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Stakeholder Sponsorship – Venture Club Session Recap

Winning and keeping internal sponsors: tailored pitches, intermediate milestones and owning the narrative when ventures fail.

Roundtable
10 November 2025
The question on the table

How do you win an internal sponsor, and keep them once the venture stops looking like a quick win?

Recaps are anonymised by design: no names, no companies.

The session

Members explored how to secure and sustain internal stakeholder sponsorship for venturing: identifying who really matters, tailoring the pitch to their interests, surviving transformation phases where everyone competes for support, and communicating the ventures that did not work.

Key insights

Five key insights

  1. 01
    Compete for support with a clear roadmap

    An innovation roadmap plus the ROI impact on each specific stakeholder wins the resource battle.

  2. 02
    Build the team's internal brand

    Clear communication of impact and strategic alignment elevates how the wider organisation sees venturing.

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