Tojin T. Eapen is the founder of CForesight (Center for Creative Foresight), a research, education, and consulting organization studying big ideas capable of driving sustainable business impact. He serves as an innovation coach to businesses and executives. He is also a researcher and educator focused on creative thinking, bioinspired design, and sustainable innovation and serves as a Senior Fellow at The Conference Board.
Tojin brings nearly two decades of combined professional and academic experience in new product development, marketing, and innovation. He has previously taught at the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. He has also served as a guest faculty member for the Global Leadership Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Tojin has advised over 40 organizations, including Google, Samsung, ABB, KBR, Robert Bosch, NetApp, Qualcomm, Bureau Veritas, SKF, Tata Group, and Newell Brands. He has also served on the United States Technical Advisory Group for the ISO 56000 standards on innovation management.
Tojin has authored several impactful publications on creativity, design, and innovation in the Harvard Business Review and other practitioner and research outlets. His 2023 HBR cover article on “Augmenting Creativity” is an HBR bestseller. His feature on “Products that Grow” was included in HBR’s 10 Must Reads for 2026, a collection of the most definitive business ideas of the previous year. His book, Bioinspired Strategic Design, published by Taylor & Francis in 2024 and co-authored with Dr. Daniel J. Finkenstadt, examines how human organizations can draw inspiration from living organisms to craft sustainable systems.
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Tojin began his professional career in 2005 at Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest engineering conglomerate, where he worked in new product development and marketing and was awarded the Sir Padampat Singhania Award for Best Young Manager by the All India Management Association (AIMA). Eapen holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the Indian School of Business, and a degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut.
Tojin can be contacted at tteapen@cforesight.org and on Linkedin.
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CENTER FOR CREATIVE FORESIGHT
The Center for Creative Foresight is a research collective dedicated to studying big ideas that can drive sustainable business impact. Our current focus areas include augmented creativity, bioinspired design, and sustainable innovation. Our goal is to bring together thinkers from both academia and practice to work on big-picture challenges. Contact us to partner with us in our work. Contact us at cf@cforesight.org.
