Lisa Bodell
- Founder & CEO of FutureThink
- Bestselling Author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins
- Global Leader on Culture Change focused on Simplification and Innovation
- 3M
- Janssen Pharma
- Fidelity
- Adobe
- Allstate
- EmpiRx Health
- Dell
- Kraft
- Samsung
"Lisa's message around change and simplification is incredibly relevant and compelling. Her talk is thought-provoking, challenging and necessary given today's complex and ever-changing business environment."
-Global Managing Director, Accenture"We valued your insights and presentation so much, it made the event a tremendous success. Feedback is rolling in from the 1000+ attendees and there are nothing but rave reviews for your session!"
-HR Business Partner, Eli Lilly"Lisa's presentation was thought-provoking and inspiring. She got our blood pumping (in a good way). She challenged us to think, what if we took steps to start reducing complexity today? Her presentation kept our virtual audience engaged and left us with the next steps we could act on immediately."
-3M"Many thanks, Lisa – an excellent external perspective and right-on message for our teams!"
-Janssen Pharma"We anticipated such a great experience for the team and well, it was just much better than that!"
-Fidelity"I want to rewatch her keynote every Monday morning."
-Adobe"Lisa blew us away. Inspiring and practical. People were up off their feet, laughing and thinking. Cell phones were constantly going up to take pictures of her presentation. She exceeded all expectations."
-Allstate"Even virtually, Lisa delivers her message with passion, humor, and more importantly, simplicity. Her expertise on simplification and execution minimalism in the workplace was very evident, especially as it pertained to optimizing the overall employer-employee experience. Engaging and highly effective."
-EmpiRx Health"LISA IS THE BEST SPEAKER EVER. High energy, FUNNY, and super engaging with a hybrid audience in person and online. We loved her message."
-Dell"Thought-provoking, challenging, and inspiring. She has the uncanny ability to relate high–level, dense subject matter to the everyday."
-Kraft"We anticipated such a great experience for the team and well, it was just much better than that!"
-Samsung"Lisa made my leadership team think in new ways and helped us develop winning business ideas right in the room. My team now embraces change and innovation rather than fearing it."
-Mary Fennoglio, Managing Director at Citigroup Corporate Investment Bank"Over the years, I’ve tried many ‘gurus’ to educate our leaders. Lisa is the real thing – she’s inspiring, motivating, practical, and memorable. She ignites the possible with the audience. She was the top rated speaker at our executive events."
-AT&T"Lisa blew us away. Inspiring and practical. People were up off their feet, laughing and thinking. Cell phones were constantly going up to take pictures of her presentation. She exceeded all expectations."
-Joan P. Lawrence-Ross, Chief Learning Officer at AXA Equitable"Incredible. Lisa captivated the audience with insightful, well-articulated thoughts about technologies and trends that could transform our industry. In a very short time, she energized people to be more proactive about shaping our future business environment."
-Pfizer"Lisa is everything you look for in a keynote speaker – she is insightful, engaging and energetic. She was the top rated speaker at two Google events and inspired our audience to start an innovation revolution."
-Google"Bodell’s presentation on innovation was my absolute favorite presentation of our 3-day offsite! I now have a totally new way of looking at innovation. I would recommend her and her team to anyone planning an event in a heartbeat."
-Delta Airlines"Lisa brought energy to the room of over 300 people and ignited a spirit of innovation across our Global Product Team. Our top session of the annual meeting."
-MasterCard Worldwide"Lisa Bodell did an outstanding job in designing and facilitating an innovation keynote for our senior leaders, many of whom regarded this as the best innovation keynote they have ever seen. I would recommend her to any organization that is looking for clear and actionable pathways to innovation."
-Pitney Bowes"Bodell made my leadership team think in new ways and helped us develop winning business ideas right in the room. My team now embraces innovation rather than fearing it."
-Citigroup Corporate Investment Bank"Over the years, I've tried many innovation gurus to educate my leadership team. Lisa is the real thing; she's an expert that also knows how to use both presentation and learning principles to hold an audience's attention."
-Bausch & Lomb"Lisa Bodell's presentation included excellent examples and energizing exercises that brought innovation to life. She got us to look at our business with new eyes."
