Helping Organizations Innovate From Within
Leaders – from Fortune 50 to Series A – depend upon I&I to engineer their organizations for creative growth and find the world’s best talent to deliver it. We do this as operating partners and talent partners.
OVERVIEW‘Backend Engineers’ of Growth
We know how to structure, integrate, motivate and build high performing diverse teams who will engineer your company for its future.
01We Place Elite Talent
The most innovative companies depend on the diverse network of tier-1 talent we’ve curated over the past 17 years as well as our knowledge of retaining them.
02We’re Former Operators
Our partners are former operators who offer deep domain expertise and best practices. They’ve led billion-dollar brands, P&Ls, and functions of scale.
03We Demystify Creativity
Our expertise in creativity – how to structure it, integrate it, staff it, and scale it – will give you the ‘creative capital’ needed to build your future.
04We Operate Across Your Chain
Because our organizational design expertise spans functions, we take a holistic approach to reinventing business functions to deliver your ambitions.
OUTCOMES Turn Vision into Action
Our hard-won knowledge of change management allows us to steward plans into practice at scale. Explore our clients.
$25MM in Efficiencies
Found $25MM in efficiencies to fund net-new capability builds in to deliver a new growth agenda
250+ Design & Build Out
Designed and built a 250-person D2C division to move a legacy global brand into e-commerce
100% Placement Success
100% talent placement success with no replacement ever requested or required by partners
58% Diverse hires
Our exec search process guarantees a broader slate of candidates: 58% of our placements are diverse hires
4 x In-House Agency of the Year
Three of our in-house agency builds have won Ad Age “In-House Agency of the Year” + Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of Year
39% Savings
In-housed a 26-agency roster at 39% savings and expanded impact across a multi-brand portfolio
27x ‘Most Innovative’
Our partners have collectively earned FastCo’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” honor 27x
Global Knowledge & Network
Over 18 years of global work experience and global recruiting including North America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australasia.
Global Innovations
Built innovation, R&D and design teams who have launched category defining technology
+47% in Employee Engagement
47% rise in employee engagement one year after re-engineering a marketing function
Most Awarded Since 2017
Our in-house agency builds are among the most awarded at the Effies, Cannes, D&AD, & One Show
86 In-House Agencies Built
We pioneered the in-house agency model and built over 86 high performing and diverse structures over the past decade
PROGRAMS OVERVIEWAll You Need to Climb S-Curves
We unite capabilities in talent, organizational design, and operations.
Talent Programs
Leadership and skill gaps abound in your company. Employee engagement is low and the quality of work isn’t where it should be. I&I helps you gain and grow the talent necessary for generating great ideas and executing them brilliantly.
Organization Transformation
Your organization needs to do something it’s not built to do. Outsourcing that work or stretching employees isn’t working. I&I closes the gap between corporate vision and organizational capability so you can accelerate into your future.
Product Transformation
Your ambitions aren’t translating into the product. Ongoing disagreements on product priorities waste time and capital. I&I optimizes product teams to be human-centered, design-led innovators solving real needs and building competitive advantages.
Marketing Transformation
Your marketing is unimaginative and underperforming. This has led to missed revenue targets and low brand health. I&I modernizes your marketing department into a creative, full-funnel operation that strengthens equities and delivers revenue.
Operations Transformation
Silos and messy processes define how your teams work. I&I aligns teams around one process to break silos, unlock ingenuity, and increase speed. Teams will spend less time debating how to get things done and more time getting things done.