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David S. Kidder
Keynote Speaker | Founder & CEO, The Board of Life | Author, New York Times Best Seller | Builder of Systems for Resilient Growth
David's inspires and equips leaders to turn volatility into a lasting advantage. As a master architect of resilient growth, David blends entrepreneurial experience with proven systems for lasting change. Every keynote is tailored to your organization, leaving leaders with the tools, courage, and clarity to thrive in uncertainty.
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David S. Kidder is a four time exited founder, a two time New York Times bestselling author, super angel investor in 150+ startups, winner of EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year award, and one of the most trusted voices in the world on igniting resilient growth for leaders and within enterprises.
As co-founder and CEO of Bionic, David built the GrowthOS™ and bootstrapped the company to $30 million in annual revenue, partnering directly with CEOs and leadership teams at Nike, Procter & Gamble, Citi, GE, and more than forty other Fortune 500 organizations. In 2021, Bionic was acquired by Accenture Song in what became one of their most successful acquisitions in history, catalyzing more than $10 billion in new revenue growth for partners. His methodology is captured in his best selling book, New to Big, and is taught as a matriculated Harvard Business Review case study on enterprise growth and innovation.
David is now channeling that same conviction into two new ventures. PreMortem is an AI native commercial decision system that tells leaders whether their most consequential initiatives are actually on course, before capital and credibility are locked in. Apogee is a Human and AI operating system rooted in behavioral science that unlocks leadership performance through an identity level shift in how teams collaborate, decide, and grow.. Together with his forthcoming books, The Board of Life (2026) and The Power of the PreMortem (2027), these ventures represent the next chapter of David's mission.
David's books, including The Startup Playbook, New to Big, and The Intellectual Devotional Series, have collectively sold more than one million copies across 18 languages. His work has been recognized by Adam Grant, the late Clay Christensen, and founders and investors such as Marc Andreessen for shaping how a generation of leaders build and scale what comes next. He has invested in more than 150 ventures as a super angel investor, giving him a front row seat to the patterns of growth, resilience, and reinvention that define enduring success.
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Ignite Resilient Growth
Customized as a keynote, workshop, or pilot.
When the world changes faster than the systems organizations were built on, growth demands a new approach. David brings proven mindsets and systems that Ignite Resilient Growth from three sides of the challenge:
New Growth: Every established organization reaches the moment where the core business is strong, but the future demands something new. David brings a proven operating system for discovering and accelerating new engines of revenue, market expansion, and strategic reinvention, giving leaders a repeatable framework for investing in the future while protecting the present.
Team Execution: When twelve month plans expire in twelve weeks, leadership teams need an objective, evidence driven way to know whether their highest stakes initiatives are on course or drifting. David brings a decision discipline that surfaces hidden risks, stress tests the assumptions driving the strategy forward, and aligns the team around what actually needs to be true for the initiative to succeed. Teams leave with the ability to course correct with real conviction and execute at a pace that matches the speed of the world around them.
Leadership Performance: The rate of change is asking leaders to operate at a level most were never trained for. David brings a methodology rooted in behavioral science that drives an identity-level shift in how leaders show up, collaborate, and hold each other accountable, transforming individual talent into the collective performance that resilient growth demands.
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