STRATEGY. GROWTH. TRANSFORMATION.

Kaihan designs organizations and prepares them for the future. He is the top-choice keynote speaker on business strategy, growth, and transformation. 

“Kaihan shows how large organizations, not just startups, can be a place where entrepreneurs innovate, build, and adapt for the future.”
REID HOFFMAN
REID HOFFMANCo-founder of LinkedIn and Co-author of Blitzscaling
“Essential if you are itching to become more creative and tap into the resources of your company to create something amazing.”
DANIEL H. PINK
DANIEL H. PINKAuthor of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human
“Kaihan provides practical, actionable steps for breaking down siloes, and ignites the drive to collaborate and accept the new opportunities that will soon come your way.”
AJAY BANGA
AJAY BANGACEO of Mastercard
“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
DAN LEIBCEO of Donnelly Financial Solutions
“Kaihan provides the guide that any business, government, and organizations should use to ignite innovation from the bottom up.”
PARKER HARRIS
PARKER HARRISCo-founder of Salesforce
“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
HEATHER DAVISPresident and Chief Investment Officer of Nuveen Private Investments
“A fresh new approach of how to succeed in our highly uncertain business climate.”
DR. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
DR. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH#1 NY Times Bestselling Author, Thinkers50 - #1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the World
“Refreshing... speaks the truth. Many offer tools that might work. Kaihan offers tools that have been proven to work at the most innovative companies.”
LIZ WISEMAN
LIZ WISEMANAuthor of NY Times bestsellers Multipliers and Rookie Smarts
“Kaihan Krippendorff breaks down the complex into relevant, practical, and actionable insights that engage, entertain, and inspire your audience.”
JOSH LINKNER
JOSH LINKNERFive-time Tech Entrepreneur and Hyper-Growth CEO, NY Times Best-Selling Author, Top-Choice Keynote Speaker
“Kaihan shows leaders how to ignite the curiosity, tenacity, initiative, and willingness to take risks your organization needs to innovate at scale. Listen to him if you want to maintain the dynamism and creativity the future demands.”
TIM CROWN
TIM CROWNPrincipal | AZ Crown Investments
“Kaihan inspires and empowers people broadly throughout the organization to sustain change and achieve agile and innovative growth.”
MAEVE COBURN
MAEVE COBURNSenior Vice President, Learning for Transformation of L’Oréal
“Stunningly engaging.”
AMY EDMONDSON
AMY EDMONDSONProfessor, Harvard Business School, Author of The Fearless Organization
“Kaihan shares a toolset and process companies and employees can leverage to bring ideas, both incremental and transformative, to fruition, to change the world and create a better future.”
STUART CRAINER
STUART CRAINERCo-founder of Thinkers50
“Kaihan shows that with a bold idea, anyone can change the world.”
MOHAMMAD YUNUS
MOHAMMAD YUNUSNobel Peace Prize Winner
“Startups get the headlines, but established companies are often the real innovation heroes. Kaihan shares tools and practical examples that help internal innovators combine entrepreneurial energy with assets of scale to innovate with impact.”
SCOTT D. ANTHONY
SCOTT D. ANTHONYSenior Partner, Innosight, author of Dual Transformation and The Little Black Book of Innovation
“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
JOHN R. DIJULIUSKeynote Speaker, Author, and President of The DiJulius Group
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KAIHAN KRIPPENDORFF

Kaihan is the founder and CEO of Outthinker, a think tank specialized in conducting research on business strategy, innovation, and technology and building corporate communities. He is founder of the Outthinker Strategy Network, a global peer network of senior strategy executives focused on helping them solve their most pressing challenges and staying ahead of the pace of change. 

 

Kaihan is passionate about helping people and organizations develop the skills and mindset needed not only to survive but thrive in the fast-paced digital and agile future.

 

Kaihan is known for his ability to break down the complex into relevant, practical, and actionable insights that engage, entertain, and inspire audiences in a lasting keynotes that pay dividends for years to come. If your industry is being disrupted and attacked by competitors, old and new, you need Kaihan to speak to your group.

