Rowan Gibson

Rowan Gibson is a global business strategist, a best-selling author, and an expert on radical innovation. The media have labeled him “a guru among the gurus.” He teaches organizations how to seize new growth opportunities, create new markets and even transform industries by recalibrating their whole organizational system around the paradigm of innovation.

Gibson’s book Rethinking the Future is an international bestseller, published in 23 language editions. His latest book, Innovation to the Core, explains how to build and sustain a company-wide innovation capability.

Gibson recently launched Innovation Excellence (www.innovationexcellence.com), a web portal designed to serve the needs of the global innovation community. With a mission to make innovation resources, proven answers, and best practices accessible for the greater good, the site offers an archive of over 3,000 innovation articles from leading contributors like Tom Peters, Clayton Christensen, Robert Tucker, Henry Chesbrough, and others. It is updated daily with inspiring new blog posts, special features, videos, interviews, and slide presentations.

A popular professional speaker with an upbeat presentation style, Gibson’s big-picture insights, compelling observations, and fresh business thinking have impressed a wide range of audiences across Europe, the US, and Asia. Gibson mixes insight, inspiration, and information in a way that always leaves an audience feeling energized.

Over the last two decades, Gibson’s international clients have included some of the world’s largest and most successful organizations. His books, articles, interviews and columns have been widely read around the globe and he has been interviewed on television and radio, as well as in the international press. He has lived and worked in several countries and speaks three languages fluently.