Even with capable people and a sound plan, decisions can slow, stakeholder confidence can weaken and important knowledge can become fragmented.

Innovate Wisely® helps leaders identify the hidden trust, knowledge and alignment conditions preventing important initiatives from meeting expectations—before more time, money and confidence are lost.

Led by Lee Foster, Trust and Performance Adviser, engineer and researcher with more than 30 years of experience in complex project environments.

Does any of this feel familiar?

• Everyone appears to support the initiative, but decisions and actions keep slowing.
• The same issues are repeatedly discussed without being resolved.
• A technically sound solution is struggling to gain confidence or adoption.
• Important knowledge is fragmented, contested or held by too few people.
• Existing reports show that progress is slipping, but not what is really causing it.

More meetings, additional reporting and another communication plan may create activity without resolving the conditions holding the initiative back.

Leaders need earlier visibility of what people trust, what they know, where alignment is weakening and whether the organisation has sufficient energy to move forward.

50%

Only half of projects fully deliver value that exceeds the effort and expense involved. A further 37% only partially deliver the expected results and 13% fail outright.

31%

Nearly one-third of complex projects fail to achieve the full scope of their intended benefits.

79%

Four in five employees have low trust in organisational change.

Only 32% of leaders report achieving healthy adoption of the changes they lead.

Conventional measures of time, cost and scope reveal the consequences. They rarely explain the human and organisational conditions producing them.

Innovate Wisely® makes those conditions visible early enough for leaders to respond.

Sources: Project Management Institute, 2025 and 2026; Gartner, 2025.

When an important initiative is stalling or falling short of expectations, leaders need to understand why before investing in another solution.

The Initiative Momentum Diagnostic is a focused, fixed-scope review of a specific project, change initiative or stakeholder decision. It uses the InnoWise® framework and Trust Analyser™ to identify the trust, knowledge and alignment barriers affecting progress.

You receive:

• a clear definition of the initiative, its current stage and the expectations at risk
• confidential evidence about what stakeholders trust, understand and need
• the three to five conditions having the greatest effect on momentum
• a leadership debrief that turns findings into practical priorities, and
• a 30-day action plan identifying next steps, responsibilities and decision points.

The purpose is not to label people or declare that an organisation has a “trust problem”. It is to give leaders the visibility needed to act before delay, rework or disengagement becomes failure.

InnoWise® brings trust, knowledge and organisational energy into the way initiatives are formed, created, adopted and reviewed in four defined stages:

Form

Align the purpose, expectations, stakeholders and knowledge needed before committing to a direction.

Create

Develop and test possible responses using the insight of the people who understand the problem and will influence the outcome.

Adopt

Build the confidence, ownership, knowledge and support required to turn a decision into sustained action.

Critique

Learn from evidence, retain essential knowledge and strengthen future performance.

Practical tools support each stage:

1. The Trust Analyser™ : reveals whether people trust the purpose, knowledge, approach, relationships and support surrounding a specific initiative
2. The Knowledge Canvas™ : makes knowledge gaps, assumptions, collaborators and adoption requirements visible
3. The InnoWise® process checklist : helps leaders assess the initiative’s actual stage and identify work that may have been missed.

For an important project, change initiative or decision that is stalling, losing support or falling short of expectations.

Outcome: clarity about the underlying barriers and a practical 30-day response plan.

For leaders who need support to address identified barriers, facilitate difficult conversations and rebuild alignment around delivery.

Outcome: stronger decisions, clearer ownership and renewed momentum.

For teams and leaders seeking to embed stronger trust, knowledge and performance practices across future initiatives.

Outcome: sustained capability rather than repeated recovery.

Innovate Wisely® is grounded in postgraduate research into innovation and knowledge, informed by more than 30 years of engineering and advisory experience, and tested in complex project environments.

Founder Lee Foster brings together the discipline of an engineer, the curiosity of a researcher and the practical judgement of an experienced adviser. Her work helps leaders examine the conditions conventional reporting often misses—without blame, unnecessary complexity or another burdensome process.