Leading Fearlessly in a Millennial and AI-Dominated World
(Format: 45-60 minute keynote)
As millennials begin dominating the workforce, and AI begins dominating decision-making, can leaders continue leading with a “leadership-as-usual” mindset?
Absolutely not. Leadership is a highly context-bound activity, so leadership will have to adapt and morph in response to these two different – but highly related – challenges. Soulful LeadershipTM, that emphasizes leading with one’s humanity, that brings cause, compassion, and human-centric thinking to the forefront will be in ever-increasing demand.
This future-looking, provocative, and insightful keynote is designed to help current and future leaders prepare for the emerging Millennials and AI-dominated world. Like a lighthouse, the keynote’s goal is to help guide current and future leaders reimagine leadership’s purpose, and rethink its outcomes so they can lead brilliantly and fearlessly with unwavering clarity.
This prescient keynote is ideal for:
- Current leaders and culture makers
- Future leaders, department heads, and other managers involved in shaping and upholding organization culture
- HR and Talent Management professionals
Three key takeaways for Monday-morning action:
- The why and how of integrating hard and soft leadership skills
- Core strategies for morphing and adapting leadership journeys to lead effectively in a Millenial and AI world
- The importance of perennially reviewing and reinventing the organization’s mission, purpose, and actions
(This keynote can be customized for audiences interested in only Millennials, or only AI.)
Transforming Leadership Journeys: A Success Manifesto For The 21st Century
(Format: 45-60 minute keynote)
Why Transform Leadership Journeys?
Because new times require new narratives; yesterday’s leadership thinking can’t produce tomorrow’s winners.
Today’s complex and conflicted world presents challenges, quandaries, and paradoxes that defy simple-minded right-wrong, yes-no, good-bad thinking. Truth rarely lies at the extremes. It invariably lies in the murky middle where leadership choices are often not right vs wrong, but frequently between right vs. right, or wrong vs. more wrong.
This provocative, insightful, and energizing keynote is designed to meet this critical need – to train current and future leaders on how to chart and implement visionary leadership journeys that help succeed and win in a complex and uncertain world.
This visionary keynote is ideal for:
- Current Leaders: C-suite, Senior Management, Department and Division Leaders
- Future Leaders: High-potential managers, next-generation leaders
- HR, Talent Managers, and other professionals responsible for shaping and upholding corporate culture
Three key takeaways for Monday-morning action:
- Why transforming leadership journeys is vital for resolving challenges posed by a complex and uncertain world
- Core strategies for transforming leadership journeys
- How transforming leadership journeys transforms trust, business success, and professional fulfillment.
Cognitive Diversity: Critical For Survival & Growth In Today’s Complex World
(Format: 45-60 minute keynote)
If everyone in an organization thinks the same way, talks the same way, and acts the same way, is it an asset or a liability?
Definitely a liability. Lack of cognitive diversity is one of the main reasons why companies dismiss significant threats and discount growth opportunities; everybody agreed they didn’t matter.
Talk of diversity is everywhere. But, in most instances, diversity conversations rarely transcend ethnicity, gender, and race. No doubt, these socio-demographic differences are important, but, there is another side to diversity that’s just as important, if not more, and that’s cognitive diversity – differences in how people think, process information, and make decisions. A lack of cognitive diversity can seriously damage the survival and growth of organizations.
This insightful and provocative keynote is designed to fill this critical void – encourage teams, decision-makers, leaders, and organizations to first recognize cognitive diversity’s importance, and then cultivate and nurture it as a mission critical competence. It’s one of the best investments they can make in their future wellbeing and prosperity.
This boldly different keynote is ideal for:
- Current and Future Leaders
- All teams – leadership, departmental, cross-functional, multi-country, virtual
- HR, Talent Management, and Diversity professionals
Three Takeaways for Monday-morning action:
- Why Cognitive Diversity is a necessity, not a luxury, in a complex, uncertain world
- Core strategies for cultivating and nurturing Cognitive Diversity
- Leveraging Cognitive Diversity to build economically prosperous and emotionally healthy organizations
The Three C’s of Creativity: Creative Abrasion, Collaboration, Cognitive Diversity
(Format: 45-60 minute keynote)
What if the most commonly held beliefs about creativity are wrong?
What if creativity that drives innovation and growth doesn’t reside in individuals, in lone geniuses, but in collaborative groups? Groups that aren’t afraid to butt heads and lock horns as they bisect, dissect, and shred all ideas on the table in search of ones most likely to succeed.
This provocative, high energy, and refreshingly candid keynote is designed to help meet this need; encourage audiences to embrace creative abrasion and collaboration. Because, without diversity and conflict, without groups pushing and challenging each other, without groups collaborating with each other, genuine creativity and innovation are impossible and unsustainable.
This refreshingly different keynote is ideal for:
- Current and Future Leaders
- All teams – leadership, departmental, cross-functional, multi-country, virtual
- HR, Talent Management, and Diversity professionals
Three key takeaways for Monday-morning action:
- Challenge and update individual and team perceptions and perspectives related to creativity, creative abrasion, and collaboration
- Core strategies for fostering creative abrasion and collaboration
- Role of visionary leadership in building courageous cultures that challenge assumptions and conventional wisdom
Embrace Change By Embracing Innovation
(Format: 45-60 minute keynote)
Can innovation also be a leading change-management strategy?
Absolutely. Because the vast majority of change, and the one that usually poses the greatest threat, is imposed on the company from the outside – changing customer needs, new competitors, disruptive technology – not from within. Which is why smart companies embrace change by embracing innovation, and not just by tinkering with org charts, or by blasting high-octane corporate communications.
This provocative and game-changing keynote was designed to bring an energetically fresh perspective on why embracing change by embracing innovation is the No. 1 success strategy and the best investment in insuring an organization’s future growth and competitive standing when disruptive market forces are assaulting it from all directions.
This game-changing keynote is ideal for:
- Innovation, Marketing, New Product Development, and Sales teams
- HR, Talent Management, and Organization Development/Change Management professionals
- Current and future leaders and policy makers
Three key takeaways for Monday-morning action:
- Relevance and power of innovation as a strategy for confronting and conquering change
- Core strategies for implementing the “embracing change by embracing innovation mindset”
- Importance of embedding the change-innovation link in the operating DNA of the company
Leading And Winning With A Customer-First Mindset
(Format: 45-60 minute keynote)
What could be simpler than the maxim – no customer, no business? Then why is customer-first thinking still a slogan for many organizations?
P&G’s A.G. Lafley, IBM’s Lou Gerstner, McDonald’s Ray Croc have all stressed the importance of leading and winning with a customer-first mindset – if you put the customer first, success will be yours. Yet, despite the simple and profound nature of the message, putting customers first is still a distant reality.
This provocative, insightful, and entertaining keynote is designed to encourage organizations to lead and win with a customer-first mindset. The keynote discusses insightful case studies, and presents simple but powerful tactics and strategies that can be implemented right away, on Monday-Morning, provided the organization has the will.
This hard-hitting and entertaining keynote is ideal for:
- Customer-facing functions: Marketing, Sales, Customer Service
- Customer-support functions, teams, and professionals: Business Development. IT, and Innovation
- Organizational support functions, teams, and professionals – they too have customers, albeit, they are internal
Three key takeaways for Monday-morning action:
- Why a customer-first mindset beats hands down product-centric and technology-first mindsets
- Core strategies for leading and winning with a customer-first mindset
- How customer-first operating cultures and mindsets boost corporate reputation and attract top talent
