Kaiser Yang

CEO & Co-Founder of Platypus Labs, Award-Winning Author & Global Innovation Expert

Kaiser Yang

CEO & Co-Founder of Platypus Labs, Award-Winning Author & Global Innovation Expert

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Biography

Kaiser Yang - a globally recognized innovation leader and award-winning author - brings a proven model to help organizations make innovation an everyday business.

Kaiser passionately believes that even the most transformative innovations can be fast, scrappy, and accessible to us all.

Over the last 25 years, Kaiser has been at the forefront of global innovation, building and scaling multiple technology startups and guiding transformative initiatives with clients such as Microsoft, Disney, The Gap and other Fortune 500 organizations.

Today, as the co-founder and CEO of Platypus Labs, an innovation research, consulting, and training firm, he helps leaders and teams achieve the outcomes they crave - growth, innovation, competitive advantage, deeper engagement, and predictable results.

Kaiser’s award-winning book, Crack the Code, 8 Surprising Keys to Unlock Innovation, demonstrates his proven system to help everyday people innovate in their everyday work.

Kaiser is also an award-winning restaurateur, a passionate breeder of koi fish, a golf enthusiast, and the proud father of teenage twins.

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The 5 Core Mindsets of Innovators

The pressure to generate large, transformative ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical in these disruptive and competitive times, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up. That’s why the most prolific innovators focus on micro-innovations – small, creative acts that unlock massive rewards over time. Instead of shooting for a $10 billion IPO or a Nobel Prize, the most successful innovators passionately believe that innovation does not have to be big to be meaningful.

The 5 Core Mindsets of Innovators is an energizing, high-impact keynote that provides a practical and actionable framework to unlock dormant creative capacity and discover micro-innovations. Instead of wild, risky, and expensive moonshots, participants learn how to unleash small, daily acts of creativity that drive measurable results and help build a sustainable competitive advantage.

In this inspiring and energizing keynote, award-winning author and globally-recognized innovation expert Kaiser Yang dispels the myth that innovation only applies to a select few and reinforces the need to innovate at all levels, in all roles, and shares the mindsets and techniques leveraged by some of the most prolific ‘everyday innovators’ in the world.

This keynote serves leaders & teams who are:

Aware of the need to innovate but having a hard time getting started.
Feeling pressure to generate breakthroughs but struggling to deliver them.
Responsible for creating a culture of innovation.

The audience will leave with:

The mindsets, habits, and tactics of the world’s most prolific artists, business titans, and entrepreneurs.
Inspiring and memorable stories that show how inventive thinking can lead to breakthrough results.
Gain creative confidence to tackle challenges and seize new opportunities.

Testimonials

“Partnering with Kaiser has been transformative…” “He masterfully demystified the mindsets and techniques behind world-class innovations, invigorated our organization, and empowered us with a framework to explore new frontiers in our industry.”

- SVP, Innovation, Resideo

“…a Swiss Army Knife of highly effective mindsets and techniques we can easily apply.” “Kaiser provided us with fresh approaches to solving the challenges we encounter in both our work and personal lives. Kaiser brings world-class presentation skills, inspiring stories, and practical, memorable techniques. I’m a believer!”

- Director, Marketing Operations & Planning, Ricoh Digital Services

“… showed us how to make innovation approachable and practical.” “Building a culture of innovation is not a one-sizefits-all pursuit. We’ve been working with Kaiser for nearly five years; the frameworks he provided us at the beginning of our journey are still being used and driving innovation today.”

- Head of Strategy, Compeer Financial