Jeremiah Gardner

SPEAKING

Jeremiah delivers a transformative experience that will ignite your drive for growth. His remarkable career includes revolutionizing global innovation for giants like Roche, ING, GE, and Nike, merging cutting-edge insights with practical tools for real-world impact. Jeremiah’s dynamic speeches are a captivating blend of industry expertise, humor, and compelling stories, enriched by his unique perspective from underwater exploration as a cave diver.

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DREAMING YOUR CUSTOMER’S DREAMS:

The Science and Soul of Market Leadership

Most companies think they know their customers. But here's the uncomfortable truth: while 84% of executives believe they're customer-centric, only 9% of customers agree. This gap isn't just costly—it's catastrophic.

Through years of work with Fortune 500 companies, I've discovered something startling: the companies dominating their markets aren't just listening to their customers—they're living in their customers' world. This isn't about customer surveys or focus groups. It's about a fundamentally different way of understanding human behavior that transforms how organizations innovate and compete.

You'll Walk Away With:

A revolutionary approach for transforming customer insight into market advantage
Practical techniques for scaling deep customer understanding across your organization
Tools for building empathy-driven innovation into your company's DNA
Metrics that matter for measuring customer understanding impact

TURNING UNCERTAINTY INTO OPPORTUNITY:

The Hidden Pattern Behind Market Leadership

Here's an uncomfortable truth: while most organizations are busy optimizing their current business, disruptors are busy stealing their future. The evidence is stark: 52% of Fortune 500 companies from 2000 have disappeared, yet most organizations still treat innovation like a side project.

Through two decades transforming global enterprises like Roche and ING Bank, I've uncovered something counterintuitive: successful innovators don't make better predictions about the future—they build better systems for discovering it. This isn't about innovation labs or idea competitions. It's about a fundamentally different way of organizing that transforms how companies create and capture value.

You'll Walk Away With:

A unified system for driving innovation across your entire organization
Practical techniques for balancing current execution with future exploration
Tools for building self-sustaining innovation engines that scale
Metrics that matter for measuring and maximizing innovation ROI

REWIRING ORGANIZATIONAL DNA:

Transforming Markets in the Age of Automation & AI

When 70% of transformation efforts fail, it's time to admit we've been doing it wrong. Traditional change management treats transformation like a project to be managed. But here's the reality: in today's exponential world, change isn't an event—it's a constant.

Through years of work with Fortune 500 companies, I've discovered something powerful: successful transformations don't focus on managing change—they focus on coding it into their organizational DNA. This isn't about change management frameworks or resistance models. It's about fundamentally rewiring how organizations evolve and adapt.

You'll Walk Away With:

A revolutionary model for creating self-sustaining change
Practical techniques for evolving both systems and b simultaneously
Tools for building adaptability into your organization's genetic code
Metrics that matter for measuring transformation success

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Jeremiah's workshops are inspiring, practical, and immediately applicable for audiences. Through a purposeful combination of elements, these workshops allow participants to dive deeper into the practices, skills, and frameworks that drive new growth.

Every Workshop Includes:

Hands-on Engagement
Case-Based Examples
Real World Application
Take Home Tools & Frameworks

Harnessing the Power of Rapid Behavioral Experimentation

This workshop brings participants into the world of rapid experimentation through an interactive, hands-on, and practical approach. Attendees will learn through practice how to structure risky assumptions, form testable hypotheses, execute an experiment, and synthesize results to drive decision making.

Measuring Pre-Market Innovation: Utilizing Progress Metrics

This workshop helps innovation leaders, product owners, and portfolio managers solve the rubik's cube of pre-market metrics by introducing them to Progress Metrics. Progress Metrics are a systematic, repeatable, and objective way to hold innovation teams and leaders accountable to progress.

Coaching Metaskills: Building Dynamic Leadership Skills

This workshop introduces participants to an evolution in their dynamic leadership skills through the core Coaching Metaskills. Attendees will get practical strategies for applying these dynamic, people-oriented, and empathy-based metaskills to bring them into the future of leadership.