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With forty years of work as an innovation scientist, Larry Keeley works to make innovation much more effective.
- Co-founder of Doblin, the leading global firm focused on innovation effectiveness—over 700 alumnae in that network.
- Professor at IIT Institute of Design for 39-years, Board member and leading employer of graduates.
- Professor at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, MMM Program for 12-years; named Distinguished Professor there, 2015.
- Collectively has helped educate more than 5,900 Masters or PhD students as innovators—a huge global network of colleagues
- Author of #2 all-time best-selling book on innovation, Ten Types of Innovation, translated into 15-languages.
- Selected by BusinessWeek as one of the top seven global ”gurus” of the innovation field. Then separately selected by them as one of the top 27-designers in the world.
- Selected in 2021 by Bankinter Foundation in Spain to be the new director of their famed Future Trends Forum, conducted bi-annually in Madrid.
- In late-2020, Keeley retired as a Managing Director from Deloitte, the firm that now owns Doblin, though continues to advance the methods of innovation as a researcher, now through Keeley Innovations LLC.
- Keeley is a frequent lecturer on innovation at Berkeley Haas Business School.
- Keeley is an EY Luminary, serving to support cases and capabilities that fundamentally reinvent the field. Again.
- Co-founder of Doblin, the leading global firm focused on innovation effectiveness—over 700 alumnae in that network.
- Professor at IIT Institute of Design for 39-years, Board member and leading employer of graduates.
- Professor at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, MMM Program for 12-years; named Distinguished Professor there, 2015.
- Collectively has helped educate more than 5,900 Masters or PhD students as innovators—a huge global network of colleagues
- Author of #2 all-time best-selling book on innovation, Ten Types of Innovation, translated into 15-languages.
- Selected by BusinessWeek as one of the top seven global ”gurus” of the innovation field. Then separately selected by them as one of the top 27-designers in the world.
- Selected in 2021 by Bankinter Foundation in Spain to be the new director of their famed Future Trends Forum, conducted bi-annually in Madrid.
- In late-2020, Keeley retired as a Managing Director from Deloitte, the firm that now owns Doblin, though continues to advance the methods of innovation as a researcher, now through Keeley Innovations LLC.
- Keeley is a frequent lecturer on innovation at Berkeley Haas Business School.
- Keeley is an EY Luminary, serving to support cases and capabilities that fundamentally reinvent the field. Again.
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