-AXA Equitable"Lisa Bodell is one of the most dynamic and powerful keynote speakers our association has ever had. Her delivery, style, and expert content completely energized an audience of 500 and a breakout session of 50. She is incredibly successful at sizing up an audience and totally tailors her speech to address the needs and concerns of an industry."
-National Association of Confectionery Dealers"Lisa's presentations have transformed the way our leaders think of innovation. Lisa provides a mix of practical, easy to use tools and inspiration which has helped to create a new mindset around how to innovate in all parts of our company."
-Merck"Lisa is one of the most outstanding presenters I have ever seen. She passionately delivers articulate messages that engage the audience and encourage action on the part of the listener. Something tells me that many of her insights will become essential elements of our culture."
-NYSE Euronext
Killing Complexity - Why Simple Wins
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 can unleash the power of people to be their best and focus on work that really matters. But simplicity needs an advocate and leaders who step up to send a message that simplicity is a priority that will reap outsized results. In this presentation, Lisa Bodell delivers real world tools leaders can use to create a culture with simplicity in its DNA and a bias for action. Lisa, author of the bestseller Why Simple Wins, unpacks stories and insights leaders can use to inspire their people, ignite disruptive thinking, build agility, and turn problems into possibilities. With energy, humor, and revealing online interactive exercises, Lisa shows that simplicity is the catalyst that accelerates innovation, collaboration, engagement, and growth. Simplicity will create a sustainable competitive advantage because it’s the absolute foundation of resilience in the face of never-ending change.
You will learn:
• How to cultivate a dynamic culture of simplification that makes challenging outdated practices the norm, creating space for more 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, fostering a more balanced approach.
• Align teams in identifying and eliminating time-wasting habits, allowing them to reach their goals more quickly.
• Set the groundwork for enduring change and improved problem-solving by reducing stress and giving teams the space to think.
• Create a strategic advantage by better focusing teams, driving proactive change, retaining talent effortlessly, and outpacing the competition with increased agility.
• Online interactive exercises reveal what’s holding your organization back from embracing a mindset of simplicity.
Unleashing Innovation
If your organization is not innovating as fast as you’d like, it’s time to address it – before it’s too late. In most organizations, the very structures put in place to help them grow all too often hold them back. If you want people to approach change differently, you have to help them change their approach. In this presentation, Lisa Bodell delivers a high energy and inspiring call to arms to start a revolution in how we think and how we work. Lisa is founder and CEO of FutureThink, the largest source of innovation research, tools, and training in the world. Her insights help increase the capacity for innovation by shifting mindset and engaging everyone in the process of killing off the status quo. In this presentation, Lisa inspires people to think differently and provides the tools to solve problems that stand in the way of breakthrough innovation in your organization.
You will learn:
• How our current organizational values and structures, designed to help innovation take hold, often hold it back – and how to change that.
• How to unleash the dormant potential in teams by reigniting critical aptitudes such as curiosity, inquiry, and creative problem-solving.
• Practical yet provocative techniques for reinvention and innovation with current products and services.
• Proven methods that reignite change and transformation and make everyone a change agent.
• Examples of how even the smallest changes can have big impact.
• What’s holding your organization back from innovating through the use of online interactive exercises
Unleash the Power of Simplification
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People are drowning in the work of doing work and it’s sabotaging organizations. Our days are continually hijacked by the unplanned and unnecessary – unproductive meetings, outdated rules, irrelevant reports, and endless emails that dampen morale, creates feelings of futility, and can be detrimental to mental health. In this presentation, Lisa Bodell shows audiences a new way to unleash energy, collaboration, and innovation by embracing a mindset of simplification. This is not about getting organized or efficient – it’s about how small changes to make things simple can have a profound impact. Lisa’s insights, storytelling and interactive exercises make the case: adopting simplicity as an operating principle is the surest path to organizational transformation. “Our systems are designed for a world that’s manageable and predictable. That world is gone. It’s time to look with fresh eyes at how we work. When we simplify, we unleash energy and creativity that is being lost by adhering to the status quo.” You will learn: - Why simplification is not just a method but a mindset and a habit – a key to resilience and adaptability and improved mental capacity and focus - How to spot and eliminate organizational and individual busywork that’s outlived its time. - Phone-based interactive polling and dynamic interactivity helps audiences discover surprising insights about what keeps them from doing their best work. - Why subtraction is more important than addition. There’s only so much time - How killing stupid rules enables organizations and teams move faster and with more focus
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