John Kao - Testimonials Praise for John’s transformative sessions includes: "Thank you for making our opening event a huge success and a truly groundbreaking event for the Design Council. We have received some overwhelming feedback from some of the guests at the IMAX as well as from those who were listening in the regions and in cyberspace, including: 'I feel as if I've learned new ways of valuing business this morning;' 'Design has moved upstream and become more core business;' 'There's a new emerging type of company and it doesn't buy creativity, it is creative itself.' It has been a great privilege to have worked with you and I hope to have the opportunity of doing so again in the future." - Design Council “I’m a big fan of John Kao’s” – Quincy Jones “Brilliant. He provides an out-of-the-box thinking that is also very grounded in the everyday world.” – Hillary Clinton campaign staff “If Orson Welles and Peter Drucker were somehow to mate, the result would be something like John Kao, a serial innovator.” – The Economist "Our Tiffany Merchandising Conference was terrific and your opening presentation contributed enormously to its success. The group is still talking and thinking about the experience! Many of the conference participants also expressed interest in having you participate in a real problem solving situation, which we can do in a workshop environment." - Tiffany & Co. "Thank you for helping ASTD make our International Conference and Exposition in Denver such a success. We had over 9,000 people in attendance - an energized group of leaders who came together to learn from the best. Your message on the art and discipline of business innovation and your demonstration via jazz were a hit with our audience. We heard positive comments about your presentation for the rest of the week. And thank you for leading the discussion at our Executive Briefing. I know our learning executives appreciated a chance to discuss how their world is changing and how they can help the process." - American Society for Training & Development
John’s latest presentations include: •
Re-Imagining Your Organization's Innovation Agenda: Innovation is at the top of the leadership agenda worldwide, yet most organizations that start an innovation agenda wind up disappointed with the results. That is why we need to re-imagine innovation, a concept born in the industrial era that now must be adapted for a rapidly evolving, digital, unpredictable world. The imperative to create a better innovation strategy is ever more urgent. In this insightful and pro-active presentation, John Kao provides his Five C's
(framework (context, capabilities, countries, connections, creators) to help leaders re-imagine their innovation strategy and action plan. •
Innovation Deep Dives: A special 1-2 day custom designed workshop that is built around a specific innovation-related challenge or opportunity your team is working on. The goal for this session is to achieve a breakthrough and develop a meaningful plan of action. Whatever your innovation strategy, John Kao promises a results-focused, transformational experience that blends the best of a Harvard Busienss School innovation executive program, an innovation strategy deep dive and a results-oriented exploration of a specific opportunity or challenge And if your team would like to experience this deep dive in an environment designed for extreme screativity and innovation, consider an Executive Team Collaboration Event at John’s VILLA 11, located at the Miraval Spa & Resort in Tucson. See www.villa11.com. Villa 11 was developed by John specifically to offer an environment optimized for team collaboration, brainstorming and strategic conversation.
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Innovation 2016 - Election, Economy and Leadership: John has a long history of advising political leaders in many countries on innovation. (Think the USA, Finland, Singapore, Dubai and Australia). In fact he “wrote the book” on this subject in Innovation Nation, which set out a blueprint for the renewal of American innovation. In this presentation, John provides context for leaders of all persuasions to understand how innovation will play a central role in the presidential election of 2016 and in the prospects for continued economic and social progress in America. It will benchmark American efforts to further a national innovation agenda with those of other countries, and against the backdrop of an emerging global innovation economy. And it will frame innovation against the gathering momentum of the 2016 presidential election, where words like “innovation,” “smart” and “brains” are being used with increasingly frequency on both sides of the aisle. It is certain that the outcome of this election will establish new boundary conditions for our national innovation agenda and our future economic success.
John Kao has addressed standing room only audiences worldwide and has received rave reviews from organizations as diverse as the World Economic Forum, Google, the World Innovation Forum, and Xerox Parc. He continues to inspire audiences around the world with his engaging and transformational presentations that instill the spirit of creativity as well as the “how to” of innovation i to drive a successful innovation agenda.