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About Josh Linkner

Josh Linkner began his career in innovation as a 13-year-old, performing in public as a jazz musician. To this day, the improvisation he learned as a teenager has continued in the business world, where he has founded and built four successful technology companies over the last 20 years.

The founder and CEO of ePrize, he has revolutionized how over 5,000 industry-leading organizations create interactive promotions, and has provided innovative solutions to 74 of the top 100 brands, including Coca-Cola, The Gap, AT&T, Dell, and Microsoft. His company’s successful groundbreaking strategies have led to several awards, including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Detroit Executive of the Year, a Fast Company “Fast 50 Reader’s Choice,” and five years in a row on the Inc. 500.

The author of Leaning Forward: Surviving/Winning in the Future of Interactive Marketing and the forthcoming Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System for Breakthrough Creativity, Linkner is highly sought-after for his keynote speeches on innovative business and is truly one of the new leaders in today’s competitive business and technology landscape.

What you will learn from innovation speaker Josh Linkner:

• Specific tools and frameworks to generate new ideas and new approaches to problem solving.
• Best practices for building a culture that fosters creativity and innovation.
• How to break free from myths and barriers to unleash creativity in your entire workforce.

Josh Linkner's Speech Topic(s)

• Disciplined Dreaming: A Five Step System for Business Creativity
  Competitive advantage in the marketplace used to be defended with complex supply chains, high cost of entry, and technological advances. Now, your business can be supplanted overnight by someone with a broadband connection and an idea.In this interactive talk, Linkner shows participants how to jump-start their creativity for business advantage. Attendees will learn specific techniques to protect themselves from the competition, create new products, and expand market share.
• Building a Creative Culture
  Building a culture that fosters creativity and innovation is mission critical in today’s ultra-competitive environment. In this high-energy and interactive keynote, you will learn how to tap your people’s hidden brainpower. Learn to establish an ongoing system to nurture and harvest your team’s best ideas.
• Is Innovation the Cure for the Economic Downturn?
  Most innovations fail because they are not truly innovative–they make an existing product slightly smaller, faster, or less expensive. Real innovations turn industries and marketplaces upside down–like the cell phone or the iPod. In this talk, Linkner offers a road map for organizations to get to successful, game-changing innovations.
• Leadership in the Age of Creativity
  Leaders today need to be able to understand the needs and dreams of a wildly diverse employee population, each with its own particular ways of working, deriving motivation from very different parts of the work experience. How do you guide an organization into such an uncertain future? Linkner’s talk explores the new rules of the road and shows leaders how to build a culture that enables maximum creative potential.