This keynote is designed to disrupt default thinking, getting people out of operational work-mode (and its fixation on the immediate), and into a mode that is far more open, curious and courageous—so that we might contemplate new possibilities beyond the default.
In particular, this keynote has your people reflecting on their own thought patterns and behaviours, so that we are neither too complacent nor too cocksure (as can be the case amidst senior leaders and high performing teams).
It makes for the perfect opening for your event—have your people asking the right questions, and focusing on the activities that lead closer to future relevance.
Charismatic fluff and fist-pumping rah-rah can be quite stirring. Rousing, even. But the longevity and actual impact of zealous motivational presentations—once we return to work—is oft questionable.
Smart people require more than just a motivational pep talk. If you want your people to be the champions of your culture—demonstrating the behaviours most aligned to your values and strategy—then they ought understand the science behind what drives motivation and performance.
In this keynote, we unpack the elements of Motivation Design—highlighting the most effective levers your leaders can use to influence individual and collective behaviour. Motivating and deeply practical.
Conferences, meetings and events are fantastic - you get a whole bunch of clever people into the one room, mixing about and immersed in new thinking. The ideas your events generate can be priceless – but the real test is what actually happens as a result of your event. Rather than simply having everyone return to their bursting inboxes and carry on with business as usual, Game On! will arm your delegates with the tools and gameful savvy to execute their ideas and make clever happen. This amps up the return on investment for everyone, and ensures your event actually makes a difference. Ideal for anyone looking to make ideas happen as a result of their event. This keynote can be tailored for the opening or close of your event, ensuring your delegates are primed to take action on their ideas.
This insightful keynote will get your people pioneering through doubt and uncertainty. This one's for the game changers and intrapreneurs. Every organisation has them. The people who have a hunch — an intuitive notion that things could be done differently, or that new markets are ripe for disruption. Conferences fan the flames of these hunches — exposing people to new ideas and new connections.
But then we get back to our overflowing inboxes and business as usual. Progressing these ideas is an uphill battle through doubt and uncertainty. But in this keynote, Dr Fox shows organisations and leadership teams how they can proactively dial up curiosity and experimentation, to harness good hunches and lead pioneering work through unchartered territory.
Learn when questions are more important than answers and how you can resist the urge to default to quick fixes; learn why we need to keep our goals fuzzy and our progress clear; discover how to craft new rituals for better thinking, individually and collectively (even if everyone is busy).
This keynote is an ideal precursor to strategic development, and is an ideal fit for any organisation that wants to courageously face uncertainty and change head on.
Conventional leadership-folklore serves a complicated yet predictable world. But now the world is complex and hard to predict, and instantly accessible and shareable information is rewriting the future as quickly as it can be understood. We’re in the storm now.
The Industrial Age is long dead, and our Information Age is at dusk. As we stand at the cusp of a new Age, leaders must navigate new shifts in the dance: from hierarchies to networks, centralised control to distributed authority, robust planning to antifragile experimentation, bureaucracy to responsiveness, profit-obsessed to purpose-driven (and so on). Such change behooves a refreshed leadership philosophy and culture. One that’s fit for the storm, and a world less predictable.
One of the biggest opportunities an event provides is the (head)space to ponder such things. To explore the opportunities and threats on the horizon, and to genuinely consider the things we are pretending not to know. This keynote provides the provocations for such, and is designed to be both upbeat and unsettling.
It's one thing to get people inspired about a new idea, but as Edison once said: 'Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.' Staying engaged throughout the 99% bit is the key to all progress and development. Yet right now (this very minute) hundreds of millions of intelligent adults are playing online video games with a level of focused, creative engagement that we do not see at work. Level Up! will flip this, showing your delegates how to apply game design elements to build and maintain the motivation to do brilliant work. If you're thinking about getting a 'motivational speaker', get this one instead. Your people will learn how to lift their game and sustain high levels of motivation (in a freshly unconventional yet brilliantly effective way).
This pragmatic self-leadership keynote will get your people addicted to progress. Unlock new motivation by thinking like a game designer. Whether it's a board game, a sports game or a video game, we play games not to avoid work — but to engage in well-designed, challenging work.
But what is it about games that inspires such sustained motivation and engagement? And how can we use this to enhance our own motivation and performance in the things that matter most?
In this insightful keynote, Dr Jason Fox unpacks the best principles of game design through the lens of motivation science. The result? Your people will be savvied up in motivation design, and equipped with the tools to elevate their own productivity, performance and growth.
Learn why we thrive in challenge and how everyone can design work challenges that inspire great performance; discover why we are profoundly adept at getting in our own way and what you can do to undo and reverse self-sabotage; learn about fancy new trends, like 'the quantified self', and how you can game it to get ahead.
This keynote is ideal for sales teams looking for new ways to elevate performance, or general audiences
wanting to learn how they can leverage technology and motivation design to lift their game.
Just as an event begins, so it must end. In many ways, the final session is just as important as the opening session. Actually: more so, thanks to peak-end rule.* The final, closing keynote is what marks the beginning of the transition—from what is essentially an artificial yet wondrously curated experience (the event)—back to the world of work and life. This final keynote, if done well, can create resonance for your whole event. Much like how a large gong, when struck, can create a deep and lingering effect.
