Mike Evans

Imagine a gladiator arena, but instead of swords and shields, the weapons are algorithms and automation. Seven disruptive forces are circling, aiming to replace, reinvent, and disrupt our jobs, our departments and entire industries. The crowd roars, demanding agility, resilience, and leadership from those who dare to enter. Are you ready to step into the ring?

This keynote isn’t about fearing the rise of the machines, but unlocking the secrets to coexisting
and even thriving alongside them. Forget outdated tactics. Clinging to the status quo is like
wearing a blindfold in a laser tag game.

• Strategies to outmaneuver AI: Learn how to leverage your uniquely human strengths –creativity, empathy, and leadership – to stay ahead of the automation curve.
• The antidote to “commoditization” Discover how to cultivate your personal and organizational brand and stand out in a sea of sameness. Think David vs. Goliath, but with a killer social media presence.
• Resilience in the face of relentless change: We’ll show you how to transform your culture
  from obligation to aspiration, where change is embraced and accountability thrives. It’s adapting with the grace of a dancer, not the rigidity of a brick wall.
• Unlocking the secrets of the “New World of Work” Gain invaluable insights on the essential skills and competencies needed to not just survive, but thrive. We’ll show you how to paint your own success story on the canvas of the future.

This isn’t just a keynote, it’s a call to action. Leave equipped with the tools and mindset to not only weather the storm of disruption, but ride its waves to unimaginable heights. Are you ready to step into the arena and claim your victory in the New World of Work?

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

• Thwart AI and disruption with human superpowers.
• Cultivate distinction in a world of sameness.
• Fuel innovation, agility, and growth.
• Position yourself for long-term success.
• Transform your culture for a brighter future.

Join us and become the gladiator who not only survives, but thrives in the New World of Work!
Remember, the future isn’t a threat, it’s an opportunity. Are you ready to seize it? Drawing from real-world examples and cutting-edge research, this keynote explores the critical importance of agility, resilience, and forward-thinking leadership in navigating the complexities of today’s disruptive environment. For those willing to adapt, the future is not a threat, but a canvas upon which to paint their success story.

P.S. We’ll also sprinkle in a healthy dose of humor to keep you engaged and inspired. After all, who says learning about the future can’ be fun?

Imagine: Your team, humming with purpose, innovation soaring, and barriers evaporating. You achieve ‘lofty growth, distinction, innovation, collaboration and more’ not through external efforts, but through the unleashed potential within your own people. This is the power of intentionally shaping your culture.

Tired of trudging uphill? Your current culture might be the invisible anchor holding you back. But what if you could transform it into an engine propelling you towards extraordinary results? Culture, simply put, is the convergence of the way your employees think and act. That culture is producing your organization’s every result (financial, operational, customer, employee, etc.). Creating shifts in the way employees think and act, launches you toward your desired results. This keynote is your roadmap.

Discover:

• The Hidden Wealth: Learn how to tap into the untapped creativity, passion, and commitment of your employees – a goldmine often left idle.
• Culture as Your Brand: Your culture is like a beacon, attracting or repelling talent and shaping your competitive edge. Will it attract the best and drive innovation, or hinder progress?
• From Apathy to Action: Ignite a culture of engagement, accountability, and alignment. Watch silos crumble and collaboration take flight.
• Beyond Compliance: Forget enforcing policies. Learn how to inspire voluntary commitment for faster, better results.
• Laser Focus: Cut through confusion and achieve organizational clarity: everyone aligned, moving daily towards the same desired results.

More than just takeaways, you’ll gain:

• Actionable strategies: No fluff, just practical steps to implement immediately.
• Shifting Mindsets: Learn to identify and shift limiting beliefs that hold you back.
• The ‘Aha!’ Moment: Uncover the root cause of your cultural challenges and unlock powerful solutions.
• A Personalized Roadmap: Leave with a clear plan to build a culture that thrives in the ‘new world of work.’

This is not just a speech, it’s a transformation. Are you ready to unlock the hidden power within your people and achieve results beyond your wildest dreams? Then embrace the journey towards an exceptional culture, and watch your organization soar.

Culture, simply put, is the convergence of the way your employees think and act. That culture is
producing your organization’s every result (financial, operational, customer, employee,
etc.). If your future desired results are loftier, more difficult, of just different than those you are
achieving today, will your current culture be able to deliver? Most often, the results teams and
organizations must achieve in the future will require employees to think and act differently.
Creating those ‘shifts’ in how employees think and act is what will propel your team or
organization toward those desired results.

Your culture is your ‘brand.’ The experiences your culture creates (the manner in which your
employees think and act) will either reinforce that current ‘brand’ or evoke a new one. You can
either lead your culture, or it will lead you. An organization’s (or team’s) culture is either an
engine propelling it toward it’s desired results, or an anchor impeding and hindering it’s
progress. You can define, lead and shape your optimal culture.

