<p>Best-selling author and design innovation specialist Lisa Kay Solomon shows you how to inject more creativity, flexibility, and resiliency into your organization and turn uncertainty and change into opportunities to reinvigorate your business category, build competitive advantages, and transform your company culture. </p><p>As a consultant to several global corporations and founding chair of transformational practices and leadership at Singularity University, Lisa is on the leading edge of organizational leadership strategies and best practices. Her talk gives you the tools to 1) transform surprise and uncertainty into bold possibilities; 2) discover new ideas through investigation, creative ideation, and rigorous experimentation; 3) understand and anticipate technologies that will impact your industry; and 4) make positive choices to improve the lives of people and communities.</p><p>Lisa’s co-authored best-seller <i>Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change</i> provides effective methodologies for making better decisions in any company, and has been translated into at least 12 languages. Her work has been covered by <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Forbes</i>, <i>Huffington Post</i>, <i>Business Week</i>, and other major business publications. Lisa also teaches classes in the MBA in Design Strategy program at California College of the Arts, as well as at the Stanford d.school.</p>
Innovation Strategist, Leadership Coach, Educator & Best-Selling Author
<ul><li><strong>How to Be a Great Leader in Exponential Times: Learn How to Take Immediate Action to Ignite Innovation and Lead Your Organization to Success</strong></li></ul><p>Even though many business and government leaders have seen the power of technological disruption firsthand, they often fail to pivot and adopt a new approach.</p><p>That’s because becoming a great leader in today’s exponential times requires not only a great amount of vision, but the ability to thrive in ambiguity, seek out ideas through experimentation, to inspire and empower others, and a willingness to have the know-how and willingness to undertake hands-on attempts at innovative projects. That might seem like a great deal to ask of anyone, but there’s good news: these skills can be learned.</p><p>Lisa Kay Solomon details the strategies leaders can incorporate to build bold, abundant futures. She’ll share concrete, actionable steps so you can embrace all the ambiguity and possibility of today’s world. She’ll provide methods for overcoming roadblocks to progress in organizations clinging to outmoded cultures of resistance and pessimism.</p><ul><li><strong>Creating Moments of Impact: Designing Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change</strong></li></ul><p>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. </p><p>Design thinking provides an invaluable toolkit for shaping conversations that embolden teams by engaging diverse perspectives and creating the conditions necessary for innovation and lasting change. This seminar focuses on how to design these kinds of conversations strategically to tap the creativity and passion of all involved and generate novel ideas with the potential for lasting change. In “Designing Strategic Conversations,” participants will learn how to apply core principles of design thinking such as empathetic and human-centered need-finding, problem reframing, rapid iteration and co-creation, visualization, and prototyping to shape real and envisioned high stakes conversations in their lives and organizations.</p>