Private Equity Investor at hauerX holdings + Founder Courageous Minds Only + Co-Founder The Garage Group

Enterprise growth used to compound over years. Now it compounds over weeks.

The companies winning see what's coming months earlier, validate in weeks instead of quarters, and get to revenue before the window closes. Most enterprises are still operating on the old timeline. The gap is widening.

Jason Hauer built and sold an Inc. 500 innovation consultancy. Now he's building HauerX Holdings: a portfolio of AI-native companies that close the velocity gap.

The mission is simple: make AI-native growth the standard for every enterprise.

Not through advice. Through companies that operate at AI-native speed.

Speed to see what's coming. Speed to validate. Speed to revenue. Systems that compound.

The HauerX portfolio delivers what enterprises need to move faster:

Board of Innovation builds AI innovation engines across the commercial stack. They built Walmart an AI product engine that compresses 12 months to minutes.

Nichefire delivers predictive culture intelligence. Nestlé used their signals to launch Vital Pursuit first-to-market, predicting the GLP-1 trend before it hit mainstream.

FifthRow turns consulting workflows into autonomous AI agents that run 24/7. A Fortune 500 auto company validated 5 B2C businesses in 10 months.

3D Color produces color-perfect product comps in days instead of weeks.

Serial Growth Engine helps B2B companies build repeatable growth systems that scale.

Serial Growth Lab is where Jason shares the roadmap to AI-native growth. How enterprises move from slow to fast. From reactive to predictive. From campaigns to compounding systems.

Jason partners in two ways: backing growth-stage companies building AI-native solutions, and deploying portfolio capabilities inside enterprises ready to move from strategy to installed systems.

The vision: $100M portfolio. Built from Ohio. Serving enterprises globally.

Speed to signal. Speed to market. Speed compounds.

Jason Hauer

A 22-year-old with AI fluency will outpace the executive who hesitates.

The gap widens daily.

This isn't about technology. It's about who's willing to learn.

The executives struggling most are the ones defending what they already know. The ones accelerating are the ones asking "what if?"

Relevance isn't about your title. It's about your learning velocity.

AI-Native Growth | Portfolio Builder | Inc. 500 Founder

Innovation Savvy, Inc.

DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP, TALENT & TEAMS THAT DRIVE CUSTOMER VALUE

In today’s world of relentless, disruptive change, developing relevant competencies of your people is a continuous challenge.

Our customized CREATIVE POWER & POTENTIAL PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS help you Learn To Build The Capability & Confidence Of Your Leaders, Managers, People, & Teams…with a partner who listens, understands, and guides you through it all.

Leadership, Talent & Teams Coach, Facilitator & Advisor | Speaker & Podcast Guest

Kolbe Corp

Kolbe is a unique assessment tool that offers insights into your instinctive creative problem-solving strengths…How you Take Action (not personality/preferences.)  

The Kolbe A Index identifies how much Time & Energy you spend in 4 instinct-based Action Modes® and defines your MO...your natural pattern of behavior when you’re free to be yourself.

Our CREATIVE POWER & POTENTIAL PROGRAMS help leaders and teams understand how their natural patterns of action relate to our creative problem-solving model.  We discover insights that help diagnose the sources of conflict, blind spots, and inertia that can derail productivity, collaboration, and innovation.

Know your MO…Mine is 4 3 10 2

Kolbe Certified Consultant

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Mentor founders on issues of leadership, talent, teams and culture.

Mentor

Maddock Douglas

• Collaborated with MD to develop and deliver Culture of Innovation service offerings.
• Led stakeholder interviews and synthesized key themes and insights, co-facilitating workshop for client CEO and staff to deepen their understanding and commitment to leading change.
• Designed and delivered Innovation Café, engaging and inspiring leaders to see possibilities for shifting their organization to an innovation mindset.
• Developed Culture of Innovation Survey, identifying key pillars for assessing organizational preparedness and capability to innovate.
• Collaborated with MD thoughts leaders to create impactful kickoff for Culture of Innovation initiatives.
• Coached innovation leaders, challenging them with powerful questions and new perspectives.

VP Culture of Innovation

PepsiCo (Quaker Oats)

• Delivered hundreds of millions of dollars of product innovation growth leading Gatorade new product development team. Generated biggest news year in brand history and filled pipeline for future launches.
• Led team that created and delivered a value multi-pack which represented 18% of Gatorade grocery volume after 2 years in market and dominates the shelf today.
• Provided commercialization leadership and broad business judgment.  Expert advisor from concept development through supply chain implementation and national launch.
• Developed customer relationships through understanding of their unique target markets and consistently influencing decisions to optimize the Gatorade product offering on shelf.
• Built the offering development team from two to eight members in fifteen months.

Marketing Director, Gatorade Package & Product Innovation

Wilson Sporting Goods

Business Manager, Golf Balls

Unilever (Helene Curtis)

Assistant Brand Manager, Finesse & Degree brands

Peterson & Co. Consulting

Senior Consultant

Helping Leaders Transform Team Dynamics That Derail Collaboration, Decision-Making, & Innovation

It can be overwhelming to continuously expand the capabilities of your people to meet the diverse and evolving needs of your customers with speed and agility.  I design and deliver learning solutions that ensure your investment in your leaders, managers, and teams helps you better understand and meet your customers’ needs…the essence of innovation. 

Our CREATIVE POWER & POTENTIAL PROGRAMS are ideal for leaders and teams responsible for insights and ideas that drive customer value at all levels of your organization:
> C-Suite and Leadership Teams
> Product Development Teams
> IT Teams & Departments
> Customer Service/Experience Departments
> Professional Service Organizations

Challenges I help leaders address:
> MAXIMIZING TALENT
> EMPOWERING COLLABORATION
> ELEVATING TEAMS

Moments in time when clients call on me:
> EMERGING AND ONGOING TALENT NEEDS for which internal resources are not available to develop
> LEADERSHIP OR CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAM CHANGES including hiring, firing, and evolving roles
> PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT NEEDS requiring designing and supporting high-performing teams
> HIGH STAKES/HIGH VISIBILITY PROJECT TEAM that needs to launch quickly and collaborate effectively
> STRESSFUL TEAM DYNAMICS that are wasting time and energy and derailing progress
> STRATEGIC/ANNUAL PLANNING that requires collaborative leadership and alignment
> RETREAT OR WORKSHOP for leadership or project team
> PEOPLE NEED/WANT DEVELOPMENT that builds self-awareness and leadership capability

Our CREATIVE POWER & POTENTIAL PROGRAMS are an inclusive approach designed to deliver “BENEFITS BEYOND”: 
1. FOUNDATIONAL: Developing Creative Problem-Solving & Collaboration competencies at every step of the learning journey
2. TRANSFORMATIONAL: Building Capability & Confidence of leaders and learners at all levels that positively impact their sense of self
3. EXTENDABLE: Enhancing Self-Awareness & Agency that is directly applicable to understanding and meeting customer needs

Key elements of ROI I help leaders deliver...
> ENGAGE EMPLOYEES & CUSTOMERS
> IMPROVE PERFORMANCE & RETENTION
> INCREASE REVENUE & PROFITS


“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the [people] to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."    -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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