Keynote SpeakerLisa Bodell

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Popular Talks by Lisa Bodell

• Unleash The Power of Simplification

  Complexity is crippling our organizations. Unproductive meetings, irrelevant rules and reports, and endless emails keep people from doing the work that matters most. Worse, complexity dampens morale and creates feelings of futility. It doesn’t have to be this way. CEO and TED-talk veteran Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to unleash… Read more

  Complexity is crippling our organizations. Unproductive meetings, irrelevant rules and reports, and endless emails keep people from doing the work that matters most. Worse, complexity dampens morale and creates feelings of futility. It doesn’t have to be this way. CEO and TED-talk veteran Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to unleash the energy, collaboration, innovation, and engagement lying in wait by embracing a mindset of simplification right now. This spirited presentation shows how small changes can have a profound impact on the organization’s people, competitiveness, and ability to adapt. Lisa offers techniques used by the nimblest of companies to save time, kill rules, and simplify everything. Drawing on research from her book, Why Simple Wins, Lisa’s energy, engaging stories, and interactive exercises prove that using simplicity as an operating principle is the surest path to organizational transformation.

  You will learn:
  

  • How simplification sparks action and enables groups to move faster with more focus than everyone else.
  • Why simplification is not just a method but a mindset and a habit – a key to resilience and adaptability.
  • How to create a workplace where there’s more time to innovate and think.
  • How asking questions helps eliminate organizational and individual busywork that’s outlived its time.
  • Web-based real-time interactive exercises reveal what’s holding people back from embracing simplification.
  • How killing complexity increases trust, engagement, talent retention, and helps people be their best.

• Leading Simplicity – A Roadmap

  Embracing simplicity as an operational mindset will unleash the power of people and create a sustainable competitive advantage. But building a culture of simplicity requires advocates and leaders who send a message that simplicity is a strategic priority and that it’s OK to challenge the status quo. In this presentation,… Read more

  Embracing simplicity as an operational mindset will unleash the power of people and create a sustainable competitive advantage. But building a culture of simplicity requires advocates and leaders who send a message that simplicity is a strategic priority and that it’s OK to challenge the status quo. In this presentation, Lisa Bodell delivers real-world insights leaders can use to inspire their teams, ignite disruptive thinking, build speed and agility, and turn problems into possibilities. With energy, humor, and revealing interactive exercises, Lisa shows how simplicity is the catalyst that accelerates innovation, collaboration, engagement, and growth. Building simplicity into organizational DNA creates a sustainable competitive advantage because it’s the absolute foundation of resilience in the face of never-ending change.
  
  “We’ve got to give people permission to challenge how they work. People know what’s driving them crazy. Simplification changes everything and unleashes them to focus on transformative work.”

  You will learn:

  • Why culture comes down to the work people do every day. If you get the work right, you get the culture right.
  • How to make it normal to challenge the norm, creating space for change and true innovation to happen.
  • Drive an agenda that makes simplification a seamless part of your operating system; placing equal importance on eliminating work as adding it.
  • When people aren’t drowning in the work of doing work there’s more engagement, less frustration, increased well-being, and improved retention.
  • Set the groundwork for enduring change and improved problem-solving by reducing stress and giving teams the space to think and do the “work of work,” not just busy work.

• Unleashing Innovation

  In most organizations, the very structures put in place to help them grow all too often hold them back. As structures languish unchecked, people become overwhelmed with outdated processes, policies, reports, committees and meetings that frustrate them and hijack their workdays. Is it any wonder innovation becomes a challenge? In this presentation,… Read more

  In most organizations, the very structures put in place to help them grow all too often hold them back. As structures languish unchecked, people become overwhelmed with outdated processes, policies, reports, committees and meetings that frustrate them and hijack their workdays. Is it any wonder innovation becomes a challenge? In this presentation, simplicity expert Lisa Bodell shows how to increase the capacity for innovation by banishing unnecessary complexity. Making work simpler is the key to unshackling people to spend time and energy on their most important work. Lisa helps shift the organizational mindset – engaging everyone in the process of questioning the status quo. The tools and insights she provides help solve problems that stand in the way of breakthrough innovation.

  “Getting the work right liberates people to apply their time and imagination in ways that drive performance and innovation.”

  You will learn:

  • How to make work simpler and reignite critical aptitudes such as curiosity, inquiry, and creative problem-solving.
  • How companies are killing stupid rules to eliminate hurdles and focus people on work that leads to breakthrough innovation.
  • Practical yet provocative techniques for reinvention and innovation with current products and services.
  • Real-life examples of how even the smallest changes can have big impact.
  • Discover what is hijacking people’s time through Lisa’s interactive audience polling.

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