Rowan Gibson is a popular speaker with an upbeat presentation style. His big-picture insights, compelling observations and fresh business thinking have impressed a wide range of audiences across Europe, the USA and Asia. Rowan mixes insight, inspiration and information in a way that always leaves an audience feeling energized.
In his years on the public speaking circuit, Rowan has shared the stage with well-known celebrities like Neil Armstrong, Ken Blanchard, Deepak Chopra, Bill Clinton, Jim Collins, Newt Gingrich, Guy Kawasaki, John Naisbitt, Bertrand Piccard, Jonas Ridderstråle, Alvin Toffler and Fons Trompenaars. His speaking engagements have often been arranged as follow-ups to high caliber speakers like Rudi Giuliani, Gary Hamel, Kjell Nordstrom and Tom Peters.
Rowan is represented internationally by several of the world’s leading speaking bureaus. He can be booked for keynote speeches, innovation masterclasses and exclusive boardroom briefings. His keynotes are usually of 45, 60 or 90 minute duration. Boardroom briefings and innovation masterclasses can run from 2 or 3 hours to full-day events.
Rowan’s speeches are always tailor-made to fit each audience, industry sector and event format. He endeavors, wherever possible, to use business cases and examples that are relevant to your specific audience.
Rowan uses very graphic Powerpoint slides – each typically features just one powerful image and a single statement – and he tends to have a large slide deck for each speech (around 150 slides per hour) which makes his presentations extremely dynamic. He is constantly updating his slides with cutting-edge material and up-to-the-minute business news.
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Here is what clients are saying:

“ Brilliant.” Renault
“Inspiring.” CAP Gemini Ernst & Young
“Amazing presentation…pushing us forward.” Microsoft
“Excellent insight.” Nokia
“Professional and lively.” Roche
“Good mix of humor and serious business insight.” Carlson Wagonlit
“Fantastic presentation.” Steelcase
“A pleasure to hear.” Mövenpick
“Dynamic and engaging.” Sonae
“Thought-provoking.” Vecta
“Rowan got the top score in our evaluations.” The Concours Group
“Opened the eyes of our executives.” UPM Kymmene
“Powerful and very engaging - also visually.” Martin Currie
“The best speaker of the whole event.” Management Events
“Rowan is alive, he knows how to inspire.” Investec
“Smart and entertaining.” GRUNDCONSULT
“Very enlightening.” Ülemiste City

Winning in the Innovation Economy

A must-hear presentation for leaders at all levels of an organization

Your audience will learn:

• how to create a corporate culture that is conducive to innovation
• How to cultivate innovators both inside and outside the company
• How to systematically generate novel strategic insights
• how to invent breakthrough ideas for sustaining profitable growth
• how to build a management infrastructure that supports innovation
• How to rapidly redeploy resources behind new ideas and opportunities
• How to make innovation a ubiquitous, self-sustaining enterprise capability

Outline:
Innovation is the new management mantra. In an economic era marked by accelerating change, hyper-competition and rapid commoditization, it’s now the only option companies have left. Business leaders everywhere might acknowledge this fact, but in most organizations innovation is still more rhetoric than reality - more buzzword than core competence. Indeed, making innovation a deep, systemic capability remains one of the great challenges of our times.

The truth is that companies might espouse innovation but their culture and their management systems usually inhibit it – and they may not even be aware of it! The only way to close the rhetoric-reality gap is by turning innovation into a deep, systemic capability that reaches right to the core of the organization. Yet how can this be achieved?

In this revolutionary keynote speech, Rowan Gibson focuses on how to build an enterprise-wide innovation system that actually works. A system based on new values, new skills, new processes, new metrics, new IT solutions and new management structures. A system that puts the focus on continuous innovation - not just at the product and service level, but at the level of the entire business model. A system that will enable the company to invent new breakthrough strategies for sustaining profitable growth and then turn those strategies into market success stories.

“ Winning in the Innovation Economy” is based on Rowan Gibson’s new book, Innovation to the Core (published in March 2008 by Harvard Business School Press). It’s a speech that will give your audience practical advice and inspiring insights on how to make innovation really happen. A speech that reveals how to unleash the imagination, entrepreneurial spirit and “network power” of the organization in order to seize new growth opportunities, create new markets and even transform industries. A speech that shows how to recalibrate the whole organizational system around the paradigm of innovation.

Book Rowan Gibson – the global business strategist and bestselling author – right now. And make sure your next event puts “Winning in the Innovation Economy” firmly on the business agenda.