Embrace memorable principles that can be put into practice immediately. Whatever the desired
results you wish to achieve or challenges within your organization – employee engagement,
culture change, breaking down silos, improving collaboration, raising employee morale,
merging cultures, doing more with less – it is through your people that you will either succeed
or fail. The manner in which your people behave is a reflection of leadership.

Learn to cultivate an environment where employees at all levels are engaged, energized
and flourish. How do you effectively tap into the enormous wealth of creativity, innovation,
passion, energy and commitment of employees that is often left idle? Much different than ‘job

satisfaction’ (there are a lot of highly paid miserable people who are satisfied with their job) –
engagement is about passionate, focused and committed employees contributing daily to
help achieve what matters most.

Through intentional focus on a few proven principles, you can ignite extraordinary results within your team or organization. Decades of research have pinpointed principles and practices that accelerate desired shifts in culture. These straightforward, practical and memorable tips can transform your culture to support and deliver your ‘must-achieve desired results.’ The results that will ensure you thrive and excel in the new world of work.

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

•  Learn how to create shifts in the way employees think and act so that your desired culture
  will flourish and heighten organizational performance.
• Foster increased levels of trust, collaboration and teamwork
• Ignite a heightened sense of urgency, accountability, and ownership at all levels of your
  organization
• Intensify ownership, engagement and alignment – Crumble silos and abolish territorialism.
• Understand how to identify the root cause of undesired cultural beliefs and actions that
  impede progress, and how to infuse desired beliefs and actions to accelerate achievement
  of desired results.
• Discover how to gain voluntary commitments from colleagues so they self-select desired
  actions – Stop wasting time enforcing compliance around policies and procedures.
• Develop a culture where employees ‘bring more of themselves’ to the workplace – trigger
  innovation, creativity and passion.
• Create organizational laser-like focus on what matters most – eliminate confusion,
  misunderstanding, miscommunication, mistrust, frustration and indifference.
• Acquire principles and tools to help you clearly define and then establish your optimal culture.
• Discover what it takes to influence and inspire others – with or without positional authority.

Accountability is the Catalyst to: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement,
Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels
individuals, teams and organizations to intoxicating heights of achievement and success. Learn
what it takes to awaken the whatever it takes attitude, belief, resolve, perseverance,
confidence, determination, drive and creativity to achieve what matters most to individuals,
teams and organizations.

Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, strengthens
camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication. Accountability is a
current that feeds into the slipstream of success. Your performance, your decisions, and your
results are all within your control; when you operate from that premise, magic happens. You
deliver like never before because you are personally invested in the outcome. Achieve with
Accountability shows you how to nourish that can-do mindset, so you can begin to achieve what
matters most.

Discover how to transform accountability into a positive, engaging and forward looking
experience that will secure your position in the new world of work. Learn how to kick-start a
revolution that will blast your team or organization to new heights of success. With the world
coming at us fast and furious every day, it’s easy to feel like you’ve lost control of your own life, your team or your organization. By choosing to take and lead accountability you reclaim control and are able to direct your own destiny.

In today’s constant changing competitive environment individuals, teams and organizations
must be prepared to convincingly answer these critically important questions:

1. Who are you? What makes you distinctive in today’s ‘sea of sameness?’
2. How are you dramatically unique or different?
3. How do you make a significant difference, or create an astonishing overt benefit?
4. What is/are your reason/s why anyone should believe in you? Convince me!

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

• Discover the 4 keys to accountability, along with the observable best practices.
• Cultivate the agility, flexibility and resiliency to adapt and thrive during constant
  change.
• Foster collaboration, camaraderie and teamwork – Establish unshakable trust and
  credibility.
• Intensify ownership, engagement and alignment – Crumble silos and abolish
  territorialism.
• Instill a can-do, steely resolve, solutions focused mindset in the face of difficult
  challenges, obstacles and barriers.
• Eradicate the blame-game and vanquish excuse-making that stifle peak performance.
• Shed feelings of disarray, discomfort, apathy, entitlement, indifference and despair.
• Unleash voluntary contributions of discretionary performance that is often left
  untapped in individuals, teams and organizations.
• Discover how to develop and enhance your ‘desired brand’ to secure your
  position now and in the future.
• Grasp what it takes to unleash your true potential.
• Develop a team or organization that is connected, aligned and manifests your
  organizations brand.
• Break through self-imposed barriers and mediocrity.

In the past, change was episodic, transient, and gradual; now, change is constant as business, technology, and society itself continue to evolve at an ever more rapid pace. Accelerating Change – igniting engagement, passion, ownership and creativity that is often lacking during times of change, can be accomplished using proven memorable and pragmatic principles. Learn why some organizations achieve and exceed desired results.

Driving a strategy that requires change in human behavior may be the most difficult challenge a
leader can face. What do top leaders do to gain voluntary contributions of discretionary performance from those they lead? How do they create alignment, ownership and accountability for desired results at every level of an organization? How do they ensure that key strategies are not slowly suffocated, but instead produce extraordinary results?

