Josh Linkner – a New York Times bestselling author – is a rare blend of business, art, and science.
Session Descriptions:
Find A Way™
As we enter a new era of business, 50% of leaders in the United States have lost confidence in their ability to make decisions in the face of uncertainty. The level of disruption, technology threats, and uncertainty can be paralyzing. We are in a leadership crisis and must embrace a new model to meet the day’s challenges.
Prolific entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and innovation expert Josh Linkner helps you Find A Way™ through his proven 5-step framework for cultivating full-organization ingenuity. Whatever outcomes you crave the most— from sales growth to competitive advantage to employee engagement— you’ll walk away with specific tools to drive sustainable success.
The Find a Way™ framework prioritizes agility over brute force, creativity over hustle, and improvisation over perfect planning. Leaders who embrace the model are inspired and better equipped. They feel confident to move forward into the darkness and have a newfound capacity to win consistently, no matter the circumstances.
Outcomes & Experiences
Audience
This Keynote Serves Leaders & Teams Who Are:
- Facing uncertainty and volatility.
- Seeking better ways to drive the outcomes they crave the most.
- Struggling to keep up with the pace of change.
Outcomes
The Audience Will Leave With:
- A proven model for harnessing ingenuity to solve any problem and seize any opportunity.
- Innovative strategies to drive better results every day.
- The confidence to walk into the unknown.
Suggested Event Formats
While Josh carefully customizes this keynote for every event type, Find A Way™ has proven to be highly effective in the following formats:
- Strategy kick-offs
- R&D meetings
- Innovation recognition programs
- Sales kick-offs
- Client events
Big Little Breakthroughs
The pressure to generate big ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical in these disruptive and competitive times, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up.
Instead of shooting for a $10 billion IPO or a Nobel Prize, the most prolific innovators focus on Big Little Breakthroughs – small, creative acts that unlock massive rewards over time.
The Big Little Breakthroughs framework provides a specific and practical approach to unlocking dormant creative capacity. Instead of wild, risky, and expensive moonshots, participants learn to unleash small, daily creative acts to drive gigantic results over time.
In this inspiring, timely, and high-impact keynote, New York Times bestselling author and globally recognized innovation expert Josh Linkner shows us how to de-risk the creative process, build the capacity to unlock breakthrough transformations, and gain the creative confidence to take responsible risks.
Outcomes & Experiences
Audience
This Keynote Serves Leaders & Teams Who Are:
- Aware of the need to innovate but having a hard time getting started.
- Responsible for creating a culture of innovation.
- Feeling pressure to generate breakthroughs but struggling to deliver them.
Outcomes
The Audience Will Leave With:
- A proven framework to cultivate a high volume of innovations without the typical risk.
- Inspiring and memorable stories that show how ingenuity, creative problem-solving, and inventive thinking can lead to breakthrough results.
- The mindsets, habits, and tactics of the world’s most prolific artists, business titans, and entrepreneurs.
Suggested Event Formats
While Josh carefully customizes this keynote for every event type, Big Little Breakthroughs™ has proven to be highly effective in the following formats:
- Strategy kick-offs
- R&D meetings
- Sales kick-offs
- Client events
Innovation in the Age of AI:
In an era where artificial intelligence is not just a tool but a transformative force, Josh Linkner invites you on a thought-provoking journey into unlocking the synergies between AI and human potential for next-gen engagement, growth, and profitability.
Josh Linkner, a prolific tech CEO, venture capital investor, and innovation expert, has been a technology pioneer for over 30 years. He founded, launched, and sold five groundbreaking tech businesses that leveraged cutting-edge innovation to gain a competitive advantage. Today, Josh remains at the forefront of tech transformation, running a venture capital firm and innovation studio focusing on the next generation of AI disruption.
In this mind-opening keynote, Josh shows leaders a new model where human creativity and AI fuse together to win during relentless waves of disruption and change. Through groundbreaking research, compelling stories, and unexpected insights, this keynote illuminates the path forward as AI reshapes nearly every dimension of business and life.
What you’ll discover:
- The Human Edge. Learn about the unique human skills that AI cannot replicate – creativity, empathy, and intuition – and how cultivating these skills can give you an irreplaceable edge in the AI-driven world.
- Creative Disruption. Learn how to use AI as a springboard for creative disruption, turning challenges into opportunities and ideas into revolutions.
- The Power of Unconventional Thinking. Discover new techniques to foster nontraditional thinking and break free from established and new digital competitors.
- Ethical Imagination. Explore the ethical dimensions of AI innovation and the responsibility of creators to imagine and steer technology toward outcomes that uplift humanity and protect our values.
- The Myths of Creativity in the AI Era. Uncover the common myths surrounding creativity and AI and explore how rethinking these myths can lead to breakthrough innovations.
Outcomes & Experiences
Audience
This Keynote Serves Leaders & Teams Who Are:
- Seeking a new synergistic way where AI and human potential.
- Feeling overwhelmed and unprepared by the rapid change from AI-powered transformation.
- Looking for a playbook that mitigates risk and maximizes opportunities in this new wave of disruption.
Outcomes
The Audience Will Leave With:
- An elevated understanding of the changes AI will bring and what to do right now to adapt and prepare.
- A leadership model to embrace the AI revolution instead of fearing it.
- Strategies to fuse human creativity with AI to gain competitive advantage and drive profitable growth.
- Mindsets and tactics to boost relevance, agility, and adaptability.
Suggested Event Formats
While Josh carefully customizes this keynote for every event type, Innovation in the Age of AI is especially effective in the following settings:
- Senior leadership meetings
- Strategy kick-offs
- Client events
- All-team meetings
- Association conventions
Additional Topics:
The Innovative Leader
Disciplined Dreaming
Rethink. Reboot. Reinvent.
The Music of Business
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Bio:
On the business front, Josh Linkner has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which created over 10,000 jobs and sold for a combined value of over $200 million. He’s the co-founder and Managing Partner of Muditā (mooDEE-tah) Venture Partners – an early-stage venture capital firm investing in groundbreaking technologies. Over the last 30 years, he’s helped over 100 startups launch and scale, creating over $1 billion in investor returns. He’s twice been named the EY Entrepreneur of The Year and is the recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change Award. Among his books are Disciplined Dreaming, Hacking Innovation and Big Little Breakthroughs.
While proud of his business success, his roots are in the dangerous world of jazz music. He’s been playing guitar in smoky jazz clubs for 40 years, studied at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, and has performed over 1000 concerts around the world.
His experiences in both business and music led him to become one of the world’s foremost experts on
innovation. Josh is the co-founder and Chairman of Platypus Labs, a global research, training, and consulting firm. Today, he’s on a mission to help leaders Find A Way™ through creative problem-solving, inventive thinking, and ingenuity.
