<p>A best-selling author and entrepreneur, Polly LaBarre is an inspiring and provocative voice on the big ideas and important questions that will shape the future of organizations, work, and success.</p><p>As co-founder of the Management Lab, LaBarre spent the last decade working to develop a methodology, platform and practical tools for building organizational capability and accelerating change. LaBarre and her colleagues deployed that pioneering approach to collaborative innovation in a range of large-scale experiments in “hacking management” inside leading companies and across a global community of some 35,000 management innovators.</p><p>LaBarre is the co-author of the bestselling book <i>Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win</i>, which <i>The Economist</i> named a "Book of the Year" and called "a pivotal work in the tradition of <i>In Search of Excellence </i>and<i> Good to Great</i>." She was a founding member of <i>Fast Company</i> magazine, where she was senior editor for nearly a decade. </p><p>A sought-after speaker, moderator, and interviewer, LaBarre has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses around the world and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including <i>Fast Company</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Harvard Business Review</i>, and <i>The Huffington Post</i>. In addition to television appearances on CNBC, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, <i>Good Morning America</i>, and the <i>Today Show</i>, she has also been a business and innovation correspondent for CNN.</p><p>Her unique insights on key issues of the day—from the Great Resignation, recruitment and retention to new architectures for contribution and collaboration or working with rebels, misfits, and mavericks—help companies navigate the forces driving massive change in the way organizations and people work.</p>
Authority on Leading Organizational Change; Co-founder, Management Lab; Founding Team, <em>Fast Company</em>; Co-author <em>Mavericks at Work</em>
<ul><li><strong>Leading in the New Work Order</strong></li><li>A monster wave of change has set off a vast reckoning with our taken-for-granted beliefs about every aspect of how and where work gets done. Every leader today must grapple with the inescapable imperative to create and embrace a comprehensive agenda for meaningful change on the design of work and the interconnected urgent challenges of our time—deep inequities, structural dehumanization, environmental calamity. Polly LaBarre takes leaders on a journey across this new landscape—inspiring them with fresh thinking on the work of leadership and equipping them with powerful new approaches for this new work order, including:<ul><li>How to transcend the seemingly intractable tradeoffs between performance imperatives and responsibility for people and planet</li><li>How to cultivate an “audacity of imagination” and galvanize people around a shared sense of purpose</li><li>How to “leader-proof” your organization</li><li>How to design platforms for involving, equipping, and connecting people</li><li>How to build organizational respond-ability by enlarging individual responsibility</li><li>How to grow your own resilience in the face of daunting uncertainty</li></ul></li><li><strong>Roll With Change: Recipes for Reinvention & Resilience</strong></li><li>Who hasn’t been rocked by change in the last few years? While we’ve all been forced to rethink, adjust, and adjust again, the gravitational pull of the status quo remains a stealthy enemy of innovation. What does it take to wake up an organization’s inner insurgent to change ahead of change? These times demand every organization dramatically amp up its agility, inventiveness, and adaptability. Drawing on her research and work inside some of the world’s most innovative and progressive organizations, Polly LaBarre lays out actionable strategies for building a perpetual innovation engine:<ul><li>What mindsets, practices and behaviors allow you to see the world differently and subvert the status quo</li><li>Where to look for the future—and how to generate a whole new map of possibility</li><li>How to embed innovation as a social process</li><li>What it takes to create a robust architecture of collaboration for a distributed, ever-evolving cohort of innovation peers and partners</li><li>How to build a resilient organizational microbiome by embedding the mindset and methods of experimentation into everything you do</li></ul></li><li><strong>The Human Edge: Designing Work to Create a Cultural Advantage</strong></li><li>Today’s whirlwind of challenges—pandemic, social turbulence, economic uncertainty, looming climate catastrophe—has revealed just how inhospitable our organizations are to the human beings who work inside them. It’s not enough to ask which is the right hybrid work policy. It’s past time to ask: what kinds of organizations would we design if we genuinely believed in the inherent value, fundamental goodness, and unlimited potential of every person? Short answer: they’d be very different. In this talk, Polly LaBarre unpacks design rules for unleashing your organization’s full human and creative capacity and lays out a path for humanizing work, including:<ul><li>How to unleash, mobilize and amplify the often unruly, but essential human qualities—imagination, energy, resourcefulness, curiosity, intuition, empathy, artistry, eccentricity, passion, and more—without losing control</li><li>How to cultivate a culture of agency, activism, and ownership where every person makes it their job to change things for the better</li><li>How to equip and involve every person in the organization as a creator, strategist, and entrepreneur</li><li>How to build a community of peers that amplifies belonging, contribution, and voice</li><li>How to maximize engagement by investing in wellbeing and widening the circle of care</li></ul></li></ul>