Jan 13 2025
Founder of FutureThink and author of Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company Lisa Bodell is the leading keynote speaker on simplification and innovation.
Lisa Bodell is a global leader in simplification, collaboration, and innovation. She shows organizations how to eliminate complexity and leverage simplicity – unleashing creativity and sparking the energy so essential to innovate and compete in a rapidly changing world. She is well-known for her keynote and motivational speaking. Lisa Bodell is also available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Lisa Bodell’s fees.
Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at 215-510-6607 to book Lisa Bodell for corporate or private events, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, motivational speaking, or virtual appearances. Our agency will work directly with your organization and our keynote speakers to create an unforgettable event.
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“Complexity is crippling our organizations. It’s stifling our people and keeping them from doing their most meaningful and impactful work.”
After earning her business degree from The University of Michigan, Lisa launched her career at Leo Burnett, a global advertising agency in Chicago. While there, she discovered a gift for uniting strategically-driven ideas with forward-thinking themes. Lisa went on to build two successful businesses before moving to New York and founding FutureThink in 2003. Focused on the simplification and innovation space, FutureThink works with leading brands worldwide and has become the largest source of innovation research, tools, and training in the world.
Additionally, Lisa has served on the board of advisors of several organizations, including the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, the United States National Security Agency, the Association of Professional Futurists, and the Novartis board of Diversity & Inclusion.
Now, Lisa contributes her expertise to a wide variety of media. She is a monthly contributor to Forbes and has frequently appeared in other media including: Fast Company, WIRED, The New York Times, Inc., Harvard Business Review, and CNN. Lisa is also the author of two groundbreaking books, Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company.
Further, she’s been featured in many major books like Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question, Adam Grant’s Originals, and AfterShock.
Lisa brings a compelling perspective to the sought-after topics of simplification and innovation to over 100,000 people each year. She has taught innovation at both American University and Fordham University and also delivered a TED talk on the topic. A thought leader and serial entrepreneur, Lisa ranks on the list of Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and captivates audiences with her energy and humor. Her keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arm them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters.
Lisa’s transformational message has inspired executives at top-ranked organizations such as:
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Complexity is crippling our organizations.
Unproductive meetings, irrelevant rules and reports, and endless emails keep people from doing the work that matters most. Worse, complexity dampens morale and creates feelings of futility. However, it doesn’t have to be this way.
CEO and TED-talk veteran Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to unleash the energy, collaboration, innovation, and engagement lying in wait by embracing a mindset of simplification right now.
This spirited presentation shows how small changes can have a profound impact on the organization’s people, competitiveness, and ability to adapt. Lisa offers techniques used by the nimblest of companies to save time, kill rules, and simplify everything. Drawing on research from her book, Why Simple Wins, Lisa’s energy, engaging stories, and interactive exercises prove that using simplicity as an operating principle is the surest path to organizational transformation.
Embracing simplicity as an operational mindset can unleash the power of people to be their best and focus on the work that matters. But simplicity needs an advocate. Leaders who step up and send the message that simplicity is a priority will reap outsized results.
In this presentation, Lisa Bodell delivers real-world tools leaders can use to create a culture with simplicity in its DNA and a bias for action.
Lisa, author of the bestseller Why Simple Wins, unpacks stories and insights leaders can use to inspire their people, ignite disruptive thinking, build agility, and turn problems into possibilities. With energy, humor, and revealing online interactive exercises, Lisa shows that simplicity is the catalyst that accelerates innovation, collaboration, engagement, and growth. Simplicity will create a sustainable competitive advantage because it’s the absolute foundation of resilience in the face of never-ending change.
If your organization is not innovating as fast as you’d like, it’s time to address it before it’s too late. In most organizations, the very structures put in place to help them grow all too often hold them back. When you want people to approach change differently, you have to help them change their approach.
In this presentation, Lisa Bodell delivers a high-energy and inspiring call to arms to start a revolution in how we think and work.
Lisa is the founder and CEO of FutureThink, the largest source of innovation research, tools, and training in the world. Her insights help increase the capacity for innovation by shifting mindset and engaging everyone in the process of killing off the status quo. In this presentation, Lisa inspires people to think differently and provides the tools to solve problems that stand in the way of breakthrough innovation in your organization.
But Lisa is the real thing – she’s inspiring, motivating, practical, and memorable. She ignites the possible with the audience. In fact, she was the top rated speaker at our executive events. – Executive L&D, AT&T
she’s insightful, engaging and energetic. She was the top-rated speaker at our Google events and inspired the entire audience to start a simplification revolution. – Think Events, Google
I now have a totally new way of looking at simplification and innovation. I would recommend her and her team to anyone planning an event in a heartbeat. – Vice President, Delta Airlines
she expressed her willingness (and desire) to create meaningful content specific to our event and audience. She continued to engage with our team throughout the process, not only ensuring that her content remained aligned with our theme and goals, but also ensuring success in terms of technical (virtual) rehearsals and delivery quality. Lisa’s talk itself was thought-provoking, challenging, and inspiring. The power of her insights came through in their accessibility, as she has the uncanny ability to relate high-level, dense subject matter to the everyday. Lisa’s ability to deliver a dynamic talk within a virtual format is testament to her ability to connect with a variety of audiences, no matter the venue. I look forward to working with Lisa again. – Chief of Staff, BeautyCounter
