Jason Wild

This is the first moment leaders are managing human and AI workforces, which means everything about how work gets done is being challenged and potentially reframed. In this fast-paced digital world, how can leaders push their teams to innovate while ensuring their organization is ethical, responsible and customer-centric?  

To achieve this, award-winning growth and strategy executive Jason Wild empowers organizations to develop their digital technology capabilities, invest in customer success, and develop an attitude of “us and them,” not “us vs. them,” when adopting AI.

An advisor at InnovationForce and a former vice president at Microsoft, Wild demystifies why the latest iterations of AI, like agentic AI, have the potential to humanize and automate many experiences.

“The organizations that fully understand the promise of AI are thinking about artificial intelligence like a co-pilot that enhances work, collaboration and how we engage and lead,” explains Wild. “Applied with this mindset, AI will elevate and redefine our standards of quality.”

For over 20 years, Wild has helped organizations make AI a key part of their business value with groundbreaking projects at IBM (Watson), KLM (service bot), Heathrow Airport (communication system), the City of Rio de Janeiro (command center) and more. He also has extensive experience helping leading banks and financial institutions leverage AI and has delivered standout keynotes for the IMF, Bank of America, Spanish Banking Consortium and PayPal. In industries where trust and precision define success, Wild shows how AI can amplify both by transforming data-driven operations into human-centered innovation.

Next Generation Leadership: A New Mindset and Skillset for Scaling Innovation

Moving from generating new ideas to scaling them in practice involves co-creation – the important process of collaboration, experimentation and learning with others, both inside and beyond the boundaries of the organization. Co-author of the new book “Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation” (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2026) with Harvard Business School’s Linda A. Hill and Harvard organizational behavior researcher Emily Tedards, Wild presents a guidebook to the habits and characteristics of innovative leaders who inspire new ways of working and building successful ecosystems.

As told through stories of large companies and startups, Wild, Hill and Tedard’s in-depth research uncovered key leadership challenges and opportunities in the digital world. Interviews with leaders who have transformed their organizations into innovation engines – including the president of the World Bank, the former chairman and CEO of MasterCard and entrepreneurial geniuses – reveal timeless lessons for mastering innovation at scale that are not just relevant to Silicon Valley but to organizations globally.

The result is a collection of concrete, practical techniques to upgrade leadership mindsets and behaviors for a competitive advantage. Using the ABC framework of the three critical roles leaders must play in driving and scaling innovation, Wild helps leaders Architect adaptive ecosystems, Bridge diverse talent and resources through shared purpose and language, and Catalyze progress by knowing when to manage friction by stepping in or stepping back.

 “The book is really a love letter to different customer-centric leadership styles with a focus on ecosystems and creating businesses that endure,” explains Wild, who was shortlisted by Thinkers50 as a top innovation thinker along with his co-authors. “It’s perfect for this moment when change is never going to be slower and the risk of failure is greater than it has ever been.”

As leaders struggle to make decisions, Wild’s engaging talks and interactive workshops usher leadership into the AI era with real stories of how to build not only innovative organizations but also networks and ecosystems that can co-create across organizational boundaries.

Ultimately, Wild concludes, “The future won’t belong to those who master technology, but to those who master collaboration between people, machines and purpose.” With Wild’s playbook in hand, leaders find themselves more capable and confident as they move into the AI-enabled future of work.

Jason Wild is an award-winning executive, an advisor at InnovationForce and an Investor/Entrepreneur in Residence at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. A highly regarded speaker and advisor, he helps elite teams within organizations design and create strategic relationships and customer experiences. A former top leader at Microsoft, Salesforce and IBM, his expertise includes engaging strategic customers around the world, global commercial strategy, M&A integration, GTM incubation, advanced analytics and organic growth. At Microsoft, he sponsored the design and development of a global customer engagement methodology and growth initiatives, delivering more than $100 billion in incremental revenue over just five years, and led the transformation of the go-to-market strategy to be more industry- and customer-centric for 70,000 employees. A true global business expert, Wild has undertaken transformation and innovation projects in 38 countries.

Wild earned an MBA from Emory University and a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Jason Wild is available to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting meetings, interactive workshops and customized keynotes through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers & Advisors, a division of Stern Strategy Group^®.