Therefore, of course it must be inspiring. But it must also be useful in assisting folks with this transition.
For a closing keynote, my philosophy is: get people in conversation (with each other, during the keynote). This keynote has folk intuitively scanning through the event to identify the ideas and interactions that resonated most with them. Then we sharpen our focus on the steps required to translate these new ideas into meaningful progress.
Of all my keynotes this is the most interactive. It is perhaps the lightest in terms of content—but the most significant in terms of effect. If you want your people to think, feel and do things differently as a result of your event, this keynote will serve you thunderously well.
This stimulating keynote will get your people rethinking (and rebuilding) the way we work. Robot unicorns, hover boards and flying space ninjas? Probably not. But as many speakers like to say: the world is changing fast. And
it is. But what's more fascinating is how new and emerging technology and insight is being applied to enhance the way we work.
This keynote previews and unpacks emerging innovations, cutting-edge practices and simple, low-tech cultural 'hacks' that are reshaping the way we work. Learn what leading organisations are doing, what's on the horizon, and how you can work together to build a more nimble and progressive cultures fit for the future of work.
Learn how to find gold in a world of hype — and why you should view every new technology through the lens of motivation design; learn how to rethink meetings, emails and all the other work culture relics that get in the way of truly progressive work; learn why we need to be more like ninjas — and how you can protect your work from disruption (because the robots are coming).
This keynote can occur at any point in the program, but it's best placed early on into the event to stimulate great thinking and discussion. Elements can be tailored to your specific industry.
This insightful and comedic keynote performance is designed to give your audience a glimpse as to how influence, authority and power is (and can be) manifested in our now Internet/hearsay-enabled world.
Watch this hipster wizard dismantle the conventional meta-narratives of motivational thought leadership expert speakers and their kin (including himself) with but a few simple cantrips. Then, amidst the ashes and rubble, see how the fragments of ‘truth’ can be reforged into something new.
It’s a self-depreciating piss-take on the irony of expertise and the ‘motivational business thought leadership’ industry at large, yes. But amidst the ridiculousness and mirth this keynote offers profound insights as to how to think more rationally, how to trust in doubt, and how to synthesise your own antifragile approach to ‘truth’.
This eclectic and cross-paradigmatic keynote provides intelligent audiences the means to self-author their own narratives, so as to shape richer meaning and experience whilst bringing about better decisions and behaviour. By taking advantage of the natural flaws in our own thinking—narrative fallacy, cognitive dissonance and our near-inescapable willingness to make meaning (along with our many biases and distortions)—we can continue to grow and develop as human beings.
This is motivation and character development for the ‘quietly dissatisfied’ whose mostly meta-rational minds are much too sharp and clever for conventional approaches to work. In this keynote you’ll learn how to embrace useful delusions (malleable ‘mindsets’) to bring about greater productivity, performance, clarity, agility and focus in our otherwise complex and chaotic (always-already) post-truth world.
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Dr Jason Fox is a motivation strategy and design expert who shows forward thinking leaders how to influence work culture, drive progress and build for the future of work.
A big part of Jason’s work involves unpacking the latest trends and developments in work culture and gamification – removing the hype and adding the science to make work work.
His adventures include working with the senior leaders of multinational organisations (to rethink leadership and culture) and the leaders of multi-million dollar projects (to make strategy happen).
Such clients include the likes of Fortune 500 companies like PepsiCo and other multinationals like McDonalds, Toyota, Microsoft, Gartner, Beam Suntory and Sony, through to companies like Suncorp, Optus, Telstra, Sydney Water, AMP, and The International Institute for Research.
Jason is the director of The Future of Leadership Melbourne, the founding director of Clever Happenings and a global ambassador for the ideas execution conference 99U. He is also the bestselling author of The Game Changer and How to Lead a Quest, and his research has been featured in the likes of Smart Company, Business Review Weekly and The Australian Financial Review.
When not liberating the world from poorly designed processes and work, Jason enjoys partaking in extreme sports like reading, coffee snobbery and fruit ninja.
Jason was the perfect presenter and guide for our leadership forum – a complex group of operations, sales and satellite engineers. He is entertaining, intelligent and deeply thought provoking. After just one day invested with Jason we decided on new and innovative ways to take our leadership development to the next level. Now the word is out. People outside our Division are asking about Jason and want to know more. Jason’s involvement allowed us to make great progress in this new area of investment and it really motivated people to get excited about the possibilities and future of the industry. I highly recommend Dr Jason Fox if you are looking to progress great thinking and pave the way for real innovation.
– OptusJason Fox presents a thought provoking yet humorous discussion highlighting the link between modern motivational science principles, strategy and leadership. Jason has certainly earned the title “the game changer”.
– General Manager Australia, Australasian Society of Association ExecutivesAmazing! Jason provides a whole new perspective on business.
– Business Events Director, NABJason did a fantastic job capturing all the ideas and messages at our event. It was a big program, but he wrapped everything up with humour and impact. Having the visual notes after the event is gold. Book Dr Jason Fox if you want to your event to conclude with a great sense of practical optimism.
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