Claire is a fantastic and inspiring speaker! I had the pleasure of working with her when she moderated a panel on Digital Transformation at our Wrike Collaborate conference. It was clear Claire had invested time and research into preparing for the panel and was passionate about the topic. She led a lively and engaging discussion, which benefitted the audience because it was practical, but also thought-provoking.
Claire Haidar
Ceo of WNDYR, a Digital Transformation Services and Technology Company; Future of Work Expert
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Chaos Theory
A Future-of-Work-is-Now Perspective
The future of work is chaos — and that’s ultimately a good thing.
Claire Haidar challenges audiences, leaders and organizations to think differently about the future of work and about chaos. As co-founder and CEO of the digital transformation services company WNDYR, Claire believes that technology is disrupting the way we work much as it has disrupted businesses and people’s lives — in ways we can neither fully predict or control.
Using AI and data gathered from thousands of organizations, Claire shows audiences why embracing and harnessing chaos works better than systematically trying to rein it in and shares what she’s learned about building cultures of collaboration, creativity and trust.
Remote Work
The Lessons We’ve Learnt in Building a Global, Remote Organization
The name of the startup technology company that Claire Haidar co-founded and now leads is WNDYR — a name that combines the concepts of Wondering and Wandering. It has grown from a team of three to a globally distributed team of 33 — in 24 short months.
In this presentation, Claire shares lessons learned along the way and considers the factors that made her teams so successful — not just in spite of, but because of the decision to be a work-from-anywhere organization.
She also considers the characteristics of organizations that are thriving in today’s already-here “future of work” world, and challenges audiences to be more curious and less certain about what works best and why.
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Claire's talks can take three different forms depending on the audience:
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Research/evidence-based with a projection of trends into the future
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Immediate: what is happening right now in the workplace and what does it mean for the future
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Human-centric: a blend of research, with a view to the future but very much touching each audience member at a personal level
Her approach to talks are:
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Very visual/bare slides: she leads with images
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embedded into stories: from her mountain biking, to her upbringing in Africa and the wild adventures she had with wild animals from elephants to snakes to black widow spiders and now most recently her experience as a pilot
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Practical: she wants to enable the audience to leave the talk and apply at least 1 thing the very next day in work
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Human: she talk about humans and how we relate to the topic at a physical, mental, emotional level
For certain audiences who want this, she is also able to facilitate breakout sessions or panel talks that bring the subject alive from a practical lens.
Her general style of presentation:
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She wraps all her talks into a story: either inspirational or funny
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Her slides are sparse which enables the audience to truly engage in what is being said
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She is able to speak without slides and off the cuff should anything go wrong technically
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She will always engage the audience wherever possible
Her areas of passion, research and what her entire career has been built around:
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Humans in the workplace
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The evolution of work
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How digital systems are shaping, changing and disrupting work
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The increasing sense of chaos in the workplace and what to do about it
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Staying ahead of and aligning business and teams to constant change
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Change management as it relates to work systems and humans using technology
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The role of AI in work
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The role of data in workforce planning