Dr. Simone Ahuja

Leading Everyday Innovation: Think Like an Entrepreneur to Drive Growth and Navigate Change

Innovation isn’t just for R & D. Many impactful innovations come from intrapreneurs –the entrepreneur-like employees already in your organization who crave problem solving, even without a formal mandate to innovate.

In this interactive keynote, bestselling author, and Harvard Business Review contributor Dr. Simone Ahuja, shares stories and a proven process to help everyone become more agile, embrace change, and solve the problems that achieve the greatest impact.

This program is perfect for leaders and teams who want to:

• Address disruption by leveraging the talent of existing employees
• Build a culture where everyone feels empowered to innovate
• Drive more innovation and growth every day – without tearing down their entire organization

Audience Takeaways:

• Place tiny bets that help them quickly identify the best growth opportunities
• Feel confident in creating change
• Rethink barriers as an advantage

Rethinking Change in a Complex World: How to Build Your Clear Path Forward

It’s no secret that today’s professionals feel overwhelmed and want more clarity about where to focus time and energy. Yet many organizations stay too focused on doing things right, rather than doing the right things. In this interactive keynote, bestselling author, and Harvard Business Review contributor Dr. Simone Ahuja, shares strategies and a simple process to help you embrace change and build an evergreen roadmap for the future.

Audience Takeaways:

• Build an agile mindset
• Rigorously prioritize to reduce overwhelm and increase impact
• Harness a simple process that increases learning while reducing risk

Rethinking Everyday Innovation in the Age of AI

In an era of fast-paced change and ongoing disruption including technologies like Chat GPT, leaders and professionals feel pulled in multiple directions, creating stress and overwhelm. In this optimistic keynote, bestselling author and Harvard Business Review contributor Dr. Simone Ahuja reveals why AI will help everyone lead innovation, and shares simple ways to leverage these technologies to reduce overwhelm, while increasing agility and innovation.

Audience Takeaways:

• Rethink AI as your ally
• Create simple AI experiments that accelerate your work
• Amplify the impact of your existing skill set with AI

Jugaad (Frugal) Innovation: Do More with Less (and Love It!)

Thinking like an entrepreneur isn’t just for startups. Solving even the biggest problems starts with you and the resources you already have. What you need is the right mindset and a simple toolkit to get you there.

Based on her work with scores of Fortune500s and her bestselling book, Jugaad Innovation, Simone shares inspiring stories of frugal innovators around the world who solve problems of all sizes with an agile mindset and a simple, repeatable process.

This program is perfect for leaders and teams who:

• Want to create more growth with fewer resources
• Want all employees to feel empowered to lead change
• Feel challenged and stressed by having to grow the business with less time and fewer resources

Audience Takeaways:

• Use your creativity to reframe problems as opportunities
• Gain support for new ideas to move faster and have a greater impact
• Leverage existing resources so they can start problem-solving now

Diversity as a Catalyst for Innovation: Three Keys to Greater Inclusion for Better Performance and Growth

Innovation is the most powerful way for organizations to stay relevant and grow in our rapidly evolving world. By increasing the diversity of their teams and creating space for diverse voices to be heard, business leaders can dramatically increase their innovation output. In this energizing and optimistic keynote, Dr. Ahuja shares engaging stories demonstrating why diverse teams create more “out of the box” ideas and drive nearly 20% higher revenue. She provides a fun and often surprising experience that uncovers biases in real-time and shares practical tools to remove barriers and build the psychological that will catalyze innovation and growth.

This program is great for the leaders and teams who:

• Want to reduce bias and build a more inclusive and curious culture
• Want to build a healthy culture of psychological safety to support diverse voices and ideas
• Want to harness curiosity to drive more inclusion and innovation

The audience will leave with:

• A crystal-clear connection between DEI and greater innovation
• A clear strategy for removing barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Proven steps to navigate difficult conversations that fuel DEI and innovation