BigSpeak Beyond

The Future Ready Leader Series

BigSpeak Beyond is designed to extend the value of a keynote, driving key learning and insight throughout your organization. Based on cognitive science and advanced learning technology, the Future Ready Leader Series ensures the investment you made in your live event is protected and expanded through a carefully curated program led by world-renowned thought leaders. Valuable insights are delivered through a proven system including live masterclasses, weekly ‘micro-learnings’, team challenges, monthly webinars, and a 24/7 digital learning platform to ensure maximum impact and retention.

How to Envision, Strategize, and Transform in Times of Uncertainty

Turning challenge into opportunity, and change into competitive advantage

Accept your changed reality and take ownership for leading the transformation necessary to remain relevant
Put an end to the circular conversations and navel gazing that blind you from your inertia and inaction
Questions the assumptions that have underpinned your strategy to-date, opening your mind the emerging future possibilities
Move your organization to the edge of disruption and identify the opportunities for growth that are present there
Embrace a commitment to intentional optimism and resolve to create your positive beliefs in reality

Beyond strategy: how to create the future rather than simply reacting to it

Consciously shift from the energy of a burning platform to the inspiration of a burning ambition
Commit to leading your customer to the future rather than being dragged there
Migrate your organization from one competitive advantage to the next by
identifying and solving the higher order customer problem
Align your team of individual leaders behind an ambition and create a true leadership team
Unleash a standard for agency and and belief in your teams’ ability to create your collective future

The road to reinvention: how to let go of the past and reimagine what’s possible

Rethink current assumptions and operating models to discover fresh possibilities
Learn how startups disrupt conventional wisdom to invent bold new solutions
Explore the five core mindsets of innovation to elevate organization-wide creativity
Gain proven tools and techniques to generate higher volumes of better ideas
Identify vulnerabilities before they become problematic and then use as a springboard for innovation

How to Create and Solve Problems at the Speed of Change

Using creative problem-solving and inventive thinking to unlock value inside your business

Apply proven innovation models to internal challenges such as recruiting, operating leverage, productivity, predictability, and engagement
Finding new and profitable revenue streams
Create asymmetric returns through process and culture-based innovations
Discover creative approaches to organizational readiness and value creation
Embrace best practices for rapid prototyping, experimentation, and gaining buy-in for new ideas
Develop rituals and rewards that accelerate widespread, collaborative creativity

Building an innovation-ready culture

Expanding capacity for intelligent risk taking
Accelerating decision making and speed to transformation
Insights on the habits, rituals and rewards to foster faster innovation
Strategies for rapid experimentation to build better decisions
Unleashing a culture of agility rooted in psychological safety

How to develop differentiated, customer-centric solutions

Leverage cutting-edge design thinking strategies to bring new customer solutions to market more efficiently
Learn how empathy-mapping unlocks hidden revenue opportunities while boosting customer loyalty and retention
Accelerate the speed of innovation to better serve customers and thwart competitive advances
Gain new co-creation techniques that yield a high-probability product/market fit
Elevate customer engagement and boost share-of-wallet by discovering creative ways to serve unmet needs

Creating High-Performance Cultures in a Hybrid World

Moving from command and control to influence and collaboration

Insights on the future-ready skills and competencies required to lead fluid and agile teams
Strategies for empowering teams and supporting autonomy
Developing influence and impact beyond one’s span of control and positional authority
Busting industrial age hierarchical thinking that frustrates progress and stifles innovation
Fostering a spirit of ownership, openness, and accountability that drives performance

Unleashing high-performing teams in the new world of work

Designing work and supporting performance in a post-covid world
Insight on the drivers of engagement and influence in a hybrid environment
Perspectives on developing trust and psychological safety in virtual environments
Techniques for maintaining digital human connection
Strategies for building equitable cultures rooted in belonging

Resilient Leadership: how to build change-ready teams that thrive

Leverage change and challenge and a catalyst for growth
Cultivate emotional resilience amid uncertainty
Understand drivers of engagement to earn emotional commitment
Develop your own personal leadership vision and demonstrate a high propensity for action orientation
Put people first and connect them to something larger than themselves

How to Drive Influence and Impact in a Hyper-Competitive World

Selling, solving and serving on value, not price

Build high trust, high value relationships
Master the discipline of preparation and positioning solutions
Create value and never compete on price
Elevate sense of urgency through the power of storytelling
Elevate competitive readiness and customer obsession by understanding the DNA of a Top Producer today

