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 Grow Revenue  |  Decrease Operating Costs  |  Mitigate Risks  |  Empower Employees  |  Delight Customers  |  Build Equitable Businesses Rapidly  |  Adapt to Climate Change  |  Diversify Revenue Streams  |  End the Climate Emergency  |  Reduce Extreme Wealth Inequality  |  Educate Everyone  |
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I help leaders grow their business.

Hi! I’m West Stringfellow and I help executives, entrepreneurs, investors and boards innovate.

I am determined to give all business leaders the data, insights, mindset, processes, talent and tools required to build multiple revenue streams in growing sectors and markets while adapting to rapid change.
120
businesses thriving worldwide.
30
M
raised for clients businesses.
80
+
clients businesses saved form liquidation.
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ABOUT

Does this sound like you? 

If you know innovation is critical for growth and are looking to:

- Set company-wide goals that accelerate innovation

- Invest in innovation enough to win while balancing time, risk and optionality

- Build winning value propositions that differentiate your business, market and technology

- Create defensible and scalable profit sources built on new business models

- Develop, launch, scale and iterate innovations quickly and effectively

- Lead, incentivise, motivate your talent to repeatedly innovate

- Build and maintain the networks required to win long-termThen I am here to help you.
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“West has a remarkable ability to see clearly what needs to be done, and a complete lack of fear when it comes to expressing those ideas. His amazing track record speaks for itself, but I'm happy to speak for him too. He's a phenomenal leader and an awesome personality to work with.”
Ian C.
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SERVICES

How West Activates Innovation In You and Your Organization

West’s realistic, customer-focused approach to innovation will help you and your team move faster and farther with less risk, more efficiency and greater alignment with the needs of your current and future customers, talent and shareholders.
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West motivates corporate, community, conference, government and student audiences to innovate.
COACHING
West helps executives and entrepreneurs professionally develop their innovation knowledge and skills.
ADVISING
West helps companies accelerate their innovation and product management teams, projects and outcomes.
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THE PROCESS

The Roadmap to Success

Here is a clear outline of how to move someone from their problem to their end goals. How do we define the existing issues, come up with a plan and then guide them towards fixing them? Outline it here in a few simple steps, make it sounds easy, fun and exciting!
Identifying current problems within the business structure.
Outlining a proven processes structured plan for success moving forward.
Executing each step of the plan, to ensure results happen and your business grows.
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Awards

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Edmund Hillary Fellowship
(EHF)
In 2020 West was selected to join the EHF community of 500 “action-oriented people influencing the course of humanity”. Fellows undergo a rigorous application process and were selected from 10K+ applicants.
Minneapolis Real Power 50
In 2016 West was selected as a “Power50” who are “The linchpins in their company. The heart of the operation. The people who make things happen.” Winners were nominated by previous members and vetted for 3 months.
Paypal Employee Awards
in 2012 West received:
-the “Universe” award, EBay’s highest award, from PayPal’s CPO
-the “Meteor Shower” award, eBay’s 2nd highest award, from my team for my leadership of the Point of Sale Program.
iKids Awards
In 2014 the team West led won 1st place in "Best Learning App for Preschoolers " for Rosetta Stone's Lingo Letter Sounds
Webby Awards
In 2014 the team West led was nominated and selected as an Houoree for "Apps, Mobile, and Voice" in "Education and Reference" (Handheld devices) for Rosetta Stone's Lingo Letter Sounds.
PYMNT.s.com Innovator Awards
In 2013, the team West led won:
- Gold for "Most Innovative"
- Silver for "Most Disruptive"
- Bronze for "Best Merchant"
for PayPal's point of sales solution.
Google Australia Brand Zeitgeist
In 2010 the team West led won "Fastest Rising Google searches for Australian Brands" for their SEO work at GraysOnline.

Patents

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Secure Loyalty Programs
A system with a decentralized architecture to provide secure loyalty program.
Social retail platform & system with graphical user interfaces for presenting multiple content types
A social media platform and system provides a graphical user interface for creating social media posts and tagging one or more products.
Payment system
Disclose embodiments provide systems and methods of processing payment authorisation requests for payment.
Smart Wallet
A service provider provides one or more "best" total value suggestions for one or more items specified by a user.
Payment System
Embodiments of the invention provide a method of processing payment authorisation requests for payment transactions.
Local Affiliate Marketing
Merchants within close proximity to each other are "affiliated" with other by distance. A consumer making a first.
Systems And Methods For Providing Information To Consumers
A method and a system to provide information to consumers are provided.
Location Determination And Map Building
The present disclosure involves a method comprising: determining the location of a user inside a facility.
Account Access At Point Of Sale
Verifying personal identification number (PIN)

Let’s grow your business with a proven results plan, together.

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HowDo

The World's Innovation Resource

Interactive Learning Hub
“Innovators create new jobs and new solutions; two things humanity needs right now.

Unfortunately, too many innovators fail.

To help innovators succeed, I built HowDo.”
ABOUT

Who is WEST STRINGFELLOW ?

West Stringfellow has over twenty years of proven experience leading innovation and product management in fast-paced, high-growth roles. The teams he led envisioned, designed, built, launched and scaled products, services and platforms in Amazon, PayPal, Rosetta Stone, Target, Visa and several startups. West envisioned, built and led the Techstars Retail Startup Accelerator. A Fortune 50 company bought his startup. West is the inventor of five patents and a Fellow in the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. West is a global thought leader with deep experience working abroad, managing teams across multiple regions, and the ability to identify top talent in each location. He has been responsible for developing intellectual property, including several patented technologies and new product lines that delivered unexpected growth for the companies. Along the way, West achieved a great deal of knowledge and connections which benefits employers as well as the ability to coach and mentor innovators at all levels of an organization.
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EXPERIENCED
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WEST STRINGFELLOW INNOVATES
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- A Fortune 50 company bought West’s startup.
- Vice President of innovation and the 1st Entrepreneur in Residence at Target
- Envisioned, built and led the Techstars retail startup accelerator
- Chief Product Officer at Bigcomerrce
- Chief Product Officer at Rosetta Stone
- Vice President of European innovation at Visa
- Senior Director of global platform, product and innovation at PayPal
- Senior Product Manager at Amazon
- Fellow at the Edmund Hillary Fellowship
- Inventor of five issued patents
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“West has a very unique mix of technical know-how, innovation and programme delivery, coupled with an extremely strong commercial and marketing skill set. This mix has invariably meant that he transforms and builds new revenue streams.”
Crispin T.
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