Tendayi Viki is an award winning author and corporate innovation expert. He holds a PhD in Psychology and an MBA. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, Tendayi works with companies to develop their internal ecosystems so they can innovate for the future while managing their core business. He has worked with several large organizations including Rabobank, Novartis, TD Ameritrade, Unilever, and Lufthansa-Airplus.

Tendayi previously served as Director of Product Lifecycle at Pearson, the FTSE100 global education company. He co-designed Pearson’s Product Lifecycle which is an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York.

Tendayi has written three  books based on his research and work experience, The Corporate Startup, The Lean Product Lifecycle and Pirates In The Navy. The Corporate Startup was awarded the 2018 CMI Management Book Of The Year In Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Tendayi was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2021 and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch. He is also a regular contributor at Forbes.