Episodes 166
Avg. Duration 27m
Activity Highly Active
Since Apr 2021
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
Consistency
71%
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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/. 

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#162 — Linda Hill & Jason Wild: The Leadership Model Behind Innovation That Scales

Mar 03, 2026 58m

Linda Hill is a Harvard Business School professor and one of the world’s leading thinkers on leadership and innovation. Jason Wild is the CEO and founder of WISE (Wild Innovation and Strategy…

#161 — Neil Hoyne: What Data Can’t Tell You About Strategy

Feb 24, 2026 41m

Neil 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 works at the…

#160 —John Fallon: Leading Through a Decade-Long Disruption

Feb 17, 2026 46m

John 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 selling ~20 million…

#159 — Dr. Brent Ridge: The Kindness Operating System for Hiring, Culture, and Growth

Feb 03, 2026 49m

Dr. 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 with a devoted…

#158 — Jana Werner & Phil Le-Brun: How to Build an Organization That Learns and Adapts Fast

Jan 20, 2026 46m

Jana 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 and enterprise…

#157 — Mark Thompson: What Boards Really Look for When Choosing a CEO

Jan 06, 2026 45m

Mark Thompson is a CEO coach and author of CEO Ready. Born and raised in Silicon Valley and now working across emerging tech hubs, Mark prepares leaders for the leap from elite operator to enterprise…

#156 — Bill George: Authentic Leadership, Purpose & Performance

Dec 16, 2025 41m

Bill George is one of the most influential leadership thinkers of our time. A former CEO of Medtronic and long-time Harvard Business School professor, he’s served on the boards of Goldman Sachs,…

#155 — Jon Levy: Team Intelligence, Glue Players, and the Culture That Executes Strategy

Dec 02, 2025 36m

Meet Jon Levy — behavioral scientist and author of Team Intelligence: How Brilliant Leaders Unlock Collective Genius and the NYT/WSJ bestseller You’re Invited. Jon has spent years studying human…

#154 — Christina Farr: The Storyteller’s Advantage for Strategy and Growth

Nov 20, 2025 39m

Christina Farr is an investor, startup advisor, and former health-tech journalist. She’s the author of The Storyteller’s Advantage: How Powerful Narratives Make Businesses Thrive and the creator of…

#153 – Malte Bernholz of Adobe (Part 1): AI & The Creative Future

Nov 17, 2025 36m

In this special in-person conversation recorded at Adobe’s global headquarters, host Kaihan Krippendorff sits down with Malte Bernholz, Vice President of Strategy and Incubation at Adobe.Malte brings…

#152 — Mark Crowley: Lead From The Heart, Build Belonging, And Boost Performance

Nov 04, 2025 45m

Mark Crowley is a longtime financial services leader who led consistently top-performing teams over a 25-year career. He’s the author of Lead From the Heart and the newly released The Power of…

#151 — Eddie Fishman: Choke Points and the Hidden Levers of Power

Oct 21, 2025 43m

Eddie Fishman is a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, adjunct professor of International & Public Affairs, and author of Choke Points: How the Global…

#150 — Scott Anthony: Disruptions and the Patterns That Shape Innovation

Oct 14, 2025 41m

Today we’re welcoming back our first-ever guest on the Outthinker Podcast, Scott Anthony—Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and one of the world’s leading voices on innovation and…

#149 — Adam Brotman: Building the Mindset of an AI‑First CEO

Oct 07, 2025 39m

Adam Brotman is the former Chief Digital Officer of Starbucks and Co-CEO of J.Crew, and co‑author of the e‑book AI‑First: The Playbook for a Future‑Proof Business and Brand. At Starbucks, he helped…

#148—Julia Austin: How Startups and Big Companies Turn Sparks Into Scale

Sep 16, 2025 32m

Our guest today is Julia Austin—former senior leader at Akamai, VMware, and DigitalOcean, with decades of experience helping organizations make the leap from startup to scale. She’s also studied and…

#147—Martin Reeves: The Like Button That Changed the World

Sep 04, 2025 40m

Martin Reeves is Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute and author of The Imagination Machine and his newest book, Like: The Button That Changed the World. A prolific strategist and researcher,…

#146—Kurt Miscinski: Architecting a Firm that Lasts: Strategy, Culture, and Ownership at Cerity Partners

Jul 15, 2025 46m Transcript

Kurt Miscinski is the co-founder, CEO, and President of Cerity Partners, one of the fastest-growing firms in the wealth management space. Today, Cerity manages over $130 billion in client assets—but…

OUTTHINKERS LIVE! Embracing Transformation and Leading Through Disruption

Jul 14, 2025 57m

This special episode of Outthinkers was recorded in front of a live audience in NYC and made possible by our friends at LHH, a global leader in HR advisory and talent solutions, trusted by executives…

#145—Ryan Hamilton: Growing and Managing Customer Segments Successfully

Jul 01, 2025 47m

Ryan Hamilton is an associate professor of marketing at Emory University's Goizueta Business School and co-author of The Growth Dilemma: Managing Your Brand When Different Customers Want Different…

#144—Gina O'Connor: Building Your Company's Innovation Competencies

Jun 17, 2025 41m Transcript

Gina O’Connor is a professor at Babson College, where she teaches on the topics of Corporate Entrepreneurship and Breakthrough Innovation in large mature companies. Previously, she had a long career…

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