WORK WITH DAVE
Start with your challenge.
Find your way forward.
Three ways to connect strategic ambition with leadership, culture and the capabilities to make progress.
Space to think.
Perspective to act.
A trusted thinking partner for CEOs and senior leaders working through important questions at the intersection of strategy, leadership, culture and innovation.
Bring the decisions you are facing. Dave draws on decades of C-level experience and expertise in psychology, strategy design and implementation to help you develop insights and actionable ideas.
- Explore the leadership mindset your situation calls for.
- Understand how culture is shaping your strategic choices.
- Identify the next priorities for you and your organization.
Shared direction.
Stronger capabilities.
From a focused workshop to an ongoing engagement, the work is shaped around your team’s context, strategic priorities and opportunities for improvement.
What needs to move?
Leadership alignment. A clearer strategy. More ownership. Better relationships across the organization. Start with the challenge, then choose the most useful format.
Discuss your team’s prioritiesA shared strategic plan.
Mission, vision, goals, KPIs and a strategic map developed with the leadership team.
Read the engagement ↗Explore the workshop themes.
Topics and timeframes can be tailored. Deep Leadership Mastery is a four-day offsite.
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Strategic Team Assessment
Start with the leadership team
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Individual interviews and psychometric profiling inform a focused workshop on strategic leadership issues and opportunities for improvement.
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Cultural Health Check
Understand what is helping—and what is holding you back
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An organizational survey identifies strengths, weaknesses and innovation flow. A focused workshop then helps the team identify the most important changes.
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The Seven Sins of Innovation
Build the corresponding virtues
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Identify the cultural patterns undermining innovation and develop the capabilities that help your organization turn ideas into results.
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Deep Leadership Mastery
A dedicated four-day offsite
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For experienced teams or groups of independent leaders. Explore self-awareness, emotional intelligence, essential purpose and personal impact.
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Strategic Innovation Leadership
Connect culture with competitive advantage
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Develop the organizational culture and capabilities that support growth in value, people, teams and returns on innovation investment.
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Flipping the Leadership Paradigm
Develop leadership throughout the organization
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Explore servant leadership, stronger decision-making, fewer escalation delays and a more responsive customer experience.
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Navigating the Storm
Work constructively with disruption
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Tap into collective team intelligence to respond to turbulent conditions, difficult choices and concerns about disruption or decline.
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Artificial or Augmented Intelligence
Explore the human potential of technology
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Consider how AI shapes work, enterprise and the human mind, and how it can support productivity, engagement and creativity.
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Leading Change & Transformation
Make change part of how people work
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Address the obstacles to lasting organizational improvement, including the leadership and cultural challenges of partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.
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Mission Mashup
Find a shared purpose people can own
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Express your essential purpose—your why and your wow—in a session that builds understanding, appreciation and strategic alignment.
Discuss this workshop“Dr Dave has a unique ability to take complex ideas and make them both accessible and actionable.”
“The most positive, focussed and creative management strategy session we have ever had”
A perspective that
stays in the room.
Dave connects decades of executive experience at Nortel and Oracle, and insights from The MIT Innovation Lab, with the leadership challenges your audience faces.
SAMPLE SPEAKING TOPICS
- Strategic Innovation Leadership
- Evolution of the Human Mind, Work & Enterprise, Fueled by Technology
- Service Excellence & Servant Leadership
- Leading Change & Transformation
- Mapping Career/Life
- Marketing Mixology
- The Inside Story of Commercializing the Internet
- Working across Cultural Divides
“Extremely motivational as it challenged them to think long and hard about the future direction of their business models”
More voices from the audience.
Selected reviews from Dave’s speaking profile.
Malcolm Scott WalbyScott Walby Solicitors+
David has probably experienced a higher level of involvement in technological innovation and marketing than any other person I have ever met. At the same time, he is astonishingly easy to talk to, sincere, insightful, and understanding of real business issues... He is truly inspirational, brilliant and far, far better than reading countless books about management, life and business. I would recommend attending a Dr Dave seminar as a way to re-invigorate and inspire your entire approach to business and life.
Andy ParkerOwner, Sandbourne Marketing+
In my job I get to hear LOTS of talks, but I can safely say there are no speakers I find as interesting as Dr Dave. He is genuinely original and insightful, drawing on excellent experience as well as contemporary thinking. If you are looking for a really top-drawer presenter able to engage any audience with easy to grasp yet challenging material then Dr Dave is your man.
Chris JonesSunbelt Business Brokers+
Dr Dave is an extremely dynamic speaker who has an in-depth knowledge of business and innovation. I have been to many of his presentations and seminars and always walk away with new ideas and concepts. Always worth the time and effort to hear him speak.
David PowerOwner, Contrast Design+
I first heard Dr Dave speak at a local networking event. The speech was motivational and inspirational however what really made him stand out was his ability to connect with the audience. I came away with a basic strategy on how to immediately improve my business, something of real value, rarely obtained at such events.
Where does your strategy
need stronger support?
Bring the ambition. Bring the friction. Let’s explore the leadership and cultural capabilities your next step depends on.
