ADEN NEPOM
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE SPEECH TOPICS
EMBRACING CHANGE: The role of making new choices instead of safe choices for positive change in your work and in your life
Adapted from Aden’s 2019 TEDx Talk, this signature keynote shines a light on the internal obstacles that we use to block our own paths to success, while offering simple, practical solutions to build better, more exciting paths forward! Instead of choosing to maintain the status quo out of familiarity and habit, this talk offers you another choice. Aden will invite and inspire you to be brave, take risks and embrace the future you know is possible if you can move yourself to action.
Included In This Program:
- The reasons why people stick with patterns of thought and behavior that do not serve
- Practical strategies to help you get motivated, break free and build towards big outcomes
- An invitation to embrace positive change for a better future, in your life and work
LEADERSHIP THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL: Discover an unexpected, fresh, improvised musical perspective on what it takes to lead through challenge
For leaders looking to cultivate adaptive leadership capabilities and inspire a culture of continuous innovation and collaboration, this talk will enlighten, inspire and motivate you in unexpected ways! This hilarious and engaging keynote examines how leaders can integrate the agility, creativity, and teamwork of musical improvisation to address complex organizational dilemmas. Learn actionable strategies for embracing uncertainty, fostering innovation, and building the resiliency to thrive amidst change, with a custom performance at the end, specific to you!
Included In This Program:
- How adopting an improv ethos enables leaders to respond more flexibly to challenges and opportunities in real-time.
- Strategies for recognize when to take the lead and when to delegate
- Ways to foster a collaborative environment that maximizes individual strengths.
- A fully improvised musical performance, customized to you. Performed by the members of the Improvised Corporate Musical Project!
MOST REQUESTED WORKSHOP TOPICS
REASON IN AN OUTRAGED WORLD: How to Have Meaningful Conversations Even When You Disagree
It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. Disagreements are going to happen. Your workplace is no exception. With an increase in digital communication, more than ever before we are poised to misunderstand each other’s intent, meaning, and perspectives. Understanding how to move through challenging conversations is a necessity in today’s corporate world. By providing your employees with this skill, you protect and strengthen your company culture, build psychological safety that fosters great work, and increase employee engagement and retention.
Who is this topic for?
- Executive Leadership
- Mid-tier Managers
- Emerging Leaders
- Anyone dedicated to creating a harmonious workplace despite the forces of human behavior that can pull people apart.
What you’ll walk out with:
- A framework to help you make sense of the confusing things people say and do.
- The 5 pillars of reasoned dialogue required to maintain your own focus and sanity even in areas where there is strong disagreement.
- New tools for higher quality listening that build relationship and consensus fast.
SAY IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT: Speaking with Competence & Confidence
You can have the best ideas in the world, but if nobody hears them they’re worthless. The good news is that anyone can learn to communicate well by following a simple set of easy to adopt principles. These effortless pointers can help even the shyest, most tongue-tied people to look, sound, and feel competent and confident when pitching ideas, presenting project outcomes, or asking for what you need at work. When people feel empowered to ask for what they need, or recommend a new path, it increases trust between management and staff leading to a happy workforce that trickles into customer interaction, better performance overall, and an increased bottom line.
Who is this topic for?
- Executive Leadership
- Mid-tier Managers
- Emerging Sales Leaders
- Anyone who is ready to have their message well-received!
What you’ll walk out with:
- Tools from the world of improv theatre that will make you look, sound and feel your most confident
- 7 persuasive signals that strengthen how your ideas are received
- The difference between a helpful no, and an unhelpful yes and practice using both!
THE BIG IDEAS PLAYGROUND: Collaboration & Ideation
Everyone wants groundbreaking, disruptive, innovative ideas to rocket their business into the future. But what we know about amazing ideas, is they often show up as surprises. Instead of demanding that your creative people give you their “best ideas,” which can serve as a recipe for disappointment, learn how to create an environment where amazing ideas show up rapidly and effortlessly.
Pulling directly from the instant collaboration successes of improv comedy, THIS SESSION IS FUN! More importantly, the Big Ideas Playground will give you techniques you can immediately take and use to ensure you get the highest return on your brainstorming time, make room for world-changing ideas to show up, and leverage the expertise of your people.
Who is this topic for?
- Organizational Leaders
- Mid-tier Managers
- Intact teams
- Anyone eager to lay the groundwork for unconventionally rewarding innovation.
What you’ll walk out with:
- Mindset and behavior hacks that foster innovative thinking
- Tools for rapid, radical ideation
- Techniques for managing your brainstorming time efficiently
- How to move out of ideation into development and delivery fast.