About Our Speaker:

Thomas Triumph helps companies grow by collaboratively helping them reinvent their business, product development, and marketing. Along the way he's helped large Fortune 500 organizations act nimbly and small entrepreneurial companies scale. He's been a participant in two global technology revolutions, and has been part of some remarkable success stories (and some misfires), and he's the author of the book Evolve or Die: Lessons for World-Class Innovation & Creativity. Tom fulfilled a childhood dream of living aboard an ocean research ship and tending to the mini-submarine (Cousteau was on the Board), wrestled in the Olympic trials, and helped oversee the design and fabrication of the largest composite hovercraft ever built in the US. He resides in North Carolina and is an ultra runner who envies Tom Hanks' long run as Forrest Gump. Learn more at https://tomtriumph.com/.

Presentation Title: 
Evolution Isn't Optional: The Five Pillars That Separate Thriving Organizations From Those Left Behind

Presentation Synopsis: 

The marketplace rewards speed, punishes hesitation, and has zero patience for organizations stuck in last decade's playbook. Yet most companies treat innovation and improvement haphazardly, and wonder why significant growth remains elusive while competitors surge ahead.

Tom reveals the five interconnected pillars that world-class organizations like NASA, Pixar, and the Fortune 500 leaders have engineered into their DNA. These aren't aspirational values posted in conference rooms, they're operational systems that transform how teams think, collaborate, and execute. You'll discover why strategic clarity fails without creative capacity, how the best companies build innovation engines that run without heroic effort, and why culture either amplifies or diminishes every move you make. Drawing from breakthrough research, including NASA's discovery that 98% of people are born creative geniuses but lose it by adulthood, and real-world experience managing P&Ls, shipping products, and navigating disruption when the playbook didn't exist, Tom delivers frameworks your organization can implement immediately. Because in today's market, standing still is moving backward, and evolution isn't optional. It's necessary.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to: