Lisa Bodell
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, collaboration, and innovation, whose keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arm them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters.
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, collaboration, 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 AfterShock, 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.
Unleash Innovation
Lisa’s work focuses on the power of simplification to drive innovation, and this presentation has a clear question for us all: Winning innovators proactively look to the future and embrace opportunities for change - do you? For most of us, the answer is NO. We’re stuck in the land of status quo and we’ve forgotten how to think differently and solve problems creatively. Lisa’s here to inspire us on how to change that.
40 Ways To Reinvent Your Business
Lisa’s work focuses on the power of innovation, and this presentation has a message question for us all: Whether you’re suddenly faced with a burning platform or taking this critical time to slow down and reflect, right now is always the perfect time to reinvent your business.
Curiosity As Your Next Competitive Advantage
Lisa’s work focuses on the power of innovation, and her this talk she has a question for us all: Are you leveraging curiosity to drive change and transformation? For many of us, the answer is no. Lisa teaches us how to shift our mindsets from judging to learning, to ask killer questions, and to gather valuable information that illuminates opportunities.
Killing Complexity - Why Simple Wins
Imagine what you could do with the time you spend every day sitting in meetings, answering emails, and doing unnecessary work. Are we spending our time on the work that really matters? For most of us, the answer is NO, and this presentation inspires us to change that.
Become A Daily Simplifier – 20 Ways To Do Less & Accomplish More
Lisa’s presentation provide audiences with practical tips to simplify their work and be able to accomplish more while doing less.
The Great Reset – Embracing A Constraint Mindset
Winning innovators readily embrace opportunities for change and recognize that great changes can occur during times of great constraint. In this speech, Lisa will share methods to use disruptive thinking, build agility, and turn problems into possibilities.
The Power Of Perspective
Innovation happens in environments that share and embrace diverse ideas and perspectives. In this talk Lisa will give practical tips for creatively engaging diverse audiences, uncovering unique perspectives, and building a culture that ignites fresh, innovative ways of thinking.
Stop Meeting And Start Collaborating
Innovation happens in environments that collaborate effectively, and embrace different ideas and perspectives. In this talk Lisa will give practical tips for better engaging remote teams, using provocative tools that get quick-wins, and avoiding overload with a "mini mindset".
You rocked it! One of the best conversations of the conference
SAP
Thank you for a masterful presentation today. Everyone LOVED it. Your presence on stage was fantastic even with a virtual audience.
Dynata
Lisa Bodell was the absolute perfect closing keynote for my company’s annual conference which was being hosted virtually for the first time in its 30+ year history. She is a natural on-camera, which is super challenging to pull off in a virtual environment. Lisa did a great job delivering an interactive program that kept the audience engaged from start to finish.
P&I
Lisa was very well received – our CEO Gary Norcross was apparently inspired by Lisa!
Fidelity
Book: Kill The Company
Keynote: Unleash Innovation
Book: Why Simple Wins
Keynote: Killing Complexity
