Stephen Liguori

Steve is the Founder and CEO of Liguori Innovation.
As GE’s Executive Director - Global Innovation through 2014, Steve was instrumental in major efforts to re-invigorate GE’s organic growth including launching their Internet-of-Things “Industrial Internet” digital transformation and deploying Lean Startup principles across GE through the “FastWorks” initiative.
The firm specializes in helping organizations rapidly transform their leadership practices so they can enable new sources of growth.
Steve is an expert at applying startup related techniques that stress leadership, speed and improved customer outcomes in complex organizations.
His signature expertise focuses on the area of “Disruptive Innovation – Doing it and Leading it!" He is sought out for applying innovation leadership to large firms and startups alike.
Steve has launched a new partnership with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, called the Corporate Entrepreneur Community.
This is a peer-to-peer network of large enterprises sharing best practices and challenges to drive real entrepreneurial growth Steve acts as an “Innovation Accelerator” says Beth Comstock, Vice Chairwoman of General Electric.
He brings a background of thought leadership in diverse categories such as the Internet-of-Things, consumer goods, technology, heavy industry, financial services, and healthcare.
Steve is on the Mckinsey Advisory Board, has taught at Columbia Business School as an Adjunct Professor and served as Chairman of the ANA’s Business Marketing Association, the world’s largest organization of business-to-business professionals.
Named Marketer of the Year, Harvard Business Review author, Chairman’s Award winner at both Citigroup and GE.
Additionally, he launched the original Super Bowl Halftime show with none other than Michael Jackson.