David Kidder

Renowned Enterprise Growth Transformation Pioneer. Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Best-Selling Author, & Founder and CEO of Bionic

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Co-founder and CEO of Bionic (Inc. 120) pioneer in enterprise growth mindset, transformation, and capability designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world’s largest enterprises
Two-Time New York Times best-selling author New to Big, The Startup Playbook, and The Intellectual Devotional Series
Experienced 4X entrepreneur, founder, and angel investor in over 40 companies awarded EY Entrepreneur of The Year ® (2008)
10+ years speaking throughout the world on the topic igniting growth revolutions in enterprise – the growth mindsets, innovation, and transformation – revealing his revolutionary insights for installing a permanent-growth capability inside any company: The Growth Operating System ®

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An experienced entrepreneur, advisor to Fortune 500 leaders, best-selling author, and active angel investor with more than 40 investments, David S. Kidder has dedicated his life and work to ignite growth in the lives of people and organizations, help identify their proprietary gifts, and solve the greatest challenges of our time. In 2013, he co-founded the Bionic startup to spark growth revolutions in large enterprises, and has spent the last decade speaking throughout the world on the topic of growth mindsets, innovation, and transformation – revealing his revolutionary playbook for installing a permanent growth capability inside any company: the Growth Operating System.

A keynote by David Kidder is an experience like none other, and his message of becoming a refounder – rebuilding, resetting, and evolving with a founder’s mindset to create next-generation solutions – is more relevant than ever. His gritty, real-world experience as a four-time entrepreneur and active angel investor combined with his understanding of the priorities and pressures of Fortune 500 leaders ensures his presentations will leave your audience inspired to adapt a refounder mindset and ready to take action to become growth leaders. He is known to light up the room with energy, challenge your thinking with his particular brand of radical candor, and ultimately spark a new competitiveness and desire to go on offense and start disrupting, rather than being disrupted. Because while big used to eat little, fast now eats big.

As CEO of Bionic, Kidder leads the company comprised of fellow entrepreneurs and investors who have successfully pioneered a new enterprise growth capability that drives the Growth Mindsets and Systems that lead to new growth and transformation for the world’s most competitive companies. The company installs proprietary solutions, designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world’s largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship to thrive in disruption. Prior to Bionic, Kidder served as the co-founder and CEO of three venture-backed startup, including Clickable, an online advertising software-as-a-service startup (acquired by Syncapse) and SmartRay Network, a mobile advertising pioneer (acquired by LifeMinders).

Kidder is an active angel investor in over 40 startups through his funds, Alt Option Return and the Bionic Fund, and a founding member and advisor to The Acumen Fund One Percent Fund, Venture for America, and YPO Global One. He has also served on the National Board of the Smithsonian.

He is also the creator and co-author of the two-time New York Times bestselling five-book series, The Intellectual Devotional, and The Startup Playbook. Kidder’s latest book, New To Big, provides a roadmap established companies to create like entrepreneurs, invest like VCs, and install a permanent operating system for growth.

A regular guest on podcasts and broadcast television interviews, Kidder has received many accolades for his expertise, including ID Magazine‘s International Design Award and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008.

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The hardest moment for any leader and team is realizing that what worked yesterday won’t work tomorrow. Vision is important, but resilience is what carries organizations through change. Drawing on decades of experience, David brings lessons from ventures and enterprises that turned uncertainty into momentum. Leaders and teams walk away with ways to adapt faster, navigate uncertainty, and keep growth alive in any environment.

Most failures don’t come from bad ideas, they come from the assumptions no one thought to question. The Premortem is a way to surface those blind spots before they cost you. In this keynote and workshop, David demonstrates how teams can pressure-test their plans, align on what really drives success, and turn risks into advantages. The result is sharper decisions and stronger outcomes when it matters most.

No one succeeds alone. Behind every breakthrough is a circle of people who challenged, guided, and supported the journey. In this keynote, David shares how to create your own Personal Board of Directors. It’s a group of mentors, peers, and truth-tellers who help you see what you cannot see and raise the bar on who you can become. Leaders leave with a clear, practical way to bring this into their own lives and careers.

Every company eventually hits the wall where the old playbook no longer works. Growth doesn’t come from a silver bullet. It comes from building systems that work every day, in good times and in hard ones. David shares stories of organizations who uncovered their real strengths, adapted when markets shifted, and built systems that made growth part of the culture. This keynote shows how to install an always-on engine that keeps moving forward, no matter the disruption.

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David Kidder understands like nobody else what makes start-ups successful and how big companies can learn from them. If entrepreneurship is a new form of management, David is the Michael Porter of our era! Bionic has been instrumental in our quest to be a growth organization and master the “new to big” discipline.

Pedro Earp - ABInBev and ZX

Working with David Kidder and the Bionic team gives teams the energy, tools, and most importantly, the courage to innovate and scale growth.

Beth Comstock - GE

Deploying David Kidder’s Growth Operating system at Citi was a game-changer. His powerful and compelling case for change hit home. Our leaders stepped into the urgent need to learn new skills and new ways of working in order to bring relevant new products and services to our customers.

Debbie Hopkins, Former CEO - Citigroup Ventures

With passion and unbridled candor, David and Bionic team deliver not just the “Growth Operating System tools” but the ability to spark a new way of thinking among ‘co-founders’ and provoking large Enterprises to very DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY. With energy and conviction, they break thru deeply ingrained, change resistant routines. And create change that is infectious and enduring.

Jud Linville, CEO - Citicards

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