Dave Ulmer
// Innovation · Disruption · Growth

Adapt.
Or Extinct.

A disruptive consultancy that takes corporate leaders from conception to execution — building the innovation strategies, new growth businesses, and consumer-driven products that define what comes next.

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 INNOVATION STRATEGY  ·  BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT  ·  REVENUE GROWTH  ·  MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT  ·  GLOBAL EXPANSION  ·  CORPORATE DISRUPTION  ·  NEW MARKET ENTRY  ·  MOBILE & DIGITAL  ·  INNOVATION STRATEGY  ·  BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT  ·  REVENUE GROWTH  ·  MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT  ·  GLOBAL EXPANSION  ·  CORPORATE DISRUPTION  ·  NEW MARKET ENTRY  ·  MOBILE & DIGITAL  · 
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Innovation Strategy
From concept to launch — hands-on advisory that turns stalled ideas into market-ready businesses.
02
Growth & Expansion
Revenue acceleration, new market entry, and global partnerships across media, mobile, and entertainment.
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Corporate Disruption
Breaking the antibodies that kill innovation from within — building cultures and structures that survive change.
#1 Amazon Bestseller · Management & Innovation
The Innovator's Extinction
How best intentions and natural selection will drive your company into the grave — and what to do about it.
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Dave Ulmer
// The Disruptor

Dave Ulmer

Dave Ulmer is a serial innovator, author, and advisor with 30+ years building breakthrough businesses inside the world's largest multinationals and most ambitious startups. He has lived and worked across Southeast Asia, the Americas, and beyond — bringing a uniquely global lens to corporate transformation.

Through Change Your DNA, Dave works hands-on with senior leaders to design and execute innovation strategies that actually survive contact with corporate reality. Not theory. Not frameworks. Execution.

He is an International Emmy Awards Academy member, author of the #1 Amazon bestseller The Innovator's Extinction, and a sought-after keynote speaker on innovation, disruption, and the future of media.

CBS / CTN / CNC
CEO, Cambodian Broadcasting Service
MD PICTURES
CCDO & Board Member (IDX: FILM)
SINGTEL
MD, New Growth Businesses — $800M P&L
MOTOROLA
Sr. Director, Mobile Media & Entertainment
ROXIO
Founder — grew $60M → $120M, spun out
// What We Do

Consulting Services

Hands-on advisory from conception through execution. No slide decks and goodbye — Dave embeds with your leadership team to drive real outcomes.

Innovation Strategy
End-to-end innovation architecture — from identifying white space to building the teams, processes, and business models needed to turn ideas into revenue-generating realities. Specialty in breaking the corporate antibodies that kill new initiatives before they launch.
Business Development & Partnerships
Strategic partnership structuring, licensing deals, and joint ventures across media, mobile, entertainment, and technology. Leveraging a global network built across 25+ countries to open doors that matter.
Revenue Growth & New Markets
Market entry strategy, commercial model design, and revenue acceleration for companies expanding into new geographies or consumer segments. Deep expertise in Asia Pacific, Southeast Asia, and emerging markets.
Media, Mobile & Entertainment
Sector-specific advisory for broadcasters, studios, telcos, and digital platforms navigating disruption. From OTT strategy to production partnerships, content monetization, and platform transformation.
Integrated Marketing & Brand
Consumer-driven product positioning, go-to-market strategy, and integrated campaign architecture. Translating complex innovation stories into compelling market narratives that drive adoption.
Executive Advisory & Board
Fractional C-suite and board-level advisory for companies that need senior innovation leadership without the full-time overhead. Ongoing strategic counsel, deal advisory, and organizational transformation guidance.
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The Innovator's Extinction
// #1 Amazon Bestseller · Management & Innovation

The Innovator's
Extinction

Just as the body is designed in its very DNA to ward off foreign bodies and unfamiliar organisms, corporations follow the same genetic traits. Organ rejection. Antibodies. Fear of extinction. These natural survival instincts first help corporations succeed — then kill off any attempts to adapt and change.

Drawn from years of trial-by-fire experience inside some of the world's largest firms, this book gives corporate innovators and disrupters the tools, tactics, and strategies to survive and thrive. Funny, sharp, and brutally honest.

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change." — Charles Darwin

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"An insider's view of corporate innovation stagnation — his insights are spot on and relevant for those seeking to disrupt and innovate to spur growth."
— Amazon Verified Review
"Ulmer is funny and as a business book it reaches rare heights. His tone is constructive when it's easier to be negative — he's obviously a practitioner with a long track record."
— Amazon Verified Review
"Real world pragmatic advice and counsel on how to develop an innovation platform in a large company. I have lived these situations in corporate life — this essay is spot on."
— Amazon Verified Review
Available on Amazon
in Kindle & Paperback
Kindle edition · Paperback · Available worldwide
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Dave Ulmer speaking
// Keynotes · Panels · Corporate Events

An Entertaining
Voice on the
Edge of Change

// About the Speaker

Dave Ulmer is a provocative, engaging, and often hilarious speaker on the topics that matter most to leaders navigating disruption. Drawing on 30+ years of front-line corporate innovation experience across five continents, Dave brings war stories, real data, and actionable frameworks — not just inspiration.

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Corporate Innovation & Disruption
Why large companies systematically destroy their own best ideas — and the specific strategies to survive the antibodies. Based on the book that hit #1 on Amazon.
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The Future of Media & Entertainment
How streaming, mobile, and AI are reshaping content creation, distribution, and monetization globally — with a particular lens on Asia Pacific markets.
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Growth in Emerging Markets
Lessons from 17+ years on the ground across Southeast Asia, building businesses at SingTel, MD Pictures, and CBS — where the growth actually is.
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Changing Your Corporate DNA
A practical, entertaining deep-dive into organizational transformation — how to rewire culture, incentives, and structure to make innovation a survival instinct, not a committee.
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From Startup to Scale
Hard-won lessons from founding Roxio, raising capital, and driving $60M to $120M growth — applied to the challenges facing entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs today.
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The Innovator's Survival Guide
A fast, funny, and brutally practical keynote based directly on the book — packed with corporate war stories and tactical takeaways audiences walk out actually using.
// Book Dave

Available for Keynotes,
Panels & Corporate Events

For speaking inquiries, availability, and fees, reach out directly.

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// Get In Touch

Work With
Dave

Email
dave@changeyourdna.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/daveulmer
Based In
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Available globally
Engagements
Consulting · Advisory · Speaking
Board Roles · Executive Coaching
// What To Expect

Direct.
Hands-On.
No Fluff.

Dave doesn't do strategy decks that collect dust. Engagements are hands-on, outcome-focused, and built around your specific situation — not a repackaged framework.

Whether you're a CEO navigating a transformation, a board looking for an independent voice, or an event organizer looking for a speaker who will actually move an audience — reach out.

Response time: fast. Tolerance for bureaucracy: low.

The Book

Pick up The Innovator's Extinction before reaching out — it's the fastest way to understand how Dave thinks.

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