Gary Lynn

Dr. Gary Lynn is a tenured professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, serial entrepreneur, and internationally recognized authority on innovation strategy who has been selected by Business 2.0 Magazine as one of the nine leading management gurus in the world, alongside names such as Peter Drucker and W.E. Deming. He speaks on innovation effectiveness, healthcare innovation, lean innovation, and building innovative cultures, drawing from more than a dozen books and 65 refereed publications. He has been named one of the seven most prolific thought leaders in Technology-Innovation Management by the International Association for the Management of Technology on two separate occasions.

Entrepreneur, Venture Capital Officer & Academic
Lynn started, built, and sold four companies, and served as Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Managing Director of Spencer Trask, a New York-based venture capital firm that invested more than 1.2 billion dollars in over 100 technology businesses. He is chairman of Lynnovate, an international innovation consulting company, and has held joint faculty appointments at universities in France, Brazil, and Greece. The King of Malaysia personally invited him to keynote on Lean Innovation and help develop Malaysia’s National Innovation Curriculum.

Author & Healthcare Innovation Expert
Lynn has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books, including Blockbusters: The Five Keys to Developing GREAT New Products and an 11-volume series on the future of healthcare innovation. He holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt, an MBA from Kellogg, and a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He speaks on innovation culture, new product development, healthcare innovation, lean innovation methodologies, and sales-driven product strategy.

Out Innovate!

Lead instead of Compete

Innovation best-practice metrics and benchmarks. Five critical elements proven to increase innovation success.

Interactive program funded by the U.S. Department of Defense to increase competitiveness of U.S.-based technology companies in hi-tech industries. More than 500 companies participated including GE, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, and many others.

Innovation is Everyone’s Job

Ideal for Corporate Customer Meetings and New Product Launch Events

This presentation is based on five years of working with the Department of Defense where customers partner with companies to create new products and services. The King of Malaysia invited Dr. Lynn to give a keynote on this topic in Malaysia – which is forming the bases of the new National Innovation Curriculum in Malaysia. This speech shows customers how they can get involved in the innovation process and provides them with a systematic process for providing accurate and reliable ideas for new products and services.

Your Salesforce: The New Frontline for Innovation

This presentation is based on Dr. Lynn’s executive course at Stevens over the past nine years where he discusses a new paradigm in innovation. In this new approach to innovation, salespeople form the foundation in formulating innovative and profitable new products and services. This speech will take your audience through five stages of the new sales-driven innovation process to revitalize and invigorate a company’s product line. The audience will be introduced to a proven process that shows how sales people can find, vet and present new/profitable ideas to senior leadership.

Lean Innovation

This presentation is based working with senior leaders from around the world — and in a matter of days, having them formulate, “test”, and validate new product and service ideas. It is kind of like a brainstorming session on steroids. Attendees have achieved phenomenal success using the Lean Innovation approach. Just last semester, in a course I co-directed, student teams formulated a new idea for a product or service and in only six weeks 31 student teams had their ideas accepted on Kickstarter (the largest crowd-funding site). Lean Innovation is based on the Probe-and-Learn theory I developed (published in the California Management Review) and represents a new paradigm to slash development time and cost by 50% or more while improving the overall success rate. The fundamental principle behind Lean Innovation is creating a “Protocept” (i.e., a “Minimum Viable Concept”) and taking these designs out to the marketplace early and often. The Minimum Viable Concept differs from what others call a minimum viable product. This keynote explains Lean Innovation and how do to it.