Jeremy Gutsche

Based his New York Times bestseller and work helping 500 brands, billionaires and CEOs to accelerate innovation, Jeremy Gutsche’s most popular keynote will ignite your audience with tactical takeaways and next steps to help your team get the most from the event. A core problem threatening business today is that people fail to adapt—or that they don’t know how close they are to even better ideas.  After 10,000 years of evolution as farmers, we are pre-wired with a series of neurological traps that block smart teams and successful people from realizing their full potential. In this keynote, attendees will learn how to find their next level and will get the tools, takeaways, and an innovation assessment to ensure they are equipped to make change happen. A short video of this innovation keynote is the #1 most watched innovation keynote video in history, with roughly 7,000,000 views.

Starting in 2017, Gutsche launched a series of new innovation assessment tools. In short, each attendee answers a series of tradeoff questions that unlock their unique innovation strengths and weaknesses regarding the future. Then, Gutsche uses this overall assessment to customize his keynote and provide a series of cultural insights about what, specifically, makes your company unique compared to other top innovators. 

Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, easily brushed aside as superfluous. It’s the entire game. In fact, culture drives everything within a company—from the words we use to describe success and failure, to the ways we interact and communicate within and without. And subtle shifts in how we create our communities can mean total transformation—for the worse, and for the better. Join Jeremy Gutsche, an expert in change leadership, as he shows you how the world’s most inspiring companies organize their missions, values, and ethics, and how they orchestrate unique environments that breed success. The core of any progressive company culture lies in finding your purpose, he argues—the passion, urgency, and importance behind your brand. How well have you expressed your principles? How deeply embedded are your values? How do you inspire loyalty and dedication—and give back to the people who take up your cause? Based on over 1,000 interviews with innovation leaders, and tens of thousands of people who have taken his Innovation Assessment, Gutsche unpacks the value of defining, and upholding, a culture that makes clients, partners, and employees get excited about what you do.

* Note: this session includes a free innovation assessment for each individual as well as a free group innovation assessment. The assessment will provide each individual with 10 pages of specific insights into how they innovate and lead differently than their peers, which will help to personalize the session. You can also receive a group innovation assessment to understand more specifically how your group compares to the world’s top innovators, enabling Gutsche to better tailor his content, takeaways, and workshops to your company. 

Motivational speakers can be inspiring, but many lack actual takeaways and applicable next steps. Not so with Jeremy Gutsche. He’s interviewed hundreds of CEOs. He’s studied 250,000 innovations from a virtual focus group of 100 million people. And, with TrendHunter, he’s cracked some of the toughest innovation problems with over 500 clients, including Coca-Cola, Domino’s, Sony, and Wells Fargo. If you’re looking to ideate, exploit chaos, and understand today’s constantly changing landscape, you want someone who doesn’t just speak about change—he makes it a reality.

In this customizable talk, Gutsche opens his unique, highly sought-after playbook for disruptive growth. Guiding audiences through six patterns of opportunity—acceleration, reduction, convergence, cyclicality, redirection, and divergence—he then isolates 18 mega-trends that can’t be ignored. This is as personalized as your team needs it to be (and that means assessment tests, homework questions, follow-up videos, and even a custom trend report, tailored to your organization). As we all know, talk without action might sound nice, but it doesn’t change a thing. Return to work, ready to execute, with Gutsche’s hands-on and unforgettable help.

From NASA to Universal, Jeremy Gutsche’s organization, Trend Hunter, helps more than 500 of the world’s top innovators find BETTER ideas FASTER. Focused 100 percent on your company, the workshops are high-impact, high-intensity experiences that the world’s leading companies, billionaires, CEOs and NASA have relied on to either:

1. Dramatically accelerate innovation;
2. Extract the best thinking from their teams;
3. Prototype scenarios of their future; or
4. Make change happen when change is hard.

Gutsche’s innovation keynote and workshops helped: NASA prototype the journey to MARS, the top 200 from Microsoft prototype cultural change, the top 50 from Victoria's Secret better understand their customer, the top 250 from NBC prototype their long term future, the top 80 from Chicago Tribune reinvent their strategy, and hundreds of other brands and billionaires to prototype a better future.