Lee & Joeri (Yuri) – the back story
Innovate Wisely™ is a Business Innovation Consultancy founded by Lee Foster with support from co-founder Joeri (Yuri) Timmermans.
Learn about Lee and Joeri – their back story – to find out why they make the best innovation partners you’ve ever had.
Lee Foster – Founder, Innovate Wisely™
Lee Foster is the founder of Innovate Wisely™, established in 2020, bringing over 30 years of experience as a practicing engineer and academic researcher in business management and innovation.
With a strong background that includes a Master’s in Engineering and a Master’s in Business Management and Innovation by research, Lee specialises in facilitating innovation within complex projects and initiatives. Her expertise empowers organisations to address global challenges with practical, impactful solutions.
Driven by a passion for creating a better, more sustainable world, Lee is committed to enabling organisations to innovate wisely through proven strategies and meaningful change. With a vision for building a future shaped by innovation, Lee is dedicating this next phase of her career to helping organisations achieve measurable impact and long-term success.
Joeri (Yuri) Timmermans – Co-Founder, Innovate Wisely™
Joeri (Yuri) Timmermans is the co-founder of Innovate Wisely™ and a seasoned expert in innovation, project management, and agile methodologies. With a Bachelor of Information Technology, an MBA, and certifications including PMP, MACS Snr, and numerous agile and portfolio management qualifications, Joeri brings a wealth of experience to driving transformative initiatives.
Joeri is a Professional Scrum Master, SAFe Program Consultant, and certified in PRINCE2 Agile, Change Management, and ITIL, among others. He has mentored through prestigious programs like the Project Management Institute (PMI), CSIRO Innovation, and QUT MBA, while also serving as a Brisbane Executive Club Secretary and Lean Startup Ambassador.
With over two decades of experience in corporate innovation, Joeri has been recognised for his contributions, including the 2023 Lord Mayor’s Commendation for Innovation. His passion for facilitating workshops, mentoring, and pioneering lean and agile approaches has earned him a reputation as a driving force for impactful change and sustainable success.
At Innovate Wisely™, Joeri combines his technical expertise, leadership skills, and innovative mindset to help organisations navigate complexity, foster collaboration, and achieve meaningful outcomes.
Innovate Wisely™
Lee has founded Innovate Wisely™ and delivers InnoWise™ based programs to address the staggering concern that only 1% of digital transformations meet expectations, less than 20% of organisation manage knowledge well and 95% of product innovations fail.
Together with Joeri, Lee provides organisations with the capabilities to harness the power of new knowledge and trust to secure the confidence that their innovation goals will succeed.
Innovate Wisely™ partners with CEO’s, Directors, and innovation leaders looking for predictable, sustainable systems to translate innovate ideas into viable outcomes that create IMPACT.
The program consists of a series of masterclasses and workshops that take your team to the next level of success by being effective at solving complex problems and succeeding in their innovation goals.
InnoWise™
Through these experiences and qualifications, Lee and Joeri present clients with a unique and proven business improvement model, InnoWise™.
The core of the InnoWise™ program is unlocking the power of trust to build effective teams to power the momentum and energy required to push innovation and change into full realisation.
InnoWise™ is a blueprint for ‘re-wiring” organisations wishing to create trust within stakeholders to achieve better project management outcomes and large-scale impact.
InnoWise™ is a knowledge-based framework designed to help managers of innovative initiatives, plan, strategise and manage with knowledge in mind. The program provides a systematic and comprehensive, easy to use process to build effective teams and implement your ideas.
It includes regular project health checks using behavioural based metrics, provides ‘early warning’ system for your initiative, allowing managers to reflect and adjust before time and money is wasted.
Our services consist of three core programs that create: