One of the world’s leading experts in Design Thinking and Innovation. Perfect for your sales meetings, employee wellness and development, and client relationship-building events.

John K. Coyle is one of the world’s leading experts in “Design Thinking” and Innovation, and a highly sought-after speaker. John’s presentations are always an audience favorite because he combines the exhilarating stories of a champion athlete with the data and intellect of a professor and best-selling author.

John is the founder of the online Design Thinking Academy, and a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Engineering – Product Design (Design Thinking) and Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School with an MBA in organizational behavior, marketing and entrepreneurship. A former head of innovation for a Fortune 500 wireless telecom, John has also been the SVP of innovation for a leading strategy consultancy. John is a world class athlete in two sports (cycling and speedskating) and an Olympic silver medalist, as well as an NBC Olympic Sports analyst, and a guest lecturer on Innovation at several leading universities (Kellogg, Marquette, CEDIM). John is a two time TEDx speaker, and an award-winning author of two books, including the 2018 best seller: Design For Strengths: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths. John is also a thought leader in the field of “chronoception” – the neuroscience and psychology of how humans process time.

As a speaker and writer, John’s special talent is weaving facts, examples and business principles into engaging, accessible stories which bring his topics and frameworks to life. People leave John’s programs inspired and empowered to make significant, positive changes in their business and personal lives.

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STRENGTHS 2.0 – APPLYING “DESIGN THINKING” TO INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Consider the adage “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Is it time for a new approach? Through the metaphor of sport, learn how individuals and teams can use innovation to identify and leverage their unique strengths (and design around weaknesses). Become empowered to: 1) achieve breakthrough performance by doing what you do best; 2) decide what to delegate or outsource; and 3) achieve greater collaboration with customers and colleagues.

RESILIENCY 2.0: DRAWING ON YOUR OWN NATURAL SOURCES OF STRENGTH TO FLOURISH IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY

Humans are naturally resilient beings, but what causes some to rise to repeated challenges, and others to shrink? Explore a new model of resiliency, one where proactive challenges are designed to build capacity for ever greater performance under pressure and adversity, and where focusing on strengths and mindfulness creates increased capacity to perform at even higher levels under stress.

TIME 2.0 – GOING COUNTERCLOCKWISE – UNWIND COGNITIVE TIME AND LIVE (ALMOST) FOREVER

We know about the time value of money, but do we truly understand the investment value of our time? In this unique mind-bending talk, John shares breakthrough ideas on how to re-think your relationship with time. He will demonstrate that our brains process time in a non-linear manner, and hence, the value of an increment of time is unrelated to its duration. Using both story-telling and data, John explores how to slow, stop and reverse the perceived acceleration of time, and live summers longer than when you were a kid.

INNOVATING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE (OR “THE GIFT OF TIME”)

John takes his innovation expertise, leveraged by dozens of Fortune 500 companies, and attacks some of life’s larger questions. Step by step, John applies creative destruction to our standard operating procedures and assumptions about strengths and weaknesses, stress and resiliency, and time and “chronoception” (how humans experience time). The program includes science-backed data, real life stories, introspective self-analysis, and personal roadmap planning and development.