Geosyntec’s Innovation Council (IC) creates value for our clients, colleagues, and stakeholders by supporting programs that address the entire path a new idea takes to become a useful technology, from conducting proof-of-concept R&D all the way to full commercialization.
Through its three programs, the IC provides research grants to our colleagues and research collaborators to test out and advance ideas, helps build partnerships with leading-edge research universities, and supports commercialization of new technologies, providing entrepreneurial guidance, mentoring, and funding.
The IC enhances our culture of thought leadership, rigorous research, and practical application, fostering this mindset among employees at every level of the company.
The IC’s mission is as follows:
- To strengthen the company’s culture of innovation
- To promote a holistic innovation culture spanning the firm’s geography and encompassing our business’s technical, administrative, managerial, and operational aspects
- To develop training programs that instill a firmwide innovative and entrepreneurial ethos
- To track the return on investment to Geosyntec from our innovation programs
- To support innovation-focused marketing materials
- To encourage employee engagement by highlighting stories about innovation and by educating employees about our innovation programs
- To reward exceptional R&D projects, publications, and commercialization successes, recognize achievements, and encourage involvement of more practitioners in our innovation programs.
- To be a resource for and advisor to Geosyntec's senior leadership
In addition to coordinating and connecting the three partner programs, the IC works closely with Geosyntec’s marketers, University Diversity Outreach and Engagement team, talent acquisition team, and Diversity Council to communicate our efforts externally and within the firm.