The obvious choice: how to become a strategic partner and trusted advisor

Identify the insights and expertise that will uniquely position you as a strategic partner in the minds of your clients
Develop compelling points-of-view and platforms for communicating them to your high-value stakeholders
Move the market by embracing leading thoughts and insights that provoke existing assumptions and open minds to new possibilities
Engage your clients earlier, more deeply, and at higher levels to co-create the future together
Develop the executive presence and storytelling capabilities that instill confidence during periods of elevated uncertainty

Building high-trust, high-value relationships in rapidly-changing times

Connect from a position of influence
Cultivate active and perceptive listening skills
Elevate self awareness and emotional intelligence
Conduct a “courage in communication” audit
Embrace vulnerability as an opportunity to deepen meaningful connections

Proven Insights, Custom Programming

Hand-crafted for you.

While our proven learning framework is universal, no two client needs are identical. As such, the core modules can be tailored to the needs of your organization.

The Future Ready Leadership Series can be modified for the specific nuisances of a sales organization, product development team, up-and-coming high-potential team members, or senior executive leadership.

The content and messaging will also be shaped based on your industry, organizational size, geography, and growth trajectory so that your team enjoys a highly relevant, customized and impactful learning solution.

DESIGN

We’ll first connect with you and your key stakeholders to understand learning objectives, uncover any challenges, and align on desired business outcomes and measurement metrics. This allows our team to custom-tailor content and programming to your specific needs.

IMPLEMENTATION

Actionable insights are delivered in a multi-modal fashion to maximize impact while saving time. A regular cadence of live instruction mixed with interactive, micro-learning segments will reinforce key themes and deliver tangible results:

Monthly live masterclasses. These 90-minute, interactive workshops are led by top experts to create both inspiration and hands-on learning. Sessions will also be recorded and will remain accessible to all participants through a private-branded, password-protected Digital Learning Portal.
Weekly curated content. Each week, participants will receive a fresh dose of content that can be consumed on the go. This content bundle includes a short expert video, supporting reading material, and a weekly challenge to ensure the learning is both consistent and efficient.
Digital Learning Portal. Participants enjoy 24/7 access to this private and secure portal, providing on-demand learning. Rich with hand-selected videos, articles, white-papers, research, challenges, thought-starters and tools, the Portal serves as a leadership toolbox to support key business priorities. The system is also “gamified” whereby users earn points for each interaction and compete to see who ranks highest on the Digital Leaderboard.
Group Challenges. Each learning module contains a project assignment, providing learners the opportunity to apply newly-gained skills and perspectives to a real-world challenge. This collaborative, hands-on learning drives high retention and leads to subject matter mastery.

MEASUREMENT

At the conclusion of the program, we’ll conduct a debrief call to highlight key observations, answer questions, and discuss next steps. We’ll also review measurement data to ensure the program has successfully delivered on key metrics.

In Partnership with impacteleven

Seth Mattison’s work with the agency has had a big impact. Leaders continue to reference their time with him and how much of an impact the ideas and sessions have had on their own thinking as it relates to leading digital transformation at the agency. I too am finding myself thinking about networks and hierarchies, helping others feel safe and free and a host of other concepts he introduced us to.

Jane Datta

Chief Human Capital Officer
NASA

Ryan Estis is not simply an incredible, passionate, engaging, on-point keynote speaker. He is committed to partnering and learning your business so that he can utilize his passion for speaking and his knowledge to better your business. We all know the complexity of what 2020 brought for our teammates: Working from home, home schooling our children, sheltering I place…all of it. It was time as leaders to show our employees that we care about them as a whole person. That’s what his series delivers. Ryan Estis’ work has paid dividends in BIG ways (productivity, retention).

Jeanne Junker

Sr. Vice President
Renewal by Andersen

In today’s fiercely competitive global marketplace the most important resource any business has is the creative thinking of its people. Josh Linkner lays out a road map that will guide individuals, teams, and companies to higher levels of creativity. It is a journey that will lead to better ideas and breakthrough thinking.

Bill Ford, Jr.

Executive Chairman
Ford Motor Company

Building a culture of innovation in large companies is critically important, and there’s no better way to learn than with a trusted roadmap of tools and real-life examples. Josh Linkner illustrates how innovative thinking is possible for every employee and business leader, so we can all unlock our full creative potential.

Mike Kaufmann

CEO
Cardinal Health

The feedback from our team – amazing, energizing messages, entertaining and humorous, actionable learnings, things people can do right away.

Sajeena Warrier

Managing Director
Intel Security