I don’t deliver keynotes. I design peak moments that ignite resilient growth.
With decades of experience as a founder, investor, and Fortune 500 advisor, my presentations challenge leaders to think bigger, execute faster, and embed the systems that make growth inevitable.
Known for my radically candid, gritty and transparent style no-nonsense style, I equip leaders with frameworks that drive high-performance teams, accelerate execution, and turn uncertainty into a competitive edge.
Whether your organization is tackling growth, resilience, or transformation, my keynotes deliver the insights, systems, and strategies that empower teams to act decisively and thrive.
Keynotes
Learn more about David's Keynotes
Organizational Keynote
From New to Big: Igniting Resilient Aways-On Growth Systems In Organizations
Organizational growth doesn’t happen by chance—it’s driven by a strategic alignment of internal and external forces and a commitment to transforming mindsets. Through this powerful framework, David guides organizations to uncover their proprietary gifts, address evolving customer needs, and build an always-on growth engine that thrives amid disruption.
The Board of Life: How to create a personal board of directors to transform your leadership and life
Through a keynote and workshop, leaders and teams will learn to establish their own board of directors and set higher commitments to unlock their full potential in both life and work.
The Resilient Growth Playbook: How to resiliently scale a venture
Building and sustaining growth takes more than vision—it calls for a transformation in how leaders and teams think and work. In this keynote and workshop, David Kidder unveils the high-growth playbook, drawing on insights and systems that help enterprises navigate critical startup stages to move to scale-up with precision.
In this transformative keynote and workshop, David Kidder introduces The Premortem™, a high-impact experience + model for aligning leadership, teams, and capital allocators around the core assumptions that drive successful growth.
365 Daily intellectual insights to fuel learning and growth. Over 1mm+ in print in over 18 languages.
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’!
Kate Johnson
President, Microsoft U.S
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.
