<p>Dr. Soren Kaplan helps leaders make sense of disruption, and act on it. </p><p>A <em>Wall Street Journal </em>bestselling author and organizational psychologist, he turns shifts in AI, business, and society into clear strategic insight and practical action.</p><p>With more than three decades of experience, Soren has advised over 30 Fortune 1000 organizations including Disney, JPMorganChase, PepsiCo, Colgate, Visa, Medtronic, Nucor, and Ascension. He leads executive education programs at USC’s Center for Effective Organizations and writes for <em>Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine,</em> and <em>Psychology Today.</em></p><p>Recognized by <em>Thinkers50 </em>and <em>Business Insider</em> as one of the world’s top management thought leaders and consultants, his work focuses on helping leaders cut through noise, align around what matters, and make smarter decisions when ambiguity and stakes are high.</p>
Former Leader of Internal Strategy And Innovation At Hewlett-Packard, Bestselling Author & Entrepreneur
<ul><li><strong>Leapfrogging to Breakthroughs</strong></li><li>Kaplan highlights the importance of breakthrough innovation for leaders, organizations and business functions – and helps participants identify future opportunities in products, services, processes, and/or business models. Definitions of the different types of innovation are provided along with concrete examples and emerging practices for driving the type of innovation that “leapfrogs” the competition.</li><li><strong>Experiential Intelligence</strong></li><li>Experiential Intelligence (XQ)—the mindsets and abilities gained from your personal and professional life experiences—often impact your present success and future opportunities in ways you don’t see. Dr. Kaplan helps audiences discover hidden strengths, remove invisible barriers limiting peak performance and amplify strengths to achieve breakthroughs for yourself, your team and your organization.</li><li>With a better understanding of XQ, attendees will learn how to:<ul><li>Become a better leader </li><li>Increase collaboration, innovation and results</li><li>Hire and develop talent using more strategic criteria</li><li>Transform your organization's culture</li></ul></li><li><span style="color: rgb(62, 62, 60);"><strong></span>Disruptive Technology</strong></li><li>Kaplan’s diverse, hands-on experience with disruptive technology, product and service innovation, and new business models gives him a unique perspective that keeps his audiences on the edge of their seats. With an eye on the future, he outlines the intersecting trends, technologies, and forces shaping new opportunities. But he doesn’t stop there. He also reveals the emerging and potentially disruptive applications of these technologies, while drawing connections and outlining implications for business leaders and organizations as they move into their increasingly fast-paced and uncertain futures.</li><li><span style="color: rgb(62, 62, 60);"><strong></span>How to Create a Culture of Innovation<span style="color: rgb(62, 62, 60);"></strong></span></li><li>While “disruptive” or “breakthrough” innovation may seem easy for companies like Apple or Google, Kaplan outlines why most organizations struggle to create an environment that produces sustainable innovation. As he taps into his 20+ years of experience working across industries, his executive education programs in strategic innovation, Kaplan reveals how anyone can foster a culture that promotes new thinking, customer focus, experimentation, continuous improvement and business growth.</li><li><span style="color: rgb(62, 62, 60);"><strong></span>Business Model Innovation</strong></li><li>Soren reveals the future of business model innovation with a focus on the strategies and steps for identifying, developing, and driving innovative business models that generate new revenue streams, create competitive differentiation, and add a step-change in value to the market, learn about the emerging technology trends changing the face of every industry, gain insight into the three dimensions of business models – value, differentiation, and revenue, and obtain tools and strategies for business model innovation.</li></ul>