Lee Foster – Founder, Innovate Wisely™

Lee Foster is the founder of Innovate Wisely™, a consultancy established in 2020 to help organisations deliver complex projects with greater confidence, alignment, and impact. With more than 30 years’ experience as a practising engineer and academic researcher, Lee works at the intersection of engineering, business management, and innovation.

Holding a Master’s in Engineering and a Master’s in Business Management and Innovation (by research), Lee specialises in enabling innovation in environments where uncertainty, risk, and stakeholder complexity are high. Her work focuses on making trust and knowledge visible and manageable—so better decisions can be made, earlier and more consistently.

Guided by a strong belief that innovation should serve a better tomorrow, Lee is committed to helping organisations translate insight into action. Through Innovate Wisely™, she supports leaders and teams to build capability, sustain momentum, and achieve measurable, long-term outcomes grounded in trust, knowledge, and purposeful change.

Joeri (Yuri) Timmermans – Co-Founder, Innovate Wisely™

Joeri (Yuri) Timmermans is the co-founder of Innovate Wisely™ and a seasoned expert in innovation, project management, and agile methodologies. With a Bachelor of Information Technology, an MBA, and certifications including PMP, MACS Snr, and numerous agile and portfolio management qualifications, Joeri brings a wealth of experience to driving transformative initiatives.

Joeri is a Professional Scrum Master, SAFe Program Consultant, and certified in PRINCE2 Agile, Change Management, and ITIL, among others. He has mentored through prestigious programs like the Project Management Institute (PMI), CSIRO Innovation, and QUT MBA, while also serving as a Brisbane Executive Club Secretary and Lean Startup Ambassador.

With over two decades of experience in corporate innovation, Joeri has been recognised for his contributions, including the 2023 Lord Mayor’s Commendation for Innovation. His passion for facilitating workshops, mentoring, and pioneering lean and agile approaches has earned him a reputation as a driving force for impactful change and sustainable success.

At Innovate Wisely™, Joeri combines his technical expertise, leadership skills, and innovative mindset to help organisations navigate complexity, foster collaboration, and achieve meaningful outcomes.

Len Costantini • Partner

Len helps organisations turn intent into outcomes. He brings three decades’ experience across government, GOC and corporate environments to the practical work of enabling innovation—connecting brand positioning, stakeholder engagement, and execution so projects move from idea to delivery.

At Innovate Wisely, Len’s role complements innovation strategy expertise with the human-system levers that determine success: trust, knowledge, and energy. He uses structured facilitation and clear narratives to align executives, operators, councillors, and community—so decisions are supported, empowered and realised.

What Len does

Positioning & value narrative: distils complex technical programs into credible, plain-English value propositions that secure internal buy-in and funding.

Stakeholder engagement: designs and runs targeted engagement (operators, councillors, community, regulators) to surface constraints, reduce risk, and build social licence.

Political & corporate communications: strategy and advice for elected members and executive leadership—briefing notes, talking points, Q&A packs, media lines, stakeholder maps, and issues/crisis communications—so messaging stays consistent across Council, regulators and public channels.

Delivery enablement: sets up practical governance—owners, decision gates, KPIs, and feedback loops—so teams can execute with confidence.

Change communications: creates artefacts that carry strategy through delivery (one-page canvases, dashboards, councillor brief packs, FAQs).