Dr. Kaihan Krippendorff is an expert on business strategy, growth, innovation, and creativity. He is the founder of Outthinker (growth strategy and innovation consulting firm), and a top-choice keynote speaker and consultant on the subjects. Kaihan has authored four business books, most recently Outthink the Competition (John Wiley & Sons) with a fifth book, The Employee Innovator: Driving Innovation From Within set to be published in early 2019 by Columbia University Press.

Kaihan specializes in serving financial service, technology, and retail firms who recognize the need to move away from traditional linear models to embrace agile, digital strategies for the accelerating world. His clients include ABC TV, AIG, BNY Mellon, Citibank, Pershing, TIAA, Realogy, Microsoft, VM Ware, and Johnson & Johnson.

His influential method of business strategy and innovation speaking has clearly demonstrated its power to motivate, with keynote clients including the Consumer Electronics Association, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, Harvard Business Review, Wharton Business School, National Restaurant Association, Produce Marketing Association, FORTUNE Growth Summit, Young Presidents’ Organization, Entrepreneurs' Organization, Institute for Management Studies, American Gear Manufacturers Association, Precision Machined Products Association, American Bar Association, Metals Service Center Institute, the American Chemical Society, the Tag and Label Manufacturers Association, the Electro Federation, the Securities Industry Institute, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and many more in-house private keynotes for F500 companies from nearly every industry.