Revealing Business Opportunities You've Been Trained to Ignore
Conventional wisdom leads to conventional results. In order to truly gain an edge over your competition, you need to think differently than they do, find opportunity in places where they aren't looking and understand WHY the world works the way it does so you can shape your organizational strategy to match.

It is often the case that organizations fall into good results. They end up thinking differently about a product or a market or a leadership style after all else has failed. They identify an opportunity and beat the competition to market with a new product because of a hot tip or a stroke of insight. A CEO or other top level executive intuitively understands the way the world is moving and re-orients the organization to take advantage of emerging trends and is hailed as a savior or genius.

But wouldn't it be better if you weren't wading through failure or waiting for a hot tip or relying on the whims of genius insights? Wouldn't it be better if, in fact, you were systematically implementing strategies that yielded market advantages? What if you could do some things as an organization that would consistently result in new market opportunities, increased access to funders or a more productive organizational environment?

In this presentation, I'll show how to make breakthroughs in your organization more predictable, reliable and consistent. As important as visionaries and leaders are, they are very hard to come by and often very expensive. Implementing the tactics revealed in this presentation, by comparison, are dirt cheap, easy to come by, and can last for generations.

Learning Objectives
• Identify opportunity in unconventional places
• Think critically about the conditions the yield true, repeatable market success
• Develop the perspective to think differently than the competition

Type of Session: Interactive Keynote or breakout
Time: 60-90 minutes

Harness the Power of Authentic Relationships to Increase Trust and Client Engagement
What really drives trust and customer loyalty today? How do you get deep customer and client engagement time after time? Dr. Josh Packard harnesses insights from sociological research to show some surprising answers about the way our society has changed in the last decade. Trust is simply not earned by being right or the best. His own research looks into the ways that people are increasingly leaving faith-based and professional associations and remaking these industries in the process. Book this session to understand how the nature of trust and authority have shifted and how you can grow your relational authority with your customers, clients and members.

Learning Objectives
• Learn how the shifting nature of trust impacts every sector of our world
• Understand how to increase your influence by leveraging the power of sociological insights.
• Identify practices that decrease trust and skepticism, and learn how to avoid them.

Type of Session: Interactive Keynote or breakout
Time: 60-90 minutes

Focusing on strategic thinking and organizational development can be difficult in a world that constantly pulls executives and others into tactical discussions. In this interactive, hands-on presentation, I show you how to leverage the power of systems thinking to implement strategic thinking throughout your organization. You will walk away from this presentation with a clear understanding of where your strategic and tactical strengths lie and what you can do make the most of your skillset for your organization.

Learning Objectives
• Increased capacity to identify when strategic or tactical thinking are needed to solve problems.
• Gain a deeper understanding of how systems thinking can be used in the course of your daily tasks and responsibilities.
• Develop the skills of highly strategic leaders to chart the future of your organization or unit.

Type of Session: Interactive Keynote, Workshop or Breakout
Time: 45 minutes