Leading change has become a critical competency in today’s economy. But there is a significant
and crucial difference between leading and managing change – not only in the approach, but also more importantly in the results. The success, or lack thereof, with transformational change
efforts hinges on a few key principles that have been identified, studied and validated.

Leveraging talent, ideas, speed, distinction and leadership are keys to accelerating change.
Accelerated achievement of desired results can be accomplished through consistent focused
attention over time on a few practical, pragmatic and memorable principles. Discover the practices demonstrated by exemplary leaders that result in others voluntarily choosing to follow them.

Intentional focus on these principles will ignite extraordinary results within your organization.
Decades of research have identified five principles and practices that propel organizations forward to blast through the common barriers, obstacles, challenges and inertia that derail most change efforts.

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

• Embrace the key change principles that are common among successful change
  efforts. heighten and refine your untapped leadership potential.
• Understand the critical difference between leading and managing change and the
  appropriate ratio required to accelerate change.
• Discover what it takes to move employees from compliance to commitment –
  jettison resistance.
• Learn how to create a ‘Want-To’ versus a ‘Have-To’ culture. A culture where
  change is embraced.
• Avoid the primary pitfalls and traps that sabotage most change efforts.
• Learn the five best practices demonstrated by exemplary leaders and how you can
  apply them.
• Discover the key elements of communicating a vision that lead to increased levels
  of commitment, engagement and accountability.
• Understand what it takes to cultivate a culture where employees ‘bring more of
  themselves’ to the workplace – where they are engaged, energized and flourish.
• Learn how to lead, develop and cultivate a culture/team that is equipped to
  overcome the new ‘forces that are coalescing’ to dramatically alter the corporate and economic landscape.
• Discover what it takes to lead a culture/team that is aligned, resolute, engaged,
  agile and takes accountability and ownership to achieve what matters most.
• Arouse a sense of purpose, distinction and passion among your employees.

What do top managers and leaders do to gain voluntary contributions of discretionary performance, engagement, alignment, ownership and creativity? How do they create accountability for desired results at every level of an organization? How do they ensure that key strategies are not slowly suffocated, but instead produce extraordinary results? They embrace the abundance of ideas, talent, leadership and differentiation that exists in all organizations.

Peak performing teams and cultures understand that leveraging diversity of thought, being open to perspectives of others, open and candid communication, talking about the difficult things to see reality and offering and seeking feedback in a positive forward-looking manner are essential.

Every individual has natural strengths that they can bring to a team. When we embrace this
fundamental teams become stronger, more creative, and perform at higher levels. It is crucial to bring out the best of what every team member has to offer. Teams that are aware of this and integrate these ideas into their culture will position themselves to thrive and excel in the New World or Work.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Ignite a heightened sense of urgency, accountability, and ownership at all levels of your organization.
• Discover what it takes to move employees from compliance to commitment – jettison resistance.
• Learn how to create a ‘Want-To’ versus a ‘Have-To’ culture. A culture where change is embraced.
• Foster collaboration, camaraderie and teamwork – Establish unshakable trust and credibility.
• Intensify ownership, engagement and alignment – Crumble silos and abolish territorialism.
• Arouse a sense of purpose and passion among your employees.
• Develop a culture where employees ‘bring more of themselves’ to the workplace – trigger innovation, creativity and passion.

Welcome to the age of self-determination. The era of ‘entitlement’ is history. It’s up to you to take charge of your career and life. You must become CEO of Me, Inc. It’s about maintaining a competitive edge amidst chaos. It’s about achieving success when the stakes are high and ever-changing. Do you know what it will take? Are you ready for the dramatic changes taking place in the New World of Work?

It is incredibly important in today’s economy for everybody to think of himself or herself as a
‘brand.’ Over the past 10-15 years hundreds of thousands of jobs have been expunged, teams eliminated, and firms driven to extinction due to ERP, SAP, the Internet, Globalization, White-Collar Robots (EX: Cash Machines) and other factors. Blue-collar robots came and triumphed. The new target – White-Collar World. Are you prepared?

Those who will thrive and endure in the future will embrace the notion of continually developing skills, abilities and competencies that will set them apart and vividly demonstrate their value to whoever is signing their paycheck. What are you doing to stand out in today’s sea of sameness?

Individuals must be prepared to convincingly answer these critically important questions:
1. Who are you? What makes you distinctive in this ‘sea of sameness?’
2. How are you dramatically unique or different?
3. How do you make a significant difference, or create an astonishing overt benefit?
4. What is/are your reason/s why anyone should believe in you? Convince me!

Key Takeaways:

• Arouse your understanding and commitment of what it will take to find success in the
  New World of Work.
• Discover how to develop and enhance your ‘desired brand’ to secure your position
  now and in the future.
• Learn what it will take to gain a reputation as a ‘valued’ employee.
• Understand how to find more meaning and fulfillment in your work.
• Grasp what it takes to unleash your true potential.
• Develop a team or organization that is connected, aligned and manifests your
  organizations brand.
• Create internal champions of transformation.
• Break through self-imposed barriers and mediocrity.