Biography
Heinrich Schwarz, Ph.D., is an innovation strategist, business anthropologist, and design thinker. He is founder and director of Schwarz Innovation, a strategic innovation consultancy helping companies turn a deep understanding of people and cultures into novel business opportunities for meaningful transformation. He is passionate about finding unexpected solutions to tricky problems and guiding clients towards future-directed products and business strategies. He has worked with international enterprises, medium-sized firms and startups across different industries, recently more and more in health care. Heinrich speaks and lectures on people-centric innovation and business anthropology, most recently at the Technical University Hamburg. He holds a PhD in science and technology studies from M.I.T, and master degrees from UC Berkeley and the Free University in Berlin.