Coaching Executive Mindsets in Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking

We are the sum of all the conversations we have at work, at home, in our heads. Creating breakthrough change means changing the conversation. Conversation design uses the tools of user experience design to help shape the creative conversations in your company, your team and your self.

The Conversation Factory

An experience is worth 1,000 slides. Learn hands-on exercises I use to coach leaders to understand and support new ways of working

Shifting an organization takes leadership that knows how to deeply understand and support new ways of working.<h2>An Experience is worth a thousand Slides.</h2>We often try to change the way leaders think through slides and facts...trying to push them intellectually to align with new ways of thinking and doing. What if leaders could support the shift to modern ways of working not just with their minds, but with their hearts and souls?I’ll share my favorite workshop activities that I use to help CEOs and Executive leadership teams shift their mindsets and embrace new ways of thinking and doing. In this workshop, I’ll lead you through a series of hands-on playful exercises that will help you engage leadership in philosophies of work like Design Thinking, Agile and Lean, which are at the heart of modern leadership and growth companies.Working in these ways requires deep shifts in the way everyone in a company acts...and thinks - especially leadership, which is why I’ll also share the challenges and constraints of running sessions for senior leaders, and we’ll develop strategies to overcome them together. I’ve coached leadership with these exercises at Fortune 500 companies, technology startups, and everything in-between...and after this session, you’ll be ready to do the same with the leadership in your organization.As a participant, you will:- Experience 3 core leadership coaching activities from the inside- Understand how to get buy-in for the time spent- Reflect and deepen your own understanding of these modern working philosophies- Network with like-minded thinkers and learn from each other- Leverage key elements of the Conversation OS Canvas, from Daniel’s book Good Talk: How to Design Conversations that Matter

ABOUT YOUR HOST:Daniel Stillman designs conversations for a living, and insists that you actually do that too.As an executive coach and facilitator, he works with clients and organizations of all shapes and sizes (From Google to Visa, to name a few) to help them frame and sustain productive and collaborative conversations, deepen their facilitation skills, and coach them through the innovation process. His first book, The 30 Second Elephant and the Paper Airplane Experiment is about origami and teams and yes, it’s as strange as it sounds. He hosts The Conversation Factory podcast where he interviews leaders, changemakers and innovators on how they design the conversations in their work and lives.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THIS SESSION:GUIDED &amp; COLLABORATIVE.This session is highly collaborative...come with your video on and be ready to connect and learn with other like-minded people. This session is also highly reflective...come ready to think openly and creatively.WHAT TO BRINGAn open mind...and pen and paper! We’ll use sketching, conversation and reflection to re-imagine the conversations in our work and lives.NO PRIOR DESIGN EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.As quoted above (and it bears repeating!) Design is just making things better on purpose (instead of by accident!). As Nobel prize-winning economist Herb Simon said: “Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.” Design is for everyone.Just come with an openness to new ways of thinking and working.

PRAISE FOR THE CONVERSATION FACTORY LEARNING EXPERIENCE:“Truly one of the best classes I have attended, grab a ticket if you can!” Kai Hailey, Head of UX Methods and Practice at Google“The best conference workshop I’ve been to in the last year”Tin Kadoic, Product Design Manager at Instagram“Great practice and a Great community of people. So many tips that I’m immediately bringing back to work.”Christine Fitts, Director of Design Thinking at Pfizer

PRAISE FOR GOOD TALK:“A rich, thoughtful, and useful handbook for designing conversations that create meaningful change.” Dave Gray, co-author of Gamestorming: a playbook for innovators, rulebreakers, and changemakers“Good Talk is a playfully written invitation to each of us to challenge conventional thinking about conversation. You’ll walk away with greater awareness of how your natural tendencies support or limit possibility, as well as practical tools to positively shift the way you engage with others.”Elise Foster, Co-Author of The Multiplier EffectGood Talk is an essential guide to the awarenesses and skills that are the magic collaborative glue to mending the rifts between us so we can move forward. Daniel gifts us with this beautifully well written book at exactly the moment when we all most need it!. "Dawna Markova, Ph.D. author of Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking With People Who think DifferentlyGood Talk is an intriguing book and presents a powerful concept. By using the principles of design thinking, Daniel Stillman teaches you to design impactful conversations.”Tendayi Viki, author of Pirates in the Navy and co-author of The Corporate Startup and The Lean Product Lifecycle

PAYING WHAT YOU CAN/PAYING WHAT YOU WISHThis session is offered with three tiers of payments. Choose your own tier, no questions asked. These tiers are to accommodate folks who might be paying out of their own pocket, vs having a corporate education fund. Paying what you can allows us to make this session available to as many people as possible at a lower cost. Also, we are aware that $100 may still be too high for some people; if this is the case for you, please contact us to start a discussion.REFUNDS, TRANSFERS AND CANCELLATIONSAny changes to your ticket must be made one week (seven days) before the event starting day. No transfers or refunds are possible within seven days of the event.