Thriving in the New World of Work Don’t Just Survive – Dominate the Future of Work
For those willing to adapt, the future is not a threat, but a canvas upon which to paint their success story. Drawing from real-world examples and cutting-edge research, this keynote experience equips guests with relevant, pragmatic, memorable ideas, tools, models and principles to allow them to thrive and excel in the new world of work. This keynote isn't about fearing the rise of the machines, but unlocking the secrets to coexisting and even thriving alongside them.
Seven formidable forces have joined together and are gunning for our jobs, looking to displace departments and to reinvent and disrupt all industries. Standing still is not an option. Complacency and clinging to the status-quo are the death knell to individuals, teams and organizations. These forces are not just trends, but seismic shifts that demand our attention. Among them…
• Artificial Intelligence Impact - Upon Individuals, Teams and Organizations
• White and Blue-Collar Robots
• Revolutionary and World-Changing Software
• Flourishing Technologies
• Today’s ‘Commoditized Economy’ (Sea of Sameness)
We are amidst a brawl with few rules, where the fast, adaptive, resilient and agile will be rewarded. Those unwilling or unable to evolve risk vulnerability and obsolescence. In this New World of Work, leveraging ideas, speed, talent, distinction and leadership at all levels will separate top performing individuals and organizations from the laggards.
This isn't just a keynote, it's a call to action. Leave equipped with the tools and mindset to not only weather the storm of disruption, but ride its waves to unimaginable heights. Are you ready to step into the arena and claim your victory in the New World of Work?
Embrace the critical importance of agility, resilience, and forward-thinking self-leadership in navigating the complexities of today's disruptive environment.
Adapting to and embracing change – igniting engagement, passion, ownership and creativity that is often lacking during times of disruption, is the preeminent competency individuals and teams must cultivate. Learn what it will take to thrive and excel in the New World of Work - Future Work.
KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:
• Discover the essential skills and competencies required to thrive in the New World of Work. Understand how to cultivate distinctiveness in a world where AI threatens to render knowledge ubiquitous. Build and enhance your personal and organizational brand to become distinctive in today’s sea of sameness.
• Gain strategies to outmaneuver AI: Learn how to leverage your uniquely human strengths – creativity, empathy, and leadership – to stay ahead of the automation curve.
• Expand your plan to compete and thrive as we unveil AI technologies that are impacting all industries, and reinventing the nature of work.
• Employ strategies to thwart AI impact, relentless change, and disruptive forces. Cultivate leadership skills to navigate uncertainty and inspire resilience. Develop the agility and tenacity needed to secure your place in the future of work.
• Gain invaluable insights into how to harness the power of innovation, distinction and agility to adapt and stay ahead of the curve and seize new opportunities for growth.
• Position yourself and your team for long-term success and relevance in an increasingly dynamic marketplace. Cultivate a growth mindset.
• Transform your culture from one of obligation to one of aspiration, where change is embraced, and accountability thrives. Unlock the secrets to thriving amidst disruption and shaping a brighter future in the New World of Work.
Unleash Accountability & Resilience Thrive in the New World of Work
In the midst of relentless disruption and seismic shifts, accountability is no longer just a virtue—it’s the cornerstone of success. In the ‘New World of Work’ it is essential to embrace and nurture accountability, resilience, agility, flexibility, tenacity, and ownership as indispensable tools to excel in today’s unpredictable landscape. This keynote goes beyond theory, delivering a dynamic, actionable roadmap to awaken the "whatever it takes" mindset that propels individuals, teams, and organizations to extraordinary heights.
We must adapt to thrive in a high-stakes arena where artificial intelligence, revolutionary technologies, and a commoditized economy threaten to outpace the slow and complacent. Standing still is not an option—those who fail to adapt risk irrelevance. Yet, for the bold and agile, this chaos is a canvas for innovation and triumph. Drawing from cutting-edge research, real-world success stories, and pragmatic strategies, this keynote equips you with the tools to:
• Cultivate Resilience and Tenacity: Build an unshakable resolve to overcome obstacles, adapt to constant change, and turn challenges into opportunities—because in a world with no rules, perseverance is power.
• Embrace Agility and Flexibility: Learn to pivot swiftly and decisively, staying ahead of disruptive forces like AI and automation, ensuring you’re not just surviving but thriving alongside them.
• Ignite Ownership: Take control of your performance, decisions, and results, shattering silos, boosting collaboration, and unlocking discretionary effort that drives unparalleled outcomes.
• Banish Complacency: Eradicate blame, excuses, and apathy that stifle progress, replacing them with a can-do, solutions-focused attitude that fuels peak performance.
Accountability is the catalyst that intensifies engagement, strengthens trust, and fosters the creativity needed to stand out in a sea of sameness. As seven formidable forces—including AI, robotics, and flourishing technologies—redefine industries, the ability to lead with accountability separates the trailblazers from the obsolete. This isn’t just about maintaining the status-quo; it’s about taking control to redefine success.
