Lisa Bodell

Imagine what you could do with the time you spend sitting in meetings and writing emails every day.

Complexity is killing companies’ ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Drawing on research and themes from her latest book, Why Simple Wins, Bodell inspires leaders and their teams to proactively move beyond the feelings of frustration and futility that come with so much unproductive work in today’s corporate world, to create a corporate culture where valuable, essential, meaningful work is the norm. By learning how to eliminate redundancies, communicate with clarity, and make simplification a habit, individuals and companies can begin to recognize which activities are time-sucks and which create lasting value.

Using highly engaging stories and techniques, Bodell proves that by using simplicity as an operating principle, we can eliminate the organizational and individual busywork that consumes us every day,and instead spend more time on the work that matters.

KEYNOTE TAKEAWAYS
● Get informed by examples that resonate: consumers will pay more for simpler experiences; people recommend companies that exemplify simplicity; employees are brand champions in companies that operate with simplicity.
● Identify areas for simplification within your organization; Learn techniques to make simplification a habit.
● Understand which tasks take the most (unnecessary) time both individually and as a team.
● Start to create a culture of simplification and exemplify its practices.

BONUS OPPORTUNITY: Empower your audience immediately by pairing a breakout session with any of Lisa’s keynotes, where her team of FutureThink trainers will teach the techniques to make simplification and innovation a daily practice!

Winning innovators embrace change—do you? What holds you and your organization back from better innovating, every day?

In too many organizations, we’re stuck in the land of status quo. We’ve forgotten how to think differently, and lack the simple tools to solve problems creatively. The very structures put in place inside organizations to help them grow all too often hold them back. This keynote is an inspirational call to arms: to start a revolution in how we think and how we work. If you want people to approach change differently, you have to help them change their approach.

Using engaging interactivity, real-world examples and practical advice, Bodell shares how teams can actually do less to achieve more. Leaders learn why providing guardrails to their teams instead of handcuffs can reignite critical aptitudes such as curiosity, inquiry, creative problem-solving, and more.

KEYNOTE TAKEAWAYS

● Everyone is a change agent.
● Change involves a toolkit, not a process.
● Reignite curiosity, inquiry and creative problem solving.
● Small changes can make a big impact.

BONUS OPPORTUNITY: Empower your audience immediately by pairing a breakout session with any of Lisa’s keynotes, where her team of FutureThink trainers will teach the techniques to make simplification and innovation a daily practice!

Employees in today’s corporate environment are stressed and stretched, which makes it difficult for them to pursue skill-development and learning. Training takes a back seat to ‘getting things done.’ Employees don’t have time for the traditional format of current training offerings. 

Our accelerated modules provide focused learning, teaching one skill and applying it to a real business challenge in one hour. These courses ignite fresh thinking and problem solving using unorthodox yet simple techniques. Problems can be solved and innovation will move forward right in the room. Use microlearning to quickly train an entire team, a geography, or business units consecutively or concurrently. 

OVERVIEW 

• 60 minute courses 
• 12 unique courses – each teaching a specific capability 
• Facilitated by a FutureThink Senior Facilitator 
• Can be combined with up to 4 modules in one day 

COURSES

• Ask Killer Questions
• Collaborate Creatively
• Reinvent Offerings
• Envision the Future
• Kill a Stupid Rule
• Build Agility
• Ignite Disruptive Thinking
• Embrace New ideas
• Explore Unmet Needs
• Shatter Business Barriers
• Become a Simplifier