Graeme Codrington
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Speaker
Location:
Johannesburg South Africa
Preferred Language:
English
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Author,Businessman,Digital disruption in business,Facilitator,Futurist,Inspiration,Leadership,motivation,Professional Speaker,South Africa,Trend analyst
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Guest Speaker Graeme Codrington is an internationally recognized futurist, specializing in the future of work. A Futurist, Expert on the Future of Work, Unlearner, Catalog of remote, online & in-person keynote presentations and workshops, he helps organizations understand the forces that will shape our lives in the next ten years, and how we can respond in order to confidently stay ahead of change. For the past two decades Graeme has worked with some of the world’s most recognized brands, travelling to over 80 countries in total, and speaking to around 100,000 people every year. He is the author of 5 best-selling books, and on faculty at 5 top global business schools.
Along with his formal qualifications and research credentials, he also has a wide range of personal experience and a deep understanding of how people and businesses work. Now add his vast experience working with business leaders the world over during the past 20+ years, and you’ll understand why he is the go-to resource for leaders who are gearing up for the future.
In the Covid-disrupted world, Graeme has moved quickly to establish himself as a sought-after expert, providing quality content and production values in his live, online sessions. Graeme has a fully equipped home studio, with professional lighting, multi-cameras, broadcast-level audio and high-speed fibre set up to deliver state of the art remote sessions for his global client base.
Graeme’s breadth of knowledge and expertise makes him highly relevant - even essential - in today’s rapidly evolving business world.
Along with his formal qualifications and research credentials, he also has a wide range of personal experience and a deep understanding of how people and businesses work. Now add his vast experience working with business leaders the world over during the past 20+ years, and you’ll understand why he is the go-to resource for leaders who are gearing up for the future.
CEOs in over 90 countries have insisted on working with him, year in and year out. And leading business schools on four continents continue to work with him. He contributes to events, strategy sessions and development programmes around the world and provides ongoing resources to help his clients navigate these disruptive times.
Graeme’s delivery style is conversational, gently laced with humour and liberally sprinkled with multimedia and inspiring stories that make the messages stick. He works hard with clients to find ways to ensure value is taken back to the office and that his messages make a real impact on business outcomes.
"Graeme is the best virtual presenter we have seen – he was as effective as if he were in the room. In particular, we found his use of other digital tools to help him convey messages was very effective as was his conversational style. We also greatly appreciated the content and the opportunity to reflect on what is happening and how it may impact the future, both personally and professionally. Long after the session, we were still talking about it and the ways of working for the future." Leanne Geale, Nestlé International
Guest Speaker Graeme Codrington is an internationally recognized futurist, specializing in the future of work. A Futurist, Expert on the Future of Work, Unlearner, Catalog of remote, online & in-person keynote presentations and workshops, he helps organizations understand the forces that will shape our lives in the next ten years, and how we can respond in order to confidently stay ahead of change. For the past two decades Graeme has worked with some of the world’s most recogni
Synopsis:
PRESENTATIONS by Dr. Graeme Codrington
- Stop waiting for things to "get back to normal" and get better at anticipating disruptive changes so that you can face the future with confidence.
THRIVING IN A PERFECT STORM
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How Graeme Can Help You:
- Stop waiting for things to "get back to normal" and get better at anticipating disruptive changes so that you can face the future with confidence.
- Know what to do when your industry is changing so quickly that you feel like you can't keep up so that you don't become a casualty of disruption.
- Motivate your team to put effort and energy into change, even though they feel exhausted by it now.
- Motivate your team to put effort and energy into change, even though they feel exhausted by it now.
- Build healthy teams - especially those that are now remote, virtual and hybrid - so that you're equipped to build back better.
- Develop adaptive capabilities in yourself, your leaders and your teams, so that you're ready for whatever happens next.
- Upgrade your thinking and overcome cognitive bias so that you identify new opportunities and ignite a desire and capability for true innovation.
THRIVING IN A PERFECT STORM
Prepare your business for the opportunities disruption brings, turning change fatigue into excitement.
As you look ahead at the next few months we know that there will be more disruptions, making planning for next year - and beyond that - difficult, but there are at least three things we know for sure:
- While you can’t plan for disruption - you can prepare and make sure you’re ready for whatever comes your way. It’s a subtle distinction - prepare, not plan - but it is important that you understand it.
- The next wave of disruptors will bring massive opportunities… but only for those who are prepared.
- You can turn disruption fatigue into excitement for the future. If you are prepared for whatever happens, anticipating at least some of the biggest disruptors, then threats become opportunities, and change becomes your friend.
Our latest insights, titled, “Thriving in a Perfect Storm”, help you to do just that. It’s the product of a few years of research, obviously accelerated and spotlighted by Covid. We’ve identified the main disruptors coming your way in the next few years, as well as the foundations your business needs to be building now to be prepared for what happens next.
By preparing your team for tomorrow’s world, you’ll open yourself up to the immense opportunities the rest of this decade will bring. This presentation or workshop delivers the following outcomes:
Insights into the seven most significant forces that are already changing the shape of the world around us. These are seven scenarios for disruption we have labelled: Ageing, Angry Planet, Multipolarit, Big Squeezes, Inequality, Intelligent Advancements, and Angry People.
Together, we call these “Grey elephants” - highly probable, high impact yet ignored catalysts and forces of change. The session takes what you and your team already can see, and shows you a bigger horizon and the significance of “a perfect storm” as these forces combine to create immense waves of change.
We use the Greek concept of “kairos” - a rare opportune moment where those who are tuned towards change can seize opportunity - to focus on opportunities, rather than threats. This is a much needed corrective after two years of defensive and responsive approaches to change and disruption.
Knowing that we cannot be entirely certain how these scenarios will play out, we show your team what it means to shift from a planning mindset to one of preparation: building foundations that will ensure your business can handle whatever comes your way.
The four key foundations we focus on are: ecosystems (becoming the preferred place to work and an anti-fragile partner in your network and industry), being bionic (integrating technology and a future-focused workforce, getting the best out of both), an explorer mindset (recognising that we cannot think our way into a better future, but need to build experimental mindsets and innovation by design into our DNA), and being a force for good (an absolutely essential shift in mindset and positioning for success by 2030).
These reasonably well worn themes come to new life when seen through the lens of kairos opportunities in the context of the “grey elephant” scenarios. Your team will be informed, inspired and engaged to change how they view the future and contribute to it today.
RE-IMAGINE - see what you werent seeing before.
Upgrade your thinking and identify the emerging opportunities in your industry.
One of the most important skills to develop in order to respond to disruption, to respond to deep structural change is adaptability - the ability to be responsive when our environment changes.
Many people of been struggling with this, and Covid has shone a massive spotlight on many organizations that have been incapable of responding quickly enough to the changing world around them.
TomorrowToday’s new presentation and workshop is titled ReImagine and is designed to help you and your team upgrade your thinking to improve the way that you see the world around you, to improve the way that you think about your strategies, your plans, your targets, your goals, your projects and all the things that you need to do to be more responsive to change
This has got nothing to do with intelligence. The problem is that actually the more intelligent you are and the more experience that you have in a particular environment, the more difficult it is for you to think again, to think differently, or as we refer to it - to ReImagine.
Our team has put this program together to help people, whether they are senior leaders with the responsibility for strategy or anyone throughout an organization who just needs to be able to see what's going on around them, to respond effectively to change.
We want to help you and your team to be able to reimagine, to understand how cognitive bias works and overcome it, to be able to see change happening and be excited and respond to it in ways that are valuable and add value to the business.
Most importantly, as we look ahead to what the world will be like as we come out of the Covid disruption and probably head into a digital transformation, other disruptions and climate change disruptions, we want you to see what it looks like to not just rebuild what's been bruised and battered by change but to actually be able to reimagine what a new, exciting, different future might be.
If all of that sounds interesting, make sure you contact our team at TomorrowToday Global, to learn how we can help you to reimagine and see what you haven't been seeing before.
