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Robert B. Tucker

  • Best selling author of "Driving Growth Through Innovation" & "Managing the Future
Speaker Fees
Keynote: $12,500
International: $15,000
Half Day: $15,000
Travel Fees
US: $1,500 flat travel fee + hotel + ground transportation in event city
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California

Robert B. Tucker is a renowned global futurist, innovation thought leader and highly sought after keynote speaker. With a client list that includes over 200 of the Fortune 500 firms, Tucker’s customized and high energy presentations provide leaders with cutting edge insights, practical advice, and the “innovation mindset, toolset, and skillset” necessary to seize opportunities...

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Robert B. Tucker is a renowned global futurist, innovation thought leader and highly sought after keynote speaker. With a client list that includes over 200 of the Fortune 500 firms, Tucker’s customized and high energy presentations provide leaders with cutting edge insights, practical advice, and the “innovation mindset, toolset, and skillset” necessary to seize opportunities and profit from today’s rapid changes.

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, has been translated into over 17 languages. In Driving Growth Through Innovation, Tucker identifies the emerging best practices of Innovation Vanguard Firms who are pioneering transformational approaches to inventing the future innovation. In his latest book, Innovation Is Everybody’s Business: Making Yourself Indispensable in Today’s Hypercompetitive World, Tucker reveals the Seven Innovation Skills that are rapidly becoming essential to sustaining success in today’s hypercompetitive world.

Considered one of the founding thought leaders in the growing Innovation Movement, Tucker is publisher of InnovationTrends Monthly, and a frequent contributor to such publications as The Futurist, Strategy & Leadership, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Huffington Post and numerous other outlets. He has appeared on CBS News, Channel News Asia, Bloomberg, Network 18 India, the PBS series Taking the Lead, 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 awarded the prestigious Brand Personality Award by the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation for outstanding contributions to the field of innovation.

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Speaker Programs

NAVIGATING THE FUTURE: Capitalizing on the Driving Forces of Change
In the post-pandemic world, organizations and their leaders are rising rapidly or falling fast based on their ability to anticipate and creatively respond to rapid and often disruptive change. By mastering the strategies outlined in ...more
In the post-pandemic world, organizations and their leaders are rising rapidly or falling fast based on their ability to anticipate and creatively respond to rapid and often disruptive change. By mastering the strategies outlined in this presentation, sudden shifts in customer requirements, technological developments, and other trends can be mitigated and turned to an advantage. This powerful session by a leading futurist and innovation expert explores the leadership skills essential during times of extreme challenge and uncertainty and will provide you and your management team powerful new tools for turning uncertainty into clarity, and clarity into innovation agility. ...less
Innovation is Everybody's Business
Based on his latest book, Innovation is Everybody's Business, Robert Tucker teaches your employees how to master the seven essential I-Skills needed to think ahead of the curve, demonstrate initiative, add value, slash costs, and ...more
Based on his latest book, Innovation is Everybody's Business, Robert Tucker teaches your employees how to master the seven essential I-Skills needed to think ahead of the curve, demonstrate initiative, add value, slash costs, and achieve unconventional results. ...less
Driving Growth through Innovation
Founded on the bestselling book Driving Growth through Innovation, this dynamic, example-filled presentation will take you and your colleagues on a guided tour inside 23 Innovation Vanguard companies. You'll discover cutting edge methods for building ...more
Founded on the bestselling book Driving Growth through Innovation, this dynamic, example-filled presentation 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, embedded process, and be motivated to take action in your firm. ...less
The Intelligent Talk Show
Ever wished there was a way to spice up those important, but often boring, panel discussions at your trade association meeting? Now there is. Recently, some of your fellow meeting planners have embraced an exciting ...more
Ever wished there was a way to spice up those important, but often boring, panel discussions at your trade association meeting? Now there is. Recently, some of your fellow meeting planners have embraced an exciting new format, organized and hosted by Robert B. Tucker, that says good-by to snoresville, hello packed house. Panelists become "guests" on a "live show," and are more animated, more willing to tackle the tough issues that create industry buzz and keep attendees coming back for more. ...less
Innovation Boot Camp, Strategies, Tools & Techniques for Breakthrough Results
Innovation has become top priority for organizations and individuals that want to remain competitive and achieve sustainable success and growth. Yet most companies lack a capable team of innovators to achieve these desired breakthroughs. Robert ...more
Innovation has become top priority for organizations and individuals that want to remain competitive and achieve sustainable success and growth. Yet most companies lack a capable team of innovators to achieve these desired breakthroughs. Robert Tucker's revolutionary Innovation Boot Camp teaches everyone, even with no experience innovating, a strategy for innovation, and walks your team step-by-step through every phase of the innovation cycle. From idea creation, through prototyping and testing, and to the end result of selling your innovation to your customers, your team will go beyond "theory" with exercises designed to produce innovative ideas from start to finish. This surprisingly simple method is ideal for employees that grasp the mechanical "input-output" mentality of modern business, and convert them into highly-creative, and radically innovative, executers. ...less

Reviews

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…

- 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

In these fast moving times, it’s difficult to keep a person’s attention, let alone a salesperson’s. Robert not only captivated our Ad Sales Group with his marketing insights and anecdotes; he spurred further thought that will lead to hard and fast sales.

- Lisabeth Hayes, Senior Vice President / Ad Sales Home & Garden Television

Articles

Five Key Ideas from New Innovation Research by Robert Tucker, Innovative Speaker

When 500 innovation leaders were asked what they’ve learned in the past 10 years, their answers were decidedly upbeat. Forty-four percent of respondents said their companies are better innovators today than they were a decade ago, while another 32 percent said they are much better. Only six percent said they are doing worse. But when asked about the next ten… ... read more

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