What Josh Linkner Talks About:

Find A Way
Every problem can be solved and every opportunity can be seized. Through a proven innovative framework, you’ll discover new paths to explosive growth, competitive advantage, and sustainable results. Expand organization-wide capability for creative problem-solving and inventive thinking.

As we enter a new era of business, 50% of leaders in the United States have lost confidence in their ability to make decisions in the face of uncertainty. The level of disruption, technology threats, and volatility can be paralyzing. We are in a leadership crisis and must embrace a new model to meet today’s challenges.

Prolific entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and innovation expert Josh Linkner helps you Find A Way through his proven 5-step innovation framework for cultivating full-organization ingenuity. Whatever outcomes you crave the most — from sales growth to competitive advantage to employee engagement — you’ll walk away with specific tools to drive sustainable success.

The Find a Way framework prioritizes agility over brute force, creativity over hustle, and improvisation over perfect planning. Leaders who embrace the model are inspired and better equipped. They feel confident to move forward into the darkness and have a newfound capacity to win consistently, no matter the circumstances.

This keynote serves leaders & teams who are:

• Facing uncertainty and volatility.
• Seeking better ways to drive the outcomes they crave the most.
• Struggling to keep up with the pace of change.

The audience will leave with:

• A proven model for harnessing ingenuity to solve any problem and seize any opportunity.
• Innovative strategies to drive better results every day.
• The confidence to walk into the unknown and emerge victorious.

Big Little Breakthroughs 
Instead of high-risk moonshots, the most innovative leaders cultivate a high volume of ‘micro-innovations’ and build a culture of everyday innovation. Gain the tools to become an everyday innovator.

The pressure to generate big ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical in these disruptive and competitive times, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up.

Instead of shooting for a $10 billion IPO or a Nobel Prize, the most prolific innovators focus on Big Little Breakthroughs – small, creative acts that unlock massive rewards over time.

The Big Little Breakthroughs framework provides a specific and practical approach to unlocking dormant creative capacity. Instead of wild, risky, and expensive moonshots, participants learn to unleash small, daily creative acts to drive gigantic results over time.

In this inspiring, timely, and high-impact keynote, New York Times bestselling author and globally recognized innovation expert Josh Linkner shows us how to de-risk the creative process, build the capacity to unlock breakthrough transformations, and gain the creative confidence to take responsible risks.

This keynote serves leaders & teams who are:

• Aware of the need to innovate but having a hard time getting started.
• Responsible for creating a culture of innovation.
• Feeling pressure to generate breakthroughs but struggling to deliver them.

The audience will leave with:

• A proven framework to cultivate a high volume of innovations without the typical risk.
• Inspiring and memorable stories that show how ingenuity, creative problem-solving, and inventive thinking can lead to breakthrough results.
• The mindsets, habits, and tactics of the world’s most prolific artists, business titans, and entrepreneurs.

The Music of Business
What business leaders can learn about agility, collaboration, creativity, and performance under pressure from the mysterious world of jazz. Inject artistry and agility into your business.

The mysterious and dangerous world of jazz is a cauldron of spontaneous creativity. And in times of radical change and uncertainty, it serves as the perfect model for modern leadership.

Professional jazz guitarist and prolific entrepreneur Josh Linkner connects the dots between jazz and business, helping to unlock the secrets of some of the world’s most creative geniuses. Using live jazz as a metaphor for collaborative innovation, this session is entertaining, inspiring, and directly applicable to the daily challenges we face in business.

A fusion of live musical performance and keynote presentation, the session’s finale includes audience members “joining the band” to compose and perform a song in real time to the delight of the audience. Cameras will flash as the entire group is dazzled by their colleagues’ improvisation and spontaneous invention.

This Keynote Serves Leaders & Teams Who Are:

• Looking for an elevated experience beyond a typical keynote.
• Craving deeper collaboration, creativity, and performance.
• Seeking a way to stand out from the pack and lead in a fresh, creative manner.

The Audience Will Leave With:

• The mindset and perspective of a jazz musician serving as a creative new model for business growth and results.
• A deeper understanding of collaborative creativity and specific tools to harness inventive thinking and artistic expression.
• A memorable and inspiring sense of what’s possible and how to push boundaries and barriers to achieve remarkable outcomes.
• The creative confidence to pursue our highest calling and never let the music inside us die.