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Salim Ismail, international bestselling author and founder of OpenExO, states that “exponential growth isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity in today’s rapidly changing landscape.” Discover how your business can harness AI, foster cultural transformation, and implement innovative strategies inspired by companies scaling at the same high speed as technology.
Salim Ismail is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University. His book quickly reached Number 1 on Amazon’s “Best-sellers in Business Management,” and was also named Frost & Sullivan’s “Growth, Innovation and Leadership Book of the Year.”
He is also the former Vice President and Head of Innovation at Yahoo!, where he built and ran the company’s internal incubator, and he sold his last company to Google in 2010.
Salim founded ExO Works in 2016 to help transform global business by catapulting organizations into the world of exponential thinking. ExO Works delivers a 10-week program called the ExO Sprint that leapfrogs an organization's mindset forward by two years.
Salim consults with governments and the world’s top fortune 500 companies on innovation and growth, and his work has been featured in premier media outlets like the New York Times, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Wired, Vogue, and BBC.
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