Soren Kaplan

Soren has been recognized by the Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top thought leaders in business strategy and innovation. In 2020, Business Insider named him as one of the world’s top “Consulting Power Players” shaping the future of the business consulting industry. Soren is also The Wall Street Journal bestselling and award winning author of Leapfrogging and The Invisible Advantage, an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at USC’s Marshall School of Business, a writer for Fast Company and Inc. Magazine, and a globally recognized keynote speaker. As a leading expert in disruptive innovation, organizational transformation, and scalable business models, he has worked with Disney, NBCUniversal, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, Hershey, Red Bull, 3M, Medtronic, Roche, Philips, Cisco, Visa, Ascension Health, CSAA Insurance Group, the American Nurses Association, PwC, Accenture, Mercer and numerous others. Soren previously led the internal strategy and innovation group at Hewlett-Packard (HP) and was a co-founder of iCohere, one of the first web collaboration platforms for online learning. He has been quoted, published, and interviewed by Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Inc., Forbes, CNBC, National Public Radio, the American Management Association, and USA Today, among many others.