David Kidder
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David Kidder
Keynote Speaker
Acclaimed Enterprise Growth Transformation Pioneer, Four-Time Exited Founder, Two-Time NYT Bestselling Author, Super Angel Investor
David is a renowned keynote speaker who has spent two decades helping the world's largest organizations grow, decide, and lead through change. He is direct, generous, and deeply human, bringing radical candor and the kind of practical wisdom you only earn by building companies and guiding leaders through the moments that define what comes next. His stories come from experience, and his delivery carries the presence of a founder, investor, and guide who has lived the journey from startup to scale.
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As one of very few speakers who is an active founder, everything David speaks about he is currently living, and every engagement is custom, built backwards from the outcome your organization needs, whether a keynote, workshop, or full-day intensive. He draws on decades of experience installing the operating system for corporate innovation and growth for leadership teams at Nike, Procter & Gamble, Citi, GE, and forty other Fortune 500 organizations. That business became one of Accenture Song’s most successful acquisitions in history, catalyzing more than $10 billion in new revenue growth for those partners. Today, he is currently founding two AI-native companies, PreMortem and Apogee, while speaking about leading through AI disruption. He addresses how leaders make better decisions, adopt AI without losing human judgment, and build organizations that move at the speed this moment demands.
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David Kidder’s Speech Topics
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Ignite New Growth: How established organizations find and build their next engine of revenue
At some point every successful organization faces the same problem. The core business is doing well but the next chapter is unclear. The natural instinct is to double down on what already works. That instinct is what causes most companies to fall behind.
David has spent two decades helping Fortune 500 leadership teams break that pattern. He gives leaders a proven process for looking outside their existing business to find the customer problems that actually create new opportunity, and for building toward them without disrupting what is already working.
Leaders leave with a shared way of thinking about where their next growth comes from and a clear first step for going after it.
This talk is right for your organization if: your organization is strong today but your leadership team is asking what comes next, or you are heading into a strategic planning cycle and need a fresh framework for identifying where real growth lives.
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Leadership Performance: How leadership teams build the trust, honesty, and accountability that high performance actually requires
Most leadership development focuses on the individual. Get better at communication. Work on your executive presence. But individual improvement does not change how a team operates together, and it is how the team operates together that determines whether the organization can perform at the level the moment demands.
David gives leadership teams a practical way to change that dynamic. Instead of abstract goals, leaders make specific commitments to each other that the whole team can see and hold each other to. Trust gets built not through exercises but through follow-through.
Leaders leave with a concrete practice they can start using immediately, one that gets stronger over time and that their organization can run on its own within 90 days.
This talk is right for your organization if: your leadership team is performing well individually but not yet as a unit, or you are heading into a period of significant change and need your leaders genuinely aligned and accountable to each other.
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Winning in the Age of AI: How leaders make better decisions and build stronger teams while AI reshapes their industry
Most organizations know AI is changing everything but are not sure what to actually do about it. Leaders are being asked to move faster, adopt new tools, and keep their teams performing, all at the same time, without a clear playbook for how to do it.
David is one of the only speakers on this topic who is actively building AI companies right now, not studying them. He gives leaders a clear and practical framework for where AI creates real advantage in their organization, how to lead their teams through the shift without losing the human judgment that drives results, and what to do first.
Leaders leave with a concrete understanding of what AI means for how they lead, decide, and grow, and a clear first move for getting ahead of it.
This talk is right for your organization if: your organization is navigating AI adoption and your leaders need a practical framework for moving forward, not just a high-level overview of what is coming.
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