Sunday, April 9
8:30 - 10:00 am
How to Give Your Organization a New Brain
Dan Pink, best-selling author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind
These are tumultuous times for business: prosperity is growing--yet disruptive forces lurk just around the corner. Computers do jobs better and faster than high-paid professionals--while armies of overseas white-collar workers can do other jobs at a fraction of the cost. How can your organization survive amidst the chaos? Pink believes that the era of "left brain" dominance--and the Information Age that it engendered--is giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities--inventiveness, empathy, and meaning--will govern. And organizations that incorporate these new "right-brain" abilities will flourish.
During his keynote presentation, Pink will show you:
- How the forces of Abundance, Asia, and Automation are altering the competitive logic of organizations and putting a premium on abilities that have often been overlooked and undervalued.
- How smart companies are using the arts--design, storytelling, and play--to pull ahead of the competition.
- The six essential right-brain aptitudes that now mark the fault line between success and failure
 Dan Pink is a best-selling author and an expert on innovation, competition, and the changing world of work. His latest book,
A Whole New Mind, charts the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies and explains the six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an outsourced and automated world. Several publications--including
strategy+business, The Miami Herald, and Fast Company--named it one of the best business books of 2005.
Dan's first book, Free Agent Nation, about the rise of people working for themselves, was a
Washington Post nonfiction best seller and a business best seller in the U.S. and Canada. Fortune Small Business cited it as one of "ten milestones in management thinking" in the last century. Publishers Weekly said that the book "has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations."
His articles on work, business, and technology appear in many newspapers and magazines--including
The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Slate, Fast
Company, and Wired, where he is a Contributing Editor. He also writes "The Trend Desk" column for Yahoo! Finance. Dan has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks. And as an independent business consultant, he's advised start-up ventures and
FORTUNE 100 companies on recruiting, innovation, and work practices.
A free agent himself, Dan held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He's also worked as an aide to United States Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, an economic policy staffer in the United States Senate, a legal researcher in India, and a latrine builder in Botswana. He received a BA, with honors in linguistics, from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Yale Law School.
Monday, April 10
8:30 - 10:00 am
Learning the Best from the Best
Since we have more than 1,200 performance improvement practitioners, thought leaders, and consultants assembled at the Annual Conference, we decided not to bring in an "outside" speaker for our second general session. This special interactive program features structured activities to elicit, evaluate, and exchange best practices related to a variety of performance improvement interventions. During this session, you will not be passively listening, but actively swapping powerful ideas and systematically filtering them to identify the best of the best. Facilitated by a group of 30 "game wardens," this session will provide you with tools that can be used in the human performance technology process. Do not miss this session because you will be a key participant--and presenter.
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