Kaihan’s groundbreaking work on strategy development changes the game for organizations facing an increasingly competitive environment.
Parker HarrisCo-Founder of Salesforce 
Kaihan’s groundbreaking work on strategy development changes the game for organizations facing an increasingly competitive environment.
Parker HarrisCo-Founder of Salesforce 
Kaihan’s groundbreaking work on strategy development changes the game for organizations facing an increasingly competitive environment.
Parker HarrisCo-Founder of Salesforce 
Kaihan’s groundbreaking work on strategy development changes the game for organizations facing an increasingly competitive environment.
Parker HarrisCo-Founder of Salesforce 
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Kaihan shows how large organizations, not just startups, can be a place where entrepreneurs innovate, build, and adapt for the future.
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.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 BangaPresident of the World Bank & Former CEO of Mastercard 
Kaihan, it was a pleasure to work with you. Your presentation at our annual partners meeting was engaging and thought-provoking. You left us all with a better understanding of innovation and actionable ideas we can start working on right away. Thanks again for how you customized your session; it felt like you were talking directly to us. Thank you!
Philip Graham and William PeakePartners, Harneys
I want to let you know that we were so thrilled and impressed with Kaihan and the content he delivered. Not only is he highly qualified and knowledgeable to speak about disruptive innovation, he is very personable both on stage and in his interactions with us. Kaihan is intelligent and insightful and it’s very clear to us that he is a lifelong learner who takes every opportunity to learn. We know that professional speakers often have “canned” presentations, but Kaihan took the time and effort to understand our company, partner CUs and the industry and in so doing was able to provide relevant and helpful insights into the “fourth option” that resonate and challenge the attendees to take action. Thank you for helping us secure Kaihan to speak EWF!
Jooling CuddefordSenior Manager of Strategic Advisory Initiatives, Aviso Wealth 
Kaihan was on-point and relevant. His message is current for any organization wanting to grow. He did a great job of creating a working environment during his talk in which he outlined specific steps and a process to think differently. I had immediate take-aways.
John TripoliPresident, Managing Directors Association of Northwestern Mutual 
Thank you for speaking at the CEO Roundtable! You really helped kick off the meeting and get the CEOs thinking. Several CEOs came up to me and told me they thought your presentation was excellent! Thank you for being so easy to work with and customizing the talk to make it just for our audience.
Tara MostatabSenior Director Of Membership Services, National Association Of Wholesale Distributors 
We really enjoyed working with Kaihan!!! His energy, topic, and being an outside speaker was really a breathe of fresh air and the perfect fit for the audience! The breakout was practical and got our leadership thinking about how we can evolve for the future. We loved the takeaways connected to our leadership pillars and how easy and flexible he was to work with to customize for the event.
Senior Director Of TransformationTop 10 Market Share Aerospace And Defense Company 
Thanks for the excellent brief yesterday – I have already received anecdotal feedback how “on-point” and well-suited the content was for us. I appreciated your flexibility and personal engagement in particular.
Head Of InnovationFortune 500 Technology And Tech Manufacturing Company 
Thank you for presenting at our Strategic Growth Conference! Your willingness to share your time and expertise was critical to the success of our event. We received terrific feedback and our attendees gained valuable insight from your presentation!
Senior Director Of EducationNational Credit Union Association
My clients and colleagues were very impressed with Kaihan’s speech and how much he knew so much about our industry and organization in a short amount of time. He was very well received. Thanks much for the excellent recommendation and your assistance.
Senior Communications Coordinator and EventsFMC Corp (Agriculture Retailers Summit) 
Kaihan- your talk was a perfect blend of inspiring, practical, and actionable. As a leader who is working to implement many of these ideas and structures, I found it so helpful to see a research-based, broader view of what successful innovation looks like! Thank you so much for the expertise and enthusiasm.
