FutureThink CEO Lisa Bodell ranks among the Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and is the best-selling author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She’s a global leader on simplification, productivity and innovation, whose keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arms them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters.

WHO IS LISA?

Bodell brings a compelling perspective to the sought-after topics of simplification and innovation to over 100,000 people each year. A thought leader and serial entrepreneur, her transformational message has inspired executives at top-ranked organizations such as Google, Cisco, Citigroup, and the U.S. Navy War College.
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Bodell has contributed her expertise to a wide variety of media. She is a monthly contributor to Forbes and has frequently appeared in other media including: Fast Company, WIRED, The New York Times, Inc., Bloomberg Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, FOX News, and CNN. She has also been featured in many major books such as Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question, Adam Grant’s Originals, and After Shock, the upcoming 50-year celebration based on futurist Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock.

Bodell has taught innovation at both American University and Fordham University, and has a TED talk on the topic. She has served on the board of advisors of several organizations, including the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, the United States National Security Agency, the Association of Professional Futurists, and the Novartis board of Diversity & Inclusion.

Based on her best-selling books, Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, Lisa provides a provocative yet practical approach that enables organizations and individuals to eradicate the unnecessary complexity and time-sucks that hold them back from more meaningful work, and allow simplicity to become their new operating system.

WHAT LISA SPEAKS ABOUT

Lisa customizes each experience based on industry and audience (e.g. managers vs. front-line employees). All of her keynotes are available in-person and in a variety of virtual formats.

UNLEASH INNOVATION

REVOLUTIONIZE HOW YOU THINK AND WORK. EMBRACE CHANGE AND CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO TO DRIVE REAL TRANSFORMATION.

From CEO and TED-talk veteran Lisa Bodell, you’ll learn how to survive by strategically challenging the status quo and building change from the middle out. Objectively analyze your entire business to identify external threats as well as internal weaknesses—and solve for them. By killing your own company, you'll teach teams how to better pivot, deal with wildcards, and proactively embrace change.

The fate of Kodak and Blockbuster are evidence that no matter how popular or beloved your brand, its survival depends on your ability to innovate.

KILLING COMPLEXITY

LEARN THE TECHNIQUES TO ERADICATE COMPLEXITY AND GET BACK TO MEANINGFUL WORK THAT DRIVES INNOVATIVE CHANGE.

To create a workplace where there’s actually time and space to innovate, you’ll learn from CEO and TED-talk veteran Lisa Bodell how to become your own chief simplification officer. Get the techniques used by the nimblest of companies to save time, kill rules, and boost productivity on the work that matters. By killing complexity, you’ll increase customer trust, staff retention, and innovate faster.

Unproductive meetings, endless emails, and reports-for-the-sake-of-reporting aren’t the definition of meaningful work—they’re the result of complexity.

LISA IS ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING PRESENTERS I HAVE EVER SEEN. SHE PASSIONATELY DELIVERS WELL-ARTICULATED MESSAGES THAT ENGAGE THE AUDIENCE AND ENCOURAGE ACTION. HER INSIGHTS WILL BECOME ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF OUR CULTURE.

Duncan Niederauer, CEO at NYSE Euronext

LISA IS EVERYTHING YOU LOOK FOR IN A KEYNOTE SPEAKER - SHE’S INSIGHTFUL, ENGAGING AND ENERGETIC. SHE WAS THE TOP-RATED SPEAKER AT OUR GOOGLE EVENTS AND INSPIRED THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE TO START A SIMPLIFICATION REVOLUTION.

Meredith Cherwony, Think Events at Google

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.

Camille Mirshokral, Global Managing Director at Accenture

LISA IN ACTION

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