Innovation Speaker Robert

Robert B. Tucker is president and founder of The Innovation Resource, and one of the world’s most in-demand innovation speakers. Formerly an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Tucker has been a consultant and keynote speaker for 25 years.

His groundbreaking research involving interviews with over 50 top innovators was published in the book Winning the Innovation Game in 1986. Since then, he has continued to publish extensively on the topic, including his international bestseller Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change, which has been translated into 13 languages. In Driving Growth Through Innovation he highlighted the emerging best practices of 23 innovation vanguard companies. And in his latest work, Innovation Is Everybody’s Business, Tucker interviewed 43 innovation-savvy individuals from multiple industries and levels of organizations, teaching the personal skills needed to become an innovator in this competitive world.

As a thought leader in the Innovation Movement, Tucker frequently contributes to publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Strategy & Leadership, and The Futurist. He has appeared on PBS, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation.

Tucker is a highly sought-after keynote speaker at conventions, company management meetings, and industry conferences. Clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies, and he has traveled to every continent to share his ideas and strategies with global business leaders.

Speaker Topics:
1. Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures
In this dynamic presentation based on ten years of in-depth research, Robert takes you and your audience on a guided tour inside 23 Innovation Vanguard companies. You’ll discover their secrets for building innovation into a powerful source of growth, profits, and competitive advantage. You’ll learn unconventional methods to turn innovation into a systematic, embedded process, and be inspired to take action in your firm.

2. Innovation is Everybody’s Business
Organizations worldwide are in desperate need of people with the abilities and skills to think ahead of the curve, delight and challenge customers and colleagues, cut costs, and achieve unconventional results. In this practical, highly interactive session, Robert provides powerful tools and strategies to help your employees develop their Innovation Skills and learn to show initiative, add value, and get new things done more effectively and efficiently.

True to his word as a renowned innovation consultant, Robert Tucker has developed some exciting interactive alternatives to the traditional keynote session:

Innovation Workshop: Strategies, Tools & Techniques for Breakthrough Results
This workshop goes beyond all the theory surrounding innovation, and participants learn techniques for streamlining the process effectively and using new tools that are immediately applicable back at the office. This workshop is heavily customized for your organization, event, and objectives, and can be delivered as an interactive half or full-day session.

Intelligent Talk Show
In this exciting new talk-show format, produced and hosted by Robert B. Tucker, panelists become “guests” on a “live” show and are more animated, lively and more willing to tackle the tough issues that create industry buzz.

Topic Keywords: Innovation > Driving Growth > Motivation > Strategic Innovation