About Kaihan
Recognized as one of the top 20 strategy and innovation thought leaders in the world
Kaihan Krippendorff is the CEO of Outthinker Networks, a global think-tank comprised of corporate strategists, innovators, and intrapreneurs shaping the future of business.
A sought-after management author and keynote speaker, Kaihan is an innovation catalyst to business leaders and CXOs of some of the world’s most admired companies.
Kaihan helps organizations generate breakthrough ideas that drive transformation and achieve long-term growth in our accelerated world of change.
New Annual Revenue
$3B
Recognized Thinker Who Delivers Results
Kaihan is recognized by Global Gurus and Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top 20 business thinkers in strategy and innovation.
Combining practical skills and experience honed at McKinsey and Company with rigourous research and analysis of emerging trends, paradigms, and future scenarios, Kaihan creates practical business tools that he delivers all over the world through through engaging keynotes and hands-on workshops.
To date, his work has generated over $3B in new annual revenue for many of the world’s most recognizable companies, including JP Morgan Chase, L’Oreal, Microsoft, Raytheon, and Yahoo!.
Best Selling Books
Best-Selling Author and Professor
A prolific writer, Kaihan has published five bestsellers including Outthink the Competition and Driving Innovation from Within.
Amidst a dizzying schedule of keynote speeches and ongoing research, Kaihan finds time to teach at Florida International University (worlds #1 ranked international business program), New York University School of Professional Studies, Wharton Executive Education, host the Outthinkers Podcast, play an active role on two corporate advisory boards, and contribute regularly to major media outlets including Fast Company and Harvard Business Review.
Lifelong Learner With Top-Notch Training & Unrivaled Learning Ecosystem
Kaihan holds a doctorate in strategy as well as degrees in engineering, finance, and business from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, Wharton, Columbia Business School, and London Business School.
Kaihan is a lifelong learner and nexus of a learning ecosystem that brings together leading business thinkers from top insitutions including Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, Wharton, Kellogg, INSEAD, London Business School, with chief strategy officers and executives from leading public and private organizations shaping our world.
Global Citizen & Perspective
Kaihan is a global citizen who brings a holistic, diverse, and global perspective to everything he does. With a mother from Bangladesh, father from Germany, and wife from Latin America, work and life has allowed Kaihan to live on five continents and spend time in more than 70 countries. He has facilitated conversations between corporate leaders and EO entrepreneurs at the United Nations in order to mobilize skills, resources, and passion to solve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and make the world a better place.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus has said, “Kaihan shows that with a compelling idea anyone can change the world” and that message has made Kaihan one of the most sought-after business speakers in the world.
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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