About Greg Satell
“One of the foremost experts on transformation & change today”
Greg Satell is Co-Founder of ChangeOS, a transformation & change advisory, an international keynote speaker, host of the Changemaker Mindset podcast, and bestselling author of Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change. His earlier book, Mapping Innovation, was selected as one of the best business titles of 2017. He has also published more than 50 articles in Harvard Business Review and written for Barron’s, Forbes, Fast Company and other A-list publications.
A Lecturer at Wharton, accomplished entrepreneur, global executive and one of the foremost experts on transformation and change today, Greg helps organizations overcome resistance to change and build a better future. He speaks to audiences around the world and works with leading organizations, is consistently ranked as one of the top innovation bloggers in the world and was named by IDG as one of “10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow Today.”
Greg was formerly a senior executive for the Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest marketing services companies. Before that, Co-CEO of KP Media, which he scaled from a small privately held firm to a market leading, public company valued at $100 million with over 800 employees. It was sold to Ukraine Media Holding in 2010.
A global citizen, Greg spent 15 years living and working in Eastern Europe where, among other things, he managed a leading news organization during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. You can learn more about Greg on his website, GregSatell.com, follow him on Twitter @DigitalTonto, his YouTube Channel and connect on LinkedIn.
Greg is available for advisory, workshop and speaking engagements. If you would like to hire him for an engagement or an event, feel free to contact him directly at Greg (at) GregSatell (dot) com
What people are saying about Greg Satell…
Greg is a superb blend of integrity, creativity and professionalism. Insightful, responsive and diligent, he always makes sure he gets the facts straight. In my field, where life and death hang in the balance, that’s really important and I appreciate it immensely.
Ron DePinho
President, MD Anderson Cancer Center
“For every decent source of real insight into the ways of the web there are a thousand pretenders. Digital Tonto is one of the rare few with a bit of substance in all that ether. More than the digispeak, Greg knows his stuff from first hand, upstream business experience. For me that’s key. Precedence in the cut and thrust of sales and marketing offline – because the online stuff is still a great idea waiting for long-term substantiation. We know full well it’s taken off – we just don’t really understand the mathematics of sustained flight – or how to steer the ship. Greg Satell points the way.”
Rishad Tobaccowalla
Chief Strategist, Member of Directoire + Publicis Groupe
Greg’s expertise into strategy, insights and technology brings unique and innovative perspectives into digital business along with a hands-on approach that comes with extensive practical experience.
Scott Sorokin
Chief Strategy Officer, Razorfish Global
“We’ve had the pleasure to retain Greg’s services as we explored the future of the media industry with clients. His work was excellent, incisive, and to the point. He brings an acute understanding of industry trends combined with a practical approach and concrete references. It will be an honor to collaborate with him again in the future.”
Estelle Metayer
Board Member, Ubisoft
President and Founder, Competia
“Greg is a guy who actually knows what he’s talking about, because he’s done it, and he’s done it successfully under incredibly adverse conditions. Where evangelists espouse the next great thing by using weighty marketing speak, Greg talks brass tacks, offering deep, enriched perspective around the “why” and the “how”.
By building bridges between tech and business, the conceptual and the operational, innovation and concrete business strategy, Greg can get you to think about what’s really important, and actually do something about it. Think of Greg as someone who can start up a business unit in an emerging domain, operationalize it, and have the foresight to socialize the learnings. You can’t get that kind of firsthand knowledge reading the wide swath of social media marketing blogs out there. Greg is one of us — he walks the walk, and isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo.”
Gunther Sonnenfeld
Founder, Heardable Inc.
Founder, K5 Venture Partners
“Greg is an amazing person – hugely knowledgeable about just about anything. He challenges business and marketing received wisdom, questions everything worth questioning, and looks for how to better the status quo. He also editor of one of the best and most popular digital blogs in the world – Digital Tonto.”
Frank Harrison
Strategic Resources Director, Worldwide, ZenithOptimedia
“Createasphere had the pleasure of Greg’s keynote presentation at our Digital Asset Management Conference in Los Angeles. His expertise in mapping and forecasting trends in digital innovation kept our delegates highly engaged. They clamored to get his one on one expertise after the keynote…
Greg’s knowledge and global understanding of technology innovation and the opportunities and insights we all face with the digital disruption is unsurpassed. He is truly an expert.”
Kristin Petrovich Kennedy
President, Createasphere
“At the UnleashWD conference, Greg stood out among a crowded field that included bestselling authors, top CEO’s and even a 6 time Ironman champion! His thinking on innovation, the digital movement, and what business leaders must do to remain relevant is fresh and unique. Take for example his story about being in the middle of the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. In today’s connected world, you helped us see that viral ideas lead to a revolution and as leaders of business we have a mandate to set free the ideas within our own organizations. He helped us start a movement to change an entire industry for the better. We will bury mediocrity.”
Dirk Beveridge
President, 4th Generation Systems
Founder, UnleashWD
Kurt Lewin said “There is nothing quite as practical as a good theory.” While this is true, it is still very challenging to link theory to practice. Greg Satell is one of the best I’ve run across at doing this. He has a deep understanding of what makes business work, based on years of practical experience. But in his work and writing, you can still detect his background in philosophy. Greg’s mix of theory and practice is a tremendous combination.
One of my areas of research is network analysis. In this field there are arcane arguments over what creates influence within a network – which becomes a very practical problem when you apply the ideas to business. Greg understands the theory very well, and his applications of it are outstanding. His tent city approach to change is a great distillation of theory to practice, and one that is useful in a wide range of applications.
I’ve enjoyed collaborating with Greg on a couple of small projects, and I look forward to doing more work with him in the future.
Tim Kastelle
Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland Business School
