Noah Blumenthal is a bestselling and award-winning author and was named by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the world’s “Top 100 Minds in Personal Development.” As a keynote speaker and executive coach Noah helps individuals and organizations develop heroic leadership, and has worked with clients in the Fortune 500 in financial services, advertising, media, pharmaceuticals, professional services, utilities and consumer products.
Noah is a sought-after keynote speaker, delivering talks on leadership development, personal change, and overcoming adversity. Organizations that have featured Noah as a speaker include Goldman Sachs, Frito Lay, MTV Networks, Columbia University, Fordham University, the International Coaching Federation, the American Society of Training and Development, and the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Recently Noah has been invited to deliver talks at the Clinton Library and for commencement at Brandeis University.
Noah has trained and consulted to thousands of line, management and executive teams and coached hundreds of team leaders on how to change their businesses and their behaviors.
Noah’s most recent book, Be The Hero, became an instant success. In the first week of its release it climbed into the top 20 in all books on Amazon and #1 in numerous categories, including Business, Self-help, Careers, and Success. Be the Hero has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s list of business bestsellers and won a Silver Axiom Award for Best Business Fable of 2009.
Noah has been featured in various media outlets including The New York Times, CBS News, MSNBC News, The Chicago Sun-Times, Investor’s Business Daily, and Newsday.
Noah has a BA in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from Brandeis University and has completed graduate work in Psychometrics at Fordham University and in Organizational Psychology at Columbia University.
Noah’s experiences have left him with a powerful belief that people are better than their actions and can be happier than they are. They simply need the tools to be the person they want to be.
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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.
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.
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
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.
Testimonials
“Want to experience the future today? Listen to Rowan Gibson. He is one of those rare people who sees around the bend and brings tomorrow close.”
Dave Ulrich, ranked by BusinessWeek as the #1 management educator
“In a world gone crazy, there's no sounder thinker than Rowan Gibson. He’s a genius when it comes to rethinking the future.”
Al Ries, author of ‘Focus! The future of your company depends on it’
"Rowan Gibson's views on technology and change are thoughtful, intriguing and global. He has a great perspective on what's coming next."
Kevin Maney, USAToday
