Todd Hagopian

Todd Hagopian, business transformation author, speaker, and executive, is Global VP of Product Strategy and Marketing at JBT Marel. Known as The Stagnation Assassin, he helps leadership teams kill stagnation before it kills their margins.

Hagopian has led business transformations at Berkshire Hathaway, Illinois Tool Works, and Whirlpool Corporation, generating a documented $3 billion in shareholder value across his corporate roles. Outside the corporate world, he doubled the value of his own manufacturing business acquisition in three years before selling it. He is a former Leadership Council member at the National Small Business Association.

He built his methods into a framework system that includes the HOT System, the Karelin Method, the Four-Position Framework, the 80/20 Matrix, 80/20 Squared, and the Stagnation Genome diagnostic. His methodologies have been published on SSRN and featured in Forbes, The Washington Post, NPR, and Fox Business.

Hagopian is the author of The Unfair Advantage: Weaponizing the Hypomanic Toolbox (Koehler Books, January 2026) and Stagnation Assassin: The Anti-Consultant Manifesto (Koehler Books, July 2026). His next book, Ten Minute Transformation, is forthcoming from Koehler Books in 2027. He is the founder of Stagnation Assassins, a community for executives who refuse to manage from behind, and his blog at toddhagopian.com is published in more than 15 languages. He holds an MBA from Michigan State University.

He speaks to leadership teams on business transformation, turnarounds, and breaking stagnation. Learn more at toddhagopian.com/speaking.

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