Alexander Blass

Alexander Blass is the grand prize winner of the Top Innovator of the Year Award and one of the world’s most acclaimed innovation speakers. Wharton-educated with an Oxford MBA, he is the founder and inventor of platforms described as the “eBay of Giving” and “Facebook Meets Pocketbook,” demonstrating his ability to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world ventures.

Where World-Class Education Meets Real-World Innovation

Blass combines elite academic credentials from Wharton and Oxford with hands-on entrepreneurial experience launching innovative platforms and ventures. His approach to innovation is grounded in practical frameworks that help organizations move from idea generation to execution, ensuring that creative thinking translates into measurable competitive advantages. He has worked with organizations across industries seeking to build cultures where transformative ideas are not just encouraged but systematically developed and implemented.

Helping Organizations Build Innovation Cultures

Blass’s keynotes go beyond inspiration to provide executives and teams with actionable innovation methodologies they can apply immediately. His presentations are designed for leaders who want measurable impact, not abstract inspiration. His keynotes deliver proven strategies for building organizational cultures that generate breakthrough ideas, creative problem-solving frameworks for complex business challenges, turning innovation from occasional accident into systematic practice, and developing the competitive advantages that come from thinking differently.

Priceless Strategies from an Innovator: How to Thrive in Challenging Times
In a constantly evolving world and today’s challenging economic climate, innovating is no longer optional, but essential. Alexander Blass, now 37 and the youngest grand prize winner of the Daily Record’s Top Innovator of the Year Award, which credited him with “revolutionizing charitable giving” in 2007, recounts the journey that led him to become an acclaimed entrepreneur and innovator.  In this keynote, he reveals how you can reinvent yourself and get on the path to innovation today. Discover the essential characteristics of successful innovators, grasp some of the challenges you must overcome, and learn how to generate international buzz and excitement for your innovations with increasingly limited resources.  

Finding Your Passion: You Too, Can Change the World

As a child, Alexander Blass often gazed at the black and white photos on his parents’ piano of his father’s family members who perished in the Holocaust. The lessons he learned as a boy about the preciousness of human life, combined with world events, ultimately led him to a “lightbulb moment.” He left a career in finance to make a difference, inventing and patenting a new way to make philanthropic contributions in 50 countries through the power of the Internet. Blass draws from his experience and the lessons learned as a social entrepreneur to inspire and motivate, ensuring audiences that by finding their passion, maximizing their unique abilities, and embracing change, one person can indeed change our world.

Social Media Marketing Secrets and Web 2.0: Priceless Strategies from the Top Innovator Of The Year

Nearly 70% of the global Internet population visits social networking or blogging sites. Companies and organizations are rapidly playing “catch up” to adapt to this user-generated, customer-centric wave of social computing by scrambling to adopt both external and internal social media marketing and Web 2.0 strategies.

In this fascinating keynote speech that is not to be missed, you will learn how to harness the power of your customers and community. Blass, one of the world’s most acclaimed social entrepreneurs and grand prize winner of the Top Innovator of the Year Award for revolutionizing charitable giving through the invention of person-to-person social networking technology and online communities for the philanthropy market, shows you how to develop a game-winning social media marketing strategy. Beat the competition by employing best practices for success. Learn how to foster deeper relationships with your customers, promote your programs, and leverage your exuberant customer base to evangelize your brand and take it global. Explore how to avoid potential social marketing disasters. Discover key platforms you should be using now, which ones may be a waste of your time and resources, and how to measure results.