Shawn Kanungo is an innovation strategist based in Edmonton, Canada. He spent twelve years at Deloitte helping executives plan for disruptive innovation, and is now a partner at Queen & Rook, where he advises organisations on disruptive trends and invests in early-stage ventures. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, associations and governments, and his work spans artificial intelligence, cloud technology and behavioural economics.

His debut book, The Bold Ones: Innovate and Disrupt to Become Truly Indispensable (McGraw Hill, November 2022), sets out eight pillars for making bold innovation part of a career or organisation, and was ranked fifth on McKinsey & Company’s list of top books on decision making. A streaming special of the same name, released on Apple TV and Prime Video in August 2023, made him the first innovation expert with a special.

Forbes contributor Kevin Kruse described him in January 2021 as “the best virtual keynote speaker I’ve ever seen”, and Edify magazine named him in its Top 40 Under 40. He has been featured by the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, CBC and CTV, and his short-form videos on innovation have drawn millions of views across LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube.

His current keynotes include Innovation in a World of AI, Strategy is Energy and Friction by Design: Building Trust in the Age of AI.