Certifications

Certification

Together with our community of Certified Outthinkers, we have worked with some of the most highly respected companies throughout the world to achieve strategic clarity and accelerate growth rates 100-120% . Outthinker Certification enables coaches and consultants to confidently lead their clients through a proven Innovation and Growth Strategy framework that is both rigorous and yet powerfully simple to implement.

Who is Outthinker Certification for ?

If you are a business coach, consultant or leader who thinks differently and are bold enough to embrace & shape what comes next, then Outthinker Certification offers you a proven framework to lead that change.

What will certification provide me with?

Reach a high level of proficiency in a proven growth strategy framework
Fully positioned to be an effective, masterful, and active Outthinker practitioner
Expand your capability to deliver growth strategy initiatives with your clients
Invitation to become a member of the Outthinker Consulting Network
Access to tools, platform, and other resources
Outthinker Certified credentials

On Demand Training

Videos, guides, workbooks, and application tools at your fingertips.

Live Training

Live online training with Outthinker founder Kaihan Krippendorff.

Peer to Peer Learning

Live online interactions with certified practitioner peers.

What is the Outthinker Certification Process

The Outthinker Certification process is a dynamic and rich learning experience, filled with insights and new perspectives, you will be challenged to expand your skillset with Outthinker founder Kaihan Krippendorff, peers, and exclusive on-demand content. We provided you with the tools and support required to enable you to succeed.

Module 1: Overview and Imagine
Review video material and complete workbook sections for the Overview and Imagine steps
Module 2: Expand 1
Review video material and complete workbook sections for the Expand 1 step
Module 3: Expand 2
Review video material and complete workbook sections for the Expand 1 step.
Module 4: Analyze and Sell
Review video material and complete workbook sections for the Analyze and Dissect steps.
Module 5: Content Challenge
Complete a content challenge that tests your understanding of the Outthinker fundamentals, and unlocks some of the more advanced concepts that are sometimes overlooked. Complete a one-hour review with Kaihan to review your content test with the goal of uncovering and addressing any of the more advanced subtleties of the process to ensure you have not missed anything and are fully equipped to succeed.
Module 6: Practicum
Organize and conduct a practicum, in front of a friendly audience, in which you can practice delivering the entire process.
Module 7: Practicum Review & Certification
Complete a review with Kaihan to go over any remaining questions and uncertainties that may be outstanding.
Module 8: Onboarding
Hold Onboarding call with an Outthinker leader to go over the content and skills you have learned, the content platform and its tools and resources, along with clarifying community protocols, make introductions to peers and any other opportunities that help ensure you get immediate value out of your certification and membership.

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Testimonials

“As a coach most of the time clients get stuck on strategy, it is great to have Outthinker tools like the 4th Option framework because it really helps figure out how to actually "get unstuck" and look at those ideas you thought you could never implement, and actually implement them, it is a great way to move a company forward.

"One of the hardest things for a client is true innovation. Simply telling someone to "come up with and idea" does not work. Outthinker is a step by step rigorous process that delivers ideas a client can actually use."

