An entirely unexpected perspective on the future of work, talent and innovation
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Founder and Chief Movement Officer of FutureSight Labs and renowned expert on workforce trends and generational dynamics
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“As we navigated our own transformational journey, Seth’s research and insights provided a spot on and powerful framework to help our executive team challenge the assumptions they've made and the beliefs they carry about who they are and how they're showing up in the world as leaders."
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Recently named to the Editors’ Picks for Favorite Speakers for 2013 by MeetingsNet, Seth’s presentations bring an entirely unexpected perspective on the future of work, talent, innovation, and the power of relationships. With a passion for helping to create greater understanding and collaboration in today’s workplace, Seth offers participants actionable content that can immediately impact business performance.
With his finger on the pulse of today’s changing workforce, Seth blends storytelling from his own personal experience working with category leading brands while leveraging cutting edge research to develop fresh perspectives on the key strategic issues most relevant for today’s leaders.
Over the past 5 years Seth has shared his insight with thousands of business leaders around the world and has received accolades from many of the world’s best brands including: MasterCard, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, AT&T, PepsiCo, GE Energy, Prudential Real Estate, Cisco, State Farm, Merrill Lynch, Dow, Disney, and Deloitte.
Speaker Seth Mattison uses stories and humor extensively to craft presentations that are educational, motivational, and entertaining. Whenever he’s in front of a group, of twenty-five people or twenty-five hundred, he provides valuable and actionable information about the new world of work and what future focused leaders can do to prepare for it.
Seth speaks to all kinds of organizations: Consumer goods companies, Business-to-Business, entrepreneurs, small business owners, nonprofits, and more. He’s been rated one of the top speakers at every event he’s keynoted. Most importantly, his presentations combine three essential qualities: entertainment, information, and motivation.
See keynotes with Seth MattisonThe Future of Work is unfolding now and there has never been a more important moment to claim your version of it! What will we collectively create?
We’re entering an unprecedented moment in the world of work. With so much in flux, everything is up for grabs as we collectively claim a Future of Work that best supports us all as we draft a new social contract between employees and employers.
Seth Mattison will help you and your leaders answer some of today’s most pressing questions: What does talent need today? What type of leadership will be required? How will we nurture great teams? What employment experiences will matter most? How will we activate a culture of belonging to drive high-performance? As a researcher and thought leader, Seth will help you answer these questions and more.
As we enter a new era of work, leaders are making big bets on what’s next for their industry, the future before us, and the world at large. Navigating this defining moment while preparing to capture the opportunity will require a bold vision, the courage to change, and a commitment to contribute to the evolution of work and leadership.
Rooted in the research and bolstered by time helping high performing leaders through moments of transformation, Seth Mattison will share insights on the biggest trends impacting the state of work today. Armed with actionable insights and practical tools, participants will be primed to lead their teams and organizations as they intentionally shape the future.
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Culture does not live in the walls of your building; it lives in the hearts of your people.
No one knows exactly what the Future of Work will look like, but we do know the culture drivers required to support talent working from anywhere today. Seth Mattison knows that we are never going back to business as usual. After years of experimentation, it’s clear the Future of Work is less about place and more about building cultures that support people’s potential, regardless of where they’re physically located.
As we enter a new era of work, leaders are faced with the challenge of reengineering their organizations to drive business performance and maintain the cohesiveness of their culture both inside and outside their four walls. The problem is, only half of organizations today are prepared to support this transformation. Are you one of them? In this session, Seth Mattison helps leaders rethink how to best support talent and activate a high-performance culture in a work from anywhere world.
With teams mixed between essential onsite work and remote settings, new systems, processes, skills, and competencies will be required to build and maintain an inclusive and equitable culture rooted in belonging. These efforts will fuel a culture that feels engaging, participatory, and full of the human connection we deeply value.
Seth Mattison will unpack the challenges and opportunities our hybrid environments present, along with research, case studies, and best practices for what leaders and managers can do today to effectively support and lead a work from everywhere workforce.
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As the war for talent continues to wage across industries today, organizations will be forced to battle for a smaller and smaller pool of qualified candidates. Losing high-performing individuals is simply not an option when growth is the mandate. Supporting leaders in their efforts to shape elevated employee engagement has never mattered more. Seth Mattison knows that talent needs more than a fleeting warm-fuzzy feeling and a decent paycheck to thrive today, helping leaders understand how to unlock the key drivers of engagement through purpose, meaning, vision, psychological safety, and opportunities for growth. Not only does engagement have the potential to significantly affect employee retention, productivity, and loyalty, it is also a key link to customer satisfaction, company reputation and overall stakeholder value.
The Great Reset has created a moment of reflection for the whole world- societal values are shifting and new expectations are emerging. Seth Mattison will help you answer some of the most pressing questions: What does talent need today to feel deeply connected to their work and their teams? What will be required of leaders and organizations to support these shifting values and drive engagement?
In this highly interactive deep-dive discussion, Seth Mattison will shed light on these questions and add a new perspective to the conversation today by dissecting the fundamental drivers of engagement and helping to unlock the employee experience of the future.
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In this moment of disruption leadership everywhere is faced with the challenge of defining the Future of Work while delivering value to the enterprise today. Navigating disruption of this magnitude is often messy and regularly takes years to work through. However, Seth Mattison knows these moments also provide us with an incredible opportunity to re-assess, re-think, re-imagine, and re-design how we want to do this thing called work and the type of leadership that will be needed in this moment.
