To survive and thrive as a global community in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis,
we must be technology-enabled, business-focused, human-powered, and society-embracing.
Lightning conversations are 10-minute (or “a bit longer“) fast-paced opportunities to share perspectives, explore insights, and discover guidance for practical impact with guests who we sadly could not integrate into the live June-19 event as well as guests who we sadly could not offer deep-dive conversations.
We embrace natural entanglement with dynamism, curiosity, breadth & depth, and appreciative yet critical engagement from a place of respect & “care” (awareness, energy, and commitment) while naturally interrupting each other, pushing & pulling, talk over each other, and “dancing in the moment” to reveal wisdom.
“The Mighty Three”
Avery Quayle, Senior Director of Marketing, Micro Strategies Inc.
Kelley Curtis, Marketing Manager, Micro Strategies Inc.
Colleen Bucsko, Marketing Manager, Micro Strategies Inc.
Maha Hosain Aziz
MA in IR Professor of Global Risk, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science
Visiting Fellow, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Political Cartoonist, The Global Kid 2.0
Political Consultant, Wikistrat
Author of The COVID-19 EFFECT
Author of Future World Order
Author of The Global Kid: A Political Comic Book
Allison Daly Behr
Senior Content Strategist, Waggl
“Aiming Towards Antifragility Is a Powerful Step”
Sahana Chattopadhyay
Founder, Proteeti Consulting
Alchemist & Consultant, Future of Work Collective
Columnist, Enlivening Edge
Heidi Dening
Keynote Speaker – Virtually and On Stage, Heidi Dening
Global Advisor, International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)
Guest Lecturer, University of Sydney
Chris Desmond
Leading through Challenge, Founder and Host
Uncomfortable is OK, Founder and Host
National Training Manager, TBI Health Group New Zealand
John Hagel
Co-Chairman, Center for the Edge, Deloitte & Touche
John Hagel III (wikipedia)
Ellen Grace Henson
Consultant, Marketing Mechanics
Instructor, Santa Clara University
Jason Hrcsko
Agile Coach & Transformation Lead, Cigna
Board Member, Agile Uprising
Elena Marie Ivanushkina
Partners Program Senior Consultant, TeamEQ
Owner, Expert in Organizational Culture, Leadership and Innovative Learning, Talents Ways
“Antifragile leadership as a response to the ‘New Normal'”
Amitabha Joarder (Jordy)
Director, Solution Sales & Advisory, Infosys
“Antifragility and the journey of organisations on being antifragile”
Ilkka Kakko
Founder and Partner, Oy Karostech Ltd
Chairman of the Board, Sensemaking Institute
Outsourced International Expert and Consultant on Science and Technology Parks, World Technopolis Association (WTA) / UNESCO
Author of Oasis Way and The Postnormal Era – How Understanding Serendipity Will Lead You to Success (2014)
Learning & Development Practitioner
“Nurturing the Anti-fragile Student”
“Nurturing the Anti-Fragile”
Ta’mara Leigh
Resilience Coach, The Antifragile Academy
Diamond Director, Independent Damsel Pro
Richard Merrick
See Contributors for more about Richard.
Lisa Nemeth Cavanagh
Transformation Leader and Executive, Micro Strategies
Maya Nova
Founder, Director, mindbalance
Renos K Papadopoulos
Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Director, Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees
University of Essex
Renos K. Papadopoulos (wikipedia)
Transformational Speaker, Group Trainer and Board Advisor
Board Advisor, Eutropia Aerospace
Board Advisor, CoSynergy
Bio: Mariya is a 2 time TEDx speaker, keynote speaker and a thought leader on intentional adaptability and human potential. She built 2 businesses and several careers as a lawyer, university lecturer and interpreter being fluent in 5 languages. Mariya also holds nearly a dozen of university degrees and qualifications. And over the last few years she has been focusing on researching and connecting insights into both physiology and psychology, as a citizen scientist, behind human happiness and wellbeing. Additionally, she has lived on 3 continents. In particular, in Eastern Europe, US and now in Australia for the last 12 years.