Why are these traits essential? In a future where speed, adaptability, and distinction reign supreme, accountability empowers you to reclaim control of your destiny, resilience ensures you bounce back stronger, agility keeps you ahead of the curve, flexibility allows you to pivot with purpose, tenacity fuels relentless pursuit of goals, and ownership transforms challenges into victories. Together, they form the ultimate superpower for navigating the complexities of the new world of work.
This keynote isn’t a passive experience—it’s a call to action. Walk away with memorable insights, practical models, and a renewed mindset to not only coexist with disruption but to leverage it for unprecedented achievement. Are you ready to step into the arena, claim your place, and paint your success story in the New World of Work?
KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:
• Master Accountability for Peak Performance: Learn the 4 keys to accountability and how to apply them to enhance individual and team performance, break down silos, and foster seamless collaboration. Discover how taking responsibility drives engagement and aligns efforts for success.
• Build Unshakable Resilience: Gain practical techniques to develop resilience, enabling you to withstand setbacks, eradicate the blame game, and maintain a solutions-focused mindset amidst constant disruption and adversity.
• Cultivate Agility to Stay Ahead: Explore strategies to build agility and flexibility, empowering you to adapt swiftly to technological advancements, market shifts, and unforeseen challenges, keeping you ahead in a fast-paced environment.
• Ignite Tenacity to Conquer Obstacles: Discover how to awaken tenacity—a relentless "whatever it takes" attitude—that fuels determination to overcome barriers and transform challenges into opportunities for growth and achievement.
• Foster Ownership for Trust and Success: Understand steps to instill ownership at all levels, creating a culture of trust, credibility, and shared commitment to organizational goals, where everyone is invested in the journey and outcome.
• Develop Your Distinctive Brand in an AI-Driven World: Learn how to build and enhance your personal and organizational brand to cultivate distinctiveness, ensuring relevance and value in a commoditized economy shaped by AI and automation.
• Leverage Human Strengths to Complement Technology: Gain insights into harnessing uniquely human qualities—like creativity, empathy, and leadership—to coexist with revolutionary technologies, securing your place in an AI-impacted workplace.
• Gain Practical Tools to Thrive Amidst Disruption: Acquire actionable strategies to navigate uncertainty, embrace change, and position yourself or your team for long-term success in a dynamic, unpredictable marketplace.
• Eliminate Excuses and Promote Responsibility: Discover techniques to vanquish excuse-making and foster a culture of accountability, unlocking discretionary performance and driving teams to new heights of productivity and engagement.
• Leave Inspired with a Roadmap for Success: Walk away inspired and equipped with a clear, actionable roadmap to implement these qualities, empowering you to take control of your future and chart a course to victory in the new world of work.
Cultivate and Shape Your Optimal Peak-Performing Culture
Whatever the desired results you wish to achieve or challenges within your organization – lofty growth, distinction, culture change, innovation, breaking down silos, improving collaboration, employee engagement, merging cultures, doing more with less… – it is through your people (culture) that you will either succeed or fail. Embark on a transformative journey towards fostering a culture that drives exceptional results.
Culture, simply put, is the convergence of the way your employees think and act. That culture is producing your organization’s every result (financial, operational, customer, employee, etc.). If your future desired results are loftier, more difficult, of just different than those you are achieving today, will your current culture be able to deliver? Creating those ‘shifts’ in how employees think and act is what will propel your team or organization toward those desired results.
Your culture is your ‘brand.’ An organization’s (or team’s) culture is either an engine propelling it toward it’s desired results, or an anchor impeding and hindering it’s progress. You can define, lead and shape your optimal culture.
Learn to cultivate an environment where employees at all levels are engaged, energized and flourish. Internalize what it takes effectively tap into the enormous wealth of creativity, innovation, passion, energy and commitment of employees that is often left idle. Cultivate a culture that is engaged, passionate, focused, committed, aligned and accountable, with employees contributing daily to help achieve what matters most.
You can ignite extraordinary results within your team or organization. These straightforward, practical and memorable tips can transform your culture to support and deliver your ‘must-achieve desired results.’ The results that will ensure you thrive and excel in the new world of work.
KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:
• Learn how to create shifts in the way employees think and act so that your desired culture will flourish and heighten organizational performance.
• Foster increased levels of trust, collaboration and teamwork
• Ignite a heightened sense of urgency, accountability, and ownership at all levels of your organization
• Intensify ownership, engagement and alignment – Crumble silos and abolish territorialism.
• Understand how to identify the root cause of undesired cultural beliefs and actions that impede progress, and how to infuse desired beliefs and actions to accelerate achievement of desired results.
• Discover how to gain voluntary commitments from colleagues so they self-select desired actions - Stop wasting time enforcing compliance around policies and procedures.
• Develop a culture where employees ‘bring more of themselves’ to the workplace – trigger innovation, creativity and passion.
• Create organizational laser-like focus on what matters most – eliminate confusion, misunderstanding, miscommunication, mistrust, frustration and indifference.
LEADING CHANGE: Accelerate Achievement of What Matters Most and Thrive in the Age of Disruption
In the past, change was episodic, transient, and gradual, now, change is constant as business, technology, and society itself continue to evolve at an ever more rapid pace. Accelerating Change – igniting engagement, passion, ownership and creativity that is often lacking during times of change, can be accomplished using proven memorable and pragmatic principles. Learn why some organizations achieve and exceed desired results.
