Cheryl Cran is the founder of NextMapping™/NextMapping.com, creator of the NextNow podcast and the CEO of parent company Synthesis at Work Inc.
Named #1 Future of Work influencer by Onalytica, and in the top ten Future of Work experts by GoCatalant.
Cheryl is the author of 10 books including her newest, Super.Crucial.Human and her bestsellers, NextMapping – Anticipate, Navigate and Create The Future of Work and The Art of Change Leadership – Driving Transformation In a Fast Paced-World.
Cheryl’s thought leadership on the future of all things including work, society, and life has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Huff Post, Forbes, Metro New York, Entrepreneur Magazine, Reader’s Digest, CBS Online, NBC Online, and more. For over two decades, Cheryl has built a reputation for delivering extraordinary value for clients that include Amazon, Upwork, AT&T, Gartner, Scottish Water, ExecOnline, and more.
Clients rate her keynotes on hybrid workplace, the human future, the future of leadership and leading hybrid teams as being inspirational, research-based, and highly relevant to the fast-changing now and future workplace.
Cheryl brings unique multiple perspectives to her clients, gained by years of successfully working with a multitude of organizations.
Her multi-industry experience and successful track record provides unparalleled value to her clients.
Cheryl helps leaders and teams to increase perspectives to expand opportunities, to identify patterns of success, and to learn and grow at the speed of change.
NextMapping™ was developed as our proprietary business solution brand that encompasses all of Cheryl’s work and research on the future of all things including work and the ‘future-ready skills’ needed by leaders and teams to navigate change in the workplace.
Cheryl is not a futurist who just shares trends, she is a pragmatic optimist who is a future of work (all things) expert helping her clients to ‘create the future now’ by ‘leading the changes needed’ to get there.
It’s time to not just hear about the future but to create change and use models and tools developed including our proprietary NextMapping™ process to get there!
The common theme in all of Cheryl’s life’s work is to change the world through business.
Cheryl is passionate about helping leaders and teams develop the crucial human skills needed to lead a human-focused future where we leverage technology to automate the mundane so that we can elevate the humane.
- The Future is Human - How AI and ChatGPT Requires Us to Be Better Leaders
- Based on Cheryl’s bestselling book, ‘Super.Crucial.Human.’
- Research has confirmed that not only are we in a workers market, we are going to need MORE people now and into the future even with the rise of automation, AI, ChatGPT and robotics.
- What we need is people who have crucial human skills – skills that go beyond the basics when it comes to compassion, creativity, communication and collaboration.
- This keynote will INSPIRE, elevate the mindsets of audience members to embrace that being human means we have infinite possibilities to evolve and to adapt at the speed of change. Audiences will leave with practical tools that they can apply personally and take back to their leaders and teams.
- Leading Hybrid Teams In A Fast Changing Workplace
- There is no ‘right way’ to do hybrid. Every organization is lining up their hybrid strategy to align with their workplace culture. With the hybrid workplace comes challenges that include increased siloes, decreased communication, less sense of an embedded company culture, leaders challenged with engaging and motivating workers and more.
- Workers have higher expectations from their leaders and their workplace and this means leaders and teams must upskill and reskill to ‘future ready skills’. This includes shifting to multiple perspectives, increasing compassion and patience and creating new strategies that match up with the hybrid workplace dynamics.
- The Future of Leadership
- Inspiration, insights and models on how to be a now and future ready leader.
- Never before have workplaces had so much ambiguity, uncertainty and constant change. Workers are challenged with doing more with less, learning at the speed of disruption and working with diverse situations. There is a massive opportunity for leaders to create the future for themselves and their teams.
- With the increase of digital transformation there is a calling for leaders to be connected, empathetic and inspiring for their teams.
- The Future of Work Is Now – Are You Ready?
- Trends, insights and research on the Future of Work
- Employee engagement, creating future ready leaders, attracting and retaining top talent are all elements that are rapidly changing and impacting the way we work and how we need to change to meet the challenges of the future workplace today.
- This keynote will provide researched global business insights, thought provoking, creative, leading-edge ideas and strategies on how leaders can take immediate action to increase team buy in, adaptability and execution NOW as we head towards 2030.
- The Future of Attracting & Keeping Top Talent
- Trends, case studies, and creative ideas on recruiting and retaining talent
- Fortune 500 CEO’s surveyed state that even with the age of robotics they are planning to continue to seek and hire talented people well into 2020 and beyond. The competition for attracting top talent is increasing, and as quickly as people are being hired and trained other industries are approaching and poaching talent. In addition the increase in freelance and entrepreneur opportunities for millennials is making the talent search even more challenging.
- What can companies do? What do leaders need to do to win the war for talent?
- In this keynote, you will learn how to map out a strategy and plan on how to attract top talent and how to retain them for longer than average time frames.