Gabe Zichermann

Failosophy

The pace of innovation today is truly astounding. But how do organizations and individuals stay on the cutting edge, delivering maximum value in an ever-changing economy?
Gabe is a entrepreneur who started his first business at the age of 16, and has started (and sold) a number of companies since. In each case, his startups were on the cutting edge of various industries and movements, and he’s had the fortune of being able to share his understanding with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, managers and executives.

To spark innovation, you have to build culture that truly embraces the potential for failure and the need to innovate. If we can’t elevate and celebrate failure, we deprive ourselves and our organizations of the necessary fuel to drive innovation.

• Reframing the challenge with context
• Explaining the science behind the thinking
• Revealing the underlying process and mechanics
• Layering in relevant examples to further prove driving results
• Delivering actionable take-aways to spur and entice innovation

Bringing the Future Home, Today

With over 25 years of experience founding and running high-velocity tech companies, Gabe has seen his fair share of new ideas come, go and conquer.
But how do you know which is which? And even more importantly, how do you thrive in a world that changes every hour?
That’s the role of the futurist: to identify important trends relevant to your attendees, break them down into easily understandable chunks, and provide a process to attack new opportunities.

• Drawing in on case studies from research in top trends
• Moving audience members in a direction towards the future with supplemental business ideas
• Identifying important trends as it relates to your audience members
• Separating these ideas in the most recognizable way
• Providing a process in attacking new opportunities

Leading with Intelligence, Vulnerability and Passion

Most organizations say that people are their greatest asset.  Even if you have unlimited resources and an endless well of amazing talent (which many naturally don’t seem to attain), you need to be able to drive maximum performance from the people around you, today.
Leading in a time of great change and upheaval is tough even for the smartest and strongest executives. This has never been more true than now, and what separates the winners from the losers increasingly hinges on intelligent, vulnerable and failure-friendly leadership.

• Gabe’s personal experience of co-founding 5+ and case studies gleaned from researchers and top innovators
• Lessons attained from global and challenging teams across the world, implemented into your own customized event!

Driving Performance by Embracing Change

As an entrepreneur, Gabe has co-founded 6 high-growth startups. Some were spectacular successes, and others failed. Learning from and overcoming setbacks is one of the most important determiners of success. To build that “grit”, teams and individuals must be motivated and clear-eyed about the opportunity.

• Highlight of any event where energizing and exciting attendees is a priority. Working together, we will develop a speaking program that gives your organization the drive to truly succeed
•  Including teams will need both big ideas and a viable process for implementing them, Gabe shows you the steps how to successfully achieve them