Susan WinslowPresident, Macmillan Learning 
We recently had Kaihan speak at our annual winter meeting to our council members. Not only was Kaihan’s presentation the most thought provoking and inspiring aspect of our meeting he was an absolute pleasure to work with leading up to the event. Kaihan spent extra time listening to us to learn more about our industry. His passion and enthusiasm came across extremely well to our audience. I would highly recommend Kaihan for your next event.
Josh BoneExecutive Director, ELECTRI International, National Electrical Contractors Association Event 
Kaihan did a great job today! He was very effective in connecting the dots with his messaging and our strategy. I received several glowing comments on how well prepared he was and that his presentation and stories were very engaging. We couldn’t be happier!
VP Corporate EventsInsurance Industry Association
Great presentation this week at the Daikin Group Sales Meeting! Thank you for speaking with our reps, employees, and stakeholders to customize something just for us.
Director of CommunicationsDaikin Applied 
Kaihan did a great job today! He was very effective in connecting the dots with his messaging and our strategy. I received several glowing comments on how well prepared he was and that his presentation and stories were very engaging. We couldn’t be happier!
VP Corporate EventsInsurance Industry Association
Great presentation this week at the Daikin Group Sales Meeting! Thank you for speaking withaThanks for the excellent brief yesterday – I have already received anecdotal feedback how “on-point” and well-suited the content was for us. I appreciated your flexibility and personal engagement in particular. our reps, employees, and stakeholders to customize something just for us.
Head of InnovationFortune 500 Technology and Tech Manufacturing Company
Kaihan is a great communicator, who held the rapt attention of an audience of more than 200 financial services professionals from across the country. He opened our minds, made us think, and gave us actionable ideas that one could apply to their day-to-day lives.
Geraldine O’BrienVice President of Communications, Newport Group 
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 did a fantastic job at our annual conference for our many groups of CEOs and executive teams. His presentation energized the audience and left everyone with actionable tools and ideas for driving growth in their companies. He definitely made an impact.
Rick JohnsonPrincipal, AZ Growth Advisors 
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 LeibCEO, Donnelley Financial Solutions
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 DavisPresident and Chief Investment Officer, Nuveen Private Investments
Kaihan, has an innate ability to captivate his audience. He brings a fresh, unique and passionate perspective on strategy and leadership, his style is brilliant and engaging and he is clearly a rising star.
Kal MistrySVP, VITAS Healthcare Corporation
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 WisemanAuthor of NY Times bestsellers Multipliers and Rookie Smarts
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 CoburnSenior Vice President, Learning for Transformation of L’Oréal 
Stunningly engaging.
Amy EdmondsonProfessor, Harvard Business School, Author of The Fearless Organization 
Kaihan shows that with a bold idea, anyone can change the world.
Mohammad YunusNobel Peace Prize Winner 
Kaihan Krippendorff breaks down the complex into relevant, practical, and actionable insights that engage, entertain, and inspire your audience.
Josh LinknerFive-time Tech Entrepreneur and Hyper-Growth CEO, NY Times Bestselling Author, Top-Choice Keynote Speaker on Innovation, Creativity, Reinvention, and Hyper-Growth Leadership 
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. AnthonySenior Partner, Innosight, author of Dual Transformation and The Little Black Book of Innovation 
Kaihan is very good at understanding the underlying patterns of strategy, then he trains the group to start recognizing these patterns, with time the strategic level of the group starts rising, generating breakthrough ideas that unleash untapped value.
Juan Mijares Regional Director of Strategy, Wal-Mart 
Kaihan’s groundbreaking work on strategy development changes the game for organizations facing an increasingly competitive environment.
Shannon WallisGlobal Director, Leadership Programs, Microsoft 
Kaihan has the unique ability to frame questions in such a way that energizes a diverse group of leaders in strategic business planning. Through his guidance we were able to look at strategic issues for our board in unique ways that will have immediate application. He was quick to understand our issues and our mission and was an immense help in developing our strategy.
