Jeremy Gutsche
Innovation Expert, Award-winning Author, and Highly Respected Trend-Spotter
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Jeremy Gutsche is a creative globe-roamer with a broad appeal. Gutsche is the brains behind Trendhunter.com: the #1 trend-spotting site in the world - the largest, most influential, most updated collection of cutting edge ideas available anywhere. TrendHunter relentlessly tracks and finds The Next Big Thing—that valuable but elusive commodity—for a global audience that generates millions of views a month. With contagious enthusiasm, Gutsche shows audiences how to use methodical innovation to generate ideas and kick-start creativity during times of change. In bold, interactive keynotes, he delivers a blend of viral new trends, strategic frameworks, and a contagious enthusiasm for innovation.
Jeremy Gutsche is "an intellectual can of Red Bull" (Association Week), award-winning author and management consultant to brands, billionaires and CEOs. Gutsche is the brains behind Trendhunter.com: the #1 trend-spotting site in the world. With contagious enthusiasm, Gutsche shows audiences how to use methodical innovation to generate ideas and kick-start creativity during times of change.
In the past few years, Jeremy Gutsche has inspired 300,000 people at 400 events for top-tier brands, billionaires, and associations. With an MBA and CFA, as well as two bestselling business books and an influential website, Gutsche is a creative globe-roamer with a broad appeal. TrendHunter.com is the largest, most influential, most updated collection of cutting edge ideas available anywhere. Imagine the insight you'd get from a 100,000,000 person focus group. That's Trend Hunter—its custom innovation advisory is changing the way the world's most powerful brands innovate. As its founder, Gutsche relentlessly tracks and finds The Next Big Thing—that valuable but elusive commodity—for a global audience that generates millions of views a month.
With phenomenal speed, Gutsche has grown Trendhunter into a trusted showcase for "what's next" in marketing, design, technology, and other categories. (It attracts roughly fifteen times more page views than its competitors and has been viewed over two billion times). The site's been featured or cited in over 40,000 articles, and Gutsche has appeared everywhere from Entertainment Tonight to the BBC. He's also sought out for his management consulting expertise by leading brands, billionaires, and CEOs who need to reinvent their management, strategy, and culture of innovation to better adapt to time periods of rapid change. He is the author of New York Times bestseller Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas, published by Crown Business.
Jeremy Gutsche is the winner of The Cisco Innovation Excellence Award and the BDC's Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In bold, interactive keynotes, he delivers a blend of viral new trends, strategic frameworks, and a contagious enthusiasm for innovation. He possesses a unique perspective on innovation in the business context, and draws on his background in both corporate strategy and Web 2.0 to provide you with inspiration and tools to generate ideas, stimulate creativity and unlock potential. At 28, as one of Capital One's youngest Business Directors, Gutsche led his team to grow a billion dollar portfolio of market leading products. And as a Management Consultant for the Monitor Group, he advised Fortune 50 clients on top level strategy. His first business book, Exploiting Chaos, won an Axiom Business Book Award, was named an Inc. Best Book for Business Owners, and was a #1 bestseller on the 800 CEO Read list. His second book, Better and Faster, was a New York Times bestseller, #1 on Amazon and a CEO Read "Select" book for CEOs, entrepreneurs, and managers. He holds an MBA from Queen's, is a CFA, and studied innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
Before Jeremy's dot-com success and work as a top innovation keynote speaker, Jeremy studied innovation at Stanford, completed an MBA from Queen's University, became a Chartered Financial Analyst, and graduated as a Chancellor Scholar from The University of Calgary, where he was later awarded Graduate of the Decade. He was one of Capital One's youngest business directors and innovation leaders. Prior to Capital One, Jeremy spent several years as a management consultant at Monitor Deloitte.
In the past few years, Jeremy Gutsche has inspired 300,000 people at 400 events for top-tier brands, billionaires, and associations. With an MBA and CFA, as well as two bestselling business books and an influential website, Gutsche is a creative globe-roamer with a broad appeal. TrendHunter.com is the largest, most influential, most updated collection of cutting edge ideas available anywhere. Imagine the insight you'd get from a 100,000,000 person focus group. That's Trend Hunter—its custom innovation advisory is changing the way the world's most powerful brands innovate. As its founder, Gutsche relentlessly tracks and finds The Next Big Thing—that valuable but elusive commodity—for a global audience that generates millions of views a month.
