Outthinker Coaches Network
Where Coaches Become Trusted Strategic Advisors
The global network for strategy coaches and advisors — and the expert ecosystem behind them. Help clients build bolder strategies using a methodology proven in the field by practitioners, with live access to Kaihan Krippendorff, a portfolio of strategy tools, and a global community of peers.
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Trusted by today’s leading corporations
What is the Outthinker Coaches Network?
The Outthinker Coaches Network is a global community of strategy business coaches—trusted strategic advisors committed to helping business leaders generate breakthrough options, build bolder strategies, and execute with clarity. The methodology at its heart was built by practitioners and proven in the field: the tools and frameworks our coaches use have generated over $3 billion in incremental annual revenue for clients.
Whether you’re an independent business coach, a consultant inside an established firm, or a changemaker, explorer, or intrapreneur inside a large organization, we invite you to join us.
$3B
incremental annual revenue created for clients
50%
average growth-rate acceleration
400+
companies served by our coaches
Member Benefits and Resources
Tools, insights, and peer support to reach your full coaching potential
Strategy is the loneliest seat in the C-suite. Fewer peers share the remit than in finance or operations, and the decisions carry the most weight. Outthinker connects you with peers who sit in that same seat as you, facing the same challenges, so you can solve hard problems and find opportunities for growth together.
Live access to Kaihan Krippendorff and other strategy thought-leaders
A monthly virtual live session with Kaihan and peers, to network and learn
A members-only platform of strategy tools, guides, and tactics
A global community of peer coaches to share feedback and tips with
Deep-dive, targeted training in key tools and methodologies
Why Coaches Join?
Bring More Value to Your Clients
Help clients think differently, generate breakthrough ideas, and build bolder strategies that actually work.
Master a Proven Methodology
Learn the strategic frameworks behind $3B+ in client revenue—proven in the field, not the classroom.
Grow Your Practice
Become the trusted strategic advisor your clients can't do without, backed by an expert ecosystem and a global community of peers.
Who is this for?
The Outthinker Coaches Network is designed to serve:
› Business coaches who want to bring more value to their clients
› Facilitators who work to future-proof their clients’ ventures
› Trainers and team coaches eager to learn the latest facilitation techniques
› Strategy and innovation experts who see possibilities where others see roadblocks
The Method: The 4th Option
Our coaches work from the 4th Option — the strategic move beyond the obvious. It’s the idea that sent Walmart to rural America when everyone else built in the cities, Apple toward design when rivals competed on performance, and Tesla to the high end when the industry was sure EVs had to start cheap. Built on Kaihan’s bestselling Outthink the Competition and proven at 400+ companies, the 4th Option gives you a practical, five-phase process for guiding clients to bolder strategies and the tools to make it repeatable.
The IDEAS process, in short:
Imagine — Start by setting a goal so ambitious it can’t be reached with today’s thinking.
Dissect — Break the business down to find the hidden points of leverage others overlook.
Expand — Generate a wide field of options — including the non-obvious 4th Option beyond the usual three.
Analyze — Pressure-test those options to find the ones that create real, defensible advantage.
Sell — Win the buy-in that turns the chosen strategy into action across the organization.
Inside the network, Kaihan’s full library of IP is yours: practical resources for facilitating sessions around the process, plus live deep-dives into each part, where he adds context and fellow coaches share their experience in applying it.
Your Guide and Facilitator
Kaihan Krippendorff is the founder of Outthinker Networks and the creator of the 4th Option methodology. A former McKinsey consultant, he is the bestselling author of six books including Outthink the Competition, Driving Innovation from Within, and Proximity, and is recognized by Thinkers50 and Global Gurus among the top 20 global management thinkers in strategy and innovation.
As a strategic advisor, he has guided some of the world’s most recognizable companies, including Aetna-CVS, JP Morgan, Lockheed Martin, Bank of America, Procter & Gamble, IBM, and Microsoft. His work has created over $3 billion in new annual recurring revenue.
Now he brings that experience directly to the Outthinker Coaches Network—distilling the tools and hard-won judgment from his work with the world’s leading companies into a methodology you can use with your own clients, and showing up live to help you put it to work.
