Techweek Los Angeles 2015

The greatest risk to any company right at this moment is the pace of change: It's increasing daily, putting your plans in jeopardy even as we speak. Whether you're leading a startup or a big company, "delivering on plans" will not launch your product, grow your company, or keep you on top. Lean Startup is a new leadership mindset that transforms "change" from a risk into an asset you can leverage.

This talk will give you an early look at Eric Ries' new book, The Leader’s Guide. With Lean Startup we manage the risk of change by emphasizing learning over planning and fearlessly evaluating assumptions about our product, its market and the world around us. As part of this discussion we'll also look at the 9 key principles to implementing an innovation program at your organization. 

Janice is Director of the Innovation Practice at Pivotal Labs. She is one of America's leading experts on Lean Startup, having advised many successful companies including Lyft and Sharethrough. She is an ongoing trainer for White House administration on innovation techniques. At Pivotal, Janice helps clients apply, amplify, and extend Lean Startup methodologies. Janice has coached, taught, and interviewed thousands of startup founders around the world. Previously, she was founder and CEO of Luxr, among the first Lean Startup firms, as well as Adaptive Path, the first User Experience firm.