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As a member of the faculty at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, where his work focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship, Paul Earle has deep experience in producing structured learning events for current and future leaders. This skill has transferred to his private practice, where he is currently designing training, open innovation, and other experiential learning platforms for a number of top companies.

Paul is also a highly experienced and dynamic public speaker with a track record of delivering great experiences for audiences of all sizes and kinds, having delivered keynote addresses around the country on topics ranging from branding, to innovation, to entrepreneurship, to design, and beyond.

Whether you are producing a training, large conference, a smaller gathering for senior management, or simply desire an inspired workshop, Paul and his partners may have the right stuff to make your event a winner… for you, and the participants alike.

Looking for a new voice, and a jolt of dopamine?

Inquiries: hello@paulearle.com

We get it. You’re looking to drive the biggest returns you can, as quickly as you can. You’re also operating in a competitive environment and want to make sure you get the best deals out there- the deals you want.

We would like to be your go-to on both fronts.

Put us on your portfolio companies and we’ll give them an instant jolt of creative and strategic energy to help them grow, fueled by not just our experience coming out of some of the best creative agencies and client companies in the world, but our highly industrious nature as entrepreneurs ourselves.

We also get asked to help you both source and vet deals that come in. We have become pretty good at identifying dogs that hunt (and/or what will make them hunt).

We offer the benefits of big blue-chip experience alongside equally significant experience in the trenches of entrepreneurship.

Bottom line: the work we do can drive millions of dollars in new value for your investors and therefore for your firm too.

Inquiries: hello@paulearle.com

When it comes to entrepreneurs, it takes one to know one. Good news: we’re entrepreneurs too. Paul’s track record is here and in fact, deep entrepreneurial experience is abundant throughout the collective.

You can count on us to do more or less anything it takes to help you get your enterprise to where you want it to be. There are so many levers. Perhaps you need a big creative idea, or might benefit from us leveraging our professional contacts at retail and in the investor community, or business advice writ large. Or it could simply be personal counsel from one founder to another (we do that all the time and this work is often most valuable).

From an engagement standpoint, we are open to a blend of fees and incentive-based compensation, putting skin in the game and participating in the future success we can create together. We aim to be true partners, not just hired guns.

We’re a composite of highly trained professionalism and a take-the-hill fire of entrepreneurship just like what you have.

Inquiries: hello@paulearle.com

Innovation is great, but is really only useful as a means to achieve the true holy grail: GROWTH. And you won’t find a group that is more growth-minded than Earle & Company.

We are the aces in the hole, the trusted confidants, mates in the foxhole for many leaders in the C-suite and equivalent. They call on us for practically anything having to do with growth, and we answer —could be a new product idea, a tagline, a design or redesign idea, a venture idea, innovation strategy, open innovation, or perhaps helping R&D leaders advance their creations from the lab to the marketplace through our MIND INTO MATTER™ process that brings technologies to life. Instant creativity and industriousness are at your fingertips.

Having been there ourselves, we deeply empathize with the pressures that top leaders feel to drive topline growth and make an impact, now. And we take pride in being trusted, valuable resources for them towards that end.

Inquiries: hello@paulearle.com

There is an all-out revolution unfolding before our eyes in the consumer sector, forever shifting the tectonic plates of the industry. And it’s only getting started. Since the Fall of 2017, as a contributor to FORBES, Paul Earle has been chronicling this period of massive upheaval, profiling the pioneering new companies and their founders in an intimate, behind-the-ropes look at the engines of change. The work is intended to inspire others, and we certainly know it is making us better practitioners along the way. Enjoy.

Beyond Meat, And How Radical Wins

REBBL, And How Magic Can Power Your Brand

Halo Top, And How To Be The Beatles Of Your Business

Allbirds, And How To Take The Leap Of Faith To Success

Harry’s, And How To Lead By Following

Peloton, And The Power Of Commercial Spirituality

This work is an evolution of Paul’s Origin Stories of Innovation™.

