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Outthinkers

Hosted by Outthinker · business · EN-US

181 episodes12 recent guestsAudience: 6~727 on YouTube
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About this Podcast:

The Outthinkers podcast is a growth strategy podcast hosted by Kaihan Krippendorff. Each week, Kaihan talks with forward-looking strategists and innovators that are challenging the status quo, leading the future of business, and shaping our world. Chief strategy officers and executives can learn more and join the Outthinker community at https://outthinkernetwork.com/.

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What is Outthinkers about?

The Outthinkers podcast is a growth strategy podcast hosted by Kaihan Krippendorff. Each week, Kaihan talks with forward-looking strategists and innovators that are challenging the status quo, leading the future of business, and shaping our world.

Who hosts Outthinkers?

Outthinkers is hosted by Outthinker. The show has published 181 episodes to date.

What has Outthinkers covered recently?

Recent episodes include "#177, Challenge Your Assumptions: The Power of Questioning What You Think You Know: Naveen Jain" (20 October 2026, 51 minutes), "#176, Algorithm Is Strategy: The Hidden Power Inside the AI You Deploy: Hamilton Mann" (6 October 2026, 57 minutes), and "#175, Apple Store Architect: Why Most Companies Confuse Different With Better: Ron Johnson" (22 September 2026, 45 minutes).

How often does Outthinkers publish?

Outthinkers publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 181 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Outthinkers?

Booking probability for Outthinkers is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Outthinkers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Outthinkers's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Outthinkers?

The strongest fits for Outthinkers are Business & Management Consulting. Outthinkers has a business audience and around 730 subscribers on YouTube.

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Outthinker hosts Outthinkers, a business podcast with 181 episodes published.

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    #177 –Challenge Your Assumptions: The Power of Questioning What You Think You Know: Naveen Jain

    Oct 20, 202651 min

    Naveen Jain is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of multiple billion-dollar companies, including Infospace, Moon Express, and the health company Viome, where he is founder and CEO. His new book...

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    #176 – Algorithm Is Strategy: The Hidden Power Inside the AI You Deploy: Hamilton Mann

    Oct 6, 202657 min

    Hamilton Mann is an AI researcher, technology executive, and award-winning author. He is Executive Chairman and President of the Artificial Integrity Institute, lectures at INSEAD and HEC Paris, and mentors at MIT's...

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    #175 – Apple Store Architect: Why Most Companies Confuse Different With Better: Ron Johnson

    Sep 22, 202645 min

    New on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Ron Johnson - the retail visionary behind the Apple Store and Target's design revolution about what it really takes to permanently...

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    #174 – Why You Should Assume You're Partly Wrong: The Science of Seeing Clearly: Caroline Webb

    Sep 8, 202647 min

    Caroline Webb is an executive coach, economist, and former McKinsey partner. She is the author of the global bestseller How to Have a Good Day, published in more than 60 countries, and has been named one of the world's...

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    #173 – Culture as Competitive Infrastructure: Why Transformation Isn't About Tech: Julie Averill

    Aug 25, 202641 min

    Julie Averill is a technology and transformation executive with nearly three decades of experience scaling global businesses. As Global CIO and EVP at Lululemon, she led an eight-year transformation that helped grow the...

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    #172 – Global by Design: How to Build Innovations That Work Everywhere: Vijay Govindarajan

    Aug 11, 202648 min

    New on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Vijay Govindarajan — VG — about why the next breakthrough American innovation may be discovered in a village in India before it ever...

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    #171 – Everyone's Blaming AI for Layoffs. Here's What's Actually Happening: Philipp Muelbert

    Jul 21, 202641 min

    New on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Philipp Muelbert about the three loops every company falls into when their talent needs shift — and why the cheapest-looking option...

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    #170 – Why Most Mergers Fail After the Deal Closes: David Fubini

    Jul 7, 202641 min

    David Fubini spent 34 years at McKinsey & Company, where he was a Senior Partner, Managing Director of the Boston office, and co-founder of the firm's Worldwide Merger Integration Practice — leading dozens of the...

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    #169 — AI Is Doing the Junior Work. Who Becomes Your Next Senior Leader? | Carrol Chang

    Jun 16, 202643 minS0

    <p>New on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Carrol Chang about why the unit of work is shifting from the full-time employee to the task itself — and what that means for...

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    #168 — Why Good Companies Go Bad: Eric Ries

    Jun 2, 202640 minS0

    <p>New on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Eric Ries — author of the landmark The Lean Startup — about his new book Incorruptible, and why the way we've run companies for...

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    #167 — Your Company's Biggest AI Advantage Is Already Sitting in Your Database: Scott Snyder

    May 19, 202645 minS0

    <p>New on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Scott Snyder about why most companies are failing to get real value from AI — and why the problem has nothing to do with the...

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    #166 — Your Business Model Has an Expiry Date: Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva

    May 5, 202639 minS0

    <p>Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a globally recognised reinvention strategist, four-time author, and founder of the Reinvention Academy. A former chaired professor at a business school in the Slovenian Alps, she coined the...

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    #165 — How AI Is Killing Traditional Market Research: Peter Weinberg

    Apr 21, 202637 minS0

    <p>Peter Weinberg is the founder of Evidenza, an AI-powered synthetic research platform, and a former LinkedIn executive where he co-founded the B2B Institute. Over a decade at LinkedIn, Peter helped reframe how B2B...

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    #164 — How Coach Went From $6M to $5B Without Losing Its Soul

    Apr 7, 202637 minS0

    <p>New on Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Lew Frankfort about how Coach scaled while building trust, durability, and emotional connection with customers.<br/><br/>...

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    #163 — Joseph Pine: Why Customers Don’t Care About What You Sell

    Mar 17, 202637 minS0

    <p>Joe Pine is the co-author of The Experience Economy—and one of the thinkers who gave leaders a language for why “services” weren’t the end of the story. In this episode, Joe returns with his next major thesis: we’ve...

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    #162 — Linda Hill & Jason Wild: The Leadership Model Behind Innovation That Scales

    Mar 3, 202659 minS0

    <p>In a recent Outthinkers episode sponsored by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff is joined by Linda Hill (Havard Business School) and Jason Wild (WISE) to discuss what it takes to move innovation beyond isolated efforts...

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    #161 — Neil Hoyne: What Data Can’t Tell You About Strategy

    Feb 24, 202642 minS0

    <p>Neil Hoyne is Chief Strategist at Google and one of the sharpest voices on how companies actually make decisions when data, intuition, and organizational politics collide. He works at the intersection of strategy...

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    #160 —John Fallon: Leading Through a Decade-Long Disruption

    Feb 17, 202647 minS0

    <p>John Fallon is the former CEO of Pearson, where he led one of the most challenging digital transformations of any publicly traded company—shifting a legacy publishing giant from selling ~20 million US college...

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    #159 — Dr. Brent Ridge: The Kindness Operating System for Hiring, Culture, and Growth

    Feb 3, 202650 minS0

    <p>Dr. Brent Ridge is the co-founder of Beekman 1802, a skin health brand that began with goat milk soap made at a dining room table and scaled into a nationally recognized business with a devoted community. Brent...

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    #158 — Jana Werner & Phil Le-Brun: How to Build an Organization That Learns and Adapts Fast

    Jan 20, 202646 minS0

    <p>Jana Werner is a global executive advisor and Executive in Residence at Amazon Web Services, where she works with Fortune 500 leadership teams on organizational transformation and enterprise strategy. She holds a PhD...

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