The stakes have never been higher for organizations looking to grow while competing for a smaller and smaller number of qualified potential employees who are pursuing opportunities across industries. Seth Mattison provides leaders with the insights and surprising truths about where the world is moving next, and the type of leadership skills needed most to meet the moment.
Leaders today must have the understanding and the skill to not only connect with the rational and logical parts of people’s brains but also have the capacity to connect with their hearts to understand what drives human behavior at the deepest level.
As traditional hierarchies are re-examined, leadership becomes less about title and tenure at the organization and more about influence, impact, and the ability to connect. Developing and cultivating our capacity to reveal our full selves every single day will become the new mandate for leadership in the modern era.
In this highly interactive deep-dive discussion, Seth Mattison will add a new perspective to the conversation and unlock leadership potential by elevating empathy, courage, influence, and impact for a better world of work.
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Leaning into uncertainty, ambiguity, and adversity as tools for grit, growth, and resilience.
Seth Mattison defines resilience as the process of responding well in the face of adversity. As much as resilience involves “bouncing back” from difficult experiences, it can also mean profound personal growth through grit and grace. Seth unpacks one of the most critical leadership attributes of the moment and how the past two years have given leaders the opportunity to test their mettle and find their resilience in the face of unprecedented change.
In a world of ongoing marketplace disruptions and organizational transformation, the virtues of grit and tenacity stand tall among today’s most critical leadership attributes. The most resilient leaders of high-performing organizations can adapt to changing circumstances and encourage others to do the same. As a result, their teams operate with higher productivity, engagement, and a greater sense of well-being. Resilient leaders cultivate emotional intelligence and strong relationships, and they facilitate learning and personal development through everyday experiences. More importantly, these exceptional leaders create a culture of psychological safety- the number one predictor of high-performing teams.
In this program, Seth Mattison will unpack the leadership habits that improve team well-being, productivity, and performance and share the latest research in neuroscience and psychology for developing resilient leaders, teams, and organizations.
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“Thank you for an incredible day. The day was made so much better with Seth’s energy, expertise and content.”
Angela Harris, Chief Executive Officer
“Seth's messages were well received by our audience. I had several people quoting him to me later in the day, and several more asking for copies of his slides - always a good sign.”
Wendy Stoveland Global Director of Communications, Senior Vice President
"Your messages were insightful, interesting and useful. Also, importantly, they were consistent with our overall message and really helped drive home the themes we were communicating. Thanks for your time, energy, and passion.”
Andy Cecere Chief Executive Officer
What is the message you hope people take away from your presentations?
It’s time to get past the superficial stereotypes. It’s time to get past the labeling. It’s time to move to a place of acceptance and recognition that in order to compete in the new world of work you have to be able to harness the power and potential of ever generation.
To be brave enough to bring every generations’ voice to the table. To create a culture of authentic and transparency. It can’t be about who’s right and who’s wrong, who’s better and who’s worse. It’s about celebrating our differences and leveraging them to create a powerful competitive advantage.
How are your keynotes unique?
Our keynotes are a fast paced, action packed experience from the moment we hit the stage. They’re customized, relevant, hard hitting, and impactful. You think you’ve heard the generations topic but I can promise you’ve never heard it told in such an insightful and relevant format.
We bring 15 years of experience to the stage. 15 years of interviews, research, and audience interactions that helps us get to the stories behind the statistics. Focusing on the real world challenges that ever person deals with in the new world of work. We’ll validate your suspicions, debunk the myths and leave you with actionable take home tips you can implement right away. Well also have a whole lot of fun.
Can you elaborate on one of the big differences which managers should be aware of when managing multiple generations?
For the first time in our modern day workplace the younger generation that is showing up has a stronger understanding, a stronger grasp on the most powerful and disruptive tools we using to run business; technology and social media. Technology and social media are changing the way we do business. They’re changing the way we interact and communicate with each other internally. They’re changing the way we interact with our customers and the younger generation innately understands how these tools work. It’s second natural to them.
Now at the same time…we as the younger generation have never been more lacking in real world work experience. We’re showing up with less work experience then any generation before us. Where other generations had jobs as paperboys or grocery clerks, laborers and waitresses, we took AP classes and violin lessons in the summer. Great experiences but not the kind of work experience that teaches young people what it’s like to show up early and stay late and do the work.
As a result we’re lacking a basic understanding of some of the important interpersonal skills that are needed on the job. Things like communication, conflict resolution, leadership, and general business skills, all of which the more seasoned generations have in spades. These generations have decades of wisdom and knowledge, and experience that only comes from having a few grey hairs.
The challenge leaders face today is to find a way to harness both and get both sides of the equation to share their talents with one another because neither side can do it alone. We as the younger generation can’t do it without the help of our more seasoned folks and I strongly believe that organizations will struggle to remain relevant and on the cutting edge without tapping into the power of the younger generation as well.
If leaders can learn to communicate and connect across these generational divides and get their people to share your talents, they will create an unmatched competitive advantage in your marketplace….I truly believe that’s where the power lies.
Can you give 3 tips for companies who wish to attract young talent?
What is the best experience you have had as a keynote speaker?
Having someone come up to me in an airport who saw me speak months early and say how we changed their entire perspective of their workforce. How they changed their mind about firing a few people and had instead choose to implement a few of the tips we had talked about during the program. As a result their workforce was more engaged than ever before. People didn’t get let go that otherwise might have. Wow! You just never know whose life might be changed by the messages you bring. It was an incredibly humbling experience.
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