Fireside Chat with Senior Leadership
After the keynote, keep the energy and focus alive with a powerful 30-minute fireside chat featuring Lisa Bodell and a senior leader from your organization. This session creates a platform for leadership to engage in an honest discussion about what holds the organization back and what must change – culturally, behaviorally, or structurally. Lisa facilitates a provocative, no-fluff discussion that bridges keynote insights with your company’s real challenges. The second half of the session opens up to the audience for live Q&A – giving people the opportunity to ask bold questions, surface concerns, and hear candid reflections from the top. It’s equal parts inspirational and actionable – and a dynamic way to model change from the top down.
Simplification Tactics Workshop
Ready to make simplification stick? This highly engaging 45–60 minute workshop is the perfect way to activate Lisa Bodell’s keynote content with immediate, tangible next steps. Each participant receives a personal deck of 50+ simplification tactics – proven approaches that remove daily friction, streamline work, and accelerate decision-making. Lisa facilitates a rapid-fire “tactic swap” across tables, encouraging people to share favorites, discover new ideas, and commit to the first action they’ll take. After the exchange, Lisa guides a high-energy, full-room discussion to uncover the most frequently chosen tactics and clusters them into key themes – whether it’s killing unnecessary meetings, shifting approval processes, or cutting low-value reports. From there, she dives deep with real examples and activation strategies tailored to your audience. Participants leave with new ideas, a customized plan, and a renewed commitment to doing work that actually matters.
Kill a Stupid Rule Workshop
If you want to spark bold thinking and real results fast, this session delivers. Based on one of Lisa’s most iconic tools, Kill a Stupid Rule is a fast-paced, interactive workshop where teams identify and challenge the outdated rules, bloated processes, and unnecessary work holding them back. In small groups, participants brainstorm all the “stupid rules” they’d love to eliminate – then plot them by ease of elimination and potential impact. With Lisa’s expert facilitation, groups vote on the top candidates, share insights across teams, and leave with a clear path to act. The session can be customized from 45 to 75 minutes depending on group size and time available. Whether used as a breakout or full-room experience, this session generates immediate ideas, energy, and action – and gives leaders a replicable tool to drive change long after the event ends.
Activate AI Like a Boss: A Leader’s Playbook for Getting Your Team On Board, Moving and Winning with AI
AI isn’t going to replace your team. But a team that knows how to use AI will replace the one that doesn’t. Most organizations know they need to become AI-native. What they don’t know is how to get their people there – genuinely, not grudgingly. Leaders have issued the mandate. But the gap between “we need to embrace AI” and “here’s exactly how we do that” is where momentum dies and quiet resistance takes root.
As CEO of FutureThink, Lisa Bodell didn’t just study AI adoption – she led it, using her own team as a live case study. What she discovered wasn’t a technology problem. It was the absence of a clear, human-centered approach to getting started.
In this session, Lisa shows leaders how to start small and visible, picking the right first use cases: low-stakes, high-annoyance work everyone is glad to hand off, so early wins build trust faster than any town hall. She lays out a strategic roadmap for mapping work into what to automate, what to keep human-led, and what to protect as distinctly human. She unpacks the language, rhythms, and practices that build genuine momentum and make adoption stick; showing that the leaders who win won’t be the ones who moved fastest; they’re the ones who brought their people with them.