Robert B. Tucker | Speaker Profile
Robert B. Tucker is a global futurist and innovation keynote speaker with a client list that includes over 200 Fortune 500 companies. President and founder of The Innovation Resource, Tucker is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of innovation, Tucker’s highly interactive presentations lead audiences on a guided tour inside the world’s most creative companies. Through stories and examples, Tucker shows leaders how to tap the mindset, skillset, and toolset of innovation to embrace change, discover opportunity and avoid obsolescence.
Featured keynote topics
Robert B. Tucker has brought his practical, inspiring, and interactive keynotes to literally thousands of conferences throughout the world. Tucker’s highly customized innovation keynote programs have received rave reviews from over 200 of the Fortune 500’s largest firms. Among his most popular keynote topics include:
NAVIGATING THE FUTURE: CAPITALIZING ON THE DRIVING FORCES OF CHANGE
In the post-pandemic world of business, organizations and their leaders are rising rapidly or falling fast based on their ability to anticipate and creatively respond to rapid and often disruptive change. By mastering the strategies outlined in this presentation, sudden shifts in customer requirements, technological developments, and other trends can be mitigated and turned to advantage. This powerful session explores the leadership skills essential during times of extreme challenge and uncertainty and will provide you and your management team powerful new tools for turning uncertainty into clarity, and clarity into innovation agility.
INNOVATION IS EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS
Organizations are increasingly in need of high potential managers and individual contributors with the abilities and mindset to get new projects done. While professionals with functional and technical skills are valued, those with Innovation Skills are emerging as the most sought-after talent in today’s hyper-competitive age. In this practical, inspiring and highly interactive personal development session, Tucker explores powerful tools and strategies to help you and your colleagues hone your ability to seize emerging opportunities, develop new revenue sources, add value, and create unconventional solutions.
DRIVING GROWTH THROUGH INNOVATION
This dynamic, example-filled keynote will give you an overview of the important findings reported in Tucker’s ground-breaking book, Driving Growth Through Innovation. Tucker will take you and your colleagues behind the scenes inside the Innovation Vanguard companies. You’ll discover the latest methods for building innovation into a powerful source of growth, profits, and competitive advantage.
Testimonials
“Right on target. Our people will remember (Robert’s) message long after our event is over.”
Scott Dougal, General manager, IBM Global Services
“The team enjoyed (Robert’s) interactive presentation style and the audience was engaged throughout. The presentation was 100% to our expectations, and I believe the inspiration (Robert) provided the team will pay dividends for our organization in the future.”
Franklin Small, Johnson & Johnson
“Robert Tucker was, I’ll say, perfect! He really lit up the crowd, and judging by all the chatter at the conference following, he sparked a lot of thoughts on building innovation culture.”
Ray Buschmann, Manager Marketing Solutions, Chevron
Speaker background
Robert B. Tucker’s seven books on driving growth and differentiation through innovation have been translated into over 17 languages and are used by managers worldwide.
He also leads Innovation Resource Consulting Group, a research and executive development firm dedicated to assisting organizations and their leaders in capitalizing on emerging trends and driving growth through innovation. With clients in over 50 countries, the Innovation Resource assists multinational organizations as well as small and mid-sized firms in a wide variety of industries. Economic development agencies and ministries of industry and tourism call upon Innovation Resource to help sharpen their ability to ignite innovation and capitalize on future trends for growth, profit, and competitive advantage. With over 30 years of experience in the profession, Robert Tucker is president of the company and a globally-recognized leader in innovation.
Organizations and event organizers can confidently hire this speaker to conduct keynotes and workshops about future trends across a diverse range of topics and in the following formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Advisory calls | Discussion with your executives to answer specific questions on a topic, project or subject of choice. |
| Executive coaching | One-to-one coaching and mentoring session between an executive and the selected speaker. Topics are mutually agreed upon. |
| Topic presentation (Internal) | A presentation for your internal team based on a mutually agreed topic with content supplied by the speaker. This format is designed specifically for internal team meetings. Maximum 25 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (Internal) | Webinar presentation for your team members on a mutually agreed topic, including question time. Internal replay rights included. Maximum 100 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (External) | Webinar presentation for your team and external attendees on a mutually agreed topic. Question time and external replay rights included. Maximum 500 participants. |
| Event keynote presentation | Keynote or speaking engagement for your corporate event. Topic and content can be customized to event themes. Includes one-on-one question time and participation in other event sessions if required. |
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