Informative and transformative keynote presentations

We are all changing whether we want to or not! Change is a force of nature – it’s natural despite an organisational desire for certainty and predictability. Change creates a context in which we can learn about ourselves as humans and what we can contribute, enabling a deep sense of meaning and purpose. Mergers, restructures, technological changes, weather disruption and AI are all realities for many organisations.

With years of experience working with service organisations undergoing rapid and transformative change, Josie understands how disturbing and challenging these times can be. She asks us to redefine our daily doing, reconsider our beliefs and reset our identity.

IN THIS KEYNOTE YOU WILL:

Understand why change is natural and hard to plan.

Explore the underlying fundamental neuroscience of profound change.

Understand the emotions that are a part of profound change.

Discover the importance of learning to manage your emotions.

Develop a stronger sense of agency to initiate or respond to change.

Complexity is complex and so much more than problem solving and aligning everyone. Obsessed with opening up new possibilities for organisations, Josie has been researching and practicing in the sphere of complexity for 20 years.

Reconciling the different perspectives in organisations and communities where there are many stakeholders is always a challenge. Emotions and stakes are high! We are now in the world of rolling disruptions where we need to engage people to learn new ways of responding together.

Sharing the responsibility to generate adaptive and coherent responses is the secret to innovation, cultural evolution and profound change for sustainability.

IN THIS KEYNOTE YOU WILL:

Identity the distinction between ‘complex’ and ‘not complex’.

Raise your awareness about how our unconscious thinking impacts our effectiveness.

Reflect on the different effects that zooming in and zooming out have on problem solving.

Understand the importance of engaging people within the system to enable them to take responsibility too.

Identity a model for engagement of the broader system.

The world needs us to move from a focus on parts to a focus on wholes. Whole people, teams, communities and landscapes. We need a world of nested systems that are in constant dialogue with each other. All living systems evolve to survive and thrive. Josie brings a different understanding of sustainability and how we need to ‘be’ in the world. Her thinking has a strong resonance with many First Nations cultures. It is a worldview with humanity at its heart.

Sharing findings from her award-winning PhD thesis, Embedding sustainability into organisational DNA: a story of complexity. Josie is able to teach the ability to zoom in and out, to notice the interconnections between everything sustainable and complex.

IN THIS KEYNOTE YOU WILL:

Recognise how the unconscious assumptions we make determine our effectiveness.

Explore the shift from seeing parts to wholes and how it can improve your effectiveness.

Learn how the world of living systems includes humans.

Identity what and how an organise may profoundly change itself from the inside out to be sustainable and sustaining.

Are your people struggling to keep up with wave after wave of change?

Is their wellbeing suffering? Josie is passionate about organisational transformation. Creating cultures where people can be themselves, are enabled to grow, develop their strengths and speak up with their ideas.

‘Purposeful organisations’ is a term that is usually associated with those enterprises that seek to deliver positive impacts in our communities. What if you could nurture a human environment, adding meaning and purpose in which whole individuals and teams could contribute for the benefit of society.

IN THIS KEYNOTE YOU WILL:

Understand why innovation is cultural rather than a prescribed process.

Identify the team environment as a primary container for organisational cultural change.

Recognise the connections between personal growth, adaptation, diversity, and resilience as key leverage points in your team and organisation.

Discover simple ways to promote wellbeing personally, in your teams and organisationally.