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Kaiser Yang is the CEO and co-founder of Platypus Labs, a global innovation research, consulting, and training company. He’s an award-winning author, a proven hyper-growth leader, and a globally-recognized innovation expert.
Kaiser Yang passionately believes that even the most transformative innovations can be fast, scrappy, and accessible to us all. Over the last 25 years, Kaiser Yang has been at the forefront of global innovation, building and scaling multiple technology startups and guiding transformative initiatives with clients such as Microsoft, Disney, The Gap, and other Fortune 500 organizations.
Today, he helps leaders and teams achieve the outcomes they crave – growth, innovation, competitive advantage, deeper engagement, and predictable results.
Kaiser Yang’s award-winning book, Crack the Code, 8 Surprising Keys to Unlock Innovation, demonstrates his proven system to help everyday people innovate in their everyday work. Kaiser is also an award-winning restaurateur, a passionate breeder of koi fish, a golf enthusiast, and the proud father of twins.
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The business you’re running today isn’t the business you’ll be running next year. In this moment of volatility and uncertainty, we are being called to lead in a radically different way... more decisive, creative, and adaptable. So how can we use this defining moment to ensure relevancy, sustainability, and success
in the future?
In this inspiring and practical keynote, innovation and leadership expert Kaiser Yang delivers an energizing and actionable framework to help leaders thrive in the face of uncertainty. Kaiser will share proven mindsets and techniques to help leaders of innovation how to leverage their skills and resources and move into uncharted territory with confidence.
The most successful leaders today help everyday people become
everyday innovators. They make sure that innovation is an everyday business. This empowering session goes way beyond the future of work.
This is the future of growth, the future of leadership, and the future of success.
You’ll learn how to unlock inventive thinking, creative problem-solving, and ingenuity across the entire
organization.
This keynote serves leaders & teams who are:
● Being called to lead in a bold, new way.
● Overwhelmed with the demands of modern leadership.
● Craving a more innovative approach to drive explosive growth, gain competitive advantage, and harness the power of their teams.
The audience will leave with:
● A modern framework for innovative leadership.
● Strategies to drive growth, engagement, and success amid change and uncertainty.
● Insights, mindsets, and techniques developed by some of the world’s
The pressure to generate large, transformative ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical in these disruptive and competitive times, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up. That’s why the most prolific innovators focus on micro-innovations – small, creative acts that unlock massive rewards over time. Instead of shooting for a $10 billion IPO or a Nobel Prize, the most successful innovators passionately believe that innovation does not have to be big to be meaningful.
The 5 Core Mindsets of Innovators is an energizing, high-impact keynote that provides a practical and actionable framework to unlock dormant creative capacity and discover micro-innovations. Instead of wild, risky, and expensive moonshots, participants learn how to unleash small, daily acts of creativity that drive measurable results and help build a sustainable competitive advantage.
In this inspiring and energizing keynote, award-winning author and globally-recognized innovation expert Kaiser Yang dispels the myth that innovation only applies to a select few and reinforces the need to innovate at all levels, in all roles, and shares the mindsets and techniques leveraged by some of the most prolific ‘everyday innovators’ in the world.
This keynote serves leaders & teams who are:
● Aware of the need to innovate but having a hard time getting started.
● Feeling pressure to generate breakthroughs but struggling to
deliver them.
● Responsible for creating a culture of innovation.
The audience wil leave with:
● The mindsets, habits, and tactics of the world’s most prolific artists, business titans, and entrepreneurs.
● Inspiring and memorable stories that show how inventive thinking can lead to breakthrough results.
● Gain creative confidence to tackle challenges and seize new opportunities.
In today’s climate of disruption and rapid change, many leaders feel stuck—uncertain of how to move forward with clarity and confidence. The old playbook no longer applies. Success now requires a mindset rooted in agility, creative problem-solving, and bold action.
Kaiser Yang—CEO of Platypus Labs, award-winning author, and globally recognized innovation expert—delivers an energizing keynote to help leaders and teams Find A Way . With 25 years of experience building high-growth companies and guiding Fortune 500 brands like Microsoft, Disney, and The Gap,
Kaiser shares a proven framework to unlock ingenuity and drive real-world results.
The Find A Way approach prioritizes creativity over hustle, agility over rigid planning, and experimentation over perfection. Attendees leave both inspired and equipped with practical tools to lead with confidence and innovate through uncertainty.
This keynote serves leaders & teams who are:
● Facing uncertainty and volatility.
● Seeking better ways to drive the outcomes they crave the most.
● Struggling to keep up with the pace of change.
The audience will leave with:
● A proven model for harnessing ingenuity to solve any problem and seize any opportunity.
● Innovative strategies to drive better results every day.
● The confidence to walk into the unknown and emerge victorious.
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