Tendayi Viki
Tendayi Viki is an author and advisor to corporate leaders. He specializes in creating buy-in for breakthrough ideas, innovation programs and transformation initiatives.
As the pace of change in the world has increased, leaders are having to transform their organizations to keep up. Tendayi’s inspiring keynotes sit at the intersection of psychology and organizational transformation – bridging the gap between how organizations plan change and how people experience change. Rather than pushing people to comply, Tendayi will show you how to enable change by creating the kind of momentum that attracts people to willingly support and actively participate in organizational transformation.
About Tendayi
Tendayi holds a PhD in Psychology and an MBA. As Senior Partner at Strategyzer, he has worked with leaders and teams to navigate the human elements of transformation, ensuring their initiatives gain the trust, support, and active participation from stakeholders. He has delivered keynotes, led workshops, and advised global organizations including Novartis, Standard Bank, Unilever, Airbus, Pearson, Pfizer, Lufthansa-Airplus and The British Museum.
Tendayi co-designed Pearson’s Product Lifecycle, an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York. He has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and was named to the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch.
Tendayi has written three books based on his research and consulting experience, Pirates In The Navy, The Corporate Startup and The Lean Product Lifecycle. The Corporate Startup was awarded the 2018 CMI Management Book of the Year In Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is also a regular contributing writer for Forbes.
Tendayi spent over 12 years in academia during which time he taught at the University of Kent where he is now Honorary Senior Lecturer. He has also been a Research Fellow at Stanford University and Research Assistant at Harvard University.
Other Keynote Topics:
It’s Better To Be A Pirate In The Navy
As innovation has become increasingly important to companies, leaders have started paying more attention to what creates value. In this inspiring keynote, Tendayi discusses how innovators can drive breakthrough innovation, develop new business models and create value through authenticity. To be a successful pirate in the navy requires humility, a relentless focus creating value and the discipline to build repeatable innovation processes.
How To Strategically Innovate From Within
Leaders have an aspiration to drive innovation from within their organizations. In this interactive keynote, Tendayi talks about the importance of developing a clear innovation strategy to avoid random innovation projects. This will help guide decision making and align innovation with corporate strategy. A clear strategy can also help with transitioning successful innovation projects into the main business.
Making Innovation Accessible To Everyone
Most people want to innovate, they just don’t know how to get started. In this engaging keynote, Tendayi discusses how companies can create a democratic process for managing innovation through incremental funding. He also shows leaders how to ask the right questions at the right time and open up the innovation process to more people within the company.