I have given over 400+ inspring keynotes on enterprise Growth Mindset and Culture that focus on energizing, empowering and instrucing leaders and organizations to challenge their mindsets, systems and cultures in a respectful, but provactive brand of radical candor. The impact can be immediate and lasting, ultimately unlocking new competitiveness and desire to go on offense. As captured my lastest book, most enterprises are dominated by the "Big to Bigger" focus on re-risking and efficiency, New to Big organizations that adopt growth mindsets and systems are building resilient growth cultures prepared for the future. www.davidskidder.com www.newtobig.com

I focus on scaling The GrowthOS platform and services (Bionic's propriety growth offering acquired by Accenture Song in 2021) across Accenture Song's global offerings.

I co-founded Bionic, acquired by Accenture Song in July 2021, and created the GrowthOS (tm), a proprietary solution designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world's largest enterprises based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship. The GrowthOS platform and services are now scaled globally as a core offering of Accenture Song's growth and innovation offerings. You care read more about The GrowthOS in www.NewToBig.com

Alt Option Return is my early-stage investment fund that has directly invested in 100+ startups. https://www.davidskidder.com/investments/

Adam Grant's "19 New Leadership Books to Read in 2019""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, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and How Will You Measure Your Life? “Big companies are normally where creativity goes to die. But David Kidder has spent his impressive career proving that it doesn’t have to be that way. This is the long-awaited playbook for figuring out how to turn your bureaucracy into an innovation machine. Whether you’re down in the trenches or up in the C-suite, it’s full of smart ideas that are immediately actionable and immensely useful.”–Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals and Give and TakeMost established companies face a key survival challenge, says David Kidder, CEO of Bionic, lifelong entrepreneur, and angel investor in more than thirty startups: operational efficiency and outdated bureaucracy are at war with new growth. Legacy companies are skilled at growing big businesses into even bigger ones. But they are less adept at discovering new opportunities and turning them into big businesses, the way entrepreneurs and early-stage investors must. In New to Big, Kidder and Wallace reveal their proprietary blueprint for installing a permanent growth capability inside any company--the Growth Operating System.The Growth OS borrows the best tools, systems, and mind-sets from entrepreneurship and venture capital and adapts them for established organizations, leveraging these two distinct skills as a form of management for building in a future that is uncertain. By focusing on what consumers do rather than what they say, celebrating productive failure, embracing a portfolio approach, and learning from the outside-in, Kidder and Wallace argue any company can go on offense and win the future.

The Startup Playbook (Published by Chronicle Books, January 2013) highlights 40 entrepreneurs and their individual “Playbooks” for building startup companies. Basically, a very raw and gritty overview of the beliefs and actions that have led these entrepreneurs to their outstanding success. The book profiles include the founders of SpaceX, Tesla (Elon Musk), Spanx (Sara Blakley), 800 Flowers (McCann), HonestTea (Goldman), Zappos (Tony Hsieh), LinkedIn (Reid Hoffman), Zip Car (Robin Chase), Flickr (Caterina Fake), The Motley Fool (Tom Gardner), Ben Horowitz (OpsWare), Steve Case (AOL), Steve Blank (Epiphany), Hosain Rahman (Jawbone), Chris Anderson (TED), Rodney Brooks (iRobot), Kevin Ryan (DoubleClick/Alley Corp), Jay Walker (Priceline), The Diamants (SkipHop), Scott Heifferman (Meetup), Marc Ecko (Ecko), Matt Blumberg (ReturnPath), Chris Dixon (Hunch), and many many others. The content and wisdom is profoundly raw.

A three time New York Times Best-Selling (5 books, Printed in 18+ Languages, National and International Best Seller) series published by Rodale. The Intellectual Devotional books have been thousands of Americans’ daily guides to stimulating new learning about dozens of subjects. Daily devotionals have long been a favored tool of those looking for a regular dose of spiritual growth. The Intellectual DevotionalL is a secular compendium in the same tradition—one year’s worth of daily readings that refresh the spirit, stimulate the mind, and help people complete their education. Each of the five books in The Intellectual Devotional series provides 365 daily doses of secular knowledge from seven fields of study, each for a day of the week. (Editions: General Edition, American History, Modern Culture, Biographies, Health)

Co-Founded in January 2007, Clickable was an all-in-one solution for online advertising. In one elegant experience, Clickable’s grew to 180+ dedicated team members who's goals it was to increase online investment performance by connecting and optimizing digital channels with the social graph. With Clickable’s patented and award-winning Pro advertising tool and dedicated search and social advertising experts, marketers radically reduced the time and complexity of managing multiple ad formats and networks, such as Google, Bing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. Clickable was acquired by Syncapse in June 2012.

Co-Founder of Renaissance Integrated Solutions, a municipal digital infrastructure solutions company.

Co-founded wireless content delivery pioneer, SmartRay Network, Inc. Built in partnership with TIBCO, the solution utilized proprietary alerting agent and data-feed management technology to deliver real-time personalized mobile content. SmartRay was acquired by LifeMinders in August 2000.

Led corporate development at THINK New Ideas, a publicly traded e-business solutions company. Supported the evaluation, acquisition and rapid integration of seven companies, helping grow the company from <100 to >500 employees in <36 months

Co-Founded Net-X, a web-authoring software and development services company, serving clients such as Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, Ray Ban and Young & Rubicam. Net-X was acquired by Target Vision in March 1996.