INNOVATION Researcher, Author, Practitioner, Thought Leader, Speaker
Hi, I’m Dennis Stauffer. I help individuals and organizations enhance their capacity to innovate and manage change. My focus—and expertise—is on the personal attributes that drive successful innovation and change. I enable and inspire crucial shifts in mindset, for those responsible for making innovation happen, those affected by it, and those who lead them.
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DENNIS STAUFFER is an internationally recognized expert on the mindset of world class innovators. As founder of Innovator Mindset®, he delivers research-based keynotes, workshops and strategic interventions throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Dennis has studied innovativeness in entrepreneurs in cooperation with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and developed innovativeness in students under a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. He’s a former Emmy winning journalist, news anchor, business editor, and award-winning author.
He’s especially skilled at reading to his grandkids.
“Dennis really listened to our need to involve everyone on the team in continuous improvement efforts and innovations…It has created momentum and excitement within the team which will help galvanize us in the coming year.”
“Dennis has a program with excellent content that keeps people involved with his presentation. His work in the field of innovation and leadership is unique and compelling.”
Dennis has a deep understanding and brilliant insights into ways in which to organise thinking in order to get breakthrough results. His structured approach provided us with a powerful methodology that allowed us to experience, reflect, think and learn.
Some of the many clients where Dennis Stauffer has presented:
KEYNOTES
These keynotes can also be delivered in depth, as a half-day or full-day workshop or offsite meeting.
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THE INNOVATION IMPERATIVE: UNLEASHING GENIUS
Topic: Organizational Innovation
Building innovative organizations is a modern imperative, and for many organizations one of their greatest challenges. How do you get people to embrace creativity and change, rather than feeling threatened by it? How do you create a culture of discovery and reinvention? How do you change people’s mindsets from one that undermines innovation to one that embraces it?
Dennis will give your people—and your leaders—actionable insights into how to shift their mindset to one that welcomes change and drives astonishing value creation. You can’t optimize innovation without optimizing your people’s innovativeness.
Who should attend? Everyone in your organization, from experienced top leadership to your newest hires, will benefit from Dennis’ research-based insights.
Participants will:
- Discover personal strategies that have been shown to dramatically improve innovation effectiveness and real-world business outcomes.
- Learn to recognize and apply a simple, intuitive pattern or Innovation Cycle that drives all forms of innovation.
- Understand the power of mindset to drive exceptional value creation and personal effectiveness.
- Know how to boost mental agility, creativity, and resourcefulness—by innovating themselves.
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INNOVATING THROUGH CHANGE: SHIFTING MINDSETS
Topic: Handling Organizational Change
Change is hard. It creates uncertainty and risk. It’s also inevitable. A necessary part of modern life. Something we all contend with.
When you’re launching some new initiative; when you’re forced to adapt to market changes and other factors in your environment; when difficult decisions must be made; mindset is crucial. Your mindset and the mindset of those impacted.
Dennis will be the catalyst who will help your people discover—and embrace—a change-welcoming mindset. One that his research has found creates astonishing value.
Who should attend? Everyone involved in, or impacted by, changes in your organization.
Participants will:
- Learn to be more resourceful and adaptive as they face change in both their professional and their personal lives.
- Know how to respond to change in ways that create new value.
- Understand the intimate connection between handling change and driving innovation—including innovating themselves.
- Discover how a shift in mindset can unlock extraordinary personal growth and potential.
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INNOVATING THE INNOVATORS: RESHAPING MINDSETS
Topic: Optimizing Innovation and R&D Teams
No one has ever successfully innovated anything without people. To optimize any innovation process, you need to optimize the human factors behind it. As you develop your team’s capacity to innovate, how are you enhancing your team members’ innovativeness?
Dennis brings insights based on his years of research into what makes people innovative, and how to enhance those capabilities. How are you innovating how you innovate?
Who should attend? Innovation teams. New product, process and service developers. R&D teams. Innovation leaders. C-Suite Executives.
Participants will:
- Discover how mindset profoundly impacts their capacity to innovate and create value.
- Enhance their ability to apply any innovation tools or processes.
- Understand how to recognize and apply a simple intuitive pattern or Innovation Cycle that drives all forms of innovation.
- Learn how to shift their mindset to enhance their mental agility and innovate themselves.
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INNOVATING EDUCATION:
PREPARING STUDENTS FOR A DYNAMIC FUTURE
Topic: Innovation in Education
Education has always been about preparing our kids for the future, but never before has the future been so uncertain. That means as educators, we need to prepare them to live in a world we can’t foresee. They’re going to have to figure it out for themselves. But we can prepare them to do that by helping them become great “figure-outers.”
Dennis inspires educators to shift their mindset—and the mindset of students—to one focused on becoming imaginative, resourceful and innovative, as they enter a world that demands it.
Who should attend? Educators of all types, at all levels
Participants will:
- Understand the crucial role that mindset plays in the future success of students.
- Learn how to prepare students to find their way in a future full of uncertainties, by enhancing their innovativeness.
- Discover powerful strategies for keeping students engaged in their education.
- Be inspired to reflect on the fundamental purpose of education and the challenges of educators.
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THE ENTREPRENEUR’S SECRET WEAPON:
OPTIMIZE YOURSELF FOR NEW VENTURE SUCCESS
Topic: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Mindset
Roughly half of all new businesses fail. That’s partly because most business founders fail to realize that the best predictor of new venture success is their own mindset. In this interactive presentation, Dennis reveals the mental framework shared by the most successful entrepreneurs—and how it’s too often undermined. His insights are based on his peer-reviewed research with hundreds of diverse startup ventures. You’ll leave with actionable insights you can use to shape how you think about—and respond to— the challenges you face. Giving you the ability to decrease risk, increase the probability of your success, and enhance the value you create.
Who should attend? Entrepreneurs, those who aspire to be one, and those who work with and support them.
Participants will:
- Discover the astonishing impact of mindset on entrepreneurial outcomes.
- Learn to recognize and apply a simple intuitive pattern or Innovation Cycle that produces extraordinary real world business results.
- Gain powerful strategies to dramatically improve the odds of new venture success.
- Leave equipped to create exceptional value in business and in life.