Robert Tucker

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Robert B. Tucker is president of an organization internationally recognized as a leader in the field of innovation. Formerly an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Robert Tucker has been a consultant and keynote speaker since 1986.

Robert Tucker’s pioneering research in interviewing over 50 leading innovators was published in the book Winning the Innovation Game. Since then, he has continued to publish widely on the subject, including his international bestseller Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change for the New Century, which has been translated into 13 languages. In Driving Growth Through Innovation, he identified the emerging best practices of 23 innovation vanguard companies. In his latest work, Innovation Is Everybody’s Business, Robert Tucker interviews 43 innovation-adept individuals from multiple industries and all levels of organizations, and teaches the personal skills necessary to become an innovator in this hyper-competitive world.

As one of the thought leaders in the growing Innovation Movement, Robert Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Strategy & Leadership, and Harvard Management Update. He has appeared on PBS, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation.

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Robert Tucker is a much sought after keynote speaker at conventions, company management meetings, and industry conferences. Clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies as well as clients in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Australia.  

Robert Tucker resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and daughter.

• Driving Growth Through Innovation

  When was the last time you focused on upgrading your ability to conceive and introduce new product, service, process and strategy ideas? Could it be that you are using yesterday's methods to manage today's complex marketplace challenges?

  This dynamic, example-filled presentation, will give you an overview of the important findings reported in Robert B. Tucker's book, Driving Growth Through Innovation. Tucker will take you and your colleagues on a guided tour inside 23 "innovation vanguard" companies. You'll discover cutting-edge methods for building innovation into a powerful source of growth, profits, and competitive advantage. You'll learn unconventional approaches for turning innovation into a systematic, imbedded process, and be motivated to take action in your firm.

  This presentation is perfect as a keynote for annual conventions, or as a stimulating kickoff for your company's upcoming management meeting. As a result of attending this session, you will:

  • Know how to capitalize on innovation to rev up growth
  • Know how to map out and implement a superior approach to inventing the future - one that will enable you and your firm to exploit new markets, win new customers, and grow revenue from new sources
  • Be energized and inspired by real world examples of companies that revved up growth in moribund markets
  • Know how to motivate your people with proven, powerful methods that spark “out of the box” thinking
  • Be able to create a company-wide system to ensure that good ideas don't get lost – or show up in the hands of competitors!
• Innovation is Everybody's Business

  In this dynamic, interactive presentation, veteran keynoter Robert B. Tucker reveals how the seven essential I-Skills needed to think ahead of the curve, delight and challenge customers and colleagues, slash costs, and achieve unconventional results.

  Based on interviews with 43 innovation-adept managers and contributors, Innovation is Everybody’s Business guides you and your team in:

  • Mastering the 7 essential I-Skills needed to become indispensable.
  • Unleashing the "mindset, skill-set, and toolset of the innovator" that enable you to anticipate and rise to the challenges your organization faces in a hyper-competitive era.
  • Building tools for work-life balance and creating your own job satisfaction.
• Innovation Boot Camp: Strategies, Tools & Techniques for Breakthrough Results

  A a groundbreaking half, one, or two-day workshop that walks you and your team step by step through the innovation process and enables you to build innovation capability together. This workshop goes beyond all the theory surrounding innovation, and participants learn by doing – actually coming up with an opportunity and developing it through stages and using new tools that are immediately applicable back at the office. Robert developed this workshop for the Institute of Training and Development in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and he has conducted this seminar both in the United States and six other countries.

• Innovative Thinking

  According to a recent Fast Company survey, the typical manager today works 163 more hours than 30 years ago and must field 52 phone interruptions and 36 emails per day! Sound familiar? This increasingly fragmented, reactive, multitasking, always connected work style is a real inhibitor of creativity and innovation – if we allow it. The result? Burnout, "fire fighting," and poor morale.

  In this dynamic, example-filled presentation, veteran keynoter Robert B. Tucker teaches you and your attendees new ways to reclaim the space necessary to do your best work.

  If you're looking for an uplifting, entertaining and audience-involving session, look no further. Tucker's uniquely practical program is based on interviews with over 50 leading innovators, from award-winning advertising designers to CEOs to entrepreneurs – who are creating today's hot products and services. Tucker got them to talk about their work habits and problem-solving styles. Here is the seminar that reveals powerful, yet surprisingly simple methods your attendees can use right away to jump-start their creativity, and motivate others to take action.

  This presentation is perfect as a keynote for annual conventions, or as a stimulating kickoff for your company's management meeting. It is appropriate for bottom-line oriented groups, such as business owners, and highly appropriate for professional societies that are not.

  As a result of attending this session, you will learn:

  • How to use innovative thinking to meet any challenge
  • How to pay attention to “happy accidents” and serendipity
  • What the five principles of constant innovation are
  • How to fortify your "idea factory"
  • How to build the buy-in for your ideas
  • What techniques foster a creative environment
  • How to wake up meetings and brainstorm better ideas
• The Intelligent Talk Show

  Have you ever wished there was a way to spice up those important – but often boring – panel discussions at your association or company meeting? Now there is. Retire that drab, draped table with the squeaky microphones and the hunched over panelists. Instead, have an exciting new format, produced and hosted by Robert B. Tucker, billed as "The Intelligent Talk Show." Panelists become "guests" on a "live" show and are more animated, lively and better prepared to get their message across. Guests are more willing to tackle the tough issues that create industry buzz, and keep members coming back next year. The "Talk Show" often shows up in meeting evaluations as the "highlight of the entire convention."