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John K. Coyle is a champion athlete (and Olympic medalist) with a Product Design & Engineering from Stanford and an MBA from Kellogg), a seasoned executive (former head of customer experience and innovation for a Fortune 500 wireless telecom), an Emmy Winning NBC Sports Producer and Analyst, a 5 time TEDx speaker, a professor at three universities and an award-winning author (an Eddie and Azbee) of two books. John is also a world-leading expert in the fields of Innovation, Design Thinking, Strengths, Resiliency, and “Chronoception” - the neuroscience and psychology of time perception. Ask him how to design “endless summers…"

Superseding these achievements is John’s mastery of the art of storytelling. John frames his talks and workshops through the lens of the Hero’s Journey (or “monomyth”) while elegantly mixing in data-driven frameworks based on the latest research and science. John can emotionally grip his audiences from the opening words and yet leave them empowered with actionable steps and changes. 

John's hair-raising tales from his adventures, athletics, businesses, and travels - examined through the lens of neuroscience, technology, and psychology have created raving fans all around the world (check out his 100+ LinkedIn recommendations here).

 

John has been the lead keynote speaker in more than 20 countries for clients that include a who’s who of successful enterprises: Arab Bank, Allstate, American Airlines, Aon, BP, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, EO, Google, IDEO, JFK International Terminal, Kellogg, McDonald's, Optum, Pepsi, PwC, Stanford, Texas Health, YPO and the Dubai, Omani and Jordanian Royal Families. Key Takeaways here:

The best way to unlock human potential and drive growth is to design lives, careers, and teams, maximizing strengths rather than fixing weaknesses.

The best way to innovate your life and business so you can take on greater challenges and grow is to increase personal resilience.

 

When you design your life around your strengths and cultivate your resilience, you can master "chronoception:" expanding time by creating more meaningful experiences and intense recallable memories

Speaking Topics

Strengths 2.0 - Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths and Weaknesses

Through the metaphor of sport, (John will bring and share his Olympic medal) learn how individuals and teams can use leverage Design Thinking and innovation approaches to identify and leverage their unique strengths (and design around weaknesses). Become empowered to solve old problems in new ways and achieve breakthrough results.

Resiliency 2.0 - Applying Design Thinking to Stress and Resiliency

Instead of trying to manage or reduce stress or get work-life balance back, learn how to perform better under greater stress (and enjoy it)! Explore a new model of resiliency, one where proactive challenges are designed to build capacity for ever greater performance under pressure, while learning the latest neuroscience of recovery. Change your relationship with stress by using the 3R method - Reduce, Recover and Reframe.

Time 2.0 - Applying Design Thinking to the Human Experience of Time

Time, as we experience it, is not linear, yet why do we pretend that it is? Our days and our time are filled with experiences and memories, some stored and retained and some not. What creates a memorable memory? What is the nature of the relationship between memory and time perception? How do we measure the true value of our time? In this mind-bending session, John K. Coyle will apply creative deconstruction to what we think we know about time and you will learn how to slow, stop and reverse the perceived acceleration of time most adults feel and experience the endless summers of youth again.

Leadership 2.0 - Innovation Leadership Development Series

In this customized 1/2 to full-day workshop, John provides an empowering primer on the leadership mindsets and practices that are necessary to drive innovation and then moves into more advanced topics including: 

  • Design Thinking overview and activation 
  • Ideation best practices and an ideation session to solve a problem specific to your organization
  • Innovation Antibodies (Victim vs. Innovator)
  • Innovation Culture Kryptonite (Knower mindset vs. Learner mindset) 
  • How (not) to create a culture of innovation, and more.

Life 2.0 - Innovating The Human Experience

John takes his Design Thinking and innovation expertise, leveraged by dozens of Fortune 500 companies, and applies it to key facets of the human experience. Step by step, John applies creative destruction to conventional wisdom related to strengths and weaknesses, stress and resiliency, and the human experience of time. In this mind-bending session, learn how to slow, stop and reverse the perceived acceleration of time most adults feel and experience the endless summers of youth again.

Innovation 2.0 - Innovation Primer

Engaging and entertaining narrative and storytelling on what innovation is (and isn’t), why mindset matters, helpful tools and frameworks, the nature of insights, and a primer on Design Thinking and creative problem-solving.

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