Disruptive Innovation & Business Transformation Expert; CEO at Spark Partners; Author of "Create Marketplace Disruption"
Adam Hartung Biography
Adam Hartung is an authority on disruptive innovation, strategic foresight, and business transformation. Hartung has a track record in innovation management, developing and implementing strategies that leverage emerging trends to drive business growth. His approach is based on two proprietary frameworks for predicting business success: The Phoenix Principle and the Status Quo Risk Management Playbook. Hartung previously held executive roles at PepsiCo and DuPont and is an alumnus of Boston Consulting Group. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School with Distinction.
Hartung serves as CEO and managing partner of Spark Partners, a strategy and transformation consultancy. He was the founding CEO of Soparfilm Energy, a corporation that invested in fracking for oil and gas production. Hartung has served on the board of directors at several privately held companies, including Crosfield Electronics and Benchmark Technologies in the United Kingdom, as well as Biometric Access Corp. and Apex Interactive in the United States. He provides board advisory services and is a certified fellow in the National Association of Corporate Directors, where he is a regular speaker on risk management.
For eight years, Hartung was the No. 1 leadership columnist for Forbes.com, reaching more than 50 million readers. His columns predicted the success of companies such as Netflix, Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook, and Tesla, as well as the decline of market leaders including Tribune, Sears, and Research in Motion. Hartung also wrote a quarterly column for CIO Magazine and has been a contributing editor for International Journal of Innovation Science. His insights into business growth and organizational change have been featured in more than 600 publications, including Inc, Adweek, Fortune, and Washington Times, as well as in radio and television interviews.
Hartung is the author of "Create Marketplace Disruption," published by Financial Times Press, which details how companies can apply The Phoenix Principle for continuous growth. He has delivered keynote presentations and workshops to more than 400 leadership and business organizations worldwide, focusing on innovation, business strategy, and managing status quo risk.
Adam Hartung Speaking Topics
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Is Your Strategy Amazon Prime, Netflix or Windows 10?
Microsoft created and dominated the personal computer world. But users tired of unnecessary updates, especially as they shifted to mobile platforms that had advantages the PC could not match. Microsoft’s relevancy waned. Meanwhile Amazon.com rapidly moved from innovation to innovation, pioneering not only new products but entirely new business models that have shaken retail, distribution and consumer goods industries to their core. Leaders make choices. Is your future going to be a slide into irrelevancy, or are you going to innovate to grow? Understand how to resource your future to adopt market shifts and innovate for growth.
Takeaways:
- Why most failures arise from sticking to your core
- How to identify external forces that put you at risk
- Breaking away from what you do to refocus on what customers value
- How to put resources where the payoff is greatest
- How to make the right future bets
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Market Disruptors Don’t Get Ubered: How To Stay Ahead
WalMart is the world’s greatest retailer – bigger and better than anyone before. But Walmart’s future is in the hands of innovator Amazon, who changed the game. Being good at what you’ve always done isn’t worth much when it is so easy for innovators to change the rules. Learn how to avoid being caught off guard, and instead be a fast-adapting organization that leverages innovation to grow and succeed.
Takeaways:
- How to tame your fear of external disruptions
- Why your greatest strength is always your greatest weakness
- Succeed by seeing trends, and adapting to them
- Change the rules, rather than excelling at the game, to win
- Cut your risk while improving your gains
Adam Hartung Videos
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Adam Hartung is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Is Your Strategy Amazon Prime, Netflix or Windows 10?, Market Disruptors Don’t Get Ubered: How To Stay Ahead and Growth Winners are Transformers Not Avengers. The estimated speaking fee range to book Adam Hartung for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Adam Hartung generally travels from Napa, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Peter Sheahan, Geoffrey Moore, Richard Florida, Peter Guber and R "Ray" Wang. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Adam Hartung for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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