How To Adapt Rapidly To Crises

• How to turn crises into opportunities—no matter how tough the challenge is, human ingenuity can crack it
• Why we all have the capacity for human ingenuity because of how our brains evolved (and you don’t have to be good at art or science)
•  The two brain networks everyone needs to know about to drive growth
• How to avoid resisting, repressing, denying or overly dramatizing crises but instead ‘metabolize’ them into value
• The 6 spirals of transformational action to solve problem in times of uncertainty and chaos
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Transformational Action Engine, The 3D Futures Engine, The Weak Signals Engine

Make Sense Of VUCA/Solving Complex Problems Creatively

• Making sense of Covid-19, VUCA, and the new normal
• Avoiding the pain of uncertainty in the brain • Making complex problems simple but not simplistic—so they can be unlocked with insight and creativity (with my 3D Futures Framework™)
• Crises and innovation opportunities are predictable—if not inevitable—if we know how to read ‘weak signals’ of the future in the present
• Everyday hacks for making effective and value-creating decisions in VUCA environments
• The 6 spirals of transformational action to solve problem in times of uncertainty and chaos
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Transformational Action Engine, The 3D Futures Engine, The 3D Futures Engine

 Build Back Bolder: Future-Proof Your Org With Transformational Innovation

• Covid and the climate crisis are accelerators of massive market disruption
• We can leverage new technologies to solve emerging customer needs/pain with insight and creativity
• Transformational Innovation can help you adapt to this crisis and ‘preadapt’ to the next
• The 7 steps of our proven pathway to lead and land transformational innovations
• Process is not enough—you also need to nurture a culture of innovation
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Innovation Culture Engine, The Experimentation Engine, The Problem Definition Engine etc

Become A Transformational Leader

• Today’s complex problems can only be solved with a combination of a smart mind and an empathic heart
• Why being the smartest room is no longer enough—or even desirable
• The Transformational Leader is a master at both wisdom and intellect so they can drive business transformation and social regeneration
• The 5 Stages of becoming a Transformational Leader
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Transformational Leadership Diagnostic, The Personal Leadership Plan

The Value of A Clear & Compelling Business Purpose

• The different kinds of purpose: business, project/team, individual
• The potential roles for business in a crisis-hit world
• What purpose is not (a mission, goal, KPI) and what it is (a compelling contribution to society)
• The purpose dividend (value in terms of investor interest, profit, traction, consumer loyalty, employee retention etc) vs. the purpose premium (cost in terms of doing things differently)
• Using purpose as a tool for leadership alignment, culture change, and team engagement
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Leadership Purpose Engine, The Business Purpose Engine, The Team Purpose Engine

Becoming A Regenerative Business & Brand

• The 4 major crises of the Anthropocene Age that Covid-19 accelerates
• The unique qualities of Regenerative Brands
• The business model and value chain ingredients that can build future-forward and purpose-driven Regenerative Businesses
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Regenerative Brand Engine, The Regenerative Business Engine

Regenerative Tech: Making Digital Work For All

• The spectrum of digital technologies in the 4th Industrial Revolution
• What major technologies—from AI to Blockchain—can do to create value for your users
• How to avoid using digital technologies just because they are new and because they can manipulate, alienate, and exploit
• Ensuring tech develops new business models not shoring up rapidly out-dating models
• With purpose and an understanding of living systems, we can put technology to work scale impact as well as profit and ‘leave the world better’
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Regenerative Tech Engine

Beating Stress and Building Strength In Teams

• Loneliness, depression, stress, and addiction are rising. These create team dysfunction and inefficiencies. They lead to burnout and breakdown
• Biologically, people cannot be creative and adaptive when stressed and struggling
• How to keep teams going online and offline by helping them process change, feel safe, and have clarity of what they can do to support projects best
• How to support customers and colleagues who are confused, overwhelmed, and suffering—and get them into a creative space by ensuring they feel seen, heard, safe
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Psychological Safety Engine, The Creative Conversations Engine

Unbreakable Resilience & Limitless Resourcefulness (incl. Growth Mindset)

• Why our brains won’t allow us to be creative and adaptive when stressed—we need to deal with confusion, overwhelm, and worry with resilience
• The body/mind is a 'complex adaptive system’ that can respond to stress in many different ways: we can take charge of change by building across physiological, psychological, and spiritual resilience
• We can see chaos and change as opportunities for growth and innovation through emotional mastery (e.g. self-regulation, emotional granularity) and meaning-making mastery (e.g. story editing, bias ownership)
• The two brain networks everyone needs to know about to drive growth—and how to work with them
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Personal Resilience Plan, The 2 Modes Engine

Beyond Zoom Doom: Making Virtual Amazing

• We have long run our businesses totally remotely: its been a long journey to make it work
• How to offset physical distancing with emotional cohesion and team spirit
• The brain & benefits of working alone vs collaboratively
• Hacks, comms, and tech for working virtually/remotely
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Collaboration Engine, The Team Purpose Engine, The Creative Conversations Engine

Forging The Future Of Work: ReHumanizing & Regenerating Culture

• Social distancing and home working can further corrode the ‘working alliance’ (as are technologies and management techniques that alienate and disconnect)
• How to to forge a renewed working alliance by balancing accountability and efficiency technologies… with connection and care techniques
• How to borrow from the design principles of nature to nurture life-affirming dynamics in company cultures, ensuring humans will never made obsolete by machines and AI
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Regenerative Business Engine, he Transformational Organization Engine

Become A Transformational Organization: Design For Agility Without Losing Stability

• There is a survival necessity to allow those on the frontlines to adapt and innovate in real time with users/customers… without losing strategy, predictable returns, and efficiency
• There is also a generational demand for flatter hierarchies and more distributed power
• Empowerment alone does not work to unlock agility after years of learned helplessness
• But there is way of designing organizations for transformation that blends stability & agility; productivity & purpose; and control & creativity
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Transformational Organization Engine

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