Brad Twynham

Most organisations today communicate with legislated optimism. Only good news or positive feedback is communicated across the organisation.

High performing teams and organisations constantly seek out negative or constructive feedback because the leaders know it’s the negative feedback that leads to change and growth of the people and the organisation.

The success of leaders in today’s business environment is determined by their ability to receive and give negative feedback with gratitude, care and dignity.

This workshop develops the capability and skills required to effectively create and manage productive negative feedback loops that can lead to exceptional learning and results for people within your organisation.

• The key reasons we shy away from giving negative feedback.
• A Simple technique for being able to receive negative feedback in any situation.
• Framework for delivering negative and constructive feedback with care and precision.
• Strategy for implementing negative feedback loops in your daily workflow within your team.

This workshop is often coupled with the Radical Empathy workshop and delivered as a full day workshop.

Leaders need to build the capacity to turn on a dime in today’s fast paced and disruptive business environment.

Radical Acceptance is a tool for creating psychological safety and the resilience required to operate effectively in a volatile and ambiguous business environment.

Regular disruption is a certainty in today’s business environment and our ability to keep moving forward in the midst of significant disruption is a key skill that is essential to learn.

This workshop explores a method called the G.A.P method (Gratitude, Acceptance and Perception) and is perfect for teams going through digital transformations, corporate reorganisations, corporate investigations and other disruptive periods in an organisation's life cycle.

• Understand and develop a simple practice of gratitude for navigating difficult situations.
• Learn a five-step process for overcoming disappointment at pace.
• Develop a simple technique for reframing any situation to keep moving forward amid disruptive and competing forces.

This workshop is often coupled with the Radical Open mindedness workshop and delivered as a full day workshop.

There are two types of creativity we find in organisations. Incremental creativity takes something that already exists and improves upon it. Most organisations call this their innovation program.

Research has concluded that organisations who engage in the process of Radical Creativity, a process of creating without the constraints of the past, thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment. Their teams are more engaged and less prone to burn out.

In today’s world we need Leaders to be able to lead teams that can be radically creative. Create without limitations and can be the catalyst to inspire new business ideas, business models and strategies not previously envisioned.

• Explore the body of research that concludes all organisations need to be engaged in a process of Radical Creativity on an on-going basis.
• Learn a process for accessing the Radically Creative Brain.
• Develop Radically Creative Solutions.
• Create a Massive Transformational Purpose for your team or organisation.

Being a leader shouldn’t just be about getting stuff done, it should be about becoming a better person.

Most workshops focused on empathic leadership focus on Cognitive Empathy. Psychological Research now concludes that Narcissists and Psychopaths can use cognitive empathy as a tool to manipulate their environments, creating toxic workplace environments as a consequence.

Radical Empathy focuses on compassionate empathy. Not just as a tool for listening but as a tool for creating exceptional value for both internal and external stakeholders and customers. Learn how to build high performing teams and use empathy as a tool for leapfrogging the competition.

• Explore the difference between cognitive empathy, active listening and Radical Empathy.
• Through unique case studies learn how to use Radical Empathy to create exceptional business value.
• Practice Radical Empathy with your colleagues within the session.
• Develop a sense of Radical Empathy for yourself and your colleagues.

Embark on a transformative journey into the dynamic world of Artificial Intelligence with this captivating keynote, "Radical Innovation: Welcome to the Age of Smart Intelligence."

This presentation takes you beyond the hype of Generative AI, delivering a foundational understanding of AI's profound impact on every industry. Starting with a nod to AI's origins in the pivotal summer of 1956, the keynote unfolds the five key categories of AI that are reshaping our world: Reactive AI, Limited Memory AI, Theory of Mind AI, Narrow AI, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Through compelling, industry-specific examples, you'll witness how these AI types are redefining your specific industry segment, sparking a conversation in session that engages participants in a process of radical creativity.

The session further explores the convergence of AI with other cutting-edge technologies, including Web3/Metaverse, Robotics, and Quantum Computing, painting a vivid picture of the radically creative future that awaits.

This isn't just a presentation; it's an interactive experience. Participants will be challenged to actively engage with the concepts, prompting a dynamic exploration of how to radically recreate their organizations in response to the wave of technological transformation.

