NICHOLAS PARTRIDGE  Innovation

Innovation and Design Leader with 16 years’ experience developing products, services, brands and businesses that drive sustainable top-line growth.

Nick is obsessed with creating The New, be it product, service, brand or business. Nicholas is a veteran innovator, having partnered with the world’s most powerful brands on their hairiest innovation challenges.
     
His career pivots on a belief: Analytical strategies don’t mean a thing without a compelling idea to excite – yet blue-sky concepts die in a filing cabinet if they don’t align with commercial realities or enjoy the executional know-how to get it done. Innovation survives the pressure cooker of commercialization and thrives in the market when Strategy, Design, Brand and Execution braid perfectly.
 
For 16 years he has had the privilege of leading large-scale innovation and design engagements for clients including Travelers, Cincinnati Insurance, Prudential, Assurant, AARP, Delta Faucet, Target, Samsung, Philips, Nestle and iRobot.

Named Innovation Excellence’s Top 40 Blogger for 2017, 2018 and 2019, Nick is a frequent speaker at design and innovation conferences and guest lecturer.
 
Prior to joining LPK in 2016, Nick served as Co-Head and Sr Innovation Director of Idea Couture’s New York office, as Innovation Director at Fahrenheit 212 (NYC) and Product Designer at Essential (Boston).
 
Nicholas holds a BS in Product Design from the school of DAAP at the University of Cincinnati and a certificate in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School Online.