Dr. Sunnie Giles

Take the mystery out of radical innovation! Facing today's volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, we need a new type of leader—Quantum Leaders. Quantum Leaders are fundamentally different from the rest of the pack and exhibit 6 key competencies. Gone are the days of command and control and individual charisma. Quantum Leaders not only consistently deliver on radical innovation, they are good bosses to work for! My global leadership research, published in Harvard Business Review, has revealed that the turnover intent of these leaders is 37% lower than those of other leaders for their respective organizations, which translates into a $448 million hit to operating expenses for each Fortune 500 company, meaning each Fortune 500 company would have to generate an additional $8.7 billion in topline sales to make up for this additional hit to operating expenses. What is more: People are willing to forego up to 39% of their compensation to work for a Quantum Leader.

Dr. Sunnie shows you how to harness complexity to catalyze radical innovation and thrive in VUCA. Business leaders are being challenged at an unprecedented rate with increasingly volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) variables alongside increasing demands for faster decision-making in today’s business environment. In this challenging era, many large businesses become irrelevant, being displaced by new entrants that morph rapidly with unpredictable maneuvers. Leaders need to learn how to harness VUCA to produce radical innovation, what new leadership attributes and competencies are required to successfully lead an organization in this complex environment, what makes it difficult for some leaders to make the change, and how they can overcome these challenges.

Take the mystery out of radical innovation! Taking apart the common DNA of the successful Silicon Valley tech giants, you can learn what you need to do to consistently produce radical innovation, the kind that produces a minimum of 10x improvements and radically redefines the industry dynamics. Based on solid research, and her book The New Science of Radical Innovation: The Six Competencies Leaders Need to Win in a Complex World, Dr. Sunnie shares the "theoretical framework to understand the seemingly idiosyncratic business practices of successful Silicon Valley high tech companies and actual practices companies must master to win in this new world" (Marshall Goldsmith). She "sets a new standard for understanding innovation and provides profound insights on how innovation happens and what you can do to harness that potential” (Jonathan Rosenberg).