Nathan Waterhouse

Nathan Waterhouse knows what it takes to make change happen. As an innovator and serial entrepreneur who led new business ventures at world renowned design and innovation firm IDEO, he’s seen first hand what it takes to bring new products and services into the world.

Waterhouse is regularly invited to speak and comment on design, innovation and collaboration. He has delivered keynotes at TEDx, The Economist, and the White House and has also created bespoke talks on innovation culture and creativity for some of the world’s biggest organizations including Generali, 3M and Hewlett Packard. He has also starred in an advert for the launch of the new Jeep Compass as one of three hand picked designers and innovators including Ron Arad and Massimo Banzi, founder of Arduino.

Waterhouse in an expert in organization design and has led organization design programs facilitated workshops with hundreds of participants that have helped shift the innovation strategy for 250 year old organizations like Generali. He also helped create HackFWD, a design startup incubator for Europe. He has led innovation programs for IKEA, T-Mobile, VISA, Oxfam, SONY, amongst others. At IDEO, he led the organization design practice in Europe, and devised new ways to apply innovation methodologies for companies that operate at scale.

Waterhouse is an entrepreneur with a social conscience. At IDEO, he co-founded OpenIDEO.com, a social impact community of over 150,000 people across 190 countries that collaborate online to tackle big systemic challenges in our society. Inspired by this experience, he also co-founded OI Engine, an award-winning software platform to enable collaboration and help corporations tackle tough challenges collaboratively, rather than in isolation.