Rishad Tobaccowala

Globalization. Demographic Shifts and Technology were changing the very landscape every business  was operating in. And now there is the economic, health and social crisis of Covid-19 and the scaling impact of Third Connected Age technologies of AI, Voice, 5G and Cloud.

Rishad will distill the confusion into the key drivers every individual should focus on so they and their companies are prepared for the Great Re-invention. He will reveal how new scale is coming to replace old scale, why data is key but like electricity is not really a differentiator, how the rules of Brand building require an understanding of “God like” power and how to separate the signal from the noise. Anyone attending this will frame the future in completely new ways.

We spend a lot of time upgrading our physical operating system by exercising and watching what we eat but do we spend enough time on exercising our minds so we can truly grow, adapt and remain relevant in a world of change and are we feeding the right side of our minds that unleash innovation?

Rishad will share a number of learnings and exercises including why there are much better ways to generate new thinking than off-sites to generate ideas and why its key to build a case for the exact opposite of what you believe. A plethora of tools and resources will be shared and discussed.

Change sucks because it is difficult, it involves new learning, it means venturing into the unknown and making mistakes. But irrelevance is even worse. How do companies truly make change happen.

Rishad will explain why Strategy, M&A and new Leadership often are never enough because the keys are communication, incentives and training. Why being able to call out a turd on the table is a critical part of a culture if change is to real. He will show folks how to make change stick and not be as short lived as a press release.

We have a crisis of leadership everywhere. Politics. Business. Society. In part because leadership is accepting and adapting to reality versus making a science, fact and future free fantasy.

Rishad will share the five key characteristics of great leaders. Why every one has in them the components of being a good and a bad boss and how to ignite the good side and extinguish the bad. How to manage distributed workforces and why you should have more versus fewer meetings leaving people with energy, enthusiasm and belief.

Even before the Third Connected Age (AI, Voice/AR/VR, Cloud Computing, 5G), marketing and creativity has been transformed. Now as NFT’s (non-fungible tokens), meta-verse, dual realities (in person and digital are both in the real world) begin to scale, learn how to learn, partner and create from someone who has been on the frontiers and now is investing and on the board of a number of next generation marketing firms.

We are all salespeople and problem solvers regardless of what our title says or what Industry we work in. We must sell our points of view, our recommendation, our companies and ourselves. The best salespeople understand and solve people’s problems and deliver them in simple understandable ways.

This workshop upgrades your skills by a) helping you better understand what the person on the other end needs, b) teaches you how to frame and solve problems, and c) architect presentations that have impact.

Even before the shock of Covid-19, work was being re-configured by the forces of demographic shifts, globalization and technology.

Any company or team that believes it is possible to go back to the way things were in 2019 is already lost and solving for the wrong challenges in a world of unbundled work.

Work will be done from many places including home, the museum (the old office HQ), third places (WeWork, Starbucks) and at Events / Experiential Gathering.  Many of us will plug and play across projects or gigs and learn how to work in combination with next generation automation.

How does one attract and retain talent? How does one manage culture and collaboration?

This workshop shares best thinking, suggests approaches and provides actionable next steps for leaders and companies to adapt and thrive in the new reality.

Data, Privacy and Identity are key to the future of business and people. The three areas are interconnected but often mistakenly confused. This module shares thinking on a dozen ways one can extract meaning from math and insights from data. On how to think about privacy matters and why identity is not one thing but multiple perspectives on a person.

Stop being confused or seduced by buzz word bingo about data like “data lakes”, “deterministic”, “probabilistic” and truly understand from a human and business perspective on how to lead and learn in this area.