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Co-Founder & CEO of Refundly | Founder of Gratitude Productions | Executive Producer of "The Good Doctor" & "The Company You Keep" | Hollywood-to-Tech Reinvention Story
Josh Linkner
Innovation & Creativity Expert | Five-Time Tech Entrepreneur | NYT Bestselling Author of Big Little Breakthroughs | Managing Partner, Muditā Venture Partners | Jazz Guitarist
Josh Linkner is a rare blend of business, art, and science: a five-time tech entrepreneur whose companies sold for over $200 million, a venture capitalist behind 100-plus startups, and a New York Times bestselling author of five books on innovation. A professional jazz guitarist, he uses improvisation as a model for creating under pressure. On stage, he gives audiences practical tools to unlock everyday creativity and lead through disruption.
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Josh Linkner biography
Josh Linkner is a rare blend of business, art, and science, a five-time tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and New York Times bestselling author who has become one of the most sought-after voices on innovation and creativity in business. His central belief is disarmingly simple: creativity is not a gift reserved for a lucky few, but a capacity inside everyone that can be unlocked, systematized, and turned into a competitive advantage.
The innovation speaker Josh Linkner has founded and led five technology companies that created more than 10,000 jobs and sold for a combined value of over $200 million. As a venture capitalist he has helped launch and scale more than 100 startups, generating over $1 billion in investor returns, and today he is co-founder and Managing Partner of Muditā Venture Partners, an early-stage, AI-first fund, and co-founder and Chairman of the innovation consultancy Platypus Labs. He has twice been named EY Entrepreneur of the Year and received the U.S. Presidential Champion of Change Award.
From Jazz Guitar to the Science of Innovation
Linkner’s approach is shaped by an unlikely second career: he is a professional jazz guitarist who played his first club gig at thirteen and has since performed more than a thousand concerts, and he uses improvisation as a living model for how teams create under pressure. He has distilled two decades of research into human creativity across five bestselling books, including Big Little Breakthroughs, The Road to Reinvention, and Hacking Innovation, and into his trademarked “Find A Way” framework. He also co-founded ImpactEleven, an accelerator that develops the next generation of professional speakers, giving him an unusually sharp sense of what makes a message land.
As a speaker, Josh Linkner is high-energy, entertaining, and relentlessly practical, and no two of his talks are ever the same. Delivering around 80 keynotes a year, he speaks on building a culture of everyday innovation, human creativity in the age of AI, reinvention and leading through disruption, and the improvisational mindset that turns uncertainty into advantage. Audiences leave energized and, more importantly, equipped with specific tools they can use the next morning to think and work more creatively.
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Drawing on his bestselling book, Linkner dismantles the myth that innovation means giant, risky moonshots. The most creative people and organizations, he shows, rely instead on small, daily creative acts that compound into outsized results. He gives audiences a practical framework for de-risking creativity, building inventive thinking into everyday work, and unlocking breakthrough results without betting the company.
Linkner's signature keynote turns innovation from magic into method. Using his proven five-step "Find A Way" framework, he shows leaders and teams how to solve problems, seize opportunities, and drive growth through agility, creativity, and improvisation rather than brute force. Audiences leave with concrete tools to cultivate organization-wide ingenuity and win consistently in the face of uncertainty.
As artificial intelligence reshapes every industry, Linkner argues that technology alone is not the answer, and that human creativity becomes more valuable, not less. This talk explores how to fuse human imagination with AI, what remains uniquely human, and how leaders can position their people to thrive at the intersection of both rather than be displaced by the machine.
The business you run today is not the one you will run next year. Linkner delivers a modern, accessible framework for leading through volatility, helping executives make faster, bolder decisions, reinvent before they are forced to, and build teams that treat change as opportunity. It is a practical, energizing playbook for anyone leading in an era of relentless disruption.
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FAQs on Booking Josh Linkner
Why Josh Linkner?
Booking Josh Linkner gives audiences a genuine practitioner, not a theorist, on innovation and creativity. He has built and sold five technology companies, generated over a billion dollars in venture returns, written five New York Times bestselling books, and delivered well over a thousand keynotes worldwide, and he brings all of it to the stage with the energy of a professional jazz musician. His talks are entertaining and interactive, but they are built to be useful: audiences leave with specific, proven tools for unlocking creativity and leading through change. Because he never delivers the same talk twice and tailors heavily to each audience, he is a reliable highlight-of-the-conference speaker. He is ideal for events on innovation, creativity, leadership, technology, and the future of work. To bring Josh Linkner to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Josh Linkner?
Josh Linkner is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and keynote speaker widely recognized as a leading expert on innovation and creativity. He has been the founder and CEO of five technology companies that sold for a combined value of over $200 million, has helped launch more than 100 startups as a venture capitalist, and is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Muditā Venture Partners and Chairman of Platypus Labs. A New York Times bestselling author of five books, including Big Little Breakthroughs, he is also a professional jazz guitarist and a two-time EY Entrepreneur of the Year. He has delivered well over a thousand keynotes around the world.
What is Josh Linkner's "Find A Way" framework?
"Find A Way" is Josh Linkner's proprietary, five-step innovation framework for cultivating creativity across an entire organization. Rather than treating innovation as luck or the domain of a special "creative" team, it turns creative problem-solving into a repeatable system available to everyone. The approach prioritizes agility over brute force, creativity over hustle, and improvisation over perfect planning, giving leaders and teams practical tools to drive growth, competitive advantage, and results even amid uncertainty and rapid change. It draws on Linkner's two decades researching human creativity and his experience building and scaling companies.
What topics does innovation speaker Josh Linkner cover?
Josh Linkner speaks on everyday innovation and creativity, his "Find A Way" framework for systematic innovation, human creativity in the age of AI, and reinvention and leadership through disruption. His keynotes suit events on innovation, creativity, leadership, technology, entrepreneurship, and the future of work. To book Josh Linkner as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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