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THE STRATEGIES THAT POWERED THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
HAVE REACHED THEIR EXPIRATION DATE

Amplifying Human Capital—Mobilizing Strategy
for the Builders of the Next Economy

The industrial age has reached the end of its lifecycle—triggering widespread collapse
across economic, social, and environmental systems.

Beneath the turbulence, strategic actors are already using new logic
to move fast and set the stage for what comes next.

In this world, strategy-by-slide deck is obsolete.

Static frameworks and linear playbooks of the industrial age are liabilities—too slow, too rigid, too fragile.

Strategy is not an episodic process—it’s a workflow that's evolving into a living system:

AI-powered Strategic Operating Systems enable global operators, capital allocators, social systems builders and sovereigns to anticipate what’s next and gain control over volatility, uncertainty, and risk through:

Technology will automate the strategic workflow, but execution will depend on
—generative leaders and a future-ready workforce—
who can leverage amplified inteligence to build a human-centered future of prosperity, equity, and resilience.

Genovation Group serves global operators, capital allocators, social systems builders, and sovereign stewards architecting the foundations of the generative economy.

We don't deliver decks.

We develop future-ready builders and equip them with AI-powered systems to develop asymmetric intelligence, create generative futures scenarios and stress-test strategic decisions, pre-rehearse deployment to turn volatility and uncertainty into strategic advantage and purposeful action.

Who We Serve

Global Operators

Multinational corporations, global enterprises and large scale start-ups operating across volatile markets, complex supply chains, and diverse regulatory environments requiring real-time strategic adaptation.

Capital Allocators

Family offices, sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, and strategic capital deploying significant resources across multiple asset classes and geographies.

NGOs, IGOs & Social System Builders

Intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, and other institutions redesigning health, education, climate, and social systems across diverse cultures and fragmented governance structures.

Sovereign Stewards

Government leaders, national institutions, and sovereign entities responsible for policy development, economic transformation, and long-term societal prosperity across generational timeframes.

What We Do

Leadership Development

Developing strategic thinking capability and decision-making frameworks for leaders operating in environments defined by complexity, ambiguity, and exponential change.

Strategic Operating Systems and Infrastructure

Building execution platforms and decision-making infrastructure that go beyond traditional planning to create adaptive, learning organizations.

Our Leadership

Paul McManus

Founder and Chairman

Paul McManus brings over 30 years of strategic advisory experience to global operators, capital allocators, social systems builders and sovereigns architecting transformational change.

As current advisor to the UN World Food Programme and Research Fellow for the prestigious Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business Markets and Society at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, he works at the intersection of generative strategy & innovation, strategic operating systems design and large-scale transformation.

His advisory practice spans ministry and intergovernmental-level innovation ecosystem development, sovereign wealth fund strategy, executive development in the Private Equity and Venture Capital industries, and Global 1000 board and C-suite counsel across North America, Europe, MENA, and Asia. Through previous roles at Innosight (Clayton Christensen's strategy firm), as Managing Director at Bell-Mason Group, and principal in his own firm, McManus has architected transformational corporate strategies, venture capital programs, innovation ecosystems, and strategic transformation initiatives for organizations including Samsung, Motorola, and Philips.

McManus holds an MBA from Boston University and has been recognized with multiple teaching excellence awards for his work developing builders who architect emergent strategies, create innovation ecosystems, and leverage intelligent technologies for the generative economy.

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