Julie Cooper

IXL Center - Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership

IXL Center is recognized by Forbes as one of the America's Best Management Consulting Firms in the Innovation and Strategic Growth Space. The company helps corporations and individuals develop breakthrough strategic solutions and world-class innovation management capabilities in order to drive significant, sustainable business impact. The Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership (IXL Center) is focused on delivering breakthrough and high-performance results, building lasting innovation capabilities, and researching and codifying best practices in innovation management. We develop innovative business solutions and capabilities of leaders, teams and organizations. We help organizations get started with powerful audits and learning histories, and we work across the entire spectrum from sourcing and idea generation, through concept development and pressure testing, to accelerated pilots, launch, and scale-up. We drive accelerated execution through our Innovation Accelerator, and our experienced consulting support and action coaching of Eureka, Pursuit, and Realization Teams. IXL Center was created by the practice innovation leaders of Arthur D. Little and Monitor Group, business school professors from Hult International Business School and industry practitioners. Our leadership at IXL has been focused on the innovation space for over 30 years, and we continue to develop cutting-edge innovation tools and methods and integrate them into our IXL Eureka software to support innovation leaders and drive effective collaboration worldwide. We also teach innovation and provide certification opportunities to thousands of corporate executives and MBA students using a powerful blended action learning and online curriculum. We serve our clients through a global footprint of eleven consulting offices and training locations in four continents.