“Kaihan shows how large organizations, not just startups, can be a place where entrepreneurs innovate, build, and adapt for the future.”
REID HOFFMAN
Co-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
Author 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
CEO 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
CEO 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
Co-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
President 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
#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
Author 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
Five-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
Principal | AZ Crown Investments“Kaihan inspires and empowers people broadly throughout the organization to sustain change and achieve agile and innovative growth.”
MAEVE COBURN
Senior Vice President, Learning for Transformation of L’Oréal“Stunningly engaging.”
AMY EDMONDSON
Professor, 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
Co-founder of Thinkers50“Kaihan shows that with a bold idea, anyone can change the world.”
MOHAMMAD YUNUS
Nobel 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
Senior 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
Keynote Speaker, Author, and President of The DiJulius Group
KAIHAN KRIPPENDORFF
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.
A successful entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, consultant, and CEO, Kaihan Krippendorff will break down the complex into relevant, practical, and actionable insights that will engage, entertain, and inspire your audience in a lasting keynote that will 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.
UNLOCK THE POWER OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET IN YOUR ORGANIZATION
Kaihan’s latest book, 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 internal entrepreneurs 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.
OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION
It’s time to buck tradition in order to stay ahead. Learn to explore strategic growth and transformation …
HIDE A DAGGER BEHIND A SMILE
Today’s global economy is a battleground. To survive and thrive, you’ll need every weapon you can get...
THE WAY OF INNOVATION
Corporate strategist and speaker Kaihan Krippendorff explains how you can adapt, drive growth and undergo a transformation to …
THE ART OF THE ADVANTAGE
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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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.
ROBERT CANCALOSI, DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CUSTOMER LEADERSHIP, GE
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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.
- Microsoft
- L'Oreal
- Johnson & Johnson
- GE
- TIAA
- Realogy
- Cisco
- Kellogg’s
- BNY Mellon
SPEAKING TOPICS
Kaihan has given 500+ 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.
- OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION
- CONQUERING INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY KILLERS
- CUTTING THROUGH THE BLOCKCHAIN HYPE
- INNOVATING BEYOND THE R&D LAB
- UNLEASHING AGILE
- BE THE DISRUPTOR, NOT THE DISRUPTED
- THE PURPOSE PATH
COUNTRIES VISITED
Kaihan Krippendorff travels all over the world to deliver powerful, energizing, and inspirational and keynote speeches. He's traveled nearly 2 million miles to 50+ countries to speak to clients such as AIG, Coldwell Banker, Google, JP Morgan, Kellogg, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, and VMware.
- India
- China
- United Kingdom
- United Arab Emirates
- Colombia
- Germany
- France
- Canada
- Mexico
- Singapore
- Brazil
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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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