HOW TO BUILD HEALTHY HYBRID & REMOTE TEAMS
Building the culture, skill set and team dynamics required for success in the ‘Work from Anywhere’ world.
The work from anywhere revolution is here to stay. We are never going back to our workplaces as we were before. But the future of work is about way more than just remote meetings and work from home policies - we are about to experience more change in our workplaces than ever before, fuelled by digital tech, changing attitudes towards wellbeing, peak performance and recovery, a shift to outputs-based measurement, renewed emphasis on diversity and inclusion, the need for adaptability and resilience, and so much more.
It's more than just about WHERE or WHEN people work, but more importantly HOW and even WHY they work.
And that means that we have got to be rethinking our team culture.
- How do we get the most out of our people?
- How do we help them to become more productive?
- How do we help them to feel more engaged and connected?
- How do we build a healthy team culture when some people are remote, some people are flexible, some people are at the office, and some people are not, in other words - a hybrid team?
The good news is that research from the past decade and more shows that companies that take the time to develop healthy hybrid and remote teams, offering flexibility and empowering autonomy, experience significant productivity gains, improved staff morale, and increased profits. Almost without exception.
From the research our team at TomorrowToday has done, we believe that there are five key areas you need to focus on in order to build a healthy hybrid team and we have packaged this as a keynote presentation and workshop to get your team thinking and aligned.
The 5 key areas are:
A sense of Belonging
A sense of Mastery
A sense of Autonomy
A sense of Generosity
A sense of Purpose in our people, teams and organisations.
This doesn't replace your existing models, but it gives you a way of focusing on the five key essential ingredients of a healthy hybrid team.
If that sounds like something that could be useful to you and your team then contact us to find out more.
GRAEME CODRINGTON: MAKING SENSE OF DISRUPTION
Anticipate the changes and megatrends shaping our world right now and in the rest of the 2020s. Prepare yourself, your team and your organisation now for the disruptions that lie ahead. Develop adaptive intelligence, improve agility, flexibility & resilience, and unlock innovation.
Don’t just rebuild; Re-Imagine!
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Same Planet Different World - what life after Covid-19 will be like
Our team at TomorrowToday is spending a lot of time during the lockdown period observing the changing world around us. It is way too early to make predictions, but we are starting to see signs and patterns of what the new reality of our world will be after we've dealt with Covid-19. We are tracking the changes in four key areas: personal implications, changes to industries and marketplaces, the future of work, and global geopolitical, economic and systemic shifts.
The Work From Home RevoluNon Starts Now: Remote Teams Made Easy
Building the culture, skill set and team dynamics required for success in the ‘Work from Anywhere’ world
Many people have wanted to work from home in the past, but not been granted permission by their organisations. Now we have no choice, and have been forced to embark on one of the greatest experiments in workplace dynamics in human history: we now all need to work remotely as much as possible. The TomorrowToday team has been doing so for 18 years.
During that time we’ve had over 100 people across 5 continents working in virtual teams, all while never paying a cent in rental. This session will share the lessons we have learnt, both for individuals needing to set up home offices and leaders learning how to change their management styles for virtual teams. We identify solutions to specific remote working challenges, look at best practice for technology to assist the virtual working environment, and show you how to anticipate and overcome the biggest obstacles to making virtual teams really work.
Tomorrow’s World Today
How to respond to the disrupNve forces shaping the world right now and in the rest of the 2020s
We knew the 2020s was going to be a decade of disruptive change - nobody knew how much and how early that would happen. Covid-19 is the biggest disruptor in a generation, and yet it won't be the last disruption your organisation and industry will face in the next few years. This is true in every industry and every market. Smart leaders need to keep ahead of these changes by anticipating them, and developing a future-focused skill set.
To do this, we need our leaders and their teams to be confident and competent in navigating exponential change. This session provides a future-focused toolkit, along with a compelling set of scenarios of the near future for your industry and potential future competitors. It will leave your team knowing what to expect of the 2020s - and even excited about the future - while at the same time knowing what each of them can do to help you get there.