Mary E. Power CAE Executive Director, Society for Human Resource Management 
Kaihan provides practical methods to systematically analyze and intelligently manage the competition.
Marc SpeichertChief Commercial Officer, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts (former MD, Google) 
We’ve exposed thousands of executives of growth firms around the world to Kaihan Krippendorff’s concrete and practical stratagems for dealing with competitive threats and he’s been universally well received by our tough and discerning audiences.
Verne Harnish CEO Gazelles inc., Founder Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), Author “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits” 
Kaihan’s fresh message opens minds and motivates strategic change in a new era of competition that demands change.
Robert BloomUS CEO, Publicis Worldwide, Author of The New Experts and The inside Advantage
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 CancalosiDirector of Global Customer Leadership, GE 
Kaihan’s speech for the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) left us inspired and wanting to change the world.
Anna KlapperBrand USA 
We have had outstanding feedback from Kaihan's sessions [at IMEX Frankfurt] and it was an honour to have him take part.
Carina Bauer CEO, IMEX Group 
Kaihan’s presentation was excellent, and highly rated by our membership. Not only did he educate and inspire us, but he left us with an actual framework to follow and engage our teams.
A.C. Ganger Learning Chair 2017-‘18, EO Detroit 
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 CrainerCo-founder of Thinkers50 
Kaihan did an outstanding job as an external speaker at our Leadership Conference. He made a concerted effort to make his message tailored to our audience and went above and beyond in terms of learning about the issues that our company and its leaders are currently facing. I was impressed by his use of stories or choosing examples very relevant to our leaders to tie into his themes. We have gotten a lot of positive feedback regarding his message and would recommend him for additional talks.
Mary LundstromManaging Director, Northwestern Mutual 
Kaihan, Thank you! I’m hearing good feedback that you did a great job relating to the audience and the accounting profession. Thank you for everyting and for sharing tools and information for our members to use going forward!
Senior Manager of Member Engagement,International Certified Public Accountants Association 
Kaihan, your contributions to UTC over the years to think through strategy and opportunities for innovation are highly impactful!
Krissy Eichmann Talent Development Manager, United Technologies 
Kaihan delivered a great presentation. The team really enjoyed it and it was highly relevant.
David CrowManaging Director, Pershing/BNY Mellon 
Kaihan was responsive to tailoring his talk to the audience – was VERY relatable – one of our very best lectures and best-received lectures by the diverse audience of students, faculty, staff, people from the community. A top-notch and interactive speaker whose ideas resonate with almost any audience. PLUS – he’s a pleasure to work with as a person. Can’t say enough good things about him.
Nathan J. Hiller, PH.D. Executive Director, Center for Leadership at FIU 
In January of 2020, the Center for Leadership had Kaihan Krippendorff speak as part of The Leadership Lectures series at Florida International University. Not only was he well received by the audience, he was also easy to work with, personable and spent extra time answering questions our attendees had at the end of his presentation. His high energy, enthusiasm, relevant content and invaluable insights were amazing. The delivery of his message was exemplary as it resonated among our students as much as it did our faculty/staff and community members. The audience left feeling excited and motivated. I would highly recommend Mr. Krippendorff as a speaker for your next event, you won’t be disappointed.
Andrea MaciasSr. Program Coordinator, Center for Leadership at FIU 
Any time I can be part of Kaihan Krippendorff's events I gladly join.
Rita McgrathColumbia Business School Professor, Thinkers50 #1 Strategist, Author of Seeing Around Corners
Thank you for a great presentation! Our members and I will be looking to apply your principles to our own businesses in 2021. Well done!
Editor in Chief of a Furniture Retailers and Manufacturers AssociationMedia Company 
A huge thank you for your outstanding keynote sessions at our 2021 Leaders Conference. The participant survey results show that your message resonated with our audience and you received an 87% satisfaction rating (with 49% extremely satisfied). We are very pleased with these results and our experience working with you to plan the sessions. Please accept our sincere appreciation for helping to make our conference a success!
