Dance of Innovation: Crafting a New Narrative for Corporate Success
USA
Quentin Robinson: Elevate your corporate vision with a speaker who blends creativity and strategy, delivering keynotes that drive tangible business success.
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I highly recommend Quentin as a speaker. Not only is he incredibly talented as a performer, he has a powerful message that requires you to dig one layer deeper in your own self reflection. He illuminates new thinking and has a beautiful way of intersecting movement with joy and laughter. We could all use a little more Quentin time!
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Everybody has a signature – and usually our cognition around that stops at when we sign our name to paper. But when we zoom out, and think instead about the ways we bring our unique signature to the work we do – that has a bigger metaphorical impact. So many of us are good at rehearsing: getting it right, doing what seems right by others. But if we go down that path, that creative passion will slowly die inside. And it can seem so hard to find our unique voice or ingredients that we bring to the mix. Instead, what if we thought about our signature through the lens of movement? Our bodies uniquely move through the world – it’s important to remember that there’s no right framework to get started with the BIG thing, the BIG change, the BIG design. Instead, can we thing about what are the ingredients around us that get us started or moving toward creating change? And what’s our unique mark to leave in that space?
We’ve been given the story that we need to fit into the way society does things. That our story needs to be linear. When did we start to think that we can or should only do one thing? Even in a sea of possibility that our modern society shows us, we still limit ourselves. Is this about how we’re raised? What we see? Old stories? In this session we’ll explore movement as a way to somatically break through those old stories: and ultimately understand that expression is more important than the day to day motions we take to stake up to the status quo. It doesn’t have to be something that you do until you burn out – it just needs to be something that keeps you going. Our tools for movement are that thruline.
If you take away everything you are doing in the moment, who are you? Who would people say you are? One thing I’ve noticed is that adults tend to look more toward others to define who they are than they look to themselves. They lack the ability to say “this is me” and before that, to wonder “who am I?” Maybe part of our hesitation here is worrying about limiting ourselves… we’re brought up in a world of identification, when we’re actually mutli-dimensional humans. What if a huge portion of who you are doesn’t have to coexist with what you do? How would your work in the world change if that was truth? Let’s strip away everything you consider as labels or placeholders, and start from scratch.
This whole talk is about asking better questions. Not so that you can explain it to someone else, so that you can bring it to life within you. The funny thing is that kids inherently know how to do this – to ask why, how, where? We’ve forgotten how to ask the W’s. What do you want to do? Why do you want to do it? Who can you get to help or recruit? When should always be now. And where… that’s more about where you’re going to implement this in a specific way. Get specific, get local, get pragmatic.
No one gets a conference crowd engaged and moving like Quentin Robinson. A frequent storyteller at our annual BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit, Quentin inspires leaders of all kinds with his compelling personal story embodied through dance and movement. Everyone in the audience is on their feet moving and experiencing Quentin's core message… there are no language barriers when we connect through movement.
Quentin showed up with not only his amazing talents but his power to command a room and gain everyone’s attention. When we needed to add some extra impact in our schedule, we came to him and said, “What could you do to get the room focused?” and he blew our audience AWAY every time. The workshop was an incredible, fun, out of the box type of activity that many enjoyed. Quentin was the HIT of our conference (which is a very picky crowd) and many remarks in their surveys said he had the most impact on their thinking and what they took home to remember. I wish I could have Quentin at ALL of our conferences!
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