Stephen Shapiro

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Leading a Culture of Innovation

Innovation Consultant & Bestselling Author of Personality Poker & Best Practices Are Stupid

What You'll Learn

• How each employee contributes to and detracts from your innovation efforts
• Which innovation styles are missing from your team and what to do about it
• Who should lead which steps of the innovation process
• How to make innovation a repeatable and predictable process
• How to more effectively motivate and engage employees to maximize returns
• How to efficiently solve and implement its most pressing challenges
• How to leverage open innovation to speed time-to-market, reduce costs, and minimize risk
• How to get the right people in the right roles – and where you may currently be misaligned

Bio

Stephen Shapiro is one of the foremost authorities on innovation culture, collaboration, and open innovation.

During the past twenty years, his message to hundreds of thousands of people in forty countries around the world has remained the same: Innovation only occurs when organizations bring together divergent points of view in an efficient manner.

Over the years, Stephen Shapiro has shared his innovative philosophy in books such as 24/7 Innovation and The Little Book of BIG Innovation Ideas. He has also trained more than 20,000 consultants in innovation during his 15 year tenure with Accenture. His latest creation Personality Poker, has been used by more than 50,000 people around the world to create high-performing innovation teams.

His work has been featured in Newsweek, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, O- The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. His clients include Staples, GE, NASA, BP, Johnson & Johnson, The United States Air Force, Fidelity Investments, Pearson Education, Nestlé, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

What people say about Stephen Shapiro

I give Stephen Shapiro my highest recommendation as a speaker on the topic of innovation. I would strongly recommend him to any organization.

- Julie Meringer , Managing Director, Forrester Research Inc.

Books

Video Samples

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