Companies and industries face a climate of radical change and potential disruption. To be successful in the future, companies will need to build the capability to constantly experiment with new technologies and future customer offerings in close collaboration with users and external partners – while still managing the existing business. But how to challenge the status quo with disruptive and provocative new ideas – without losing the support and respect from colleagues and management? This is a difficult balance and new ideas risks getting rejected or suffocated by the existing core business. To overcome this, innovation leaders need to balance the rebel nature of the innovator with the diplomatic skills of the corporate navigator.

In this session David will take the audience on a deep dive into the structures and processes LEGO put in place to expand the core competencies of the business beyond the brick system. He talks about intrapreneurship, which is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organisation. This approach enables larger companies to breakout of old habits and create ways of working to meet future challenges in an agile, nimble and fast manner. David will share his 5 steps to building a culture of intrapreneurship and how you can become a diplomatic rebel.

Leadership lessons that you’ll learn from this session:

• Understand how to build a culture of intrapreneurship incl. organizational structures, tools and incentives leveraging lean start-up methods, design thinking and agile methodology.
• Understand how to transform the growing organization into a nimble and adaptive ecosystem of capabilities, assets and talent enabling meaningful collaboration with start-ups while empowering employees to build new start-ups in the ecosystem.
• Understand the 5 habits of high impact intrapreneurs and how to become a diplomatic