Innovation Keynote Speaker

Predictable Growth in an Unpredictable World

Interactive Experiences That Transform How Teams Think, Innovate & Collaborate...with Impact That Lasts Long After the Event.
Trusted by more than 500 companies across 50+ countries
Bringing you into 3M is one of those career highlights for me. Our leadership team still talks about you and references things they learned.
Deb Byers
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, 3M

Why Smart Teams Struggle

Even the most talented organizations find themselves caught in familiar patterns:

And traditional learning experiences and events fail to solve these problems because:

The result?

You're paying for the expensive illusion of progress while your team’s potential stays untapped.

Stephen Creates Lasting Change

Real impact starts while I’m on stage and continues in the weeks, months and years that follow
Early in my career, I believed efficiency was everything.

After studying Industrial Engineering at Cornell, I joined Accenture and spent years helping companies cut costs and streamline operations. 

Too often, “efficient” just meant eliminating positions.

Then came the breaking point: a project that would eliminate 10,000 jobs.

These were real people, with families, dreams, and futures, not numbers on a spreadsheet. That’s when I realized I was solving the wrong problem entirely.

Great companies don’t grow by cutting jobs. They grow by creating value through people.

So, while everyone else asked, “How can we cut costs faster?” I asked, “How can we create value through people?”

That single question changed everything.

It led me to build and lead Accenture’s 20,000-person innovation practice.

Today, I help organizations solve their most critical challenges collaboratively, quickly, and with impact that lasts long after I leave the room.

Why It Works

The Difference Between a Great Event and Lasting Change

Most speakers stop at interactive. People engage in the room, then go back to their desks and nothing changes. Here is how my work goes further.

LEVEL 1

Interactive

Your audience does not just watch. They play their way to insight, engaged and on their feet. This is where most experiences begin and end.

LEVEL 2

Memorable

The experience sticks. Teams quote Personality Poker years later and still use it. People talk about it long after the event ends.

The Difference

LEVEL 3

Measurable

Full Deck IQ and the 30-Day Innovation Challenge turn a one-time experience into repeated engagement we can track. You see who stays engaged, where collaboration improves, and what actually changed.

Interactive . Memorable . Measurable

That is the difference.

Here's How We Create Predictable Growth in an Unpredictable World

It starts with a high-energy keynote, then deepens into lasting, measurable change.

A high-energy event your audience is still talking about long after it ends.

Measurable culture change you can track for months and years.

1 KEYNOTES & WORKSHOPS

Interactive experiences that transform how teams think, collaborate, and solve problems together.

Signature keynote

Personality Poker®

Creating High-Performing Innovation Teams

Participants “play their way” to powerful insights, uncovering their innovation styles, spotting blind spots, and learning to collaborate with people who think differently.

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2 MASTERY PROGRAMS

Deep-dive programs that embed innovation and collaboration into your organization’s DNA.

Flagship program

FAST Innovation® Mastery

Accelerate breakthroughs while building long-term capability

This hands-on program helps your team quickly:

  • Reframe problems
  • Uncover opportunities
  • Generate better solutions

FAST Innovation® Mastery blends training with real-time application, so teams deliver measurable impact while embedding innovation into how they work.

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Team performance

Personality Poker® Mastery

Create a culture of collaboration by building high-performing teams

This program helps your team quickly:

  • Strengthen collaboration
  • Surface hidden strengths
  • Build high-performing teams

It equips your internal facilitators with my fun, proven Personality Poker® method, so you can build a lasting culture and teach teams to work together and win.

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AI-enabled platform

Full Deck IQ

The AI-Enabled Platform That Makes It Measurable

This platform helps your team continuously:

  • See how they collaborate and innovate
  • Spot where teamwork breaks down
  • Track what improves over time

Full Deck IQ turns a one-time experience into measurable change that compounds.

Explore the Program and Platform
Full Deck IQ dashboard

He led a 20,000-person innovation practice at Accenture, and he can make it a reality for your organization.

Books That Changed How Organizations Innovate

Transformation That Lasts

The real impact starts after I step off the stage
“A month later, I continue to see evidence that the awareness the game fosters really stuck. Teams are collaborating in ways we’ve never seen before.”

Michele Roza Littleton, Innovation Operations, Chevron

“Stephen’s passion for innovation is infectious. He delivers both inspiration and actionable insights that caused an internal shift in mindset for our innovators.”
Laurie Heltsley, Director of Innovation, Procter & Gamble
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