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Leap Innovation helps small and mid-sized companies improve their business innovation using quality best practices. Founded in 2007, we take a collaborative approach to solving your business challenges, first assessing your current business environment and identifying opportunities for improvement. We then develop an integrated solution to optimize your people, processes and software.

Based in Tempe, Ariz., Leap Innovation examines all of the key factors that will drive the desired organizational transformation to deliver the business results you demand. Our Process Innovation division can help streamline product development and supply chain, while our Software Solutions division can improve efficiency and lower costs with the SMART Suite, an enterprise-level service management portal.

Founder, Donovan Hardenbrook

Donovan Hardenbrook is founder and president of Leap Innovation. A quality and process innovation expert, he brings nearly 20 years experience to his consultancy practice. 

Prior to founding Leap Innovation, Don held numerous individual contributor and management position at Intel Corporation in the manufacturing, quality, operations and human resources departments. During the last 10 years at the organization, he drove corporate deployment of product development and enterprise collaboration tools into newly acquired and established product divisions ranging from $200 million to $1.3 billion in revenue.

Don currently serves as vice president of association and membership development for the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), an international organization comprised of more than 3,500 product development professionals. He is also the book review editor for PDMA’s Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM) and the past founding president of the Arizona chapter. Hardenbrook is a certified PDMA New Product Development Professional and has delivered numerous workshops and lectures. In addition, Don is a longstanding member of IEEE and of ASQ.

Don has a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Arizona as well as a Master’s and Bachelor’s of Science in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University.