Kaihan Krippendorff

“Times of change separate thinkers from Outthinkers. And we get to choose. It creates an opportunity to rethink business as usual and set ourselves apart from the competition.”

We live in an accelerated age of technology, disruption, volatility, and uncertainty. It demands that we lead our teams and organizations in radically new ways. Success depends not only on our own ability to think and act strategically, but on our ability to enable our team to think boldly, think differently, share ideas, and act.

Leaders who activate this Outthinker Mindset and provide their people with the structures, frameworks, and tools to creatively solve challenges and innovate are 6X more likely to recruit and retain top talent and 3X more likely to outperform financially (faster revenue growth, higher profit margins, higher business value).

How do you do this? In this interactive keynote, globally recognized management thinker and author Kaihan Krippendorff lays out a practical, proven process and set of tools your people can apply immediately to move to the next level of success. This program incorporates key ideas from two of his top-selling books, Outthink the Competition and Driving Innovation from Within.

The audience will leave with and learn:

• Insights into the emerging strategic technology, trends, and approaches successful companies are using to win in their markets
• The Outthinker Process: A proven framework to drive growth
• The 5 most important Outthinker mindsets for success (customized for YOUR industry and company)
• Energized, with a common language and tools to help you move on your agenda

This program can be delivered as a keynote, keynote & breakout workshop, or a half to full day workshop. The program is for leaders & teams who want to:

• Deliver top and bottom line growth
• Overcome heavy competition and disruptors
• Develop a common language and learn a repeatable process to unleash creative thinking and drive innovation
• Keep up with the pace of change

“The idea that innovation comes only from startups and entrepreneurs is a myth. Employee innovators, also known as Intrapreneurs, are responsible for 70% of the most transformative innovations of the past three decades.”

In our accelerated world of technology and disruption, the benefits of turning employees into innovators is well documented. Companies that treat their people as “Intrapreneurs” (corporate innovators) are building a competitive advantage that infuses innovation and adaptability into their DNA. Transformation becomes a toned muscle and capability that can be exercised repeatedly as needed. Best-selling author and globally ranked innovation expert Kaihan Krippendorff’s research shows companies with active Intrapreneur networks are 3X more likely to be in the top quintile of financial performance and enjoy a 6X advantage in their ability to recruit and retain top talent.

The IN-OVATE framework provides a specific and practical approach to turn your employees into Intrapreneurs and build capacity for enterprise-wide transformation and smart innovation.

In this inspiring and high-impact keynote (customized for your event), Kaihan shows how organizations can unlock the power of Intrapreneurship, and how you, the individual Intrapreneur, can navigate barriers, overcome resistance, and take the initiative to drive transformation across your organization.

The audience will leave with and learn:

• A framework to overcome the seven blockers of innovation
• Five mindsets and habits of successful Intrapreneurs
• How to innovate even if it is not a part of their title
• Inspired and energized to think differently, take smart risks, learn, and improve

This program can be delivered as a keynote, keynote & breakout workshop, or a half to full day workshop. The program is for leaders & teams who want to:

• Motivate and enable people to be more innovative
• Move from a culture of permissionseeking to a culture of proactivity
• Spark creativity and new thinking
• Gain traction or accelerate transformation
• Uncover opportunities for growth and differentiation

“All of the trends and shocks we are struggling with, from AI and digitalization to sustainability and geopolitical uncertainty, make sense when you look at it through the lens of Proximity.”

In a world of constant disruption, technological change, and megatrend turbulence, how do we transform the way we lead and work? The answer is Proximity – a simple idea that you can use to turn disruptors like artificial intelligence, renewable energy, virtual reality, 3D printing, and new ways of working into possibilities…chaos into clarity.

Based on globally renowned management thinker Kaihan Krippendorff’s new book, Proximity: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life, this high-impact keynote will arm leaders with a Proximity Roadmap for their industry and adjacent ones. Ignite a new mental mindset and give your audience the practical tools needed to be bold and shape the future.

The audience will leave with and learn:

• Understand the impact that matters for your business of megatrends and disruptors like generative AI, 3D printing, precision-agriculture, dark factories, and renewable energy – and how to harness them to drive growth and resiliency
• Build your Proximity roadmap, three steps to winning the future
• Prepare your organization and people with the mindsets needed to lead

Map out where you need to rethink growth plans, innovation and investments, operations, and customer expectations

This program can be delivered as a keynote, keynote & breakout workshop, or a half to full day workshop. The program is for leaders & teams who want to:

• Be prepared to navigate and ride the waves caused by disruptive technologies
• Be the disruptor, not the disrupted
• Set their company up for continued growth and success
• Spark creative and innovative thinking in their organization

When we say “innovation” we almost always mean “product innovation.” We talk about research & development and possible new solutions to meet unmet needs. This is a one-dimensional and incomplete approach to innovation. Dissect the most innovative companies of the last decade and you will see that great innovators disrupt their markets by reaching beyond the product. Oftentimes their success rests on choices that have little to do with new products.

