Item added to Favorites!

David Robertson

Request more information about David Robertson

Categories: Innovation, Change & Creativity | Leadership

Travels from Boston, Massachusetts, USA

David Robertson is an outstanding author, consultant, MIT Senior Lecture, keynote speaker and student of innovation. Robertson was also a professor at the Wharton Business School at The University of Pennsylvania, one of the most renowned business schools in the US.

David Robertson is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches Innovation and Product Management. Over the course of his career, Robertson has been a consultant at McKinsey, a senior executive at small and large technology companies, a radio show host, and a business school professor.

From 2010 through 2017, Dave Robertson was a Professor of Practice at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, he was the host of Innovation Navigation, a weekly radio show and podcast about innovation management. From 2002 through 2009, Robertson was the LEGO Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Switzerland’s Institute for Management Development (IMD). While at IMD, he was given inside access to The LEGO Group, and wrote his award-winning book Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry. Robertson’s most recent book, The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation was published in 2017.

David Robertson currently runs MIT’s largest and highest-rated executive program, the Executive Program in General Management. He also teaches in other MIT executive programs, consults with global Fortune 1000 companies, and is a frequent speaker at corporate events and industry trade shows.

Speaking Topics

Transformational Leadership

In this speech David Robertson uses examples from companies to illustrate how great leaders make change happen before there’s a crisis. He lays out a step-by-step guide for transforming your organization.

Innovation Management – The Lego Story

The goal of this session is to tell the LEGO story and the lessons to be learned about how to lead and govern innovation across a large company.

The Third Way To Innovate – Innovating Around The Core

In this talk, David Robertson will show how leading companies use this powerful innovation strategy and share the techniques and disciplines that any company can adopt to boost their innovation success.

The Innovation Leader's First 90 Days

Most of the success or failure of a new innovation project is determined in the first 90 days. What can new innovation leaders – be they Product Managers, Chief Innovation Officers, or VPs of Innovation – do in their first 90 days on the job to ensure success?

Books