<p>Robbie Bach draws from his unparalleled career building the team at Microsoft that created Xbox to help organizations build resilient, innovative, and growth-oriented cultures in our competitive and rapidly-changing world.</p><p>Robbie Bach is a true practitioner of innovation and growth across numerous industries and company profiles. Whether he is operating in a fledgling business, a mid-sized growth company, or a Fortune 500 titan like Microsoft, Robbie offers real-world leadership tools and practical strategies to harness change, generate new ideas, and drive growth.</p><p>A 22-year Microsoft veteran, Robbie built and led the team that created Xbox—one of the most successful intrapreneurship ventures of our time—working alongside some of the most influential figures in tech (including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer) and establishing himself as one of the world’s foremost practitioners of innovation and ingenuity. His “3P” strategic framework of Purpose, Principles and Priorities, BXT creativity paradigm, and Avengers theory of leadership provide valuable ideas for attendees at all levels in an organization. His focus on story-telling and concrete examples provides real-world tools and techniques that are especially applicable in today’s rapidly evolving, competitive marketplace.</p><p>In addition to his Microsoft experience, he is the co-founder of a rapidly growing food business, Manini’s, and has served on multiple for-profit boards including Sonos, Brooks, and Magic Leap. He has also provided strategic and leadership advice through his service on nonprofit boards such as Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Habitat for Humanity International, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and the Bipartisan Policy Center.</p>
Former Chief Xbox Officer and President, Microsoft and Innovation, Leadership and Culture Expert
<ul><li><strong>Thinking Outside the Xbox: How to Innovate, Grow and Stay Competitive in 2024 and Beyond</strong></li><li>With examples from his own experiences at Microsoft building Xbox, along with his recent entrepreneurial ventures, Bach shares how organizations can successfully use his 3P Strategic Framework—Purpose, Principles, and Priorities—to align teams and develop creative techniques to take advantage of today’s evolving market opportunities. Through engaging storytelling, Bach illustrates how leaders, managers, and employees in companies of all sizes can utilize their Avengers superpowers to be “explorers, pioneers, and settlers” building creative, resilient, high-performing teams that thrive.</li><li><strong>Resilience by Design: Lessons for Leadership in Today’s Turbulent Times</strong></li><li>Robbie Bach is no stranger to change and resilience. In over two decades at Microsoft, he led teams using innovation to stay one step ahead of disruption and harness change. Through the ups and downs of leadership successes and mistakes, he confronted crisis situations and reshaped them into opportunities. At a time when corporations are competing in an ever-changing geopolitical and economic climate, Robbie’s timeless insights and tailored approaches will enlighten organizations of all sizes on the strategic, operational, and leadership initiatives required to thrive in periods of change.</li></ul>