Other live, online sessions, keynotes and workshops
Leading in a ChangingED World (Post Covid EdiNon)
Five vital questions to shape your leadership in the 2020s
Keith Coats and Graeme Codrington updated their best-selling book, “Leading in a Changing World” in 2019. Now, the world has changed more than anyone could have imagined. And, as our book indicated, when the world around us changes dramatically, leadership needs to change as well.
This session is built around five vital questions that will help leaders set the agenda for the 2020s, and understand their role in shaping it. The questions are:
(1) Did we see any of this?
(2) Why then did we ignore the warnings & not take action?
(3) What is the change in context here? What are we ignoring now?
(1) Did we see any of this?
(2) Why then did we ignore the warnings & not take action?
(3) What is the change in context here? What are we ignoring now?
(4) How is this manifesting in your business? (5) How do we tackle these and prepare our leaders and teams for the future?
The world isn’t changing. It has changed. And yet, of course, it will remain “ever changing”. Leaders need to fully grasp the implications of this.
Innovation in a Time of Disruption
The keys to building a culture of innovation in your company and career
Every organisation in the world wants innovation - and now more than ever there is a burning imperative for them to deliver on this. The problem is that true innovation is so rarely achieved. Most organisations have been moving from year to year experiencing not much more than incremental growth and
small change steps, and now in an era of Covid disruption they are struggling to react with anything more than a crisis mentality.
Our team at TomorrowToday has been developing a model of innovation for over a decade, based on lessons learned from the most innovative companies in the world. Our approach aims to embed a true culture of innovation into your organisation’s DNA. You don't want to just deal with the Covid-19 crisis when you can actually use this time of disruption to build this culture of innovation. This session presents the ten keys of an innovative culture, and a model for implementing them in a time of deep disruptive change.
Customised keynotes and workshops
Graeme always adapts and customises all of his sessions for each client engagement, but in these Covid-disrupted times he is even more committed to delivering exactly what you and your team need right now.
Graeme always adapts and customises all of his sessions for each client engagement, but in these Covid-disrupted times he is even more committed to delivering exactly what you and your team need right now.
Speak to Graeme and his team about your precise needs and requirements for a session that focuses on understanding future trends, making sense of the changing world of work, developing adaptive intelligence in leaders and people, and making the most of disruptive change.
AC/DC - After/During Covid-19 - an online presentation about what happens in the next 12-18 months
An introduction to our team's latest presentation which looks at the data and trends coming out of countries dealing with Covid-19 crisis. Learn what lockdown looks like, how long it needs to last, how countries phase out lockdown, and why this Covid-19 disruption will last until the second half of 2021 at least. Prepare for what the next weeks, months and 2-3 years will look like, and make sure you develop your strategic plans on the basis of good data and insights.
Future Trends & Disruptive Change
• Leading in a Changing World
• Leading Difference Differently
• The Future of … (customised for different industries and audiences)
Leading Difference Differently
The work that our team at TomorrowToday does on disruptive forces shaping the future of work has focused our attention on the issue of diversity. This is more than a compliance issue, or a social good or something that must be grudgingly done - it is becoming the source of strategic competitive advantage for companies and organisations that get it right. "Getting it right" means a significant mindset shift around diversity as we learn how to lead difference differently.
Build the Future Now - How to keep and engage your customers in a world of digital integration.
The new digital companies that have become household brands have tapped into some core values of the digital age. Learn how every company can – and must – do the same in order to be successful in the future.
The companies that are shaping the digital world in which we now live are growing at unprecedented rates and have an extraordinary influence on our lives and work. Apple, Samsung, Google, Facebook, Uber, PayPal, Airbnb, Amazon, Netflix and many others are integrating themselves into our lives, and at the same time changing our expectations of how the world around us should work.
To be successful and get ahead of your competitors, you need to integrate these new expectations into your customer – and staff – experiences. This is not just about finding ways to disrupt your industry, as these companies have all done, but rather focusing on what we can learn from way these digital world companies have connected with the values of this new era. These include such key factors as personalisation, ease of use, constant upgrading, simplification, always on, artificial intelligence, collaboration and the sharing economy, gamification and new approaches to trust based on transparency.
