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Drive Innovation While Scaling Success – Dr. Tendayi Viki helps leaders innovate for the future without disrupting their core business.
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Why you should book Dr Tendayi Viki for your next event
- Dr Tendayi Viki inspires breakthrough thinking through challenging traditional thinking among leaders and teams.
- He taps into his vast experience working with established companies to tell stories that inspire action among innovation leaders.
- Dr Viki’s approach is to ensure that he leaves the audience with actionable tips they can apply to their innovation work immediately.
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Unlock Innovation Without Disrupting Growth – Award-winning author and innovation strategist Dr. Tendayi Viki helps leaders future-proof their businesses while sustaining success. Twice shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, he delivers actionable insights that drive real change.
Keynote Speaker Tendayi Viki is a globally recognized corporate innovation expert, award-winning author, and strategic advisor to some of the world’s largest organizations. As a Partner at Strategyzer, he helps enterprises balance disruptive innovation with business sustainability, ensuring they remain competitive while scaling for the future.
With extensive experience working with Fortune 500 companies and global leaders, he understands the challenges organizations face in fostering innovation without compromising their core operations.
Twice shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, Tendayi is a trusted authority on corporate innovation. His books, including The Corporate Startup—winner of the CMI Management Book of the Year in Innovation and Entrepreneurship—have shaped how businesses rethink their approach to innovation. As a Forbes contributor and industry thought leader, he continuously shares insights on how businesses can create a culture of experimentation, agility, and long-term success.
Tendayi’s keynotes are designed to challenge traditional mindsets, inspire action, and provide practical tools that leaders and teams can implement immediately. His storytelling and real-world case studies engage audiences, ensuring they leave with a clear roadmap for driving innovation while sustaining business growth.
Book Tendayi Viki for your event to gain cutting-edge insights into corporate innovation, transformation leadership, and building a future-proof organization.
Customer Reviews
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Tendayi has become one of the leading thinkers and practitioners applying lean startup within large corporations. He brings a good balance of theory and practice to help companies develop their innovation strategies and improve their innovation management processes.
Eric Ries, Author The Lean Startup & The Startup Way
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In Tendayi’s work, we have found frameworks and methods that are extremely relevant and helpful in our efforts to structure our open innovation. We are using his Corporate Startup tools and methods to better qualify investment decisions, as well as secure continued board-level understanding and buy-in to the strategy.
Ole Madsen, Senior Vice President Spar Nord Bank
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Tendayi’s work on The Corporate Startup has made him a rising star and thought leader in the corporate innovation space. His concepts and principles are helping large companies figure out how to innovate for the future while managing their current core business.
Alex Osterwalder, AuthorBusiness Model Generation & Co-Founder at Strategyzer
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At Copenhagen Fintech, we have been working with Tendayi to adopt The Corporate Startup principles and practices for our work. Tendayi’s ground breaking thinking, provides us with a comprehensive language, framework and tools that we can use to help the banking industry prepare for the future.
Thomas Krogh Jensen, CEOCopenhagen Fintech
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Keynotes
Keynote by Tendayi Viki:
Pirates In The Navy
It was Steve Jobs who said that it was better to be a pirate than to join the navy. Jobs was addressing the challenges that intrapreneurs face inside established companies. There are significant barriers to innovation such as bureaucracy and corporate politics. From this talk, the audience will learn how intrapreneurs can succeed inside established companies.
How they can do great work and build great relationships by:
- Starting with discovery to learn the challenges that previous intrapreneurs have faced
- Getting early wins to build their credibility and legitimacy inside the company
- Building a lean innovation toolbox to start socializing the innovation processes
- Aligning with leadership to build support for innovation and good governance
- Aligning with key functions to lower bureaucratic barriers for all intrapreneurs
This interesting keynote will show intrapreneurs how they can succeed as Pirates In The Navy.
Keynote by Tendayi Viki:
It Take A Village To Innovate
Innovation has become an important driver of growth inside large companies. Leaders within large organizations are trying to build their innovation capabilities. In fact, the ability to innovate as a repeatable process is an important capability for companies to have.
In this talk, Dr Viki addresses innovation at the organizational level and reminds leaders and innovators that it is impossible for a single individual or team to drive an innovation from ideas to launch. The task requires collaboration between innovation teams and key functions within the company.
From this talk, the audience will learn how to work with various key functions such as:
- Finance to drive the right level of funding and investment in innovation
- Legal and Compliance to create a fast track for innovation with the right criteria
- Information and Technology to build a sandbox for innovation teams
- Human Resources to build legitimacy and status for innovation
This fascinating keynote will show how innovators can build lasting relationships with key functions within the company that last for decades support innovation.
Keynote by Tendayi Viki:
Right Question, Right Time
Without leadership support innovation is dead on day one. But not all leadership support is created equal. Some leaders think that they can pick the winning ideas on day one. These leaders tend to have pet innovation projects that consume resources without creating value.
In this talk, Dr Viki addresses the role of leaders when it comes to innovation. He reminds leaders that they can’t pick the winning ideas on day one. What leaders can do is create the context in which the best ideas emerge.
From this talk, the audience will learn how leaders can drive innovation by asking the right questions at the right time. These questions are focused on the progress that innovation teams are making towards finding a business model that works.
Examples include:
- Desirability: Do we understand customers’ needs and jobs to be done?
- Feasibility: Do we have the right capabilities to create and deliver value?
- Viability: Do we know how much customers are willing to pay and how they will pay?
- Adaptability: Do we know how we will address competitors in the market?
This informative keynote will give leaders the right toolbox to drive innovation and manage their portfolio investments.
Beyond Experiments - Aligning Innovation With Corporate Strategy
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Innovation Thinking Ahead - Campus Zurich
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