Cyriel Kortleven

Keynote by Speaker Cyriel Kortleven

Ladders & Bananas: survivalkit for professionals in change.

Putting a ladder on top of a banana-peel to avoid somebody falling over it, is probably not the most efficient solution. But it’s a bit bizar that we have created so many ladders (inefficient patterns, rules, systems) in our organisations and in our lives. Those patterns might have served us in the past but many of them are not relevant anymore in this fast changing world.

And that’s where the Change Mindset gets into the picture.

• Yes… you need to suspend your judgement to break fixed thinking patterns
• And … explore the world from a different perspective to generate new ideas
• Act … on it because the key to real innovation is doing experiments & fail fast, often & forward.

In this interactive and entertaining presentation you will get tips, tools and language to influence others to be more creative & entrepreneurial and give a big boost to your own Change Mindset.

Yes And Act … Now.

Keynote by Speaker Cyriel Kortleven

‘Less is beautiful’

We live in a society with an abundance of products and services, connections, technologies, information but a downside is that we almost get paralyzed by the choices and possibilities (burn-outs, stress and less and less time for the real important things in life).

There are already several great examples of individual initiatives of people who live with less stuff or who choose to live a simpler life. But, there aren’t a lot of examples of how professionals in organisations and governments can apply ‘Less is Beautiful’ to their daily practice. Get inspired by loads of examples from very different industries and learn how you can apply three simple principles to experience ‘less is more’: start to stop, simplify and letting go. This presentation gives you insights into the exaggerated search for efficiency, the paradox of choice, and very concrete examples and tools to apply ‘Less is Beautiful’ to your professional lives.

• Become aware of the paradox of choice and the power of 3 principles
• Start to Stop – discover the power of focus and learn how stopping activities can lead to more time, money and energy
• Simplify – learn simple methods to ban complexity
• Letting go – dare to trust again and create space and time in your professional life
• Get a lot of inspiring examples how ‘less’ can succeed in business

Keynote by Speaker Cyriel Kortleven

Workshop/masterclass ‘a Creative Boost’

In combi with a keynote, speaker Cyriel Kortleven is available for a 90 minute – 3 hour Masterclass. During this session, the participants will be inspired by the possibilities of creativity and break their own fixed thinking patterns. Next to several skills to stimulate a creative attitude, we will be exploring the creative process and several techniques to generate loads of ideas and methods to select, finetune and syntegrate the top-ideas into a top-concept. It will be a very interactive session where we can focus on an actual problem or challenge from the participants.