Tendayi Viki

Tendayi Viki is an author and innovation consultant who is helping to change the way established companies create value through innovation.

He holds a PhD in Psychology and an MBA. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, he assists large organizations in innovating for the future while managing their core business. He has given keynotes, run workshops, and worked as a consultant for organizations including Rabobank, American Express, Unilever, Standard Bank, Airbus, Pearson, Lufthansa-Airplus, The British Museum, Copenhagen Fintech, and The Royal Academy of Engineers.

Viki co-designed Pearson’s Product Lifecycle, an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York. He has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and was named to the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch. He has written three books based on his research and consulting experience, "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. He is also a regular contributing writer for Forbes.

Viki spent more than 12 years in academia, during which time he taught at the University of Kent, where he is now an Honorary Senior Lecturer. He has also been a Research Fellow at Stanford University and a Research Assistant at Harvard University.