As Google’s first Engineering Director, Alberto Savoia led the team that launched the phenomenally profitable Google AdWords. He then shifted his focus to help Google maintain its exponential going through aggressive company-wide innovation. In his unique role as Google’s Innovation Agitator, Alberto led a team that developed a powerful set of tools and practices to help Google continue to innovate with the creativity, agility, and courage of startups.
Word of the impressive impact and results of Alberto’s approach to innovation quickly spread beyond Google. Today, he teaches and practices Apex Innovation at Google, lectures at Stanford University, and coaches Fortune 500 companies. From the first
techniques have had a deep and lasting impact on the way many world-leading companies view and approach innovation.
Alberto’s work as an innovator has won him significant recognition and awards, including the 2005 Wall Street Journal Technical Innovator Award, and he’s the author of
in 2019.