And here is Paul appearing elsewhere in the mediascape:

Stranger Things, and the Business Value of Being Nice

The REAL Reason Why The Brandscape Should Be Afraid of Amazon

The Chicago Cubs, a World Series Championship, and the LIMITATIONS of Data

Fortune:
How Unilever Risked Too Much on Dove to Appeal to Women

PR Newswire Press Release:
Paul Earle & Co., A Modern New Platform for Corporate Innovation and Venturing, Is Launched

Amazon Inventions Tour:
Amazon Inventions Tour presents Paul W. Earle, Jr., Executive Director, Farmhouse

Chicago Tribune:
How Leo Burnett’s Farmhouse tends the growth of ideas

Crain’s:
Burnett looks to create products with innovation incubator

Innovation Journal:
What’s Your Design Strategy? It’s Your Story.

Chicago Tribune:
Leo Burnett’s Farmhouse venture hopes to bring crop of new ideas to clients, maybe consumers

Today Show:
Old Products Get New Life

The New York Times:
Can A Dead Brand Live Again?

BBC:
Brand Wagon

Inquiries: hello@paulearle.com

Our work is borne of a deep sense of purpose and a real philosophy about what innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship really mean.

Please take a few minutes to read through this manifesto-like-object.

(And feel free to share it as you’d like. It’s been cleared by legal.)

Inquiries: hello@paulearle.com

Our philosophy is simple: if you put the best possible people on a problem, the odds improve that you’ll achieve a great outcome. That’s it. Nothing else comes even close. No trademarked “proprietary process,” no super-algorism. Humans first.

Our human-in-chief is Paul Earle, an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, startup advisor, writer, and educator. As the name of this hotdog stand would suggest, Paul is intimately involved in all activities.

And he is fortunate to be able to work with an amazing group of people along the way.

Earle & Company is a true collective that includes the famous consumer products entrepreneur Craig Dubitsky; the retail, digital and venture guru Stephanie Farsht; product design and technology pioneer Craig Sampson; graphic and packaging design stars Dan Walter and Tim Bruce; design strategist extraordinaire Julia Devetski; business strategy wonk Jon Mollenhauer; the great synthesist, linguist, and rheophile Henry King; the consumer products innovation Midas, Barry Calpino; renowned digital strategist and designer Caleb Gardner; a strategic alliance with the leading innovation and growth strategy boutique Clareo and their deep bench; and the legendary creative visionary Sir Throckmorton Clambake.

Think of us as a hub with a lot of talented spokes. Great ideas come from a lot of places, and we’re intensely networked in light of that truth.

Inquiries: hello@paulearle.com

Here is an assortment of our capabilities:

Creative	Elsewhere on the Growth Spectrum
Naming & nomenclature	Innovation strategy
New product/service concepts	Open innovation management
Graphic design	Licensing and other forms of BD
Packaging design	Venturing and hired entrepreneurship
Industrial design	IP mining and monetization
Digital design & dissemination	Innovation training and speaking

The work we have been doing is sensitive and highly confidential in nature, and also is still ongoing in many instances. As such, is not appropriate to disclose this publicly in any detail. Here are some representative projects from our first year, in broad strokes:

For a private investor group, we are creating a new alcoholic beverages brand, soup-to-nuts, from scratch (the strategy, the name, graphic design, bottle design, all of it).

For a growth-stage beverages company, we are doing a comprehensive brand redesign, as well as advising on business strategy, and providing sales/BD leads, fundraising relationships, and founder counsel generally.

For a multinational beverages company, we conducted a comprehensive strategic reboot and creative redesign of two famous brand properties in need of new energy and a metaphorical fresh coat of paint.

For a multinational household products company, we delivered a strategic deep dive of a vertical they have been exploring for decades, followed by the creation of a brand new brand and business plan illuminating a pathway to entry.

For a multinational financial services company, we helped develop and institute broad innovation frameworks and processes, as well as a platform for internal open innovation.

For the same multinational financial services company, we conceived, produced, and delivered a successful and engaging live event on best practices of “Intrapreneurship” and internal idea development.

For a multinational food company, we developed a comprehensive training around practices of Design Thinking and “Intrapreneurship,” and created a new internal open innovation format.

For an early stage tech company, we are advising founders through a radical business pivot, including guidance about going to market under a new brand platform and messaging strategy.

In partnership with a famous entrepreneur and investor, we are acquiring select iconic brand properties, and creating some new ones.

Inquiries: hello@paulearle.com