Chris Trimble

For more than 15 years, Trimble has studied this vexing challenge affecting even the best-managed organizations:  executing innovation. Most recently, he’s completed a multi-year research effort focused on translating his experience to health care. Trimble’s sixth book, “How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time” (American Association for Physician Leadership, October 2015), offers an essential step-by-step guide for physician innovators, their teams and their organizations’ senior leaders.

An adjunct professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Trimble is the author of five additional books, including “Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization” (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) with co-author Vijay Govindarajan. The expert duo also collaborated on The New York Times best-seller “Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), focusing on the specific challenge of innovating to propel growth in emerging markets. Trimble’s other notable publications include two Harvard Business Review articles: the McKinsey award-winning “Stop the Innovation Awards” (2010) and “How GE is Disrupting Itself” (2009), written with Govindarajan and GE Chairman Jeff Immelt.

An engaging teacher and speaker, Trimble is also a renowned advisor and has consulted with a wide-range of large global organizations as GE, AT&T, eBay, Microsoft, Thomson-Reuters and The New York Times Company. Known for mixing rigorous academic research with hard-nosed practical experience, Trimble’s interest in innovation with large organizations developed early in his career as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. He holds an MBA with distinction from the Tuck School and a Bachelor of Science degree with highest distinction from the University of Virginia.