<p>Luke Williams is one of the world’s leading business thinkers on disruptive innovation. He fires up audiences as he shares his strategy to ignite innovation.</p><p>Williams pulls audiences in with a bold idea: at some point, someone, somewhere, is going to disrupt your entire industry – why shouldn’t it be you? As a globally recognized authority on disruptive innovation, he reveals a way of thinking that has the power to transform businesses, helping guide audience members to get – and stay – ahead of the game.</p><p>He catapults disruptive innovation to the forefront of business strategy. His views are regularly featured in media ranging from <i>Bloomberg BusinessWeek</i> and <i>Fast Company</i>, to <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> and National Public Radio.</p><p>As a renowned leader in disruptive innovation, Williams is also an influential professor at NYU, entrepreneur, and management thinker. His diverse professional experience has made him a sought-after consultant and dynamic management speaker. He has presented in 21 countries, as well as addressed both the United Nations General Assembly and the World Innovation Forum. Through all of his ventures, he helps transform and innovate businesses and has worked with leading companies around the globe.</p><p>As a Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at NYU Stern School of Business, Williams exercises the opportunity to educate the next generation of innovators and disrupters. As Founder and Executive Director of the W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs, he helps equip NYU students, alumni, and researchers with the tools they need to build sustainable businesses.</p><p>In everything he does, Williams leads by example. He is the inventor of 30+ U.S. patents and has designed more than 100 products in industries ranging from transportation and finance to healthcare and consumer electronics. He is a Fellow at Frog Design, one of the world's most influential product strategy and design firms. He is also the author of international bestseller <i>Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business</i>.</p>
Disruptive Innovation Leader and Executive Director of the W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs at NYU's Stern School of Business
<ul><li><strong>Disruptive Thinking: How to Spark Transformation in Your Business </strong></li><li>Successful companies operating in mature industries that embrace incremental change find themselves on a path that gets narrower and narrower. Eventually, they reach the end of the path, and by then, their customers have forsaken them for a new offering that nobody saw coming. <br> <br> But companies that focus on incremental innovation instead of game-changing, disruptive innovation will differentiate themselves right out of business. Companies need to be consistently making bold moves, even at the very peak of their success. It is an essential skill for anyone in business with the desire to transform organizational processes and behaviors, and ask, “Why hadn’t we ever thought about our business and industry this way before?” </li><li><strong>Disruptive Leadership: Thriving in an Era of Constant Change </strong></li><li>What does it take to be a disruptive leader? Do you need to be a brilliant agitator like Steve Jobs? A driven workaholic like Tesla’s Elon Musk? Sure, CEOs like that get a lot of press, but there’s more to success than being loud and charismatic. Truly disruptive leaders are like Master Chefs on a cooking show, always looking for ways to take existing ingredients and combine them in unique ways. <br> <br> Those new recipes are a type of investment capital: the more you have, the better. Of course, not all will succeed. But disruptive thinking and leadership is less about the success of any one idea and more about putting your business in a position where you have more new ideas to spend than your competition does. Most importantly, being a disruptive leader is about creating a culture where everyone values new recipes. Because if you want to build a disruptive organization, you first have to build more disruptive leaders.</li></ul>