Dr. Soren Kaplan is a bestselling and award-winning author, a columnist for Inc. Magazine, the founder of Praxie.com, former head of strategy at HP in Silicon Valley, and an affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Business Insider and Thinkers50 have recognized him as one of the world’s top management thought leaders and consultants.
His latest book, Experiential Intelligence, has been lauded by authorities including Psychology Today and endorsed by executives from Amazon Web Services, 3M, NBCUniversal and many others as holding the potential to transform approaches to talent management, leadership development, and organizational culture.
Soren has advised and led professional development programs for thousands of executives around the world, including Disney, NBCUniversal, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, Hershey, Red Bull, Medtronic, Roche, Philips, Cisco, Visa, Ascension Health, Kaiser Permanente, CSAA Insurance Group, American Nurses Association, and many others. He has lectured at the Harvard Business School, Copenhagen Business School, Melbourne Business School, Breda University in the Netherlands, and with other MBA and executive education programs globally.
Soren’s debut book, Leapfrogging, was named “Best Leadership Book” and The Invisible Advantage received the “Best General Business Book” distinction by the International Book Awards. He has been quoted, published, and interviewed by Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, CNBC, National Public Radio, the American Management Association, USA Today, Strategy & Leadership, and The International Handbook on Innovation, among many others. He holds a master’s and a doctorate in Organizational Psychology.
Leapfrogging to Breakthroughs
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.
Disruptive Technology
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.
How to Create a Culture of Innovation
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.
Your Invisible Advantage – How to Create a Culture of Innovation
Soren reveals the secrets for creating an organizational culture that drives continuous innovation, learn how organizational culture impacts behavior and how it can be shaped to foster innovation, gain insight into the levers that influence culture, including leadership behavior, storytelling, metrics, rewards, and organizational structures and processes, obtain models and tools for transforming your organization’s own culture, and instantly apply new knowledge through interactive discussions.
Business Model Innovation
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.