Grant ‘Axe’ Rawlinson
Team Decision Making Coach & Human Powered Explorer, Powerful Humans
“How your team can find certainty amongst uncertainty”
“Being ‘ANTI-FRAGILE’ – The secret to the world’s most powerful humans”
Sara Robertson
Founder, Lime Horse
Corporate Trainer, Performance Specialist, Mindful Gateway Consulting
Faculty, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
“Antifragile is the new Resilient”
Arthur Shelley
Director, Knowledge Associates Australia
Founder and CEO, Intelligent Answers
Founder, Organizational Zoo Ambassadors Network
Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
Group Facilitator, Melbourne Knowledge Leadership Forum
Author of The Organizational Zoo: A Survival Guide to Work Place Behavior
Andrea Simon
President, Simon Associates Management Consultants
Host, On the Brink Podcast with Andi Simon
Author of On the Brink
Dave Snowden
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge
Dave Snowden (wikipedia)
Primitivo Cachero Viejo
Head of Agile, atmira
Perspective: Guiding towards antifragility through resilience & new leadership, and creating flow of value in a world that needs more human leadership. My purpose as human is to help evolve people & organisations through a new more human leadership towards antifragile systems.
Raphaël De Vittoris
Group Crisis Manager – Senior fellow in Crisis Management, Change Management and Learning Management, Michelin Group
In this case experience, we explore the practice of crisis management, resilience & antifragility, skin in the game, simulation, and much more at Michelin Group.
Charlotte Weinberg
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Executive Director, Safe Ground
Case Experience: Micro Strategies Transformation via Crisis
In this case experience, we explore how the COVID-19 crisis, shock, disorder, and stress are used by Marketing to catalyze the whole organization (Executive Leadership Team, Sales, and Practices) to actualize a global virtual conference, and cause a degree of shift in mindsets and behaviors within a culture. See the full-story for more information.
See Avery Quayle, Kelley Curtis, and Colleen Bucsko for more information.
Case Experience: Cars.Com Transformation via Disorder
In this case experience, we explore how disorder, stress, shock, and crisis are used to nurture/cultivate a transformation towards greater business agility, resulting in 18 months of work being done in 4 weeks, reducing turnover form 25% to 5%, reducing produce/services development by 42%, and shifting mindsets and behaviors within a culture. See the roadmap, techniques, and full-story for more information.
Note: Judith E. Glaser joins the conversation and shares her perspective, observations, and insights.
See Clay Johnson, Jacque Harper, Jim Sanders, John Manganaro, Jonathan Yenkin, Len Lagestee, Mahi Inampudi, and Nick Hummer with Bill Swislow, Mitch Golub, Kayne Grau, Kevin Steele, Brian Neale, Nathan Spoonts, Sharon Knitter, Michael Page, and Joe Oliveri for more information.
Case Experience: Cars.Com Transformation Reunion
Almost a decade after their transformation journey, what are the lasting effects of their experience? And what insights and guidance do they offer from their unique perspectives?
Case Experience: AutoVIN Transformation via Disorder
In this case experience, we explore how disorder, stress, shock, and crisis are used to nurture/cultivate a transformation and accomplish what seems “impossible”, achieving outcomes under extreme conditions, resulting in a shift in mindsets and behaviors within two disparate cultures. See the roadmap, techniques, and full-story for more information.
See Freddie Lowe, Harish Pai, Jeremy Dibble, Johnathan Watkins, Julius Hamelberg, Kirsten Erwin, Mark Noyce, Rick Fouts, and Sherry Westfield with John Bartley, Gary Watkins, Joshua Greig, and Marie Johnson for more information.
Case Experience: AutoVIN Transformation Reunion
Almost a decade after their transformation journey, what are the lasting effects of their experience? And what insights and guidance do they offer from their unique perspectives?