Tendayi Viki

Innovation Expert

Profile

Tendayi Viki is an author and corporate innovation expert. As Partner at Strategyzer, he helps companies build their capabilities to innovate for the future while managing their core business.

He has given keynotes, runs workshops and worked as a consultant for several large organizations including Airbus, American Express, Bayer, The British Museum, Lufthansa-Airplus, Novartis, Pearson, Pfizer, Rabobank, Salesforce, Sealed Air, Standard Bank, TD Ameritrade, Unilever and The Royal Academy of Engineers.

Tendayi has written three books; Pirates In The Navy, The Corporate Startup, and The Lean Product Lifecycle. The Corporate Startup was awarded the 2018 CMI Management Book Of The Year In Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Tendayi previously served as Director of Product Lifecycle at Pearson, where he co-developed an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York. He was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2021 and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch. He is also a regular contributor at Forbes.