Videos
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Breaking the Paradox of Sustainable Growth -
Scott Anthony - MASIC Annual Investment Forum 2019
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Leadership Lessons from the Trenches of Disruption | Scott D Anthony | Talks at Google
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Leading Through the Fog with Prof. Scott Anthony
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Scott D. Anthony: Leading disruptive change -
WGBT #10: Navigating Disruptive Change (with Scott Anthony)
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Scott Anthony on the Minimum Viable Innovation System
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Optus Spark | Scott Anthony on dual transformation - strengthen today, create tomorrow
Learn More About Scott D. Anthony
Scott D. Anthony is a globally recognized expert and keynote speaker on navigating disruptive change. A passionate optimist, he is dedicated to spreading ideas that help individuals and organizations thrive in a constantly evolving world.
Anthony serves as a clinical professor of strategy at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and is a senior advisor and managing partner emeritus at Innosight, where his leadership fueled significant growth. With over two decades of experience, including mentorship under disruptive innovation pioneer Clayton Christensen, Anthony has guided global organizations through transformative challenges, leaving a lasting impact on the field of strategy and innovation.
His academic contributions at Tuck School involve teaching cutting-edge courses including “Leading Disruptive Change,” “Horizon Scanning,” and “AI and Consultative Decision-Making,” blending academic research with practical business insights.
As an author, Anthony has penned numerous influential books and articles, providing thought leadership on innovation and strategic thinking.
His forthcoming book, “Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations that Shaped Our Modern World” (Harvard Business Review Press, September 2025), promises to be a seminal work in understanding how disruptive innovators shape our world.
Recognized globally for his thought leadership, Anthony has been named one of the world’s most influential management thinkers multiple times by Thinkers50. His insights have been shared across continents, influencing leaders and shaping the future of business strategy and innovation.
Anthony received a BA in economics summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD, where he graduated with distinction.
Scott D. Anthony 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®.
Navigating Disruptive Change
The forces of disruption have repeatedly rewritten the rules of business, society, and human possibility. When the dust of disruption settles, there’s a clear line before the disruption and after it. The messy middle, however, presents significant challenges for leaders.
In this fascinating presentation, Dartmouth Tuck School of Business clinical professor Scott D. Anthony looks to history to show a path through these challenges. From gunpowder to disposable diapers, from Julia Child to Steve Jobs, from a 1548 proclamation from the King of England against innovation to the 1920s battle between the jaywalkers and the flivverboobs for the soul of the streets of New York, the history of disruption helps to make sense of in-process developments such as generative AI, cryptocurrency, autonomous vehicles, and precision fermentation.
Studying iconoclasts who dared to think differently — Renaissance-era scientists, French-cooking enthusiasts, and corporate visionaries — Anthony helps decode how genuine disruption actually happens, stripping away the mythology and providing a practical guide for how to navigate disruptive change.
Calmly Confronting Chaos
According to Dartmouth Tuck School of Business clinical professor Scott D. Anthony, the forever normal of constant change creates significant stress and anxiety. In this revealing presentation, he explains that we are in an age of paradox where we face never-ending, seemingly contradictory choices such as work or family, planet or profits, short-term or long-term, and peace or prosperity. Anthony shows that these need not be contradictory choices, helping audiences understand that seeming paradoxes with an either/or mindset turns too frequently into neither/nor outcomes. Attendees will leave with a new outlook, showing that a both/and mindset creates more/than possibility.
Leading Through the Fog
Today’s turbulent times present unique and persistent challenges. As Dartmouth Tuck School of Business clinical professor Scott D. Anthony shows in this eye-opening presentation, leaders are in a thick fog with data to justify a decision coming in when it is too late to decide leading yesterday’s strengths to become tomorrow’s weaknesses. In a world where seemingly conflicting demands — purpose/profits, empowerment/decisiveness, meritocracy/inclusivity — feel paralyzing, Anthony provides audiences with a practical set of mindsets, mental models, and approaches that will allow leaders to stand calm in chaos, turn ambiguity into opportunity, and accelerate when the fog of uncertainty descends.
Disagree to Agree
Great minds don’t think alike, Wharton’s Adam Grant teaches, they challenge each other to think differently. According to Dartmouth Tuck School of Business clinical professor Scott D. Anthony, leading through uncertainty requires aligning a team around a path forward with incomplete data. In this engaging presentation, he shows how leaders can productively achieve this alignment and how they can engage in difficult conversations on potentially polarizing topics. In a highly interactive, hands-on session, Anthony provides practical tools for combining creative abrasion, trust, and psychological safety to enable leaders to have constructive conversations on challenging topics.
Strategy Through Uncertainty
Between exponentially advancing technologies, blurring lines between industries, changing expectations from customers and colleagues, friends and companions and one geopolitical shock after another, traditional approaches to strategy and growth are insufficient. As Dartmouth Tuck School of Business clinical professor Scott D. Anthony explains, such approaches analyze the past to predict the future, but they are facing the wrong way. In this paradigm-shifting presentation, he provides audiences with a new set of tools, such as future-back strategy, strategic sparring sessions, and walk the line, to help align a leadership team around a shared vision of the future, empowering them to create the organizational momentum to get there.
