Growth Breaks When Systems Fall Behind Reality

Twelve month plans expire in twelve weeks. AI compresses decision cycles. Competitive landscapes reshape in months, not years.
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Most organizations are still operating on systems built for a different pace. Growth now depends on the velocity with which an organization aligns, adapts, and executes at the speed of change.

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Meet David

David S. Kidder is a four-time exited founder, two-time New York Times bestselling author, and investor in over 150 startups. He is widely recognized for his work on how organizations ignite resilient growth. For more than two decades, he has worked with companies navigating volatility, helping them turn uncertainty into lasting advantage. As an architect of growth systems, he brings together entrepreneurial experience and proven methodologies that Ignite Resilient Growth™.

David is the founder of Bionic, where he created GrowthOS™, acquired by Accenture Song in one of its most successful acquisitions in their history, now deployed globally to drive more than $10 billion in new revenue growth for partners. His work today continues through two new companies built for the speed this era demands, PreMortem and Apogee, focused on helping organizations and teams discover truth faster, strengthen decision discipline, and execute with greater precision.

David was awarded Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award and received ID Magazine's International Design Award. His books, including The Startup Playbook, New to Big, and The Intellectual Devotional Series, have collectively sold more than one million copies across 18 languages. He has delivered hundreds of keynotes and executive sessions, partnering directly with CEOs and leadership teams at Nike, Procter & Gamble, Citigroup, Microsoft, and more than forty other Fortune 500 organizations.

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What Leaders Are Saying

David Kidder is the unique human you always want in your corner, personally and professionally. His experience as an entrepreneur is peerless and his insights to successfully grow a business are priceless. There is no one I quote more often professionally and trust more personally.
Linda Boff
CEO, Said Differently
Deploying David Kidder’s Growth Operating system at Citi was a game changer. His powerful and compelling case for change hit home. Our leaders stepped into the urgent need to learn new skills and new ways of working in order to bring relevant new products and services to our customers.
Debra Hopkins
Former CEO of Citi
Once a big company makes the decision to grow, it has to learn how. New to Big presents a unique roadmap for big companies looking to spark powerful growth engines from within.
Clayton Christensen
Harvard Business School and bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma
The lessons of Kidder's book are simple. They did it and you can too. No magic tricks, no special genetic advantage, just passion, persistence, good sense, and a little luck
Seth Godin
Founder + Author (This is Strategy)
Kidder’s Startup Playbook is a one-inch punch of the start-up experience—a raw insider’s guide to the real playbooks behind some of tech’s greatest successes and comebacks.
Marc Andreessen
Cofounder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
David Kidder and his team at Bionic offer innovative and powerful ways for legacy companies to create entirely new legacies.
Pauline Brown
Former Chairperson, LVMH NA
With passion and unbridled candor, David and Bionic team deliver not just the “Growth Operating System tools” but the ability to spark a new way of thinking among ‘co-founders’ and provoking large Enterprises to do things very differently.
Jud Linville
CEO, Citi Cards, Citi
Working with David Kidder and the Bionic team gives teams the energy, tools, and, most importantly, the courage to innovate and scale new growth.
Beth Comstock
Former Vice Chair, GE
David Kidder understands like nobody else what makes start-ups successful and how big companies can learn from them. If entrepreneurship is a new form of management, David is the Michael Porter of our era!
Pedro Earp
Chief Marketing and ZX Ventures Officer
New To Big is a great how-to book for change leaders seeking to drive scalable, profitable growth in big companies, reminding us how to use deep questioning, masterful listening, and a learning culture to discover the ‘commercial truth’!
Kate Johnson
CEO, Lumen Technologies

Areas of Impact

NEW GROWTH

Organizations reach a point where the core business is strong, but the future demands something new
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A proven system for identifying and accelerating new engines of growth, shifting from internal assumptions to an outside in focus on the customer problems that create real opportunity
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COMMERCIAL VELOCITY

When plans expire faster than they can be executed, teams need clarity on what is actually true.
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A decision discipline that surfaces risk, stress tests assumptions, and aligns teams around the few factors that will determine success.
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LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE

The pace of change requires leaders to operate at a different level.
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A practical methodology that strengthens how leaders decide, collaborate, and hold each other accountable, building trust, candor, and alignment across the team.
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Ignite Resilient Growth

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