KEYNOTE TOPIC

Why Simple Wins

Learn the techniques to eradicate complexity and get back to meaningful work that drives innovative change.

Keynote includes

In-person or remote presentation for any audience size

1 downloadable tip sheet for all participants

Interactive, live polling and Q&A to engage the audience

Learner level

Individual Contributor, Team Leader, Executive

Who this is for

Anyone who wants to cut down on the hours of mind-numbing work to meetings, emails, and unnecessary processes to make room for the meaningful work they were actually hired to do.

Keynote overview

Complexity is crippling our organizations. Unproductive meetings, irrelevant rules and reports, and endless emails keep people from doing the work that matters most. Worse, complexity dampens morale and creates feelings of futility. It doesn’t have to be this way. CEO and TED-talk veteran Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to unleash the energy, collaboration, innovation, and engagement lying in wait by embracing a mindset of simplification right now. This spirited presentation shows how small changes can have a profound impact on the organization’s people, competitiveness, and ability to adapt. Lisa offers techniques used by the nimblest of companies to save time, kill rules, and simplify everything. Drawing on research from her book, Why Simple Wins, Lisa’s energy, engaging stories, and interactive exercises prove that using simplicity as an operating principle is the surest path to organizational transformation.

Keynote outcomes

  • Learn 10+ concrete simplification tactics that you can implement immediately

  • Make space in your daily work to do meaningful and impactful work

  • Ask your colleagues questions to make them rethink their own work habits

  • Build team morale by getting rid of the painstaking busy work

What you’ll learn

  • How simplification sparks action and enables groups to move faster with more focus than everyone else

  • Why simplification is not just a method but a mindset and a habit—a key to resilience and adaptability

  • How to create a workplace where there’s more time to innovate and think

  • How asking questions helps eliminate organizational and individual busywork that’s outlived its time

  • Web-based real-time interactive exercises reveal what’s holding people back from embracing simplification 

  • How killing complexity increases trust, engagement, and talent retention, and helps people be their best

Skills you’ll develop