Lisa Kay Solomon

We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and tech companies—many recent disruptive events have taken us by surprise. Driven by fast moving technologies and globalization, the pace of change is accelerating, our brains are struggling to keep up, and surprise, discomfort, and unrest are the result. In this article, we’ll explore the four pillars of

In this presentation, Lisa explores the four pillars of exponential leadership. These are the critical skills leaders must learn to successfully navigate a rapidly changing world—not just to create strategic advantage for their organizations, but also to help build the kind of inclusive, equitable, positive and abundant future we all want to live in.

What are the skills, behaviors and mindsets of successful innovators?  Truly innovative companies – companies that can adapt and grow in concert with changing customer needs and dynamic market forces, require a new way to think about leadership  How can we enable our current and future leaders to think more originally and expansively about the future and their role in creating it?

Lisa Kay Solomon will talk about the role of design as a leadership skill and its power to influence innovation in organizations across a variety of sectors, including nonprofits, government agencies and startups and established companies. Drawing on her insights from her newly published book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, Lisa will share a new way of thinking about how to create cultures and conditions for innovation and lasting change.

Increasingly, the challenges organizations face require deep learning, new thinking, and innovative solutions. Yet in today’s highly competitive environment, organizational leaders and managers face intense pressure to make critical decisions faster than ever—while somehow achieving a high level of consensus and alignment across functional, geographic, and internal boundaries.

Drawing on her experience as a faculty and leadership coach at California College of the Art’s MBA program in Design Strategy, and upon research and key insights from her bestselling bookMoments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, Lisa Kay Solomon will share best practices and case studies that illuminate the need to push the creative and productive boundaries of conversations in order to support successful innovation within organizations.

A complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you’ve likely never seen before, guiding the audience step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over 20 total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world.

This keynote also features case studies and real life examples from large corporations such as ING Bank, Audi, Autodesk, and Toyota Financial Services, to small startups, incubators, and social impact organizations, providing a behind the scenes look at the best practices and pitfalls to avoid.