With phenomenal speed, Gutsche has grown Trendhunter into a trusted showcase for "what's next" in marketing, design, technology, and other categories. (It attracts roughly fifteen times more page views than its competitors and has been viewed over two billion times). The site's been featured or cited in over 40,000 articles, and Gutsche has appeared everywhere from Entertainment Tonight to the BBC. He's also sought out for his management consulting expertise by leading brands, billionaires, and CEOs who need to reinvent their management, strategy, and culture of innovation to better adapt to time periods of rapid change. He is the author of New York Times bestseller Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas, published by Crown Business.
Jeremy Gutsche is the winner of The Cisco Innovation Excellence Award and the BDC's Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In bold, interactive keynotes, he delivers a blend of viral new trends, strategic frameworks, and a contagious enthusiasm for innovation. He possesses a unique perspective on innovation in the business context, and draws on his background in both corporate strategy and Web 2.0 to provide you with inspiration and tools to generate ideas, stimulate creativity and unlock potential. At 28, as one of Capital One's youngest Business Directors, Gutsche led his team to grow a billion dollar portfolio of market leading products. And as a Management Consultant for the Monitor Group, he advised Fortune 50 clients on top level strategy. His first business book, Exploiting Chaos, won an Axiom Business Book Award, was named an Inc. Best Book for Business Owners, and was a #1 bestseller on the 800 CEO Read list. His second book, Better and Faster, was a New York Times bestseller, #1 on Amazon and a CEO Read "Select" book for CEOs, entrepreneurs, and managers. He holds an MBA from Queen's, is a CFA, and studied innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
Before Jeremy's dot-com success and work as a top innovation keynote speaker, Jeremy studied innovation at Stanford, completed an MBA from Queen's University, became a Chartered Financial Analyst, and graduated as a Chancellor Scholar from The University of Calgary, where he was later awarded Graduate of the Decade. He was one of Capital One's youngest business directors and innovation leaders. Prior to Capital One, Jeremy spent several years as a management consultant at Monitor Deloitte.
Topics:
- Creatng Persona Through Storytelling
- Custom Reinvention Workshops
If you are looking for transformative change and next-level thinking, you need one of Jeremy Gutsche's 2-7 hour reinvention workshops to follow his innovation keynote. The workshops are high-impact, high-intensity experiences that the world's leading companies, billionaires, CEOs and NASA have relied on to either:
1. Dramatically accelerate innovation,
2. Extract the best thinking from your teams,
3. Prototype your future; or
4. Make change happen when change is hard.
Following his keynote speech, Gutsche will guide your team through his proven methodology in a series of exercises applied directly to your most concerning challenges. Sub-groups of 4-8 people will work together developing impactful new ideas, disruptive thinking, and a cohesive set of next steps. Multiple teams provide multiple perspectives, leading to even more ideas. Workshops can include a dozen people or a full conference room, although the structure is different based on size. Also note the workshops are especially useful for CEO participation, corporate boards, and leadership teams. - Unlocking Cool (Innovation) - The Power of Customer Focused Innovation
One of the world's most favorited presentations at SlideShare.net, Unlocking Cool is a beginning-to-end exploration of how to leverage viral trends and methodical innovation to generate breakthrough ideas. The presentation is visually engaging, packed with vivid examples, multimedia and audience participation. Jeremy begins with importance of culture and customer obsession. He then enthralls the audience with captivating micro-trends, providing a toolkit to filter ideas down to 'clusters of inspiration'. Finally, he teaches the audience how to articulate their messages for viral infection. Tech Point called the presentation, "The Perfect Kick-Off." Canada eConnect noted, "Jeremy was the highest rated speaker," and the Editor-in-Chief of Hospitality Design noted, “Jeremy was very well received for his humor, acuity and awareness. Spot on. Highly recommended.” - Leadership Keynote
Jeremy Gutsche's Leadership Keynote helps companies understand the best ways to motivate their teams. Gutsche's innovative approach to leadership management allows him to push employees in a way unparalleled to traditional management strategies. Jeremy takes his experience from working as the head of innovation at Capital One, as well as his time as the CEO and founder at TrendHunter.com to find the best strategies for pushing teams to succeed. This leadership keynote dives into these critical business concepts. - Sparking Change - How to Get Creative & Get Things Done
