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Kaihan Krippendorff

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Founder, CEO
Outthinker
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United States
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New York
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English,
Spanish
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Kaihan Krippendorff is committed to helping organizations and individuals thrive in today's era of fast-paced disruptive technological change. Kaihan is known for his ability to turn difficult concepts into easy-to-understand ideas that drive meaningful outcomes and actions. He is an internationally recognized thought-leader, battle-tested consultant, and sought-after keynote speaker on the topics of business strategy, innovation, creativity and growth.

Kaihan began his career as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company before founding the growth strategy and innovation consulting firm Outthinker. Growth strategies and innovations created through Outthinker have energized countless organizations, teams, and individuals all while generating over $2.5B in revenue for many of the world's most recognizable Fortune 500 companies.

An accomplished author, Kaihan has written four books on business strategy, innovation, and creativity, most recently Outthink the Competition (John Wiley & Sons). For his latest book, The Employee Innovator: Driving Innovation From Within (Columbia University Press, 2019), Kaihan deeply researched and interviewed more than 150 internal innovators and leaders in nearly every conceivable industry.

Kaihan founded the Outthinker Roundtables – a group of high-level strategists and innovators for large global organizations. Quarterly roundtables are a unique opportunity for senior executives to take part in an intimate, candid, and forward-looking conversation with a network of peer professionals and the world's most sought-after disruptive thinkers, including Rita Gunther McGrath, John Hagel, and George Day, among others. Quarterly meetings facilitated by Kaihan connect him with both thought-leaders and organizational leaders, providing insights as to what issues are most relevant and how companies can approach and conquer threats of disruption.

Amidst his dizzying schedule of keynotes, consulting projects, ongoing research and writing, Kaihan still finds time to be a consultant with Wharton Executive Education, faculty member of Florida International University, teacher of design strategy at Parsons School of Design, and lecturer at business schools throughout the US and internationally. He is regularly featured in key business media outlets, including BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Time, Fox Business, Fast Company, PBS, and Bloomberg Radio.

He earned a Master of Business Administration at Columbia Business School, a Bachelor of Science in finance from Wharton Business School, and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and he holds a Doctorate of Science in economics.

THE TOP 10 REASONS TO BOOK KAIHAN

10. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

9. RELATABLE

8. EXCLUSIVE INSIGHTS

7. MORE THAN A SPEECH

6. DAZZLING VISUALS

5. PRACTICAL AND ACTIONABLE

4. INSPIRATIONAL STORIES

3. EASY TO WORK WITH

2. CUSTOMIZED CONTENT

1. HIGH IMPACT

Current position (3)

Founder, CEO

Outthinker

Lecturer

Wharton Executive Education

Author

Columbia University Press

Degrees (5)
BSE, Mechanical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
1989 to 1994
BSE, Finance
The Wharton School of Business
1989 to 1994
MBA, Management
Columbia Business School
1997 to 1999
MBA, Management
London Business School
1998 to 1999
Doctorate of Science, Economics and Management
Abo Akademi
2010 to 2014

Presentations

Presentations (4)
Outthink the Future: Excelling in a Digital, Agile, Purpose-Driven World

Based on his most recent book, Outthink the Competition, Kaihan delivers a set of proven business strategy tools he has used with more than 300 clients in almost every industry to create innovative growth ideas that increase revenue, profit, and the trajectory of your business and career. Blending together first-hand stories of inspiring business and social innovators, from Elon Musk to Noble Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus, Kaihan’s presentation teaches the audience a tested method for developing actionable growth ideas that unlock growth, increase competitiveness of their business and arm them with the tools needed to excel in today’s digital, agile, and purpose-driven world.

Outcomes:
• Learn new strategic patterns that reveal new strategic options
• The Outthinker playbook: five strategic narratives you want to master now
• A simple approach to turn “crazy” ideas into winning moves
• Tools and methodology for strategic and innovative thinking

Conquering Innovation and Creativity Killers: Driving Innovation From Within

“Innovation” brings to our mind the maverick entrepreneur who quits their job, at unimaginable odds, to build a business on their own. But this entrepreneurial story is a myth.

Kaihan argues that intrapreneurs – employees who incubate new businesses within corporations – are the true innovators. Nearly all of the most transformative innovations over the past three decades, from e-mail and the Internet to DNA sequencing and MRI scans, were introduced by employees who did not quit their jobs but instead took the challenge of innovating from within.

Drawing on in-depth research of hundreds of successful innovators and hands on experience, Kaihan will outline the most common innovation barriers and how to overcome them – unlocking the value of your employees’ ideas and drive innovation inside of the organization. Audience members will leave inspired and empowered with the actionable next steps and tools for testing and scaling ideas that generate value and growth.

Unleashing Agile: Activate the Power of an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Drive Growth

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, Kaihan will share insights from work with top level corporate entrepreneurs and from his study of more than 200 successful innovators. Kaihan will share the key practices that distinguishes those with high mental agility from the rest of the pack and will arm the audience with tools and frameworks they can immediately apply to their own work.

