Leadership is a complex internal battleground—a high-stakes, high-speed journey where the consequences roll up to only you.
The most successful leaders don’t react to uncertainty. They define and transform it into momentum.
You’re been tasked to make high-stakes decisions, move at high speed, and align multiple competing inside and outside forces— and those above (i.e. your board of directors).
If you’re ready to lead with clarity, embed new growth systems that align and lead with conviction, and capture the future—not be defeated by it—let’s begin.
I work one-on-one with a select group of CEOs, founders, and executive teams to:
Clarify their highest-leverage opportunities
Align their leadership teams and cultures with tools and systems that bind, scale, and sustain growth
Solve their highest frictions and hurdles to scale
Create their personal Operating Systems and Leadership Playbooks to make growth inevitable
Connect with outside resources and partners to maximize their impact and growth
Resilient Growth Doesn't Happen by chance. It's designed in from Day One.
No one builds the future alone. Outside forces dictate almost all growth outcomes. So, growth isn’t luck—it’s the result of embedded systems, decisive action, and the relentless pursuit of commercial truths.
The leaders, teams, and organizations that win are the ones who turn uncertainty into advantage, friction into momentum, and ambition into execution.
And it starts with the right system, the right conversation, and the right mindset.
Thousands of leaders have engaged with David to unlock transformational growth
David Kidder has a unique understanding of how to scale innovation. His team at Bionic brings grit, candor and just the right amount of sharp provocation to help leaders develop an agile mindset and accelerate in today’s need-for-speed world.
Linda Boff
CMO of GE
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’!
