LUKE WILLIAMS is a leading business thinker, speaker and author having lectured in 21 countries & addressed the World Innovation Forum & the United Nations General Assembly. He is Professor of Innovation at NYU Stern School of Business and the founder of Idea Skills™.Williams is the inventor of 30+ U.S. patents & has designed more than 100 products in industries ranging from transportation to finance, and healthcare to consumer electronics. His views are regularly featured in media ranging from Bloomberg BusinessWeek & Fast Company to The Wall Street Journal & The Economist. He is the author of the international bestseller, Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business."Don't let the title fool you. This book is stuffed with practical, useful ideas that will change the way you create and sell useful, practical ideas."––Seth Godin, author of Linchpin“Luke Williams has a powerful message for companies today: Don’t wait for a couple guys in a garage to come up with an idea that will up-end your business.” ––Linda Tischler, Senior Editor, Fast Company"If you need to drive disruptive innovation in your own organization—and you do—Luke Williams is the guide you've been looking for."––David L. Rogers, author of The Network Is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age"By artfully smashing ideas together––from Schumpeter to Tarantino, business to design––Luke Williams upends the ordinary, providing the reader with a motivational and pragmatic blueprint for innovative thinking."––Jamyn Edis, Vice-President of Emerging Technology R&D at HBO“Luke Williams is the master at unleashing big thoughts. His book, Disrupt, shows us how to do what sometimes seems impossible—conceiving and executing bold ideas with massive potential. At the Nike Foundation, we’ve put Luke’s principles to work and had tremendous results.” —Stuart Hogue, Director, Systems at Scale, Nike Foundation