A cutting-edge innovation and leadership guru, co-author of The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, and Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, Hal Gregersen challenges organizations and individuals to question the way we think and act to make our world a better, more creative place. Hal regularly delivers inspirational keynote speeches, motivational executive seminars and transformational coaching experiences. He also works with a diverse set of global companies to help them master the challenges of innovation and change. He has been recognized as a 2013 Thinkers50 Innovation Award Nominee.

Is an innovator born or made? This was the question Hal Gregersen, along with Clayton Christensen and Jeff Dyer, set out to answer in their latest book, aforementioned The Innovator’s DNA. Based on a collaborative eight-year study and interviews with hundreds of game-changing company founders, senior executives, and social innovators, the authors identified five “discovery skills” used by innovative leaders that distinguishes them — and their organizations — from the ordinary.

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