Carla BergsethAlliance Meeting Experience Leader, RSM US LLP (Accounting, tax, audit, consulting) 
Kaihan provides the guide that any business, government, and organizations should use to ignite innovation from the bottom up.
Parker HarrisCo-founder of Salesforce 
Thank you SO much for such a wonderful session. That was truly energizing and I am already being flooded with notes, Slacks, email, and DMs from our team noting how much they enjoyed your session.
Kate GeragthyVice President, Communications and Training, Macmillan 
Kaihan, your content and presentation was excellent! Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to share your insights with the ML team. There was really good attendance and engagement. Our folks will surely benefit.
Kenneth EngSenior Vice President, Group Strategy and M&A, Macmillan Holtzbrinck 
Thank YOU so much, Kaihan! It was such a fantastic session today. I know I learned so much and some of our members were sharing that it was their favorite session from the entire EO Summer School thus far. You shared a lot of practical advice for them to not only get through COVID, but to think about ways to grow their businesses and come out stronger on the other side. Excellent content and very engaging virtual delivery too! Thanks again!
Hannah MarshChief Learning Manager, Entrepreneurs’ Organization 
Kaihan continually inspires me, right where strategy intersects innovation. At the same time, he practices what he preaches, building a social learning community, showing us a new model in his own business. Pioneer!
Dan HoffmanCeo, Circles
“Kaihan is truly an extraordinary, world-class thinker, strategist and disruptive innovation practitioner. His books and talks demonstrate his ability to sense and elevate trends and disruptive forces when they are still fringe, to use his vast strategic understanding and cross-industry experience to clearly illuminate unheard-of but potent INSIGHTS (e.g., keys to driving large-scale innovation in companies through engaging employees) and a remarkable ability to ACTIVATE those insights in ways that resonate with practitioners in the field who struggle with transforming theory into action. His ability to drive clarity and offer actionable frameworks and approaches is unparalleled. And his ability to 'connect the dots' across his vast network of other leading thinkers (see his OUTTHINKER podcast), and his ability to facilitate on-the-ground feedback from strategists in industry (I am part of his OUTTHINKER network) is truly exemplary. I gain meaningful, novel insights in each of my interactions with Kaihan, and the forums he leads -- these have been pivotal in shaping work I do and initiatives I spearhead as Chief Strategy Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Finally, Kaihan's style is equally extraordinary -- he is exceptionally sincere, humble and inviting of others' perspectives and creates an inspiring and engaging forum for others. Having had the pleasure of working with many brilliant minds in the past both as a partner at Oliver Wyman, and at Harvard Business School, I can say unreservedly that Kaihan is 'tops' in my book.”
Sukanya SoderlandChief Strategy Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield MA 
A great thank you to Kaihan and his team for the support and great end product! Our year end global executive meeting was a wonderful success enhanced by your insights and keynote. We appreciated your fluid and seamless way of working with our team.
Head Of Leadership Development$50B Global Chemical manufacturer
“Cutting edge and inspiring Innovation business concepts”
Robert CancalosDirector Of Global Customer Leadership GA
“Concrete and practical Universally received by our tough and discerning audiences”
Verne HarnishCEO Gazelles inc. Founder Enterpreneurs' Organization(EO) Author "Matering the Rockefeller Habits"
“We have had outstanding feedback from Kaihan's sessions and it was an honour to have him take part”
Carina BauerCEO, IMEX Group
“Kaihan's shows that with a bold idea, anyone can change the world”
Mohammasd YunusNobel Piece Prize Winner
“Practical and intelligent. A must for companies seeking to intelligently analyze and manage the competition.”
Marc SpeichertManaging Director, Google
“Interseting and thought provoking ideas. A throughly stimulating session”
Sarah HibbersonSVP HR, L' Oreal USA 
“Powerful messages and energizing examples that resonate. Incredible process. Can't wait until next time”
Antony LeeCEO, AIG Malaysia 
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