Keynote Speaker: Motivational/Upbeat

Holy Cow! Who is Really in Charge? - Thrive Through Artificial Intelligence Impact, Disruption & Change, and Today’s Sea of Sameness

Seven powerful forces have joined together and are gunning for your job, to displace your department and to reinvent and disrupt your industry. Complacency and clinging to the status-quo are the death knell to individuals, teams and organizations. Among these forces…
• Artificial Intelligence Impact - Upon Individuals, Teams and Organizations
• White-Collar Robots
• Revolutionary and World-Changing Software
• Expansion of Internet Capabilities
• Today’s ‘Commoditized Economy’ (Sea of Sameness)

We are in a brawl with few rules, where the fast, flexible, and agile will eat and spit out the slow, over-thinking, and complacent. Individuals and organizations that fail to adapt will find themselves vulnerable, and at the mercy of other people, events, or the competition. 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.

The white waters of change are unnerving for many. But the fact is they will only become more turbulent. For organizations and employees who are unprepared, the future will be devastating.
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 and internalize the skills and competencies that will be essential to stay relevant in Future Work/The New World of Work.
• Embrace an understating of what it will take to become ‘distinctive’ in a world where A.I. and the progression toward the ‘singularity’ are predicted to allow those that choose to, the ability to ‘know all there is to know about everything.’
• Deploy the keys to build, enhance and grow your desired 'brand' – Organizationally and Individually – to become distinctive in today’s commoditized ‘sea of sameness’
• Employ the 5-ingredient ‘kryptonite’ to thwart Artificial Intelligence Impact, Relentless Change, Disruption and the ‘7-sided Pincer Movement’ that is transforming the nature of work for everyone.
• Learn to lead and embrace change – ignite the engagement, passion, ownership and creativity that is often lacking during times of change and disruption - the preeminent competency individuals and teams must cultivate.
• Develop tenacity, resolve and agility to secure your spot in the New World of Work.
• Learn how to create a ‘Want-To’ versus a ‘Have-To’ culture. A culture where change is embraced and resiliency and accountability are commonplace.

Create Your Optimal Peak-Performing Culture - Culture Shaping/Optimization

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.

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.

Cultivate Resilience, Commitment, Accountability, Ownership and Perseverance - Ignite Peak Performance

Accountability is the Catalyst to: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement, Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels individuals, teams and organizations to intoxicating heights of achievement and success. Learn what it takes to awaken the whatever it takes attitude, belief, resolve, perseverance, confidence, determination, drive and creativity to achieve what matters most to individuals, teams and organizations.

Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication. Accountability is a current that feeds into the slipstream of success. Your performance, your decisions, and your results are all within your control; when you operate from that premise, magic happens. You deliver like never before because you are personally invested in the outcome. Achieve with Accountability shows you how to nourish that can-do mindset, so you can begin to achieve what matters most.

Discover how to transform accountability into a positive, engaging and forward looking experience that will secure your position in the new world of work. Learn how to kick-start a revolution that will blast your team or organization to new heights of success. With the world coming at us fast and furious every day, it's easy to feel like you've lost control of your own life, your team or your organization. By choosing to take and lead accountability you reclaim control and are able to direct your own destiny.

In today’s constant changing competitive environment individuals, teams and organizations must be prepared to convincingly answer these critically important questions:

1. Who are you? What makes you distinctive in today’s ‘sea of sameness?’
2. How are you dramatically unique or different?
3. How do you make a significant difference, or create an astonishing overt benefit?
4. What is/are your reason/s why anyone should believe in you? Convince me!

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

• Discover the 4 keys to accountability, along with the observable best practices.
• Cultivate the agility, flexibility and resiliency to adapt and thrive during constant change.
• Foster collaboration, camaraderie and teamwork – Establish unshakable trust and credibility.
• Intensify ownership, engagement and alignment – Crumble silos and abolish territorialism.
• Instill a can-do, steely resolve, solutions focused mindset in the face of difficult challenges, obstacles and barriers.
• Eradicate the blame-game and vanquish excuse-making that stifle peak performance.
• Shed feelings of disarray, discomfort, apathy, entitlement, indifference and despair.
• Unleash voluntary contributions of discretionary performance that is often left untapped in individuals, teams and organizations.
• Discover how to develop and enhance your ‘desired brand’ to secure your position now and in the future.
• Grasp what it takes to unleash your true potential.
• Develop a team or organization that is connected, aligned and manifests your organizations brand.
• Break through self-imposed barriers and mediocrity.

Mike Evans is an award-winning author/speaker, and has developed a unique perspective from 20+ years of working alongside a star studded list of world-renowned thought leaders, including: Dr. John Kotter, Dr. Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Jim Kouzes, Hyrum Smith, Steve Farber and Chris McChesney. Mike served in executive leadership and consulting roles with Kotter International, FranklinCovey, and Tom Peters Company.

34 of Fortune 50 are clients. Mike works with organizations around the globe and in virtually every arena, from the tech sector to financial services, manufacturing, health care, hospitality, entertainment, retail, and the US Government. Clients include: Intel, Capital One, Apple, Caterpillar, PNC Bank, Cargill, Pfizer, General Mills, H&R Block, The United States Navy, John Deere, Fidelity Investments, Monsanto, Google, US Steel, Rite Aid, Agilent Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, Symantec, Cigna Corporation, ITPA, US Department of Commerce, BNY Mellon, Oracle, Astra Zeneca, Baxter International Inc., Shell Oil, UPMC, Citrus Valley Health, McAfee, American Airlines, Masonite, Novartis, Ernst & Young, ACE Hardware, DuPont USA, Quest Diagnostics, State Farm, BP Oil, Heinz USA, NAFCU, and NASA.

Mike consults with senior teams, facilitates custom workshops, delivers keynote speeches and provides coaching and consulting on all of these subject areas. He uses his unique insights, passion, experience, and humor to positively affect individuals, teams and organizations around the world. He is experienced with executive leadership teams and groups at all organizational levels. His style is engaging, upbeat, entertaining, thought-provoking, compelling, and most importantly educational, relevant and impactful. Individuals, teams and organizations yield immediate results by applying what they learn.

His personal mission is to help individuals, teams and organizations accelerate their ability to achieve more than they ever believed possible. Clients describe him as inspiring, motivating and a ball of energy with an unequalled focus and passion for helping them achieve their desired results – both professional and personal.

AV REQUIREMENTS
• LCD Projector and Connection
• Minimum of one (1) 12’ x 12’ or larger projection screen in room. More screens for large groups or large room so that everyone has a clear view of what is projected on the screens. For groups of 400 or more, it is recommended to have 4 or more screens strategically placed throughout the room.
• Wireless Lavaliere Lapel microphone for the facilitator (only for audiences of 50 or more)
• A connection to the audio in the room (in-house sound) – to connect presenter’s laptop in order to play video/audio clips embedded into the presentations that will be played during the presentation. If no link available to in-house sound system, please provide enough portable speakers so that the sound is clear to the entire audience.
• A small table and a chair near where facilitator will be stationed (for notes, supplies and other material)
• A power source and power strip for the facilitator’s laptop and other AV needs.
Facilitator will be using his MAC for the presentation. The ideal is to connect the MAC laptop directly to the LCD projector cables. Facilitator prefers to run the presentation directly from his MAC and use his own remote. Facilitator is flexible if an alternative approach or connection is required, but would like to be made aware of the set up 2 weeks prior to the event.
For large rooms, an advanced and more powerful remote may be required.
Facilitator carries the following two types of adapters to connect his MAC laptop to the LCD projector -
1) Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA Display Adapter:

2) HDMI Adapter cable.