Josh Linkner – New York Times bestselling author – is a rare blend of business, art, and science.

While most speakers deliver value for one hour, Josh is now delivering value for one year.  “Josh Linkner is a 5-time tech entrepreneur and a New York Times bestselling author who helps leaders turn uncertainty into innovation.”

• “He’s the only speaker who blends hard-hitting business insights with an unforgettable live jazz performance that brings creativity, collaboration, and agility to life. If you’re looking for something different and memorable, he could be the perfect fit.”
• “With 30+ years as a CEO and tech entrepreneur, Josh delivers practical strategies leaders can apply immediately to spark growth and innovation amidst volatility and uncertainty.”
• “After Josh’s sessions, leadership teams walk away both inspired and better equipped to drive meaningful results in a rapidly shifting world.”
• “Why hire a speaker for one hour when you can get Josh for an entire year?”

Session Descriptions:

As you know, Josh has been an industry pioneer for over 15 years and I’m excited to share that he’s still breaking new ground. Josh is redefining the model by bundling 12 months of services and content with every keynote.

Pre-Keynote Welcome Kit. 

Helpful content to get the conversation started. Custom teaser videos, stimulating questions, short pre-reads and pre-watch videos, and thought-starters to build excitement for your upcoming event.

The Main Event. 

A custom-crafted keynote delivered with passion and precision that strikes the perfect balance of inspiring and actionable.

Keynote Summary + QuickStart Guide. 

A recap of key concepts, mindsets, and tactics plus a sharable QuickStart guide to help put the principles into action.

Strategic Debrief Session. 

A post-keynote “jam session” to share feedback, answer any open questions, and align on next steps to maximize impact.

Digital ‘Innovation Style Finder’ Diagnostic.

A short assessment that identifies one’s ‘innovation style’ to understand the strengths of their existing approach while uncovering potential soft spots or roadblocks.

Weekly ‘Creative Habit’ Micro-Learnings.

Quick, easy-to-read insights to inspire inventive thinking and creative problem-solving.

Live Post-Event Fireside Chat or Interactive Workshop. 

Approximately 30 days after your event, you can choose between a Zoom-based fireside chat or a structured one-hour innovation workshop. Either option extends the keynote value, reinforces your thought-leadership, and drives results.

Quarterly Research Reports.

Every 90 days, you’ll get a copy of the latest research on innovation, creativity, agility, and collaboration to fuel your momentum.

Innovation Hub + Resource Center.

A password-protected portal to accelerate innovation and growth.  The toolkit contains a video library, downloadable worksheets, frameworks and exercises, an inspirational story bank, and extensive resources.

Bi-Annual Innovation Check-Ups.

Every six months, we’ll connect to gauge your progress and advise on opportunities or challenges you may be facing. Think of it as your own personal innovation jam session.

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

Demo Videos:

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.