Rowan Gibson

Innovation, the key to it all.

Rowan Gibson focuses on the importance of innovation in todays very competitive world.

Rowan Gibson is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on business innovation. The media have labeled him "Mr. Innovation", "the Innovation Grandmaster", "the W. Edwards Deming of innovation", and "a guru among the gurus".

He is the internationally bestselling author of three major books on business strategy and innovation – Rethinking The Future (1996), Innovation to the Core (2008), and The Four Lenses of Innovation (2015) – which have been published to date in 25 languages. His latest book, The Four Lenses of Innovation (Wiley), explains how to dramatically improve a company’s innovation efforts by using a powerful new set of discovery lenses.. In 2015 Rowan received the prestigious "Global Leader of Innovation" award for his significant contribution to the field of innovation strategy.

Over the last two decades, Gibson’s international clients have included some of the world’s largest and most successful organizations. He teaches them how to seize new growth opportunities, create new markets and even transform entire industries by recalibrating their whole organizational system around the paradigm of innovation.

Rowan Gibson is one of the world’s most in-demand public speakers. In just the last five years alone, he has delivered his keynote speeches, innovation masterclasses, and public seminars in 61 countries around the world. He has addressed a long list of major organizations, including Accenture, Bayer, British Telecom, Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, Dow Chemicals, Generali Group, Haier, Heinz, Henkel, IBM, Mars, Microsoft, Philips, P&G, Roche, Siemens, Steelcase, Telefonica and Volkswagen.