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Meet Josh Linkner
A professional jazz guitarist at the start of his career, Josh Linkner has a passionate belief in creativity and innovation, and his career in the business world has been rooted in exploring the power of creative disruption.
Josh has been founder and CEO of four technology companies that he built from nothing to having a combined value of over $200 million. As well as having great success with his own companies he has also been involved in the launch, growth or financing of over a hundred others. He is passionate about rebuilding the fortunes of his beloved hometown of Detroit, Michigan and co-founded Detroit Venture Partners to invest in technology start-ups. He has mentored leaders and entrepreneurs and helped to raise around $150 million in venture capital.
The digital promotions agency which Josh founded and of which he is CEO, ePrize, is now the largest agency of its type in the world, working with seventy-four of the top hundred brands. He has won dozens of awards for his groundbreaking innovations in digital marketing.
In high demand for his keynote speeches, Josh not only inspires his audience but shares with them actionable strategies for success in innovation, creativity, reinvention and hyper-growth leadership. In his keynotes, he draws on material from his two New York Times bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity and The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation.
Josh has twice been named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and has also been given the President Obama Champion of Change Award. He appears weekly in Inc. Magazine, Forbes andthe Detroit Free Press.
Josh has been founder and CEO of four technology companies that he built from nothing to having a combined value of over $200 million. As well as having great success with his own companies he has also been involved in the launch, growth or financing of over a hundred others. He is passionate about rebuilding the fortunes of his beloved hometown of Detroit, Michigan and co-founded Detroit Venture Partners to invest in technology start-ups. He has mentored leaders and entrepreneurs and helped to raise around $150 million in venture capital.
The digital promotions agency which Josh founded and of which he is CEO, ePrize, is now the largest agency of its type in the world, working with seventy-four of the top hundred brands. He has won dozens of awards for his groundbreaking innovations in digital marketing.
In high demand for his keynote speeches, Josh not only inspires his audience but shares with them actionable strategies for success in innovation, creativity, reinvention and hyper-growth leadership. In his keynotes, he draws on material from his two New York Times bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity and The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation.
Josh has twice been named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and has also been given the President Obama Champion of Change Award. He appears weekly in Inc. Magazine, Forbes andthe Detroit Free Press.
Josh is a dynamic and energizing speaker who uses insight, humor, stories, and a lot of caffeine to inspire audiences. He focuses on creative strategies to take your business (and your life) to the next level. On a limited basis, Josh is available for keynote speeches, consulting, workshops, and coaching. He helps businesses and leaders ignite their creativity while directing that energy toward tangible results. Specific business applications include:
Competitive advantage in the marketplace used to be defended with complex supply chains, high cost of entry, and technological advances. Now, your business can be supplanted overnight by someone with a broadband connection and an idea. How are you re-tooling your organization for creativity? In this interactive talk, Josh shows participants how to jump-start their creativity for business advantage. Attendees will learn specific techniques to protect themselves from the competition, create new products, and expand marketshare.
Building a Creative Culture
Building a culture that fosters creativity and innovation is mission critical in today’s ultra-competitive environment. In this high-energy and interactive keynote, you will learn how to tap your people’s hidden brainpower. Help your team get unstuck by breaking free from myths and barriers to unleash their true creative potential. Learn to establish an ongoing system to nurture and harvest your team’s best ideas.
Is Innovation the Cure for the Economic Downturn?
Most innovations fail because they are not truly innovative – they make an existing product slightly smaller, faster, or less expensive. Real innovations turn industries and marketplaces upside down – like the cell phone or the iPod. Can your company innovate it’s way to success even during difficult economic times? In this talk, Josh offers a road map for organizations to get to successful, game-changing innovations. Takeaways include how to trap the competition, how to increase your rate of innovation, and how to invent new products that cannot easily be copied in the marketplace.
Leadership in the Age of Creativity
Leaders today need to be able to understand the needs and dreams of a wildly diverse employee population, each with its own particular ways of working, deriving motivation from very different parts of the work experience. On top of that, the marketplace can shift at bewildering speed as a college kid in a dorm room can invent a new business that renders yours irrelevant in a matter of a few months. How do you guide an organization into such an uncertain future with such a varied crew? Josh’s talk explores the new rules of the road and shows leaders how to build a culture that enables maximum creative potential.
The Music of Business
Jazz musicians and business leaders are increasingly sharing more common ground. Both require spontaneous creativity and improvisation. Both require careful synchronization in group dynamics, while responding on the fly to changing market conditions. Both are real-time art forms that require high-quality performances under the bright lights of an audience. Adapted from the principles of jazz legends to the business world, you’ll learn how to use a specific framework and set of rules to maximize create output. Using the metaphor of a jazz combo, Josh helps audiences improve their creativity, risk tolerance, and adaptability in this highly engaging and unique presentation.
- New Product Innovation
- Building and Leading Creative Cultures
- Creative Approaches to Sales and Marketing
- Crafting Differentiated Competitive Strategy
- Expanding Into New Markets
- Unorthodox Problem Solving
- Applying Creativity to Startups and High-Growth Companies
Competitive advantage in the marketplace used to be defended with complex supply chains, high cost of entry, and technological advances. Now, your business can be supplanted overnight by someone with a broadband connection and an idea. How are you re-tooling your organization for creativity? In this interactive talk, Josh shows participants how to jump-start their creativity for business advantage. Attendees will learn specific techniques to protect themselves from the competition, create new products, and expand marketshare.
Building a Creative Culture
Building a culture that fosters creativity and innovation is mission critical in today’s ultra-competitive environment. In this high-energy and interactive keynote, you will learn how to tap your people’s hidden brainpower. Help your team get unstuck by breaking free from myths and barriers to unleash their true creative potential. Learn to establish an ongoing system to nurture and harvest your team’s best ideas.
Is Innovation the Cure for the Economic Downturn?
Most innovations fail because they are not truly innovative – they make an existing product slightly smaller, faster, or less expensive. Real innovations turn industries and marketplaces upside down – like the cell phone or the iPod. Can your company innovate it’s way to success even during difficult economic times? In this talk, Josh offers a road map for organizations to get to successful, game-changing innovations. Takeaways include how to trap the competition, how to increase your rate of innovation, and how to invent new products that cannot easily be copied in the marketplace.
Leadership in the Age of Creativity
Leaders today need to be able to understand the needs and dreams of a wildly diverse employee population, each with its own particular ways of working, deriving motivation from very different parts of the work experience. On top of that, the marketplace can shift at bewildering speed as a college kid in a dorm room can invent a new business that renders yours irrelevant in a matter of a few months. How do you guide an organization into such an uncertain future with such a varied crew? Josh’s talk explores the new rules of the road and shows leaders how to build a culture that enables maximum creative potential.
The Music of Business
Jazz musicians and business leaders are increasingly sharing more common ground. Both require spontaneous creativity and improvisation. Both require careful synchronization in group dynamics, while responding on the fly to changing market conditions. Both are real-time art forms that require high-quality performances under the bright lights of an audience. Adapted from the principles of jazz legends to the business world, you’ll learn how to use a specific framework and set of rules to maximize create output. Using the metaphor of a jazz combo, Josh helps audiences improve their creativity, risk tolerance, and adaptability in this highly engaging and unique presentation.
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