If your industry is being disrupted and you need your employees to embrace an agile mindset to transform and survive, you need Kaihan to speak to your group.

The Strategic Power of Doing Good

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.

Kaihan’s proprietary research shows 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.

Learnings and outcomes:
• The three primary goals of a “be good” strategy
• The key levels of a socially minded strategy
• Tools and frameworks to apply to create your own “Do Good” strategy that complements your current organizational strategy
• The next evolution of CSR

Past talks (6)
The Strategic Power of Doing Good
Not Impossible Labs
London, UK
March 13, 2018
The Outthinker Process
Wharton Security Industries Institute
Philadelphia, PA
March 5, 2018
Mental Agility
Cisco
San Jose, CA
April 30, 2018
Outthink the Competition
Executive Symposium
Oklahoma City, OK
June 6, 2018
Innovating From Within
Institute of Management Studies
Chicago, IL
April 18, 2018
Driving Innovation From Within
Boeing
Renton, WA
April 19, 2018
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Books & Articles (11)

Outthink The Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore
Wiley,
11
Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile: Use the 36 Ancient Chinese Strategies to Seize the Competitive Edge
Platinum Press,
8
The Way of Innovation: Master the Five Elements of Change to Reinvent Your Products, Services, and Organization
Platinum Press,
8
The Art of the Advantage: 36 Strategies to Seize the Competitive Edge
The Strategy Learning Center,
1
How Employees, Not Entrepreneurs, Have Innovated the World
7 Barriers to Internal Innovation
6 Simple Rules For Tapping Into People’s Creative Potential
Harvard Business Review: Seven Surprise Openings for a Strategic Game
How to Beat Your Competition by Innovating in Ways They Can't Copy
Change the World Without Quitting Your Job
You Are Not Being Disrupted: Distinguishing Disruption from Turbulence

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Reviews

Testimonials (13)
  • Kaihan is a uniquely engaging speaker; he energizes and inspires. He uses cutting-edge business examples to make complex subjects simple, and offers the right balance of entertainment and deep insight.
    Heather Davis
    President and Chief Investment Officer
    Nuveen Private Investments
  • We have had outstanding feedback from Kaihan's sessions [at IMEX Frankfurt] and it was an honour to have him take part.
    Carina Bauer
    CEO
    IMEX
  • We invited Kaihan to address a global body of our top talent. He delivers cutting edge business concepts with his own unique tools in a way that inspires leaders to think differently. His professional approach, innovative concepts and deep knowledge of strategy holds up against the most sophisticated and experienced audiences.
    Bob Cancalosi
    Director of Global Customer Leadership
    GE
  • Kaihan, has an innate ability to captivate his audience. He brings a fresh, unique and passionate perspective on strategy and leadership, his style is brilliant and engaging and he is clearly a rising star.
    Kal Mistry
    SVP
    Vitas Healthcare Corporation
  • Kaihan shows that with a bold idea, anyone can change the world.
    Mohammad Yunus
    Nobel Peace Prize Winner
  • We’ve exposed thousands of executives of growth firms around the world to Kaihan Krippendorff’s concrete and practical stratagems for dealing with competitive threats and he’s been universally well received by our tough and discerning audiences.
    Verne Harnish
    CEO Gazelles inc., Founder Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), Author “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits”
  • Kaihan’s presentation was excellent, and highly rated by our membership. Not only did he educate and inspire us, but he left us with an actual framework to follow and engage our teams.
    A.C. Ganger
    Learning Chair
    EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization)
  • Kaihan really understood the key messages we were trying to get across to our Senior Leadership team. He incorporated those key messages around strategy and innovation into his speech, which was energizing, practical and impactful.
    Dan Leib
    CEO
    Donnelley Financial Solutions
  • Kaihan Krippendorff breaks down the complex into relevant, practical, and actionable insights that engage, entertain, and inspire your audience.
    Josh Linkner
    Five-time Tech Entrepreneur and Hyper-Growth CEO, NY Times Bestselling Author, Top-Choice Keynote Speaker
  • Kaihan is a great communicator, who held the rapt attention of an audience of more than 200 financial services professionals from across the country. He opened our minds, made us think, and gave us actionable ideas that one could apply to their day-to-day lives.
    Geraldine O'Brien
    VP of Communications
    The Newport Group
  • Kaihan’s groundbreaking work on strategy development changes the game for organizations facing an increasingly competitive environment.
    Shannon Wallis
    Global Director, Leadership Programs,
    Microsoft
  • Kaihan had over 700 business leaders captivated with his relevant content on how to build a business that disrupts your industry and distances yourself from your competition. He delivered!
    John R. DiJulius
    Keynote Speaker, Author, President
    The DiJulius Group
  • Kaihan is very good at understanding the underlying patterns of strategy, then he trains the group to start recognizing these patterns, with time the strategic level of the group starts rising, generating breakthrough ideas that unleash untapped value.
    Juan Mijares
    Regional Director of Strategy
    Wal-Mart
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