Leverage Point	“8Ps” of Strategy	Opportunity for Disruption	Recommended Leverage Points
Position	- The farmers, individual and corporate, that you are targeting. - The need of the agricultural industry that you seek to fill.	3	- What technologies do you control that can help you tap into market segments that you previously thought unreachable? - What are the potential business alliances you could think about with key players in the segment to serve your customers with integrated solutions? (Serving customers with more integrated solutions example: serving farmers with fertilizers, crop protection and other).
Product	- The products you offer, and the characteristics that affect their value to customers. - The technology you develop for producing those products.	8	- What moves are your organization taking to implement Big Data and analytics to your operations? What IoT and blockchain applications can you use? - What tools and technology could you utilize or develop to improve food quality, traceability, and production? - How can you develop a more sustainable production model to accommodate constraints on arable land? - What is the future business model needed to serve new differentiated products to your customers?
Promotion	- How you connect with farmers and consumers across a variety of locations and industries. - How to make consumers, producers, and other stakeholders aware of your products and services.	8	- How are you connecting your product with individual and corporate farms who could utilize it? - How could you anticipate market and customer needs to make customers interested in accessing your differentiated products?
Price	How consumers and other members of the agricultural supply chain pay for access to agricultural products.	7	- What elements of value comprise your pricing? How do each of those elements satisfy the varying needs of your customers?
Placement	- How food products reach consumers. How the technologies, data, and services reach stakeholders in the supply chain.	9	- What new paths might exist for helping consumers access the food they desire? - How are you adapting your operations and supply chain to accommodate consumers’ desire for proximity to the food they eat? - How could you anticipate customer expectation to make products more accessible to customers/agile supply chain? - Have you considered urbanization as a part of your growth strategy?
Physical Experience	- How your food satisfies the needs and desires of your customer. - How the services you provide to agribusiness fulfill their needs.	9	- Where does your food rate on a taste, appearance, and freshness scale? - Could the services you provide to companies and farms in the agriculture industry be expanded to meet more needs? - What senses does your food affect besides hunger? How does your customer extract value from your food in addition to consumption?
Processes	- Guiding your food production operations in a manner cognizant of social pressure.	8	- How can you manage the supply chain differently to improve traceability and reduce waste? - How can you innovate systems in production, processing, storing, shipping, retailing, etc.? - What are new capabilities to increase sustainability (impact on the environment, or ESG) components?
People	- The choices you make regarding hiring, organizing, and incentivizing your people and your culture.		- How are you leveraging the agricultural experience of your staff bottom-up to achieve your vision? - How do you anticipate new organizational capabilities needed to perform your future strategy (innovation, exponential technologies needed, agile customer relationship, innovative supply chain)? - How do you manage your talents to assure suitable development with exposure in the agrifood main challenges/allowing a more sustainable view of the opportunities/cross-sectors?
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Leverage
Point

“8Ps” of Strategy

Opportunity
for Disruption

Recommended Leverage Points

Position

- The farmers, individual and corporate, that you are targeting.

- The need of the agricultural industry that you seek to fill.

- What technologies do you control that can help you tap into market
segments that you previously thought unreachable?

- What are the potential business alliances you could think about with key players in the segment to serve your customers with integrated solutions? (Serving customers with more integrated solutions example: serving farmers with fertilizers, crop protection and other).

Product

- The products you offer, and the characteristics that affect their value to customers.

- The technology you develop for producing those products.

- What moves are your organization taking to implement Big Data and analytics to your operations? What IoT and blockchain applications can you use?

- What tools and technology could you utilize or develop to improve food quality, traceability, and
production?

- How can you develop a more sustainable production model to accommodate constraints on arable
land?

- What is the future business model needed to serve new differentiated products to your customers?

Promotion

- How you connect with farmers and consumers across a variety of locations and industries.
- How to make consumers, producers, and other stakeholders aware of your products and services.

- How are you connecting your product with individual and corporate farms who could utilize it?
- How could you anticipate market and customer needs to make customers interested in accessing your differentiated products?

Price

How consumers and other members of the agricultural supply chain pay for access to agricultural products.

- What elements of value comprise your pricing? How do each of those elements satisfy the varying needs of your customers?

Placement

- How food products reach consumers. How the technologies, data, and services reach stakeholders in the supply chain.

- What new paths might exist for helping consumers access the food they desire?
- How are you adapting your operations and supply chain to accommodate consumers’ desire for proximity to the food they eat?
- How could you anticipate customer expectation to make products more
accessible to customers/agile supply chain?
- Have you considered urbanization as a part of your growth strategy?

Physical
Experience

- How your food satisfies the needs and desires of your customer.
- How the services you provide to agribusiness fulfill their needs.

- Where does your food rate on a taste, appearance, and freshness
scale?
- Could the services you provide to companies and farms in the agriculture industry be expanded to meet more needs?
- What senses does your food affect besides hunger? How does your
customer extract value from your food in addition to consumption?

Processes

- Guiding your food production operations in a manner cognizant of social pressure.

- How can you manage the supply chain differently to improve traceability and reduce waste?
- How can you innovate systems in production, processing, storing, shipping, retailing, etc.?
- What are new capabilities to increase sustainability (impact on the environment, or ESG) components?

People

- The choices you make regarding hiring, organizing, and incentivizing your people and your culture.

- How are you leveraging the agricultural experience of your staff bottom-up to achieve your vision?
- How do you anticipate new organizational capabilities needed to perform your future strategy (innovation, exponential technologies needed, agile customer relationship, innovative supply chain)?
- How do you manage your talents to assure suitable development with exposure in the agrifood main challenges/allowing a more sustainable view of the opportunities/cross-sectors?