Driving Dual Transformation
According to Dartmouth Tuck School of Business clinical professor Scott D. Anthony, economist Joseph Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction” has never blown more fiercely, leading to emerging technologies ranging from additive manufacturing to artificial intelligence threatening to disrupt market leaders and reconfigure existing value chains at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this timely presentation, he asks audiences to consider a trio of thought-provoking questions – “what if leaders could tap into the underlying forces behind these kinds of changes to power new waves of growth for their companies?” More specifically, “what if a company could sense the gale coming early enough to reposition its core?” Or, even better, “what if it could build a wind turbine to harness the energy in Schumpeter’s gale to create new growth?” As Anthony accessibly illustrates, disruption creates dilemmas, but it also creates unique opportunities for forward-thinking leaders.
Building a Culture of Innovation
Every organization says it wants a culture of innovation, but few achieve it. As to Dartmouth Tuck School of Business clinical professor Scott D. Anthony explains in this engaging presentation, a fundamental challenge is that organizations are designed to execute today’s model with increasing precision, while innovation involves doing something different. To overcome this challenge, he shows audiences how to address “ghosts” in their organizations — unaddressed trauma, invisible repetitive patterns, and hidden identity crises. Attendees will leave with a framework of rituals that encourage behaviors like curiosity and experimentation to spread throughout their organizations.
Tips and Tricks from the Trenches of Innovation
Innovation is changing the way that we live, work, play and communicate. In the last few years it has gone from a fringe topic to the shortlist of every organization’s must-do list. Yet, as Dartmouth Tuck School of Business clinical professor Scott D. Anthony shows, innovation success seems fleeting and unpredictable. In this revealing presentation, he explains that while most people believe that, only a select few – think Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos – have what it takes to innovate. Innovation isn’t magical, it isn’t a mystery, and it isn’t a black art. Anthony shows that it is a discipline and provides audiences with a new mindset of how, like all disciplines, innovation can be mastered through careful practice.
Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World
(Harvard Business Review Press, September 2025)
Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization
(Harvard Business Review Press, October 2020)
Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future
(Harvard Business Review Press, April 2017)
The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas into the Market
(Harvard Business Review Press, May 2014)
The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It
(Harvard Business Review Press, December 2011)
The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times
(Harvard Business Review Press, June 2009)
The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work
(Harvard Business Review Press, May 2008)
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
(Harvard Business Review Press; First Edition, September 2004)
Praise for "Eat, Sleep, Innovate"
"Innovation has never been more important. Always motivated by the need to produce new products and services that fuel growth expectations and satisfy ever-shifting customer needs, today's companies must navigate a host of new challenges in the face of the dramatic uncertainty brought on by the global pandemic and widespread social unrest. This compelling and engaging guide serves as a timely and powerful resource for making innovation an organizational habit."
"If you want to unleash more creativity in your organization, you can't simply tell people what you want; you need to create a culture that emboldens them to behave like innovators. And you need to trust that this is what they want to do. If your goal is to promote new ways of thinking, 'Eat, Sleep, Innovate' is an indispensable guide. I highly recommend it."
"Culture change does not come from a wish or a prayer. It can only happen through an orchestrated program that changes and shapes people's behavior. 'Eat, Sleep, Innovate' presents a great way to achieve behavioral change through BEANs. The approach is unconventional but, trust me, it works!"
"This dynamic read offers practical exercises and principles you can use to create an environment that fosters innovation and delivers extraordinary results. 'Eat, Sleep, Innovate' expertly blends creative insights with intriguing case studies. I highly recommend it."
"This book is a wonderful reference on how to craft an innovation culture and help normal organizations do extraordinary things. Use it to unlock your team's innovation power."
Praise for "Dual Transformation"
"I have long puzzled over how existing companies can address the dilemmas of disruption. 'Dual Transformation' provides the answer. This practical guide with compelling case studies is a vital read for today's' leaders."
Praise for "The First Mile"
"Anthony skillfully leads readers through his process. The author ends each chapter with a distillation of key messages and provides a First Mile Readiness Checklist that readers will value.”
"I like this book a lot. Scott shows that while the probability of any specific business idea being successful is quite small, there is a set of principles and processes that are very reliable in building new businesses. They guide you away from strategies that won’t work, toward those that will.”
"'The First Mile' is a deeply pragmatic and insightful playbook that every aspiring entrepreneur should read. I wish I had this book when I started building my company eight years ago.”
"'The First Mile' is a remarkable gift for anyone who wants to turn small bets into big wins. Scott Anthony shares what he does better than anyone else - combines the best innovation research, consulting experiences, tools, and inspiration into one book.”
"Scott Anthony has done it again. Reflecting his unique experience as a consultant, a student, and a practitioner of innovation, 'The First Mile' is a valuable and practical guidebook that will help you significantly improve your innovation output.”
"If you’ve ever left a brainstorming meeting frustrated by a lack of follow-through ever wondered why it seems so hard to implement good new ideas, or ever seen promising projects wither away, buy this book. It will transform the way you approach innovation and dramatically enhance your innovation effectiveness.”
