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The Outthinkers podcast is a growth strategy podcast hosted by Kaihan Krippendorff. Each week, Kaihan talks with forward-looking strategists and innovators that are challenging the status quo, leading the future of business, and shaping our world.
Chief strategy officers and executives can learn more and join the Outthinker community at https://outthinkernetwork.com/.
Episodes
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- #177 –Challenge Your Assumptions: The Power of Questioning What You Think You Know: Naveen Jain · 51 minNaveen Jain is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of multiple billion-dollar companies, including Infospace, Moon Express, and the health company Viome, where he…
- #176 – Algorithm Is Strategy: The Hidden Power Inside the AI You Deploy: Hamilton Mann · 57 minHamilton Mann is an AI researcher, technology executive, and award-winning author. He is Executive Chairman and President of the Artificial Integrity Institute, lectures at…
- #175 – Apple Store Architect: Why Most Companies Confuse Different With Better: Ron Johnson · 45 minNew on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Ron Johnson - the retail visionary behind the Apple Store and Target's design revolution…
- #174 – Why You Should Assume You're Partly Wrong: The Science of Seeing Clearly: Caroline Webb · 47 minCaroline Webb is an executive coach, economist, and former McKinsey partner. She is the author of the global bestseller How to Have a Good Day, published in more than 60…
- #173 – Culture as Competitive Infrastructure: Why Transformation Isn't About Tech: Julie Averill · 41 minJulie Averill is a technology and transformation executive with nearly three decades of experience scaling global businesses. As Global CIO and EVP at Lululemon, she led an…
- #172 – Global by Design: How to Build Innovations That Work Everywhere: Vijay Govindarajan · 48 minNew on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Vijay Govindarajan — VG — about why the next breakthrough American innovation may be…
- #171 – Everyone's Blaming AI for Layoffs. Here's What's Actually Happening: Philipp Muelbert · 41 minNew on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Philipp Muelbert about the three loops every company falls into when their talent needs…
- #170 – Why Most Mergers Fail After the Deal Closes: David Fubini · 41 minDavid Fubini spent 34 years at McKinsey & Company, where he was a Senior Partner, Managing Director of the Boston office, and co-founder of the firm's Worldwide Merger…
- #169 — AI Is Doing the Junior Work. Who Becomes Your Next Senior Leader? | Carrol Chang · 43 minNew on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Carrol Chang about why the unit of work is shifting from the full-time employee to the task…
- #168 — Why Good Companies Go Bad: Eric Ries · 40 minNew on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Eric Ries — author of the landmark The Lean Startup — about his new book Incorruptible, and…
- #167 — Your Company's Biggest AI Advantage Is Already Sitting in Your Database: Scott Snyder · 45 minNew on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Scott Snyder about why most companies are failing to get real value from AI — and why the…
- #166 — Your Business Model Has an Expiry Date: Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva · 39 minDr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a globally recognised reinvention strategist, four-time author, and founder of the Reinvention Academy. A former chaired professor at a business school…
- #165 — How AI Is Killing Traditional Market Research: Peter Weinberg · 37 minPeter Weinberg is the founder of Evidenza, an AI-powered synthetic research platform, and a former LinkedIn executive where he co-founded the B2B Institute. Over a decade at…
- #164 — How Coach Went From $6M to $5B Without Losing Its Soul · 37 minNew on Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Lew Frankfort about how Coach scaled while building trust, durability, and emotional connection…
- #163 — Joseph Pine: Why Customers Don’t Care About What You Sell · 37 minJoe Pine is the co-author of The Experience Economy—and one of the thinkers who gave leaders a language for why “services” weren’t the end of the story. In this episode, Joe…
- #162 — Linda Hill & Jason Wild: The Leadership Model Behind Innovation That Scales · 59 minIn a recent Outthinkers episode sponsored by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff is joined by Linda Hill (Havard Business School) and Jason Wild (WISE) to discuss what it takes to move…
- #161 — Neil Hoyne: What Data Can’t Tell You About Strategy · 42 minNeil Hoyne is Chief Strategist at Google and one of the sharpest voices on how companies actually make decisions when data, intuition, and organizational politics collide. He…
- #160 —John Fallon: Leading Through a Decade-Long Disruption · 47 minJohn Fallon is the former CEO of Pearson, where he led one of the most challenging digital transformations of any publicly traded company—shifting a legacy publishing giant from…
- #159 — Dr. Brent Ridge: The Kindness Operating System for Hiring, Culture, and Growth · 50 minDr. Brent Ridge is the co-founder of Beekman 1802, a skin health brand that began with goat milk soap made at a dining room table and scaled into a nationally recognized business…
- #158 — Jana Werner & Phil Le-Brun: How to Build an Organization That Learns and Adapts Fast · 46 minJana Werner is a global executive advisor and Executive in Residence at Amazon Web Services, where she works with Fortune 500 leadership teams on organizational transformation…







