Welcome to inspirer. We help corporations, small-businesses, and startups build substantially better products, processes, and technologies through innovation consulting.

Everyone has great ideas. At inspirer, we help you turn those ideas into actual innovations. We help you identify trends and show you how to act on them. We teach you the tricks of being able to effectively explain your innovation to others. We help you become an inspirer.

inspire |inˈspīr|verb: fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative.

audacious |ôˈdāSHəs|adjective: showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.

innovation |inəˈvāSHən|noun: the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation generally signifies a substantial positive change compared to incremental changes.

Trend Identification

inspirer can help you sift through all the data in your industry to find the hidden ideas that lead to innovation.

Idea To Innovation

At inspirer, we are experts on turning ideas into innovation. Our team has built over 14 successful companies while also helping 100’s of others do the same.

Innovation Explanation

What good is an idea or innovation if you cannot explain it to others? inspirer can teach you to become a whiteboard artist and presentation master.

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Trend Identification

The inspirer team are experts in identifying trends, creating metrics to value the data, sifting through them to find opportunities, mapping out the results, and figuring out what the logical series of steps are to take advantage of the uncovered opportunity.

Innovation Storytelling

The inspirer team can reawaken your inner-child who used to love to draw and teach you all the tips and tricks needed to be an effective whiteboarder and a presentation master. We work with you to refine your message, create a series of easy to draw explanations for the whiteboard, design an engaging presentation, and tech you how to deliver it like Steve Jobs.

Startup Coaching

Innovation leads to success...but what then? How do I grow intelligently? When do I need to raise capital? How do I do business overseas? inspirer has the knowledge and experience to help you answer these questions and more.

Outsourced Innovation

Sometimes it is easier to to hire an all-star team for a specific project. The inspirer team are all master innovators with years of experience in numerous industries and disciplines. Tell us your objective and we can do the rest. inspirer is like the "easy button" for innovation.

 

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inspirer testimonials

Mike has an uncanny ability to see right into the heart of any business and identify winning opportunities. He did that for BookBrewer in our first year and the results were amazing. I can't recommend him highly enough.
Dan Pacheco, Founder of BookBrewer.com

Mike has not only inspired me to be more innovative professionally, but he has inspired me to complete a 15 year + vision of running the Leadville Trail 100
Jim Franklin, CEO SendGrid.

Mike is a true mentor. He believed in our vision, motivated us to look beyond the obvious and provided valuable insight. Our company is stronger because of his advice.
Mike Suprovici, CoFounder/CEO Explorence.

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At inspirer we have been inspired by many great innovators. Here's a few:

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

- Richard Branson

"I believe in being an innovator. It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

- Walt Disney

"We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams.”

- Willy Wonka

"If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance”

- Orville Wright

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

- Albert Einstein

"We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

- T. S. Eliot

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."

- Chuck Jones

"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”

- Thomas Edison

"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

- Edwin H. Land

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it.”

- Albert Einstein

"There's a way to do it better-find it."

- Thomas Edison

"Success is on the far side of failure."

- Thomas Watson Sr.

"You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

- Steve Jobs

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not?"

- Robert Kennedy