An ideal keynote address combines a message of value to the audience with a powerful delivery. This combination is our goal in every public speaking engagement.

Our CEO, David Wittenberg, delivers valuable insights on a number of vital business topics. Drawing on an exceptional range of experiences over a 30-plus-year career, he delivers these insights in a unique style that is engaging, entertaining, provocative, inspiring, challenging and most of all, memorable.

For each public speaking engagement, David works closely with the sponsor to understand the unique characteristics of the audience and the event. He customizes a presentation for each audience, preparing as many three drafts so that the sponsor and the audience are assured of receiving value from the session.

Profile: David Wittenberg, CEO

Known as India’s resident innovation guru, David brings world-class innovation to leading Indian and multi-national corporations including Reliance Industries, Tata and Ericsson. The author of The Executive’s Guide to Innovation, David enables companies to address innovation challenges worth hundreds of crores – even thousands of crores – using world-class innovation tools and techniques.

Prior to founding The Innovation Workgroup, David worked at Advanced Concepts and Technology, one of the world’s leading innovation labs, at a Fortune 500 corporation. A lifelong innovator, David holds two patents, has written five books, is a published songwriter, and has created four business solutions each of which generated more than one million dollars in revenue.

Earlier in his career, David worked as an independent management consultant for such firms as American Express, AT&T, Kelly Services, Philip Morris, Standard & Poor’s and UPS. His successes include launching a ground-breaking entertainment product that exploited an innovative distribution channel to achieve record sales, turning around a consumer services company from the brink of bankruptcy, developing the most successful continuity marketing program in the history of a collectibles firm, researching and writing a best-selling guide to electronic invoicing, creating and promoting a marketing seminar for small and medium enterprises, and increasing the client base of a business services firm by 50% in two years.

David earned his MBA in international management with honors from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, where he served as a research assistant and co-wrote three business cases. A highly-rated speaker, he has delivered programs on innovation, marketing, strategy, entrepreneurship and salesmanship. He teaches innovation and leadership at Sunstone Business School and previously taught branding, advertising and introduction to business at FOSTIIMA Business School and Stratford University. He resides in New Delhi, India.