Rory Gardiner

In this hilariously dynamic presentation, Rory will reveal the untapped creative talent within your own organization, by demonstrating a collaborative strategy, combining “agile methodology” and “Nashville Songwriting”.

Employers are hiring more creative staff, but what they don’t realize is that by fostering an environment where employees feel comfortable sharing their creative ideas, they can access the mountain of untapped creative insight from their own teams.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Collaborate like Nashville songwriters & generate creative ideas
• Create smaller time constraints and include stakeholders in the conversation
• Identify blind spots in your processes
• Get changes out the door, rather than overanalyze

An entertaining performance on resilience and creating opportunity from circumstance. Nothing can teach us more than failures, but we need to have the resilience to learn from them. In 2018 Rory lost his house to a Tornado. Using a tool called sublimation, he immediately turned a negative situation into a positive.

Using humor as a coping mechanism to lift the community, Rory created a humorous video, eventually leading to a TEDx talk on using humor to overcome adversity. Sometimes projects or personal life don’t go according to plan. What coping mechanism do we have in our repertoire to protect our mental health?
 

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• How to condition yourself for resilience, and transform failure into fuel.
• How to leverage adversity to recognize a new opportunity that hadn’t otherwise been presented.
• Use sublimation to reframe change, adopt greater resilience and overall wellbeing.