There’s an English saying (apocryphally claimed to be the translation of an ancient Chinese curse): “May you live in interesting times.” Many of us would rather live in a happy, peaceful era, but we’ve drawn a certain hand, and our times certainly are interesting ones. From the relentless pace of tech innovation to economic implosions, global pandemics, wars, energy crises and political turmoil, it’s almost impossible to escape feelings of being overwhelmed, helpless and fatigued.

Enter change navigator, future trends keynote speaker and bestselling author April Rinne. The originator of the Flux Mindset and 8 Flux Superwoers, she specializes in  understanding, thriving in, and learning from disruption, be it changes in business models or developing the personal skills necessary for a person to stay afloat in turbulent times.

While every industry must grapple with uncertainty, the finance sector has a myriad of pain points that make it difficult for teams and individuals to handle their feelings of overload and fear. Emerging tech, macroeconomic factors, changes in public policy and issues attracting and retaining top talent intersect to create an environment in which lack of clarity and trust reign, making it nigh impossible to focus on the future. With Rinne’s Flux Mindset, breakthrough is possible.

Having helped hundreds or organizations over the past two decades, she has experience helping finance organizations expand, transform and upgrade their systems and outlooks, meeting her audiences at their level of understanding and showing them how to stop fearing change, and start appreciating it for the opportunities it offers.  Becoming comfortable with change means having the energy to focus on other things, like innovation and collaboration; it means predicting and planning for the future rather than wallowing in the turmoil of the present.

The finance sector is a building block for the current world, with many service providers actively working to keep local and global economies, and by extension, entire societies afloat. Constant feelings of being overwhelmed and exhausted can only be addressed by means of fresh perspectives and new insights, as chaos is ever present,  no matter what adages we like to put stock in. But with Rinne’s methods, that chaos does not have to be an enemy.