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Corporate Innovation

For established companies, generating ideas is often easier than turning them into repeatable growth. Stellant’s corporate innovation speakers examine the structures and behaviors that help new products, services and business models survive alongside the core business. Their expertise spans innovation labs, accelerators, venture studios, startup partnerships and enterprise experimentation. Business innovation speakers can help executive audiences move beyond isolated pilots and build a capability that produces measurable value, supports strategy and becomes part of everyday operations.

Speakers

Corporate Innovation Speakers

Scott D. Anthony

Scott D. Anthony

Clinical Professor, Tuck School of Business at DartmouthAuthor, Epic Disruptions and Dual TransformationNo. 5, Thinkers50 Ranking of Management Thinkers, 2025

Linda A. Hill

Linda A. Hill

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolCo-author of Collective Genius and Genius at ScaleThinkers50 #4 management thinker in the world

Hal Gregersen

Hal Gregersen

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of ManagementAuthor, Questions Are the Answer and The Innovator's DNAThinkers50 top 50 management thinker since 2015

Tom Davenport

Tom Davenport

President's Distinguished Professor, Babson CollegeAuthor of 27 books, including Competing on AnalyticsCo-founder, International Institute for Analytics

Matt Beane

Matt Beane

Assistant Professor of Technology Management, UC Santa BarbaraAuthor, The Skill CodeThinkers50 Radar Class of 2021

Ari Wallach

Ari Wallach

Founder and executive director, Longpath LabsHost of PBS's A Brief History of the FutureAuthor of Longpath

Karim Lakhani

Karim Lakhani

Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolCo-author, Competing in the Age of AICo-founder, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard

Kevin Werbach

Kevin Werbach

Vice Dean of Wharton's MBA Program for Executives and Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor, The Wharton SchoolAuthor, The Blockchain and the New Architecture of TrustRecipient, Aspen Institute 2021 Ideas Worth Teaching Award

Nathan Furr

Nathan Furr

Professor of Strategy, INSEADCo-Author, The Upside of Uncertainty and Innovation CapitalNo. 2, Forbes Best Business Books of 2022

Jason Pontin

Jason Pontin

General Partner, DCVCEditor in Chief, MIT Technology Review, 2004-2017TED talk viewed more than 1.6 million times

Anna Baird

Anna Baird

Former Chief Customer Officer, Generative AI Go-to-Market, Google CloudFormer Executive Advisor, LinkedInForty Under 40 Award Winner, Business in Vancouver

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf

Professor of Management, Warwick Business SchoolDirector, Artificial Intelligence Innovation Network, Warwick Business SchoolFaculty Affiliate, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard

Julie Battilana

Julie Battilana

Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolAlan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation, Harvard Kennedy SchoolCo-author, Power, for All

Paul Daugherty

Paul Daugherty

Former CEO, Accenture Technology Group, and first CTIOCo-author, Human + Machine and Radically Human2023 Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award winner

Larry Keeley

Larry Keeley

Co-Founder and Former President, DoblinCo-author, Ten Types of InnovationOne of Bloomberg Businessweek's 27 Most Influential Designers

Jason Wild

Jason Wild

Former Microsoft Vice President, CEO Co-Innovation and Customer EngagementCo-author, Genius at ScaleInvestor/Entrepreneur in Residence, Emory's Goizueta Business School

Rory McDonald

Rory McDonald

John Tyler Associate Professor of Business Administration, UVA Darden School of BusinessCo-author, Productive TensionsBest 40 Under 40 Professor, Poets & Quants

Jeff Dyer

Jeff Dyer

Horace Beesley Distinguished Professor of Strategy, Brigham Young UniversityLead author, The Innovator's DNA (2011)Co-author, The Innovator's Method and Innovation Capital

Robert E Siegel

Robert E Siegel

Lecturer in management, Stanford Graduate School of BusinessAuthor of The Systems Leader (2025)Venture investor at Piva Capital and XSeed Capital

Gary Pisano

Gary Pisano

Harry E. Figgie Professor, Harvard Business SchoolAuthor, Creative ConstructionWinner, McKinsey Award and Clayton M. Christensen Prize

Martin Reeves

Martin Reeves

Founder, BCG Henderson InstituteCo-Author, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy and LikeThree-Time TED Speaker

Jeremy Heimans

Jeremy Heimans

Co-Founder and Chairman, PurposeCo-Author, New PowerRecipient, Ford Foundation 75th Anniversary Visionary Award

Kelly Peters

Kelly Peters

Global Behavioural Economics Leader and Partner, DeloitteCo-founder and founding CEO, BEworksLifetime Achievement Award, Consulting Magazine, 2022

Books

Books on Corporate Innovation

Keynotes

Conversations on Corporate Innovation

Larry Keeley

Design for the Opportunity Society: the 21st Century Plan of Chicago | Larry Keeley | TEDxChicago

  1. Larry KeeleyDesign for the Opportunity Society: the 21st Century Plan of Chicago | Larry Keeley | TEDxChicago
  2. Scott D. AnthonyOptus Spark | Scott Anthony on dual transformation - strengthen today, create tomorrow
  3. Hal GregersenQuestions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life
  4. Hila Lifshitz-AssafAoM'22: AI in the Wild: R&D - Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
  5. Dava NewmanBreaking Through Barriers to Innovation: Lessons from Space and Earth
  6. Linda A. HillLinda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity
  7. Hal GregersenWhat are you dead wrong about today?