The Outthinker Network
A global network for strategy and innovation executives committed to staying ahead of the pace of disruption

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Upcoming Events
Howard Tullman and Fred Santarpia – Digital Transformation, Navigating and Overcoming Challenges
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Rita McGrath – Leading an Organization through an Inflection Point
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Saul Berman, Fabrice Lebegue, and Doug Shapiro – Big Data Strategy
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Peter Fader – The Customer Centricity Playbook: Implementing Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime Value
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Outthinker 2020 Virtual Summit –Leading in times of unprecedented uncertainty
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George Day – Thriving in the Era of Digital Turbulence by Seeing Sooner and Acting Faster
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Safi Bahcall – Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
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Outthinker Network Challenge Forum and Discussion: COVID-19 (Virtual)
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Karim Lakhani – Strategy and Leadership When Networks and Algorithms Run the World (Virtual)
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Gary Hamel – Humanocracy: Busting bureaucracy, creating flatter, human-centric agile organizations
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Ben Gomes-Casseres – Remix Strategy (M&A, Partnerships, Ecosystems): The Three Laws of Business Combinations (Virtual)
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Whitney Johnson – Disrupt Yourself: building high performing strategy or executive teams (Virtual)
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Managing a strategy career and building your strategy team – Chad Oakley of Charles Aris Executive Search
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Geoff Smart and Jeff McLean of ghSMART: Making Talent Your #1 Competitive Advantage
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Collective Genius: driving innovation by activating collaboration among employees and ecosystem partners with Linda Hill, Harvard Business School
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2021 Geopolitical and Economic Trends Overview and Breakdown: What to do now to be ready for the long-term – Tom Crawford
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21st C. connection skills, building hybrid teams, building client/coworker relationships in a virtual setting– Erica Dhawan
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Future of Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work – Jeff Schwartz, Deloitte
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The future of the large-scale social enterprise – Chris Marquis
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John Hagel, Deloitte – The Journey Beyond Fear and Moving People in Organizations to Action
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Pivot to the Future: Digital Transformation with Paul Nunes of Accenture
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Rethinking Competitive Advantage With Your Board—Ram Charan, Business Consultant, Author, CEO Advisor
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Membership Economy and Subscription Business Models with Robbie Baxter
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A Practical Guide to Becoming an AI-first Company – Ash Fontana
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The Human Element: Overcoming Resistance To New Ideas and Influencing Leadership – David Schonthal, Kellogg
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Upcoming Trends that Will Influence Strategists in 2022 and Beyond
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Navigating Trends & Shifts in the Workplace — Now & in the Future with Peter Cappelli
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Measuring Your Innovation Strategy Using Innovation Accounting with Dan Toma
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Developing a Digital Mindset to Stay Competitive in the Modern Age with Tsedal Neeley
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Creating Synergy in M&As to Maximize Value—with Mark L. Sirower and Jefferey M. Weirens of Deloitte
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Leadership, Strategy, and Sustainability Transformation with Greg Goff and Kalina Nikolova
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Discussing Labor, Inflation and Economic Trends with Economist and Policymaker
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Connect the Dots: Curating Serendipity to Generate Innovative Opportunities—with Christian Busch
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Establishing an Effective Innovation Pipeline—with Pete Newell
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Leading Organizations through Uncertainty with Tony O’Driscoll
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Assessing Your Organization’s Innovation Readiness with Tendayi Viki
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Women Leaders: How They Succeed—and What We can Learn from Them with Julia Boorstin
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Internet with Futurist Matt Maher
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How Climate Change will Impact Investment and Policy Trends–and What You Need to Know, with Bruce Usher
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Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and a Special Event in Partnership with NYU
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Building Your Strategic Plan to Becoming an AI-Driven Organization with Tom Davenport
In an age of disruption, executives across industries share vital strategic questions.
About
The Outthinker Network is an invitation-only network of Chief Strategy Officers and executives leading strategy and innovation for large companies.
Outthinker Network members get exclusive access to a global peer group of senior executives and world-class thought-leaders. They engage in curated learning, practical conversations, and 1:1 networking with connections hand-selected by the Outthinker team based on their needs. Network members get guaranteed access to Chief Strategy Officer Summits as well as prioritized input, access, and selection for Outthinker Think Tank research, public panels and thought-leadership opportunities.
Membership helps executives solve their top challenges, be more effective in their roles, and drive the success of both their individual careers and organizations.
Step into the future. Execute with clarity.

Topics & Questions Explored

How Network Members Engage

When you face a challenge and want to learn how other members have addressed it, we will organize a small, virtual forum of peers to share their experiences and help you problem-solve.
Our team facilitates one-on-one OSN member connections and external introductions that we know will create value for both parties based on relevant/specific experience, knowledge, advice to share, partnership potential, etc.
Discussions with a top thought leader and your peers that you can attend from your office on topics of critical relevance to strategists.
In-person roundtables throughout the year with thought-leaders a peers on topics chosen by the membership body.
The world’s largest gatherings of chief strategy officers and business executives that lead strategy for their organization. Network, learn, explore partnerships, and solve problems with other strategists from across industries and verticals.
We maintain videos, notes, and presentations from our in-person roundtables (while we do not record member discussions, we do record thought-leader presentations), arming you with a library of cutting-edge content.
Members can engage in new research conducted by Outthinker – they can influence research topics, participate in, gain advance access to findings and tools created. If directly relevant/beneficial to their organization and additive to the research they may apply to engage their organization to partner on specific research.
Why choose the Outthinker Network ?

True Peer Network
Expand your network of strategy experts. Membership is limited to Chief Strategy Officers and strategy executives from large companies.

True Conversations
Intimate sessions that cap the number of participants allow for individual participation & peer-to-peer dialogue.

Actionable Insights
Chief Strategy Officers don't just think about the future we emphasize bringing in practical initiatives and ideas to drive immediate value.

Peer Chosen Topics
Topics are selected by members to ensure relevance and timeliness - formal business education can't update content as fast as the world is changing.

Advocacy & Recognition
Dedicated to advancing the understanding, clout, and role of corporate strategy executive. Benefit from exclusive media opportunities that showcase you and your organizations' ideas, expertise, and successes.

World Class Thought Leaders
We don't sell consulting so have no motive to prioritize certain thought leaders- we engage the best from a variety of top universities and institutions.
By strategy executives. For strategy executives.
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