In the Final Hours of the Industrial Age
Two Realities Dominate The Strategic Landscape
Global Polycrisis
Generative Intelligence
Welcome to the Generative Future
Reforging the Social Contract | Aligning Power with Purpose | Building What Comes Next.
▼Every Day is Day One
Artificial Intelligence is already rewriting the logic of strategy.
The polycrisis is already upon us amplifying pressure—across every decision, institution, and domain.
This isn’t about getting ready for the future.
It’s about leading differently—doing differently–starting now.
The world won’t wait for clarity.
Neither will your competitors.
Neither will history.
Surviving and thriving in the Generative Future will require you to:
Welcome to Day One of the Generative Future.
Genovation Group forges Generative Leaders—
and equips them with the systems to operate in an age of AI and accelerating polycrisis.
We don’t manage change.
We embed strategic intelligence into the core of how institutions think, decide, and act.
We replace legacy playbooks with living, intelligent infrastructure—
designed for speed, built for stress, and deployed at the edge.
Our AI-Powered Systems:
Multinational corporations, global enterprises and large scale start-ups operating across volatile markets, complex supply chains, and diverse regulatory environments requiring real-time strategic adaptation.
Family offices, sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, and strategic capital deploying significant resources across multiple asset classes and geographies.
Regional bioregional coalitions, indigenous networks, and local innovation zones redefining prosperity through resilience, regeneration, and post-extractive development—from coastal corridors to watershed coalitions.
NGOs, IGOs, national institutions, and sovereigns redesigning health, education, climate, and social systems across diverse cultures, fragmented governance structures, and generational timeframes.
Founder and Chairman
Paul McManus brings over 30 years of strategic advisory experience to global operators, capital allocators, social systems builders and sovereigns architecting transformational change.
As current advisor to the UN World Food Programme and Research Fellow for the prestigious Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business Markets and Society at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, he works at the intersection of generative strategy & innovation, strategic operating systems design and large-scale transformation.
His advisory practice spans ministry and intergovernmental-level innovation ecosystem development, sovereign wealth fund strategy, executive development in the Private Equity and Venture Capital industries, and Global 1000 board and C-suite counsel across North America, Europe, MENA, and Asia. Through previous roles at Innosight (Clayton Christensen's strategy firm), as Managing Director at Bell-Mason Group, and principal in his own firm, McManus has architected transformational corporate strategies, venture capital programs, innovation ecosystems, and strategic transformation initiatives for organizations including Samsung, Motorola, and Philips.
McManus holds an MBA from Boston University and has been recognized with multiple teaching excellence awards for his work developing builders who architect emergent strategies, create innovation ecosystems, and leverage intelligent technologies for the generative economy.
Comprehensive leadership development for executives building in the generative economy. Combines strategic intelligence methodology training, real-world scenario simulations, and peer cohort learning. Participants develop proficiency in using adaptive strategic frameworks and multi-stakeholder coordination.
For institutions ready to codify their strategy into software—not slides.
We provide a licensed deployment of our Strategic Operating Platform: a generative, AI-powered infrastructure that embeds real-time intelligence, scenario logic, and protocol execution across your organization.
Built for velocity. Designed for continuity. Licensed for sovereignty.