitors launch faster than you can respond. Teams generate ideas but struggle to deliver results.

The cost? Missed opportunities, wasted resources, and a shrinking competitive edge.

How Can Your Organization Keep Up With the Increasing Pace of Change?

The FAST Innovation® Mastery Program gives your leaders a field-proven system to cut through the noise, align priorities, and deliver innovation that drives measurable business impact.

Why Typical Approaches Fail
Why Over 80% of Innovation Efforts Fizzle Out
Hackathons & Suggestion Boxes

Episodic, not sustainable — they create a flurry of ideas but rarely lead to lasting business results.

Training Program

Teams leave energized, but old habits return. Knowledge fades, and business impact is minimal.

Traditional Consultants

Expensive advice and endless slide decks. The moment you need fresh thinking, you’re forced to re-hire them. No lasting engine is built.

Bottom line: These approaches create innovation theater – activity without impact. FAST Innovation installs a lasting engine that drives real results.
What’s Possible with FAST Innovation
Imagine Innovation That Actually Sticks
Sustainable Innovation Engine

A system that continuously delivers results, not just short-term bursts.

Agile Problem-Solving

Solve today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges faster than your competitors — without needing outside help.

Engaged & Aligned Workforce

Teams motivated, focused, and committed to driving innovation forward together.

This is the promise of the FAST Innovation Mastery Program: Don’t just dabble in innovation. Install it. Master it. Apply it. And get measurable results.

The FAST Innovation Engine: How We Build a Scalable Culture of Innovation

Most organizations treat innovation as a one-off event. FAST Innovation® embeds it into your culture — creating a system that scales naturally across every level of your company.
The Model:
Leadership:

Senior leaders reinforce and champion the system, ensuring innovation remains focused on strategic priorities.

Masters:

We begin by developing deep mastery in a select group of leaders who become catalysts for measurable business results.

Ambassadors:

Those Masters then mentor and equip dozens more, spreading expertise and accelerating adoption across teams.

Extended Network:

Over time, innovation becomes embedded throughout your entire organization — thousands of employees aligned and capable of solving real business challenges.

This creates a self-sustaining innovation engine – one that continuously fuels growth, eliminates dependence on outside consultants, and delivers repeatable, predictable results.
The FAST Innovation Process

A simple system that turns innovation from random activity into a predictable source of growth.

Innovation rarely fails for lack of ideas-it fails for lack of a repeatable system. Fast provides that system

Focus

Direct innovation toward your most critical strategic priorities.

Ask

Frame the right questions to cut through noise and unlock better solutions.

Shift

Challenge assumptions and generate options designed for real business impact.

Test

Rapidly pilot, validate, and scale what works—reduce risk, accelerate results.

Result: a repeatable engine that delivers faster decisions, stronger aligment, and measurable growth.

How the FAST Innovation Mastery Program Works

The Goal: Deliver real‑world ROI while embedding a culture of innovation that sustains results long after the engagement ends.
Who It’s For
What You Get
A roadmap built around your strategic priorities.
Direct guidance from Stephen and structured mentorship for your internal Masters.
A framework that empowers Ambassadors and extends across the workforce.
Scorecards and metrics that track progress against business outcomes.
Teams continue innovating long after the engagement ends.
Personality Poker® Mastery for deeper cultural alignment.

This isn’t a training program. It’s an exclusive transformation experience that leaves your organization faster, strong, and more resilient – with a measurable return on investment.

What Are the Results?
You expect training, hands-on work, apprenticeship, and mentoring. However, the true value of this program is so much more.

A Self-Sustaining Innovation Engine

Your teams gain the capability to repeatedly solve high-value business challenges—without dependence on consultants or endless training cycles. The result is an engine that runs long after the program ends.

Tangible ROI, Fast

Solving just one meaningful problem often pays for the program many times over. With a repeatable system, you don’t just get a one-off win—you unlock a pipeline of measurable results that compound quarter after quarter.

An Engaged, Aligned Culture

Innovation stops being an isolated activity. Leaders and teams align around a shared system, employees feel empowered to contribute, and your culture shifts toward collaboration, accountability, and sustained performance.

The Author of Invisible Solutions® & PIVOTAL, and the Creator of Personality Poker®

About Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro is one of the foremost authorities on creating a culture of innovation that delivers measurable results.

During his 15 years at Accenture, he founded and led the firm’s 20,000-person innovation and process improvement practice, giving him firsthand experience building transformation at global scale.

Since then, Stephen has become the author of six books, including the acclaimed Invisible Solutions® and Pivotal. He is a sought-after advisor and keynote speaker who has worked with organizations such as Microsoft, 3M, P&G, Marriott, Nike, and NASA.

What sets Stephen apart is his belief that innovation isn’t about chasing ideas—it’s about installing systems that help leaders and teams repeatedly solve high-value business challenges, unlock growth, and build cultures where people thrive.

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Book A Discovery Call With Stephen

Want to learn more? ​Book time with Stephen. If you don’t see any time slots that work for you, please email him at inquiries@stephenshapiro.com. He often blocks off time for writing and other activities.