Meet the Innovate Wisely Team

Innovate Wisely is a Business Innovation Consultancy founded by Lee Foster with support from co-founder Joeri (Yuri) Timmermans and business partner, Len Costantini.

Find out why the Innovate Wisely team make great innovation partners.

Lee Foster – Founder, Innovate Wisely™

Lee has a distinguished background in chemical engineering and subsequent qualifications in Leadership and Innovation. She understands how to achieve large scale meaningful innovation and brings unparalleled expertise to your organisational goals.

Lee is the founder of Innovate Wisely™, a consultancy established in 2020 to help organisations deliver complex projects with greater confidence, alignment, and impact. With more than 30 years’ experience as a practising engineer and academic researcher, Lee works at the intersection of engineering, business management, and innovation.

Holding a Master’s in Engineering and a Master’s in Business Management and Innovation (by research), Lee specialises in enabling innovation in environments where uncertainty, risk, and stakeholder complexity are high. Her work focuses on making trust and knowledge visible and manageable—so better decisions can be made, earlier and more consistently.

Guided by a strong belief that innovation should serve a better tomorrow, Lee is committed to helping organisations translate insight into action. Through Innovate Wisely™, she supports leaders and teams to build capability, sustain momentum, and achieve measurable, long-term outcomes grounded in trust, knowledge, and purposeful change.

Lee’s specialisation and passion is in water. Her sweet spot is helping the water industry get to the next level of providing the best possible outcomes to our community.

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.

Joeri leading a team workshop

Len Costantini • Partner

Len helps organisations turn intent into outcomes. He brings three decades’ experience across government, GOC and corporate environments to the practical work of enabling innovation—connecting brand positioning, stakeholder engagement, and execution so projects move from idea to delivery.

At Innovate Wisely, Len’s role complements innovation strategy expertise with the human-system levers that determine success: trust, knowledge, and energy. He uses structured facilitation and clear narratives to align executives, operators, councillors, and community—so decisions are supported, empowered and realised.

What Len does

Len specialises in strategic engagement, stakeholder communications and implementation support. He helps organisations translate complex projects into clear value propositions, build stakeholder trust, navigate political and community environments, and establish the governance and communication frameworks required to turn strategy into successful outcomes.

Len facilitating a workshop

Innovate Wisely™

Lee has founded Innovate Wiselyto address the staggering concern that only 1% of digital transformations meet expectations, less than 20% of organisations manage knowledge well and 95% of product innovations fail.

Innovate Wiselypartners with CEO’s, Directors, and innovation leaders looking for predictable, sustainable systems to translate innovate ideas into viable outcomes that create IMPACT.

Together with Joeri and Len, 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.

InnoWise®

The core of our work is the InnoWise® framework.

The InnoWise® framework unlocks the power of trust to build effective teams to create the momentum and energy required to push innovation and change into full realisation.

Explore our services to see how we might be able to add value to your team today.