Jan 13 2025
First and Former Chief Innovation Evangelist at Google, Innovation Consultant to the United Nations, and executive coach for Adidas, NASA, SAP, and the FBI. Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt’s mission as a keynote speaker is to inspire his audiences to invent their future.
Frederik G. Pferdt was the first Chief Innovation Evangelist at Google. There, his goal was “systematizing an innovative mindset,” motivating Google’s employees to explore new and radical ideas. Throughout his 12-year career with Google, Dr. Pferdt led the creation of Google’s innovation culture, which is often imitated but rarely replicated. During his speech to SAP Bay Area during their 2020 Speaker Series, Pferdt stated that his goal was to spread the innovative mindset across the globe.
In addition to SAP, Dr. Frederik built and trained communities of innovation catalysts, ambassadors, and coaches for organizations such as Adidas, UBER, the FBI, NASA, and the NBA. Dr. Frederik is a global thought leader on innovation and has been an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University’s d.school for nearly a decade, teaching graduate classes on navigating ambiguity with design.
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Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt is on a mission to inspire people to invent their future – the #1 human superpower to shape one’s future.
As Google’s first-ever Chief Innovation Evangelist, Dr. Frederik initiated a radically diverse community of over 500 Innovation Evangelists, trained tens of thousands of Googlers and co-founded Google’s The Garage while creating its first Innovation Laboratory. During that time, he helped leaders and teams across Alphabet/Google and beyond to discover and solve problems in new, unconventional ways, shaping one of the world’s most fabled innovation cultures.
As an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka: d.school), he teaches graduate courses like: “Hacking your Innovation Mindset” and feels lucky to empower students through design so that they can invent cool things that matter in the world.
Featured as the “Pope of Creativity” and “Dr. Innovation” in over 300 international newspapers, magazines and documentaries like FastCompany, Inc. Magazine, Times Magazine, Harvard Business Manager, WirtschaftsWoche, El Tiempo, Business Today, FAZ, Asia Business Daily, Der Spiegel, Financial Times, Capital, Manager Magazine, brandeins, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Chosun Ilbo, The Telegraph, Arte TV, VOX TV and ARD.
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Future Mindstate is an interactive keynote presentation in which Frederik G. Pferdt imparts practical advice to create innovative solutions.
Frederik G. Pferdt, as the First and Former Chief Innovation Evangelist of Google, uses his decades of leadership experience to give an enlightening keynote.
Overall, the audience learned how to transform organizational culture into one that continuously sparks new ideas and gives people the mindset to responsibly innovate and confidently explore our futures. Frederik’s desire for the evening was to bring our values to life and make them tangible through innovation & creativity: Mission Accomplished – Collin Gill-Sommerhauser, SAP Bay Area
Frederik’s collaboration revolutionized the mindset of more than 2500+ Stanford University Innovation Fellows worldwide. With unwavering optimism and empowering encouragement, he inspired them to become the catalysts of change they yearned to see in the world. – Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University, PH.D., Adjunct Professor
Our frequent visits to Frederik’s Google Garage and engaging conversations with him have been transformative. The radical insights gained from these experiences have revolutionized our perspectives on innovation and the future. Frederik’s guidance has effectively reshaped the way we approach these subjects, leaving an indelible impact on our leadership teams across the DFB. – Oliver Bierhoff, Director of the German Soccer Association
Frederik’s unparalleled approach nurtured a culture of innovation, empowering us to explore new frontiers at Faber-Castell. His dedication to fostering creativity within our organization is unmatched. Working with him has been transformative, and all his deeply human attitude and original methods are worth emulating. – Countess Katharina von Faber-Castell, Head of Corporate Development, Faber-Castell
