Trustworthy Innovation

“Many books on this topic focus on broad principles. Trustworthy Innovation addresses the decisions that matter most in practice: what to build, what to permit, and what to trust. Kathryn faced these decisions firsthand at IBM and writes about them with an engineer’s rigor and a leader’s perspective. For anyone creating technology people depend on, this is a grounded and practical guide.” —ARVIND KRISHNA, Chairman and CEO, IBM

“At a time when trust in business and technology is declining, there’s an urgent need for Kathryn Guarini’s practical playbook for innovators. She challenges outdated assumptions and gives executives the tools they need to build and sustain trust as a catalyst for growth and long-term success.” —JOANNE LIPMAN, bestselling author and former Editor-in-Chief of USA Today

“The most useful book on trust you’ll read, whether you build technology, fund it, regulate it, or just depend on it.” —ZOE CHANCE, Yale professor and bestselling author of Influence Is Your Superpower

“Innovation determines what’s possible, but trust determines what’s accepted. Trustworthy Innovation lays out the consequences of absent trust and shows how to design, earn, and sustain trust with intention. Dr. Kathryn Guarini has built a distinguished career at the intersection of technology and business, and I had the privilege of watching the impact she has had at IBM and across the technology industry. The faster AI moves, the more this book matters. Every leader and every board member should read it.” —RODNEY ADKINS, Chair of the Avnet Board, former IBM Senior Vice President, and author of Curiosity Redefines the Limits

“Trustworthy Innovation is riveting. Kathryn Guarini brings innovation vividly to life through real-world stories of spectacular successes and consequential failures. In every case she reveals not only what happened but why, and what it cost individuals, organizations, and society. I couldn’t wait to get to the next story. Its pages should be worn and dog-eared.” —BONNIE BASSLER, Professor, Princeton University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; recipient of the National Medal of Science and the Copley Medal

“In an era of exponential technologies, the trustworthiness with which we build, deploy, and manage their extraordinary capabilities will determine their ultimate value to business and society. Trustworthy Innovation is essential reading for all that want a future built right.” —DARÍO GIL, former IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research

“Reading this guide will convince you that trustworthy innovation must underpin the invention, commercialization, and adoption of new technology. And it will give you incredible case studies to drive home just how critical trustworthy innovation really is.” —LEONARD SHCLEIFER, Founder, CEO, and Board Co-Chair, Regeneron

“Cyberattacks now arrive with a speed and novelty we’ve never faced before. Trustworthy Innovation tells engineers and executives how to defend their platforms against formidable adversaries who are not just humans, but also agents. And it shows the cost of getting this wrong.” —JEETU PATEL, President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco

“In world moving at AI-speed, leaders need to ask one question: What about the humans? Kathryn Guarini draws on her expertise — and battle scars — as IBM’s CIO to offer an answer. Effective technology feeds off human trust. This book is for every leader to learn how to engage both the human experience of trust and today’s technology imperatives for long-term success.” —WENDY K. SMITH, award-winning scholar, professor, and coauthor of Both/And Thinking

Kathryn Guarini is a technology executive, corporate director, and educator whose work centers on trustworthy innovation. She serves on the boards of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, ISO New England, and the New York Hall of Science, and teaches innovation and crisis management at Yale and Cornell Tech. Through her firm, Inspiring Innovation, she helps organizations use AI and emerging technologies to shape strategy, accelerate growth, and create competitive advantage. At IBM, she led global digital transformation as Chief Information Officer, shaped long-term innovation strategy as Chief Operating Officer of IBM Research, and launched the LinuxONE platform as Vice President of Product Management. Guarini hosts the Lead with IT podcast and writes the Mother of Invention blog. A PhD scientist and inventor on more than 65 patents, she holds degrees from Stanford and Yale. She lives in Westchester County, New York, with her family and her dog.

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