 

 

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A PRACTICAL PLAYBOOK AND GUIDE TO STRATEGIC THINKING, BUSINESS GROWTH, AND INNOVATION

Outthink the Competition reveals the secrets of how the world’s most successful companies and strategists see options others ignore. Quell your fear of uncertainty for the future and strengthen your growth and innovation options portfolio with an easy to use toolkit and frameworks that can be applied right away – even during a keynote.  Be prepared to think differently and create an actionable list of strategic growth and innovation ideas that could transform the value of your business. 

 

The new edition of Outthink the Competition includes updated case examples, tools, and individual industry reports that apply the Outthinker 8Ps framework to identify areas ripe for disruption. 

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UNLOCK THE POWER OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Driving Innovation From Within is a practical guide for creating the culture, structure, and environment to drive continuous innovation inside of an established organization.  Activate your employees and turn them into a competitive advantage by providing them with the toolkit and knowhow they need to drive growth, innovation, and transformation of your organization across business units and functions from the ground up.

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HIDE A DAGGER BEHIND A SMILE

USE THE 36 ANCIENT CHINESE STRATEGIES TO SEIZE THE COMPETITIVE EDGE

Today’s global economy is a battleground. To survive and thrive, you’ll need every weapon you can get…

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THE WAY OF INNOVATION

MASTER THE FIVE ELEMENTS OF CHANGE TO REINVENT YOUR PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND ORGANIZATION

Corporate strategist and speaker Kaihan Krippendorff explains how you can adapt, drive growth and undergo a transformation to…

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THE ART OF THE ADVANTAGE

36 STRATEGIES TO SEIZE THE COMPETITIVE EDGE

Contrary to commonly held beliefs, strength and resources play minor roles in a company’s ability to beat the competition…

Kaihan is a top business strategy, growth and transformation keynote speaker that has helped inspire, motivate, and arm hundreds of thousands of people with the tools and entrepreneurial mindset needed to innovate and win the future.  

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ESSENTIAL IF YOU ARE ITCHING TO BECOME MORE CREATIVE AND TAP INTO THE RESOURCES OF YOUR COMPANY TO CREATE SOMETHING AMAZING!
– DAN PINK, NY TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF WHEN, DRIVE, AND TO SELL IS HUMAN


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As a business strategy, growth, and transformation keynote speaker, consultant, author, and entrepreneur, Kaihan has risen to be one of the most highly recommended and most influential keynote speakers for businesses, companies, and corporations worldwide.

  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • L’Oreal
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Verizon
  • Bank of America
  • Takeda
  • Cisco
  • Kellogg’s
  • Vanguard


CUSTOMIZED KEYNOTES

Kaihan has given over 1000 keynote speeches to clients all over the globe. His topics cover business strategy, growth and transformation. Every keynote Kaihan delivers is different – handcrafted and customized to over-deliver on impact, value, and drive powerful results and outcomes.

  • Strategy
  • Growth
  • Transformation
  • Innovation
  • Disruption
  • Agile Mindset
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Intrapreneurship
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CROSS INDUSTRY & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Kaihan Krippendorff travels all over the world to deliver powerful, energizing, and inspirational keynote speeches. He is a trusted advisor to startups and Fortune 500 executives from dozens of industries, known for simplifying complex ideas into concrete actionable advice.

  • Global perspective
  • 1st Generation American with a Bangladeshi mother and German father
  • Over 2 million miles traveled
  • 60+ countries
  • 60+ speeches per year
  • English and Spanish speaker
  • Unique engaging stories (not just same US-centric ones)
  • CEO of Outthinker Network

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FIND YOUR 4TH OPTION

DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION

Learn the 5 common narratives used amongst the world’s most successful leaders.

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MOVE EARLY TO THE NEXT BATTLEGROUND

COORDINATE THE UNCOORDINATED

CREATE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING

FORCE A TWO-FRONT BATTLE

BE GOOD

KAIHAN IS THE #1 KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR PREPARING BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS TO SURVIVE AND COMPETE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

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 that impact the bottom-line. He is an internationally recognized thought-leader, battle-tested consultant, and sought-after keynote speaker on the topics of business strategy, growth, and transformation.

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