Serial Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, and CEO of 10X Innovation Lab
Klaus Wehage: Biography at a Glance
- Klaus Wehage is a recognized authority on global innovation, helping corporations, entrepreneurs, governments, investment firms, and accelerators design and implement strategies that drive sustainable growth worldwide.
- As the Founder & CEO of 10X Innovation Lab, he has built entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems across 50+ countries, mentoring more than 2,000 founders and executives and advising governments, including Japan and Taiwan.
- Known as a Silicon Valley ambassador, Klaus provides insider access and key insights into what makes the world’s leading innovation hub uniquely successful, serving as a trusted conduit to the startup community elite.
- He is regarded as the “secret weapon” for organizations seeking to expand internationally, raise capital, implement innovation programs, and strengthen their ties to Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
- Endorsed by thought leaders like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, along with executives from companies such as Google, Salesforce, Zoom, and Canva, Klaus is widely trusted for his expertise in scaling businesses and fostering global innovation.
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Klaus Wehage is the Founder & CEO at 10X Innovation Lab, an organization that builds entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems across the globe. Klaus has been endorsed by world-renowned thought leaders like Eric Ries, Steve Blank, and more than 40+ executives from the fastest-growing companies in the world, including Google, Salesforce, Zoom, Canva, and more.
He has built a reputation for being a Silicon Valley ambassador for international corporations, entrepreneurs, government agencies, international investment firms, and accelerators, providing key insights into what makes the Silicon Valley ecosystem uniquely successful and serving as a conduit, connecting the world to the startup community elite. He is known as the secret weapon for those looking to expand their businesses worldwide, raise capital, implement innovation programs, and strengthen their ties to the Silicon Valley ecosystem.
Klaus previously served as the Head of International Relations at Silicon Valley Forum, the most prestigious non-profit promoting innovation and entrepreneurship, where he started dedicating his career to building and cultivating high-value, sustainable partnerships with international organizations.
To date, Klaus has mentored and assisted 2000+ founders and corporate executives, worked with 50+ countries, mentored executives from some of the largest global companies, and currently advises governments on ecosystem building, including Japan and Taiwan, amongst others.
Klaus earned an MBA at Hult University and a Bachelor's in Business and Culture from Copenhagen Business School, the nation’s most prestigious program of its type. Originally from Denmark, Klaus has lived and worked on 4 continents and now calls Silicon Valley home.
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The Global Class Mindset
The Global Class Mindset keynote aims to show attendees how the world’s fastest-growing companies have succeeded in scaling globally. The keynote draws upon key learnings and frameworks from Global Class, synthesizing key insights from 400+ executives from the most innovative companies around the world. These tools have been endorsed by Eric Ries and other top executives who led expansion efforts for leading companies like Google, Apple, Slack, Zoom, Airbnb, Canva, and many more.
What You’ll Get
- MINDSET - Transform the thinking of your employees and develop an emerging talent called "Interpreneurial Mindset"
- TEAM CULTURE - Develop habits within your team that foster growth, collaboration, and intelligent risk-taking to support organizational growth efforts
- APPROACH - Learn how to effectively localize your business in new markets while also balancing it with organizational complexity
- MANAGEMENT - Establish effective lines of communication and internal structures throughout your organization to create frictionless collaboration across the entire company footprint
Fostering An Innovative Culture That Scales Beyond Your Initial Market
It’s common for companies to “hardcode” their business early on, based on their initial market, making it harder to scale that same culture across other markets later. Rather, develop a leadership mindset that influences how the company will be built and promote core values that can transcend across markets, increasing the likelihood of the organization’s success in scaling globally and staying ahead of the curve when it comes to innovation.
What You’ll Get
- Learn how to “think global on day 1” by building a Global Class Mindset coined in Klaus’ newly released book.
- Develop a pipeline of Interpreneurial leaders that can scale the company strategy and globally.
- Find ways to universalize your company values.
- Build a management model that empowers local teams to uncover insights and localizations needed to scale while staying aligned with company values and strategies.
- Balance company culture with the local market and business culture to prevent conflicts in instances when they may be contradicting.
Leveraging The Global Agile Methodology To Scale
The Global Agile keynote aims to provide frameworks that help reduce organizational complexity by uncovering key local insights and aligning those cultural needs and regulatory requirements, to the overall business strategy.
In doing research for his book, Global Class, Klaus discovered that applying the traditional agile methodology to scaling to new markets, would not help companies succeed in the long term. Rather, it would create disparate working models across the organization that would only add complexity to the business. In order to get agility right, it’s about finding the balance between localization efforts and organizational complexity which was the impetus to creating the Business Model Localization framework and the Localization Premium Analysis framework.
What You’ll Get
- Don’t skip on localization discovery. It’s a pivotal part of your business model and when done effectively, will clearly outline the changes you need to make.
- Craft key questions to identify what business model changes are needed to be successful
- Gain organizational alignment to decide when to lean more towards localization strategies vs global strategies
- Adopt Business Model Localization Canvas and Localization Premium Analysis for implementation and tracking
- Tap into local market needs and insights, as it may influence future market scaling initiatives or global product innovations.
Nurturing An Interpreneurial Mindset In Your Org
The Interpreneurial Mindset keynote focuses on helping organizations find, acquire and nurture their workforce into “Interpreneurs” who often serve as catalysts for successful global organizations. They are not always recognized for the value they bring in successfully scaling globally.
Interpreneurs are culturally curious, globally-minded, and navigate complex environments while also being iterative and agile. They’re experts at innovation and embrace agility within existing systems, while also exploring ideas for new growth opportunities.
What You’ll Get
- Identify, recruit, and attract Interpreneurial talent
- Nurture and transform existing employees to take a more interpreneurial approach.
- Foster a culture that encourages risk-taking, cross-cultural collaboration, and a culturally curious mindset
- Create and deploy programs, communications, and value systems that facilitate cross-cultural learning and communications (ie global training initiatives, rotations, etc)
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