Driving a strategy that requires change in human behavior may be the most difficult challenge a leader can face. What do top leaders do to gain voluntary contributions of discretionary performance from those they lead? How do they create alignment, ownership and accountability for desired results at every level of an organization? How do they ensure that key strategies are not slowly suffocated, but instead produce extraordinary results?
Leading change has become a critical competency in today’s economy. But there is a significant and crucial difference between leading and managing change – not only in the approach, but also more importantly in the results. The success, or lack thereof, with transformational change efforts hinges on a few key principles that have been identified, studied and validated.
Leveraging talent, ideas, speed, distinction and leadership are keys to accelerating change. Accelerated achievement of desired results can be accomplished through consistent focused attention over time on a few practical, pragmatic and memorable principles. Discover the practices demonstrated by exemplary leaders that result in others voluntarily choosing to follow them.
Intentional focus on these principles will ignite extraordinary results within your organization. Decades of research have identified five principles and practices that propel organizations forward to blast through the common barriers, obstacles, challenges and inertia that derail most change efforts.
KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:
• Embrace the key change principles that are common among successful change efforts. heighten and refine your untapped leadership potential.
• Understand the critical difference between leading and managing change and the appropriate ratio required to accelerate change.
• Discover what it takes to move employees from compliance to commitment – jettison resistance.
• Learn how to create a ‘Want-To’ versus a ‘Have-To’ culture. A culture where change is embraced.
• Avoid the primary pitfalls and traps that sabotage most change efforts.
• Learn the five best practices demonstrated by exemplary leaders and how you can apply them.
• Discover the key elements of communicating a vision that lead to increased levels of commitment, engagement and accountability.
• Understand what it takes to cultivate a culture where employees ‘bring more of themselves’ to the workplace – where they are engaged, energized and flourish.
• Learn how to lead, develop and cultivate a culture/team that is equipped to overcome the new ‘forces that are coalescing’ to dramatically alter the corporate and economic landscape.
• Discover what it takes to lead a culture/team that is aligned, resolute, engaged, agile and takes accountability and ownership to achieve what matters most.
• Arouse a sense of purpose, distinction and passion among your employees.
Leading Change in the New World of Work - Excel in a World of Constant Transformation
Change is no longer episodic—it’s the new normal. Across all sectors and industries, from tech to healthcare, retail to manufacturing, organizations face an accelerating pace of disruption driven by evolving business demands, technology, and societal shifts. Leading Change has become an essential competency, distinguishing those who merely survive from those who thrive. Unlike managing change, which focuses on control, leading change inspires engagement, ownership, and innovation—unlocking extraordinary results in any field.
Mike Evans delivers a transformative keynote that shatters traditional approaches to change. Drawing from decades of research and global success stories, Mike shares proven, pragmatic principles that ignite passion, engagement, ownership and creativity, even amidst upheaval. This isn’t about complex theories or elite training—these are universal, memorable strategies accessible to all. Whether your organization is launching new strategies, adopting technologies, or navigating market shifts, this keynote equips you to turn disruption into opportunity.
Cultivate a team that not only adapts, but excels—moving through the challenges of change with agility and purpose. Resistance fades as employees move from compliance to commitment, and mediocrity gives way to market-leading outcomes. Learn how exemplary leaders across industries
foster cultures where change is embraced, not dreaded. You’ll discover why 75% of large-scale change efforts fail and how to avoid those traps, ensuring your initiatives don’t just launch but succeed and sustain.
In a world where three out of four critical strategies falter, the ability to lead change is your competitive edge. It’s about more than setting direction—it’s about enlisting every individual to act with intent and accountability. This keynote delivers the tools to make that happen, no matter your sector. From sparking a “Want-To” mindset to building resilience, you’ll leave with a roadmap to transform your organization into an unstoppable force of focus, innovation and execution.
This isn’t just a presentation—it’s a call to action. Whether you’re a startup disrupting the market or an established player refining your edge, these principles apply. Are you ready to redefine leadership and inspire your team to conquer change? Prepare to unlock the secrets to thriving in today’s dynamic reality—because leading change isn’t optional; it’s essential.
KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:
Lead, Don’t Just Manage: Master the critical distinction between leading and managing change to drive success.
Ignite Ownership: Shift from “Have-To” to “Want-To,” fostering accountability at all levels.
Leverage Five Pillars: Use proven principles to overcome barriers and accelerate change outcomes.
Turn Disruption into Advantage: Build agility to transform challenges into opportunities for growth.
Avoid Failure Traps: Sidestep pitfalls that derail 75% of large-scale change efforts.
Ensure Flawless Execution: Apply four principles to sustain critical strategy success.
Unleash Team Potential: Tap into creativity and passion for breakthrough performance.
Foster Resilience: Equip your team to thrive amid constant market shifts.
Create Change Champions: Inspire commitment over compliance across your organization.
Build a Custom Roadmap: Develop a plan to embed a change-ready culture.
Boost Innovation: Unlock discretionary effort to fuel distinction and results.
Align for Impact: Engage every level to execute strategies with precision.
