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Kaihan Krippendorff

Strategy and Innovation Expert

Kaihan Krippendorff
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Breaking through Traditional Corporate Barriers
Virtual Reel - Extended
Innovation from within Established Companies
Finding the Fourth Option
Change The World Without Quitting Your Job
Kaihan
Kaihan Krippendorff
Speaker Reel
Breaking through Traditional Corporate Barriers
Virtual Reel - Extended
Innovation from within Established Companies
Finding the Fourth Option
Change The World Without Quitting Your Job

Kaihan Krippendorff is the CEO of Outthinker Networks, a global think-tank of chief strategy and innovation executives shaping the future of business. He has been recognized by both Global Gurus and Thinkers50 as one of the top 30 global thinkers in strategy and innovation. Krippendorff’s work helps organizations generate breakthrough ideas that drive transformation and growth in our accelerated world of change.

Leveraging skills and experience from McKinsey and Company with rigorous research of emerging trends, Krippendorff designs practical business tools that he delivers through engaging and hands-on experiences. He is an innovation catalyst to business leaders and CXOs of some of the world’s most admired companies. To date, his work has generated over $2.5B in new, annual revenue for clients that include Aetna-CVS, JP Morgan, Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, IBM, and Yahoo.

A prolific writer, Krippendorff has published five books including the bestsellers, Outthink the Competition and Driving Innovation from Within. In May 2024, he will release his sixth book, Proximity: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life. It has already been named a “must-read” by Adam Grant’s and Malcolm Gladwell’s Next Big Idea Club.

Amidst a dizzying schedule of keynotes, workshops, ongoing research, and writing, Krippendorff also teaches for Wharton Executive Education, Florida International University, and New York University. He is also the host of the Outthinkers podcast and plays an active role on two corporate advisory boards.

Krippendorff holds a doctorate in strategy and has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, Wharton, Columbia Business School, and London Business School. With a mother from Bangladesh, father from Germany, and wife from Latin America, Krippendorff is a global citizen who brings a holistic, diverse, and worldly perspective to everything he does.

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus said, “Kaihan shows that with a compelling idea anyone can change the world” and that message has made him one of the most sought-after business speakers in the world.

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Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Kaihan provides practical methods to systematically analyze and intelligently manage the competition. This does not mean copying or even responding to the competition. It means precisely the opposite.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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