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Brilliant Forge is a Product Strategy & Design consultancy founded by Larry Cornett. With more than 18 years of experience in the industry ranging from small startups to large global corporations, Larry is recognized in the industry for his best practices and knowledge of how to successfully design products and services for Consumer Markets. Brilliant Forge helps organizations focus their consumer insights, product vision, business strategy, and technology capabilities into new business opportunities.
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Speaking Engagements
| The founder, Larry Cornett, has spoken at numerous public events, conferences, workshops, and keynotes on the topics of design, product management, innovation, creativity, product strategy, and organizational models. He can also be booked for internal corporate events. | Schedule |
Retained Advisory Services
| Many clients prefer a retainer-based model that secures dedicated time for advisory services on a monthly basis. This is typically structured as either weekly check-ins or a 1-day meeting to review products and progress, discuss industry trends and issues, brainstorm new concepts, etc. | Contact Us |
Consulting Engagements
| Shorter-term consulting engagements can be used to temporarily add a Product and Design expert to your team to help you plan and kickstart a new innovation program, for product brainstorming and design sessions, to help you deliver a new user experience for your product or service, for a review of your organization and processes, or for training sessions on topics such as how to create goal-directed product designs to drive your business success. | Contact Us |
Product and Design Workshops
These workshops teach you how to create a sustainable process for delivering innovative, goal-directed designs for your products and services. You will learn how to:
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Testimonials
“Since July 2010 Larry has been an invaluable consultant and advisor to our firm. His knowledge, experience and contacts have helped us move our company forward in ways that would have been impossible without his involvement. We continue to benefit from his guidance and I would not hesitate to recommend him.”
- Yvan Couture, CEO, Primal
“As a former Yahoo! Search Executive, Larry Cornett brings priceless first-hand knowledge to any startup.”
- Scott Stouffer, Co-Founder and President, Technology at The SEO Engine
“I have had the pleasure to work with Larry on multiple projects as a trusted advisor and valuable business partner. With over 18 years of experience in the Silicon Valley tech industry, he has a hands-on understanding of how to create innovative consumer products, how to organize Product and Design teams, and how to get things done. His specific experiences and insights in consumer technology, search, and e-commerce make him a valuable expert that our clients can turn to for practical advice.”
- Nomaan Latif, Vice President, Technology, Media & Telecom, Gerson Lehrman Group
“I first worked with Larry at eBay. I then had opportunity to collaborate with him and his company Brilliant Forge. Larry is a leader full of charisma. Larry is an expert of user experience design and innovation. He is also a great speaker. With his experience with Apple, eBay, and Yahoo, his approach of innovation is a balanced view of business, user, and technology. Highly recommended!”
- Paul Fu, Director, User Experience, Alibaba.com
“I had the great pleasure to collaborate with Larry during an event that I organised for all WW Product Managers of Dassault Systems (leader in PLM and 3D collaborative solutions), last january in Paris. Larry is such a motivating and passionate speaker to lead and inspire new strong user’s experiences.”
- Bertrand Biard, CEO, C105
“Larry is a consummate product guy – he knows the pulse of what users really want and he can envision the product to deliver that to users before anybody else. His design & consumer product sense is simply the best. To top it all he is one of those leaders who can bring the best out of you – certainly true for me and my team. Larry is a fantastic communicator btw – and coupled with his super design background, his presentations are Jobs-esque! I’d definitely work for/with him anytime.”
- Kaushal Kurapati, Head of Search Operations Emerging Markets, Yahoo!