Tucker, Robert
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About Robert B. Tucker
Robert B. Tucker is a renowned global futurist and innovation keynote speaker with a client list that includes over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies. President and founder of The Innovation Resource, Tucker is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of innovation, Tucker’s highly interactive presentations lead audiences on a guided tour inside the world’s most creative companies. Through stories and examples, Tucker shows leaders how to tap the mindset, skillset and toolset of innovation to embrace change, discover opportunity and avoid obsolescence. Known for his in-depth customization, Tucker provides today’s leaders with practical strategies, cutting edge insights, and inspiration to take action once back at the office.
During the course of his 28 year career, Tucker has worked with groups ranging from the economic development ministries of Singapore, Dubai, and Taiwan, to multi-national companies like IBM, American Express, and Nestle, as well as numerous trade and customer-user groups in a wide variety of industries. A former adjunct professor at UCLA, Tucker’s pioneering research in identifying the critical attributes of innovators became the acclaimed book, Winning the Innovation Game.
His international bestseller, Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change, was described by Intel Chairman Andrew Grove as a “lucid, practical guide to total quality in business,” and was translated into over 17 languages. In Driving Growth Through Innovation, Tucker identified the emergent best practices of global Innovation Vanguard companies who were pioneering radically more effective approaches to the practice of innovation. In his latest book, Innovation Is Everybody’s Business: Making Yourself Indispensable in Today’s Hypercompetitive World, Tucker takes up the issue of leadership development, and reveals the “Innovation Skills” essential to success in today’s hyper-change era.
Considered one of the top thought leaders in the burgeoning Innovation Movement, Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as The Futurist, Strategy & Leadership, BusinessWeek, Los Angeles Times and many others. Tucker has appeared on Bloomberg, Channel News Asia, Network 18 India, the PBS series Taking the Lead, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation. A multi-year winner of the Top Five Speaker hall of fame, Tucker was recently awarded the prestigious Brand Personality Award, by the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation for outstanding contributions to the field of innovation
Managing the Future: Capitalizing on the Driving Forces of Change
Given the pace and speed of change, you’re either managing the future… or the future is managing you. The powerful strategies revealed in this session will show you how to anticipate emerging trends — and use them as building-blocks to greater growth and success. Global trends forecaster Robert Tucker explores important consumer, political, technological, economic, demographic, workstyle and social trends that will impact all of us in the coming years. Robert’s framework for navigating the driving forces of change will empower you to look, think and act ahead of the curve, and avoid being blindsided by change. His optimistic spirit will inspire you to seize tomorrow’s opportunities starting today.
Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures
When was the last time you focused on upgrading your ability to conceive and introduce new product, service, process and strategy ideas? Could it be that you are using yesterday’s methods to manage today’s complex marketplace challenges?
This dynamic, example-filled presentation, will give you an overview of the important findings reported in Tucker’s bestseller, Driving Growth Through Innovation. Tucker will take you and your colleagues on a guided tour inside 23 Innovation Vanguard companies. You’ll discover cutting edge methods for building innovation into a powerful source of growth, profits, and competitive advantage. You’ll learn unconventional approaches for turning innovation into a systematic, imbedded process, and be motivated to take action in your firm.
This presentation is perfect as a keynote for annual conventions, or as a stimulating kickoff for your company’s upcoming management meeting. As a result of attending this session, you will:
- Know how to capitalize on innovation to rev up growth.
- Know how to map out and implement a superior approach to inventing the future – one that will enable you and your firm to exploit new markets, win new customers, and grow revenue from new sources.
- Be energized and inspired by real world examples of companies that revved up growth in moribund markets
- Know how to motivate your people with proven, powerful methods that spark “out of the box” thinking
- Be able to create a company-wide system to ensure that good ideas don’t get lost – or show up in the hands of competitors!
Innovation is Everybody’s Business
Organizations the world over are ever increasingly in need of high potential managers and individual contributors with the abilities and skills to get new projects done. While professionals with functional skills are in abundant supply, those with Innovation Skills are emerging as the most valuable talent of all in today’s hypercompetitive age.
In this practical, highly interactive personal development session, global innovation guru and bestselling author Robert B. Tucker reveals the powerful tools and strategies to help you and your employees hone their ability to spot emerging opportunities, seize the initiative, add value, and create unconventional solutions.
Testimonials
“Excellent presentation at the recent 3M Marketing Communications Conference… numerous helpful insights for all of us to take back to our workaday worlds.”
– Judy Borowski, Ex-Officio Chair, 3M Marketing Communications Conference
“You lit up the crowd! Our people are energized with enthusiasm to work together and drive a stronger innovation culture and deliver new business value.”
– David Anderson, Manager, Chevron IT
“Considering the challenges ahead of us, your message and insights regarding innovation couldn’t have been more appropriate. ”
– Sandra Derickson, President, hGE Capital
“Many speakers claim to custom tailor their presentations to the organization or industry for whom they are speaking. It has been my experience that few actually do. You are certainly an exception. Your use of specific examples gleaned from your conversations with our members, as well as the custom slides, really made an impact on our attendees.”
– Steven T. King, CAE, Pet Industry Distributors Association
“The feedback from employees has been very positive. Thought you would like to know that several employees felt immediately compelled to return to their desks and forward emails to the CEO Mailbox, and they keep on coming.”
– Susan Wallace, Ocean Spray