In this presentation, successful entrepreneur, author, consultant, and CEO Kaihan Krippendorff will take you through engaging examples from a broad array of industries (as well as your own) such as Urban Outfitters in apparel, IKEA in furniture, VMware in technology, SpaceX in space launch vehicles, Mastercard in payments, and Vistaprint in printing services, showing how companies that outperform their competition seek disruptive innovation across eight dimensions (8Ps). The “8Ps” framework has proven to be a powerful structure to engage high-level marketers, business strategists and sales staff in an exploration of where competitive advantages lie, where to strengthen them, and where they are being underutilized. Learnings from this session include:

• The “8Ps” strategic innovation framework: systematically uncover new avenues for growth, innovation, and transformation

1. Positioning
2. Product/service mix
3. Pricing/fees
4. Placement/delivery
5. Promotion/client acquisition
6. Processes/operations
7. Physical experience
8. People

• How to construct a disruptive business model or strategy that leverages an underutilized 8P strength
• Identifying opportunities beyond the R&D lab: identify and reconstruct processes and operations to drive efficiency
• Driving organic growth leveraging the value of unrealized ideas
• How to build real confidence to apply new strategies everyday across all business units and roles

In a world marked by accelerated change and innovation, mental agility has proven to be a critical driver of success in sports, warfare, business, career, and life. Yet few agree on what exactly “mental agility” is or know how to develop it. Companies that fail to move on quickly enough from their linear organization will not succeed. In this presentation, successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO Kaihan Krippendorff shares insights from his work with top-level corporate entrepreneurs and the study of more than 200 successful innovators into what sets them apart from the rest of the competitive pack. Kaihan will share the key practices that distinguish those with high mental agility and arm the audience with tools and frameworks they can immediately apply to their own work. Audience members will learn to:

• Connect the unconnected – pulling together seemingly unrelated pieces of information to rapidly form a mental image of the situation or opportunity.
• Uncover unexpected causes – drilling down into the system to see the cause others overlook.
• Shift your frame – shifting your frame on the problem to reveal solutions others dismiss.
• Empower and inspire your employees so that they are ready to take action to develop, test and scale innovative growth ideas
• Question the impossible – understanding why we fall into mental “traps” of false beliefs that prevent us from seeing what is possible and, more importantly, how to dig out of the trap that is keeping you from seizing the solution.
• Attendees will leave with a boost of confidence, tools, and energy to increase the velocity and agility level of their organization on a daily basis.

The financial services industry – from banking to payments to insurance – is undergoing a rapid and historic transformation. The shifting regulatory landscape, changing consumer/investor behavior, an endless stream of agile newcomers armed with disruptive fintech tools, and platforms powered by Blockchain and AI are mounting an attack on incumbent institutions and business models. Kaihan Krippendorff works with many of the world’s leading financial institutions, helping them make sense of this uncertain future – understanding key future trends and technologies, designing fresh strategies and agile teams ready to face disruption head on so their organization can be ready to transform, compete, and win the future of finance. A successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO that has created more than $2.5B in revenue for clients, Kaihan uses first-hand experience and actionable insights to present a compelling vision of the future world of financial services, arming the audience with a framework and tools that they can use to succeed in the tech-driven digital economy of the 21st century.

You will learn:

• The key trends shaping the financial services industry – Blockchain, AI, regulatory environment, unbundling/bundling, millennial investors, fintech, financial inclusion and beyond
• What financial services will look like in the near and distant future
• Five key strategies today’s most successful firms are adopting to adapt to, and lead, tomorrow
• How to transform into a more agile, inspiring, disruptive competitor, built for success in the digital economy
• Tools and a process for developing concrete ideas and strategic approaches that could disrupt the industry

Historically, we were taught corporations existed for one purpose: to maximize shareholder value. But companies are waking up to the realization that such a focus destroys shareholder value over the long term because it creates resistance to your growth.

Successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO Kaihan Krippendorff draws on years of proprietary research to show that today’s most successful companies more often speak of the strategic power of appealing to all stakeholders. If you design a strategy that benefits shareholders by also benefiting employees, the community, the country, and the environment, you have designed the ultimate strategy. When everyone wants you to win, you remove all competition. This idea goes beyond social responsibility. It points us toward removing the idea that doing good and making profit are inconsistent. You do not have to choose.

By pulling together inspiring stories from organizations ranging from lesser-known jewels like Best Doctors, BrightFarms, and Holstee to leading socially directed corporations like IKEA, Mastercard, and Target, Kaihan will inspire and motivate the audience to rethink their role and how they interact with stakeholders, not just shareholders. The audience will learn:

• The three primary goals of a “be good” socially minded strategy
• Simple yet effective tools and frameworks to apply and create your own “Do Good” strategy that complements your current organizational strengths and strategy
• The next evolution of corporate social responsibility and how to embrace the shift toward a future where CSR is the norm
• How to empower and inspire employees so that they’re ready to take action to develop ideas, strategies, products, and programs that everyone benefits from