Ask The InnovatorFounder-led innovation management expertise.
Djamiel Nanhekhan founded Ask The Innovator to help complex organisations turn innovation ambition into governance, ownership and repeatable execution. Engagements remain founder-led, with selected specialists involved when the scope requires it.
Djamiel Nanhekhan
Djamiel Nanhekhan has more than ten years of experience helping commercial, public and mission-driven organisations make innovation more deliberate, accountable and useful. His work connects strategy with the practical management mechanisms that determine which initiatives receive attention, ownership and investment.
Clients work directly with Djamiel throughout the engagement. He combines evidence-led diagnosis with hands-on implementation, keeps assumptions and limitations visible, and designs recommendations around the organisation’s real decision rights, operating rhythm and capacity to change.
His experience includes strategic innovation, innovation adoption, governance, portfolio decision-making and NATO Concept Development & Experimentation. ISO 56001 provides a recognised evidence backbone; the conversation with leaders remains practical and focused on business and mission outcomes.
- 10+ years across complex organisations
- Founder-led from diagnosis to handover
- Commercial, public and mission-driven experience
- ISO 56001 and NATO CD&E informed