How do you reignite the entrepreneurial fire that made your company successful? New ideas and inspiration surrounds us, but people get so caught up with their roles that inspiration has become distracting. When it comes to sparking business innovation, how do you make your teams more creative and effective at solving problems that actually matter? How do you actually create customer-focused ideas and make them happen? How do you get your team to breakthrough all the noise? This keynote is about cutting edge techniques that will help you to generate ideas, stimulate creativity and ultimately spark change in your organization. - Sales Innovation - Creating a Culture of Customer Obsession
In an increasingly jaded market, how can you boost sales? How can you drive customer engagement? Having the best product isn't enough any more. You need to spark the kinds of conversations that lead to conversion. You need to make a deeper connection that speaks to both the needs your customers are currently facing, and the changes coming down the pike. In this talk Jeremy Gutsche takes you through the hard data on the kinds of engagement that lead to sales. Drawing on case studies with millions of data points, Gutsche illustrates how chaos creates opportunity in sales, how to infectiously message your idea, how to make messages pop through the clutter, and—ultimately—how to innovate the sales process and build a culture of customer obsession. - Adapt & Disrupt - Capture New Business Opportunities and Stay Ahead of the Pack
After finding success, many companies fall into a pattern of dire complacency. Their decision-makers forget about adapting and making change happen. Enthralled with their achievements, they’re afraid to fail at something new—so they don’t even try. Once-thriving corporate cultures can quickly wilt, and the results can be deadly. Just ask Kodak, Blackberry, Blockbuster, or Smith Corona, whose leaders didn’t adapt at crucial moments of transformation. Today, no one within a company can afford to stagnate. Each employee needs to keep pushing forward. In this powerful talk, Jeremy Gutsche shows you how to awaken, hunt, and capture those immense opportunities that others might too easily dismiss. And, he explains how to actually make these ideas happen. Drawing on 200 interviews with CEOs, Trendhunter's study of 250,000 innovations from a virtual focus group of 100,000,000 people, new case studies of a variety of brands, and even his family’s personal journey of entrepreneurial daring, Gutsche challenges audiences to define their core values, and guides them toward a new outlook on innovation, disruption, and adaptation. - Exploiting Chaos - 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change
Times of change and uncertainty can spark the greatest opportunities for innovation. Many multi-billion dollar corporations like Hewlett-Packard, Disney, and Microsoft were started during periods of economic recession. Jeremy Gutsche, North America's most sought after authority on trend hunting, shows you how to gain an edge in business by harnessing the creativity that will help your company survive and flourish in any economic climate. With a respected understanding of exploiting what's cool and predicting future trends, Gutsche shows how to create a culture of innovation in your company, maximize the exposure of your marketing message, and think big while acting small. A fascinating and valuable talk, Gutsche details how to stimulate creativity and unlock the powerful strategies of trend-hunting to help your business thrive in these uncertain times. - Better & Faster - The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas
In this talk, Jeremy Gutsche will teach you a proven path to unstoppable ideas. With tactics he's developed by studying tens of thousands of ideas, and frameworks he's tested while helping to solve some of the world's toughest innovation problems with his 300+ clients, ranging from Coca-Cola to Sony to Wells Fargo, he'll teach you to look for the patterns of opportunity right in front of you. How do we overcome psychological traps that block our success? Based on his book Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas, Gutsche connects human evolution with our ability to adapt to rapid change, showing you why smart people miss great ideas and what to do about it. Gutsche's highly engaging, humorous, and educational lessons are drawn from the untold tales of reclusive billionaires, and ordinary people who achieved the unthinkable by simply seeing the opportunities that others overlooked. He'll teach you to see patterns and clues that will lead you to be a better investor, better innovator, better creator, and better at adapting. You will be better and faster.
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