Key Takeaways:
• A clear understanding of the five key categories of AI and their real-world applications.
• Specific insights into how AI is currently disrupting and redefining your industry.
• An overview of the synergistic potential of AI with Web3/Metaverse, Robotics, and Quantum Computing.
• Actionable inspiration and frameworks for participants to begin radically recreating their own organizations.

The ground has shifted. Customers are operating in a "zero-trust" world, where scepticism is the default and trust is harder to earn than ever before. This keynote, equips sales professionals to navigate this challenging landscape and forge authentic connections that drive results.

We'll explore the factors fuelling this growing "trust gap," from the rapid pace of technological change to the erosion of trust in traditional institutions. You'll discover how these forces are reshaping customer expectations and demanding a radical new approach to sales.

Drawing on insights from psychology, behavioural economics, and the latest research on trust, this keynote provides actionable strategies for building unshakeable trust in a world where seeing is no longer believing. You'll learn to move beyond outdated sales tactics and embrace a customer-centric approach that prioritizes transparency, empathy, and genuine relationship-building.

Key Takeaways:
• Understand the root causes of the growing "trust gap" and its impact on the sales process.
• Identify the essential elements of trust in a "zero-trust" world.
• Learn practical techniques for building rapport, establishing credibility, and fostering long-term customer loyalty.
• Develop a framework for leading with integrity and authenticity in every sales interaction.

In today’s volatile business landscape traditional leadership approaches fall short. Adaptability is the ultimate currency. Organisations and leaders face unprecedented disruption from technological advancements to climate change and social upheaval. The solution “Radical Leadership” a new foundation for leading in an age of rising complexity.

In this keynote inspired by the book “Radical Thinking” your people will be equipped with five essential capabilities that create a foundation of stability in an age where none exists: Radical Open mindedness, Radical Creativity, Radical Empathy, Radical Acceptance and Radical Candor.

Attendees will discover how to cultivate these capabilities to foster adaptability, drive innovation, break down outdated beliefs and embrace change with optimism, courage and clarity.

Key takeaways:
• Understand the root causes of leadership challenges in this decade and beyond.
• Learn practical techniques to develop the five core capabilities of the Radical Leader.
• Gain strategies to foster a culture of adaptability and innovation within teams and organisations.
• Leave inspired to lead through change with confidence and achieve sustainable success.

Being able to absorb and digest ideas without our automatic bias is critical to being an effective leader in today’s fast paced business environment. The Radical Open mindedness workshop explores our automatic reaction to receiving ideas that don’t agree with our preconceived view of how the world should look and an easy to implement technique that assists us in evaluating those ideas.

• Understand your automatic response to ideas you don’t agree with.
• Learn the PNI technique, a technique used for actively enquiring into difficult to hear ideas.
• Develop new opportunities for your organisation or team to explore where previously there were only negative or biased responses.
• Take the technique back to your team or organisation.

This transformative keynote decodes the leadership paradigm of the future: the Augmented Leader. As the age of AI rapidly unfolds, leaders face the challenge of integrating unprecedented technological capabilities with enduring human strengths. Drawing from Brad’s rich cultural Aboriginal heritage that has long valued interconnectedness and holistic thinking and over 25 years of innovation in Enterprise Technology and AI, this keynote offers a unique perspective on navigating this complex terrain that is reshaping leadership at an unprecedented rate.

How do we move beyond a binary choice between AI-driven analysis and human skills, and towards a powerful synthesis. Participants will discover how to cultivate essential competencies like AI literacy, ethical reasoning, and contextual awareness, while amplifying intuition, emotional intelligence, and the wisdom embedded in ancestral knowledge systems.

Key takeaways include:
• Understanding the paradoxes of AI in leadership: balancing its potential with the risks of bias, over-reliance, and ethical pitfalls.
• Reclaiming uniquely human capacities: intuition, emotional intelligence, and contextual wisdom as essential leadership tools.
• Drawing on Indigenous wisdom: exploring how principles of interconnectedness, ethical responsibility, and long-term thinking can inform augmented leadership.
• Implementing augmented leadership: strategies for cultivating essential competencies, fostering a culture of integrated intelligence, and establishing ethical AI governance.
• Attendees will leave with actionable insights on how to lead with wisdom, integrity, and future-focused vision in an age of unprecedented technological change.