Biography
David has worked with radical innovation and lean startup methods in major corporations for the last 17 years, spending nine years building up the innovation capabilities at The LEGO Group, both as Senior Innovation Director at LEGO’s famous Future Lab (David was featured in the Fast Company article “How LEGO Became the Apple of Toys”) and recently as Head of Venturing, EMEA at LEGO Ventures.
Based on his experience, David now supports companies around the world in building world class innovation capabilities. He founded Diplomatic Rebels to help intrapreneurs become more successful with corporate innovation, and has given more than 150 keynotes around the world on this topic (was warm-up for President Bill Clinton at the Presidents Summit – see a short summary of the talk here).
David’s Speaker Themes
In his talks and interactive sessions, David shares inspirational cases of radical consumer innovation mixed with unique insights on how to build and drive innovation culture and effective innovation execution. David also recently co-founded LXGO, a LEGO Alumni network.