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The Questions Disruptors Ask Themselves
Bruce Lee once said, “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Business Disruptors are often celebrated for their courage and vision, but Mike Maddock thinks that much of their success is rooted in the questions they ask themselves; questions that reveal new opportunities that the rest of us often miss.
This keynote presentation is based on Mike’s best-selling book Plan D. It is a highly entertaining talk that focuses on the unexpected, replicable and generative questions enlightened leaders learn to ask themselves and their teams.
Key takeaways include:
How to ensure your leadership team is balanced
How to uncover meaningful problems before you start generating ideas
How to build a team that can create even in the most difficult circumstances
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The Future of Professional Advice
5 Bold Predictions
As the saying goes, “All of us, are smarter than any of us.” Mike uses the wisdom of the crowd to predict the post-pandemic future of professional advice. This presentation is based on the data from two, privately commissioned, prediction market studies. The studies reveal shocking and critical insights about the future of professional advice. Who will we go to for advice when we make our important financial decisions? How, when, and why will we pay for advice? How do advisors and consumers view the role of technology in the future? Which industries will expand and why? How do Millennials, Boomers, Gen-X and Advisors see the future differently?
Mike uses humorous stories backed by fresh data to reveal an unexpected but opportunistic future for innovative advisors, consumers and companies.
Key takeaways include:
Learn how dramatically different Boomers and Millennials will engage with advisors
Advisors are now expected to expand their services––learn how and why
Technology just became more important than your brand. Advisors tell you why.
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The Crisis Cocktail
The Crisis Cocktail is a speech based on Mike’s forthcoming book. It is a guide to how leaders make deliciously difficult decisions.
Key takeaways include:
Learn the three most destructive and constructive roles leaders play in decision making
Understand the simple prioritization process leaders employ to work on the essential, not the urgent
Understand how to establish the “Creator’s Impulse” when your company, your team or your family needs a leader the most.
Balancing Imagination & Execution
Is your team better at creating big ideas or masterful execution? This fun and interactive keynote speech is based on Mike’s bestselling book Free the Idea Monkey to focus on what matters most. Your team will see how the most successful companies manage the healthy and essential tension between the divergent and convergent thinkers on your team; The Idea Monkeys and the Ringleaders. In the end, they will realize that everyone is a hero in this story.
Key takeaways include:
How to identify the ideas that will create the biggest impact
Simple processes to maintain the proper balance between ideas and execution
Why Idea Monkeys and Ringleaders are both essential to create disruption
The innovation portfolio model that leading companies use to maintain balance
Techniques to get the most out of your visionaries and operators
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Key takeaways include:
The three keys to being the Disruptor—not the disrupted
Disruptor frameworks that you can easily “parallel engineer” (read: steal)
How Disruptors find a yin for their yang
Why Disruptors believe in ghosts (and you should too)
*This fun, interactive presentation was the second highest at the YPO Regional Couples Retreat in Telluride, Colorado. Mike finished second to a sex therapist at a couples retreat. He can live with this outcome. So can his wife.
Plan D - Empowering Disruptors
What do Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Walt Disney have in common? They are all Disruptors, which means they know how to blow sh** up for the good of the whole.
Do you?
Boxer Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth.” Today, leaders are being “punched in the face” by the confluence of game-changing technology, aggressive entrepreneurs and impatient consumers. This leaves winning leaders with three choices: They can be the Disruptors themselves, partner with Disruptors, or learn how to manage Disruptors even better.
This keynote presentation is based on Mike’s best-selling book Plan D. It is a highly entertaining talk that focuses on the unexpected, amusing and replicable superhero powers of business Disruptors. Mike will teach you how to dream, drive and deliver like the “crazy ones.”
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Pivot, Profit or Punt?
Under pressure, does your company play offense or defense? Does your team know how to turn dramatic shifts in the market into profitable opportunities?
This presentation focuses how to pivot your purpose, your products and your positioning to turn any crisis into a time of great creation.
Key takeaways include:
How to use a company purpose to pivot
Strategies to identify new areas of opportunity
How to engage even your most nervous team members
Three questions that will accelerate your pivot
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Getting Innovation Unstuck
How can a sophisticated organization, be so committed to a life-or-death mission — innovation — but still not achieve it? This was the innovation paradox Mike wrote about in his first book Brand New: Solving the Innovation Paradox.
This presentation is designed to help your team get unstuck. It turns out that there is a predictable pattern of where and how innovation teams get. Better still, there are proven and reliable ways to get your team unstuck, accelerating innovation success in your company.
Mike regularly gives this presentation on executive and board retreats. It contains valuable data that helps teams benchmark their innovation progress.
Key takeaways include:
You have heard of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, now you will understand the Innovator’s Hierarchy of Needs
Four places teams get stuck on the innovation journey and how to avoid them
The critical difference between invention and innovation
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Drama-Free Creation
Drama sucks. It sucks energy; it sucks fun; it sucks the creativity out of even the most resilient teams and relationships.
This presentation has been highly rated on corporate, couples and family retreats. It is designed to keep leadership teams, partners and couples focused on great outcomes. It gives them the awareness, frameworks and language to recognize and move quickly from complaining to creating. It will help you and the people you care about the most create a drama-free future.
Key takeaways include:
How to immediately recognize drama
Your role in drama and how to instantly change it
The three questions that move people from being a victim to being a creator
How to be a better boss, parent, partner and friend
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Innovation Boot Camp
Is your executive team ready to lead the innovation charge?
This half, or full-day boot camp is designed to help businesses learn the proven, fundamental innovation methods that Fortune 500s use to get the most out of their people, their processes and their intellectual property.
The Innovation Boot Camp is designed to jump-start your team and provide the common language, focus, tools and momentum to heighten the likelihood of success.
Key Takeaways Include:
How to create both evolutionary and revolutionary ideas
3 proven steps that ensure innovation success
How to audit, prioritize and manage an innovation portfolio
Fun techniques to consistently create bigger ideas
The top 3 reasons big ideas fail and what you can do to overcome them
Designing your business for the 21st century
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