Pamela Meyer
Author, The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams and Organizations
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Pamela Meyer
Biography
PAMELA MEYER, Ph.D. is a leading Agile Innovation Catalyst for business leaders who recognize they urgently need to shift their way of working to compete in a rapidly changing market. Through her in-depth research and expertise in understanding how adults learn to innovate and improvise, along with two decades of working with Fortune 500 to Fortune 50 companies Meyer helps business leaders implement best practices to drive results. Pamela Meyer recognizes that agility is a non-negotiable competence of our time. With proven strategies, she shows organizations how to make the agility shift to respond to and seize new opportunities presented by the unexpected and unplanned.
Pamela Meyer is a sought-after keynote speaker who inspires audiences around the world with new perspectives and actionable ideas to become more agile and innovative.
A thought leader for business success, Meyer is the author of four books on agility, innovation, and learning, including The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams and Organizations and From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement.
Specializing in leadership and team development, Meyer helped design the new manager training program for T-Mobile, based on The Agility Shift. The program recently received national attention with a silver Brandon Hall HCM Excellence in Learning award in the category of Best Unique or Innovative Learning & Development Program.
A Certified ScrumMaster , Meyer also helps leaders, teams, and organizations that are adopting agile frameworks to make the necessary mindset and practice shifts to energize engagement and realize results.
In addition to her work with organizations, Pamela Meyer teaches courses in business creativity, organizational change and adult learning at DePaul University in Chicago, where she served as director of the Center to Advance Education for Adults and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Creativity and Innovation, part of the Driehaus College of Business and the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
Pamela Meyer
Featured Keynote Programs
Making the Agility Shift
Creating Agile Leaders, Teams and Organizations
Most of us know that we cannot expect people or organizations to be effective using ways of thinking and working designed for another era. Success today depends on our ability to learn and adapt in the midst of change. It depends on shifting both our mindset and organizational practices. Pamela Meyer will help your audience members make this agility shift in her high-content, high-engagement session. In this dynamic session, Pamela draws on her years of experience helping teams and organizations become more agile and innovative. Not only will they learn how organizations are thriving in the midst of uncertainty and change through inspiring examples, audience members will leave with ideas they can use right away to start making their own agility shift.
In addition, your participants will discover:
• How to improve your capacity to respond to unexpected and unplanned challenges and opportunities using available resources
• The six dynamics of the agility shift to boost performance and engagement best practices of agile leaders, teams, and organizations
• How becoming more agile will improve your bottom line and sustain your success
Speech Topics
• Leading in the Age of Disruption
• Jumpstarting Agile Teamwork: Lessons and Best Practices From High Stakes Teams
• Building a Culture of Agility and Innovation
Breakout Sessions:
• How to Be an Agility Champion
• Agile Teamwork for Agile Organizations: Communicating, Collaborating and Coordinating for Results
• All keynote topics can be modified into breakout sessions and workshops
Pamela Meyer
Featured Books
Agility Shift
by Pamela Meyer
As contrary as it sounds, planning -- as we traditionally understand the term--can be the worst thing a company can do. Consider that volatile weather events disrupt trusted supply chains, markets, and promised delivery schedules. Ever-shifting geo-political tensions, as well as internal political upheaval within U.S. and global governments, derail long-planned new ventures. Technology failures block opportunities. Competitors suddenly change their product or release date; your team cannot meet the pace of innovations in your market niche, leaving you sidelined. There are myriad ways in the current business environment for a company's well-considered business plans to go awry. Most business schools continue to prepare managers to be effective in stable and predictable environments, conditions that, if they ever existed at all, are long gone. The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mindset and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control at the very foundation of most management training and business practice. Despite most leaders' approaches, Agility is not simply accelerated planning. Unlike many agility books on the market, The Agility Shift provides specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization to put into practice immediately to improve agility and achieve results.
From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement
by Pamela Meyer
Quantum Creativity: Nine Principles to Transform the Way You Work
by Pamela Meyer
Permission
by Pamela Meyer
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