Participants will leave the session with a better understanding of the forces that are shaping the world we live in, a checklist of the factors that will make their business successful and a clear framework for evaluating and changing what they do to be successful in a digital, omnichannel world. It goes well beyond the now-commonplace conference question of “what will be the Uber of your industry” and looks at the underlying driving causes of success and failure of companies in the digital world we now live in.
This session will provide a framework for you and your team to analyse your customer experience, your staff experience and your strategy, to ensure it matches the emerging DNA of the digital age. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of what it will take to be successful, with carefully chosen examples and case studies to motivate you, and a clear picture of what you can do to contribute to this. Insightful, eye-opening and laced with humour, this session will forever change the way you and your team see the future.
Take Home Value
Understand the importance of ensuring that they are ready and prepared for tomorrow’s demands
8 Skills for the Future of Work
8 essential skills vital to ensuring personal adaptability in a changing world.
How best does one ensure that you are prepared for the ‘new world of work’? In a context of exponential change, what will it take to be ‘future-fit’? These are important questions for everyone to be asking – wherever it is you find yourself along your career path.
This keynote / workshop, based on our global experience and research, identifies and explores 8 essential skills vital to ensuring personal adaptability in a changing world.
To be successful and relevant in tomorrow’s world will demand that both individuals and organisations are adaptable. The need to be adaptable goes beyond being a strategic imperative – it is something that needs to be cultivated at a ‘DNA’ level. It necessitates being a learner and this is the focus of this new TomorrowToday presentation / workshop: what needs to be learnt today in order to develop an adaptive DNA that will make thriving tomorrow possible? The what (it is), why (it is important) and how (to do it) of each of the eight skills will be explained. Participants will leave with a clear idea as to what the future will demand of them and how to prepare for that future today.
The eight future-fit skills our research has identified are:
Horizon scanning and what if thinking - How to think like a Futurist and plan for different future scenarios
Adaptive Intelligence, sense-making and complex problem solving - Knowing what to do when no one knows what to do
Personal Intelligence - Being your best you
Diversity and Social Intelligence - Successfully build relationships and navigate social structures
Creativity and Intuition - Expand your thinking
Curiosity and Storytelling - Why asking questions and sharing stories are critical and how to be better at both
Initiative and entrepreneurship - Succeeding in the new economy
Being tech savvy - The things you need to know to keep up with the technology powering the future of work
Take Home Value
Understand the importance of ensuring that they are ready and prepared for tomorrow’s demands
Have a contextual understanding and insight as to what these demands are and feel motivated towards developing the eight skills necessary
Know what they can to do today in preparing themselves for tomorrow
Appreciate what it will take to enhance their own value and contribution in the ‘new world of work’.
PRESENTATIONS by Dr. Graeme Codrington
- Stop waiting for things to
How Graeme Can Help You:
- Stop waiting for things to
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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Graeme will use his laptop as an autocue, which would need to be positioned on the stage where he will be presenting.
- A data projector to connect to his laptop, projected onto a large enough screen that everyone has full view of it.
- Sound for the full audio he uses with the presentation. This connects to his laptop in the standard way - the stereo head phone out - and needs to connect to a full sound system.
- If the size of the venue and number of participants requires it, a lapel mike (or equivalent - hand held, headset, etc) will be required to amplify voice as well.
- Graeme will use his laptop as an autocue, which would need to be positioned on the stage where he will be presenting.
- A data projector to connect to his laptop, projected onto a large enough screen that everyone has full view of it.
- Sound for the full audio he uses with the presentation. This connects to his laptop in the standard way - the stereo head phone out - and needs to connect to a full sound system.
- If the size of the venue and number of participants requires it, a lapel mike (or equivalent - hand held, headset, etc) will be required to amplify voice as well.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Graeme will use his laptop as an autocue, which would need to be positioned on the stage where he w
- Graeme will use his laptop as an autocue, which would need to be positioned on the stage where he w
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