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GS03 The Five Mindsets of Innovation

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PT
Thursday, October 26

As learning and development professionals, we understand the importance of innovation and creativity in supporting today’s fast-paced organizations. New York Times bestselling author and tech entrepreneur Josh Linkner has interviewed hundreds of top innovators and leaders to uncover the five most powerful mindsets for groundbreaking innovation.

In this high-energy keynote, you will learn how to embrace these mindsets to fuel your creativity and bring out your most innovative ideas. Through multiple real-world examples, you will discover how oddball ideas can spark innovation, create new opportunities, and overcome even the most powerful adversaries.

This session is packed with surprising insights, humor, and practical takeaways that can be immediately applied to your work, regardless of your role, job function, or industry. You will discover to how to help our learners embrace these mindsets and achieve breakthrough results. Join us for an amazing experience that will leave you feeling inspired, moved, and better equipped to unleash your innovation potential.

Josh Linkner

Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and New York Times bestselling author

Josh Linkner believes that all human beings have incredible creative capacity, and he’s on a mission to unlock inventive thinking and creative problem solving to help leaders, individuals, and communities soar. Josh has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million. He is also the author of four books including The New York Times bestsellers Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention. He has invested in and/or mentored over 100 startups and is the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners.

Today, Josh serves as chairman and co-founder of Platypus Labs, an innovation research, training, and consulting firm. He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is the recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change Award.