About Kaihan: Business Strategist and Top Keynote Speaker






ABOUT KAIHAN

“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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DR. KAIHAN KRIPPENDORFF

STRATEGY, GROWTH, AND TRANSFORMATION EXPERT, KEYNOTE SPEAKER, AUTHOR, AND Futurist

Kaihan Krippendorff has made a commitment 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 (in-person and virtual) on the topics of strategy, growth, and transformation.

Kaihan began his career with McKinsey & Company before building two successful companies that he leads today. Outthinker — a think tank specialized in conducting research on business strategy, innovation, and technology and building corporate communities — and 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.

Recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top innovation thought leaders in the world and ranked by Global Gurus as a Top 30 Management Professional of 2022, Kaihan has unique ability to turn difficult concepts into easy-to-understand ideas and practical tools. Kaihan’s Outthinker and work serves as a catalyst of meaningful action to drives outcomes for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and executives from small businesses, high-growth startups, large private companies, and the Fortune 50. To date his work has generated over $2.5B in new annual revenue for many of the world’s most recognizable companies including JP Morgan Chase, L’Oreal, Microsoft, Raytheon, and Yahoo!.

He is the best-selling author of five books, most recently the the Edison Award nominated, Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs as well as a new edition of his book, “Outthink the Competition: How Innovative Companies and Strategists See Options Others Ignore”.

Amidst a dizzying schedule of keynote speeches, consulting projects, and ongoing research, Kaihan finds time to teach at business schools globally (including NYU and FIU), host the Outthinkers Podcast, write regularly for Fast Company and other major media outlets, and play an active role on four corporate advisory boards.

He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, Wharton, Columbia, and London Business Schools and a doctorate in strategy. With a mother from Bangladesh, father from Germany, and wife from Latin America –  Kaihan brings a holistic, diverse, and global perspective to everything he does.

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 speakers on the topics of business strategy, growth, transformation, and innovation.

Topics
Business Strategy
Growth
Transformation

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 mindset needed to win the future.

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