David S Kidder - IGNITING RESILIENT GROWTH

The World Has Outpaced How We Work

Twelve month plans now expire in twelve weeks. Capital gets misallocated before reality is measured. Teams chase efficiency while effectiveness erodes. Leaders live in a constant toggle between reacting to what is ahead and making space to see what is true now.

AI accelerates information, not insight. The result is asymmetry between the speed of the world and the velocity of the organization.

David Kidder helps leaders restore that symmetry through systems that turn growth, adaptability, and learning into measurable rhythm. When the internal rate of learning finally matches the external rate of change, performance compounds.

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Meet David

David S. Kidder is a founder, author, and keynote speaker whose work has shaped how the world’s largest organizations grow. A two time New York Times best selling author and four time founder with multiple exits, most recently as co-Founder + CEO of Bionic, the creators of the GrowthOS (™), the most successful acquisition in Accenture Song history. David has spent his career building systems that help leaders and teams adapt to change and turn growth into a measurable capability.

He has delivered hundreds of keynotes and executive sessions for companies including Nike, Procter & Gamble, Citi, and Microsoft, guiding leaders to see truth faster, align to what matters most, and build the rhythm required to thrive in disruption.

David’s work brings together decades of entrepreneurial practice and enterprise transformation to help organizations match the speed of the world with the velocity of their people.

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David's Impact

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

The Work

KEYNOTES

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.

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ACTIVATIONS

Breakthroughs happen when leaders confront truth together.

These sessions unite committed executives around the systems and evidence that matter most—turning complexity into clarity, alignment, and decisive action. Each workshop builds the rhythm of learning that turns intention into measurable momentum.

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COACHING

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).

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Ignite Resilient Growth™

With systems that align leaders, teams, and capital to grow stronger through change.

The World Has Outpaced How We Work

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