Lisa Bodell

Lisa Bodell CEO of FutureThink, an award-winning, bestselling author, and a global innovation expert who is renowned for galvanizing audiences around change.

Expert on

  • Change
  • Future
  • Entrepreneurism
  • Creativity
  • Leadership
  • Innovation

Fee Range

$30,000–$40,000

Travels from

NY, US

Biography

“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 arm them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters.

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.

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.

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.

 

WHY SIMPLE WINS: ESCAPE THE COMPLEXITY TRAP AND GET TO WORK THAT MATTERS

Innovative businesses have teams that consistently focus their attention on important projects and have employees that feel they make an impact. How do they do it? Get teams to understand where they spend their time, what’s valuable and what’s not, and define what meaningful work is and why it matters. During this talk, participants will reflect on their time sucks, and consider what type of work drives the most value for the business. Participants learn how to ‘get to the work that matters’ with mind-blowing techniques that give hours back to their life for more important things. Learn how to:
Uncover times sucks and shift to desired work
Improve daily communications
Shift to more productive meetings and interactions
Streamline processes and decision making

KILL THE COMPANY: END THE STATUS QUO, START AN INNOVATION REVOLUTION

Revolutionize how you think and work. Embrace change and challenge the status quo to drive real transformation.

 

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. 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.