Phil McKinney

President of CableLabs and retired as the CTO of HP at the end of 2011 and has built teams that innovated award-winning technologies and products currently used by 100's of millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. These teams were named by FastCompany and BusinessWeek as being the “50 Most Innovative”. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show and podcast, Killer Innovations and the author of Beyond The Obvious - a book that shares how he used innovation and creativity to achieve personal and professional success.

Globally Recognized Expert on Innovation Technology, and Executive Leadership

Phil talks to, each of his events are customized to the topic, audience and organizations objectives.  Custom topics/workshops/experiences can also be created to fit the needs of the event.  Here is one example of a topic:

7 Immutable Laws of Innovation – Over the years of being in the innovation space, Phil has discovered a set of laws by trial and error.  Needless to say, he has the scars from the school of hard knocks to validate that these are the set of laws that are critical for innovation success. If you violate any one of them, the consequences can be disastrous.  These laws apply to all sizes of organizations ranging from well-established multinationals, to early stage start-ups to governments.  This session will answer

• What are the characteristics of organizations and teams that are highly innovative?

• What elements of culture create a unique competitive advantage?

• How do you transform an organization to be highly innovative?

• How can you create incentives that motivate teams to be more innovative?

• What are ways to communicate the innovation vision (e.g. strategic storytelling)?