Christoph Burkhardt

Christoph Burkhardt supports companies around the world in understanding innovation not as an occasional project, but as an integral part of their everyday business.

He shows how organisations in the 21st century can develop new ideas faster, implement them with greater courage and remain fit for the future in the long term.

As an expert in the future, innovation and progress, Christoph Burkhardt lives and works in Silicon Valley, with San Francisco as his adopted home. There, he experiences first-hand how visionary ideas become market-ready innovations – and how technologies, business models and new ways of thinking go on to change the world.

‘Germany’s best innovation psychologist’ writes Focus about Christoph Burkhardt. ‘Probably the only one,’ says the innovation expert himself. For more than six years, Christoph Burkhardt has been helping companies all over the world to grow professionally – with great success.

Christoph Burkhardt presentation Topics

• Unlock Artificial Intelligence – Smart Technologies Used Smartly: How the next generation of smart technologies is revolutionizing our world

• Unlock Innovation Excellence – Silicon Valley Lessons: How organizations are transforming themselves into hubs for innovation

• Unlock Purpose-Driven Growth – from purpose to growth: how the right questions, not the answers, produce outstanding solutions and how you ask them

• Unlock Organizational Intelligence – Diversity as the Basis for Innovation: Why Difference Makes the Difference for Innovation

• Don’t Be A Robot – Seven Survival Strategies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Why we need to stop behaving like robots if we don’t want to be replaced by them.

• Future trends and what they mean– Without ifs and buts, but with hand and foot. How to develop products and services that turn your customers’ lives upside down.

• The courage to take risks – Progress through mistakes = growth through innovation. How to help extraordinary ideas achieve a breakthrough without risking everything.

After studying psychology and economics in Heidelberg, Munich and London, Christoph Burkhardt has been working as an independent consultant and innovation researcher with companies such as Intel, Merck, Lufthansa, BMW and Siemens since graduating from the London School of Economics in 2010 and has taught at top universities across Europe. In his book ‘Breakthrough’, the future optimist explains why good ideas are no coincidence.

Who is Christoph Burkhardt?

Christoph Burkhardt is a business psychologist who specialises in innovation processes. His mission: to support companies and organisations in not only reacting to change, but actively shaping it. Having worked in Europe and the USA, particularly in the innovation centre Silicon Valley, he has learned how ideas can be turned into real market changes.

Thanks to his scientific expertise and practical experience, he has made a name for himself as an expert in future strategies. Companies that work with Christoph Burkhardt benefit from his in-depth understanding of technological developments and his pragmatic methods for successfully integrating them into existing structures.

Christoph Burkhardt – learning from one of the world’s best innovation strategists.

In 2014, the German Speakers Association honoured him with the Newcomer Award for his keynote speech on the evolution of ideas. Since then, Christoph Burkhardt has captivated thousands of listeners around the world and inspired them to embrace innovation and progress. As an economist, he knows how important innovation and growth are for an economy. As a psychologist, he also understands what it means to develop the courage to take risks and make complex decisions.

In his research projects, many of them in practice, Christoph Burkhardt has developed systems that optimise the generation, evaluation and implementation of innovative ideas and protect large companies in particular from decision paralysis.