Lisa Kay Solomon
Featured Keynote Programs
Redefining the C Suite
Design-Led Leadership
The mantra among big companies these days seems to be is "Innovate or die." Like the quest for the holy grail, companies are hungry to find the secret recipe to be "innovative" - the key to disruptive new ideas and profitable growth.
Truly innovative companies - companies that can adapt and grow in concert with changing customer needs and dynamic market forces, require a new way to think about leadership. In this model, the "C-Suite" is not a specific title or reserved for the elite club at the top, but rather describes new set of practices found in daily work of contributors in all layers of an organization.
Drawing on her research from her bestselling book, Moments of Impact: How to Design Conversations that Accelerate Change, Lisa Kay Solomon will discuss the importance of curiosity, collaboration and courage as the new leadership competencies required to support successful innovation and cultures of possibility. Through a highly dynamic, interactive talk, Lisa will demonstrate that these skills are personal and immediately applicable to our work on Monday.
Innovators Before Innovation
A New Approach to Leadership
What are the skills, behaviors and mindsets of successful innovators? Truly innovative companies - companies that can adapt and grow in concert with changing customer needs and dynamic market forces, require a new way to think about leadership How can we enable our current and future leaders to think more originally and expansively about the future and their role in creating it?
Lisa Kay Solomon will talk about the role of design as a leadership skill and its power to influence innovation in organizations across a variety of sectors, including nonprofits, government agencies and startups and established companies. Drawing on her insights from her newly published book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, Lisa will share a new way of thinking about how to create cultures and conditions for innovation and lasting change.
Creating Moments of Impact:
Creating Moments of Impact:
Designing Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change
Increasingly, the challenges organizations face require deep learning, new thinking, and innovative solutions. Yet in today's highly competitive environment, organizational leaders and managers face intense pressure to make critical decisions faster than ever—while somehow achieving a high level of consensus and alignment across functional, geographic, and internal boundaries.
Drawing on her experience as a faculty and leadership coach at California College of the Art's MBA program in Design Strategy, and upon research and key insights from her bestselling book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, Lisa Kay Solomon will share best practices and case studies that illuminate the need to push the creative and productive boundaries of conversations in order to support successful innovation within organizations.