Paige Williams

Becoming AntiFragile - Leading through Challenge and Change

We have become too fragile.

The way we live, our systems, our processes and our expectations make us fragile. Yet the world we live in is more complex, more connected, more open to change, and more ambiguous than ever before.

The gap between our capacity to cope and the world we have created is getting bigger.

As we become more fragile, the context we live in demands that we improve through disruption, not just endure it. That we embrace change rather than resist it. That we lean into challenge as a learning opportunity rather than something to avoid and that we accept that failure is inherent in the journey to success.

Resilience and robustness are no longer enough.

We need to become AntiFragile; to thrive through challenge and change

Becoming AntiFragile is a powerful keynote based on Paige’s personal experience, her research and many years’ professional experience.

Leveraging Leadership - Getting to the root cause of leadership success

Leadership isn’t getting any easier.

Shorter deadlines mean less time; streamlined teams means fewer people and budget constraints reduce resources. The social and work environment is complex and changing at a pace beyond our capacity to keep up. And the Millennial workforce is demanding a different style of leadership – they want flexibility, integrity and purpose from their leaders; and they’re voting with their feet.

Leaders are feeling the pinch through exhaustion, burnout and stress.

Leveraging latent leadership capacity is critical for leaders and organisations to meet the increasingly complex demands of work, and leadership models from the past just don’t meet the needs of today.

We need a new model of leadership that gets to the root cause of leadership success.

Leveraging Leadership helps leaders harness personal energy, positive attitudes and a purposeful mindset to create conditions that elevate – themselves, the people they lead and the outcomes they achieve.

Can you Leverage your Leadership?

Yes! And when you’ve heard Paige’s Leveraging Leadership keynote, there are no excuses not to.

NeuroChange Leadership - Leading change with the brain in mind

Is your leadership making change fail?

It is an appealing illusion that, in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, we can control a system through fixed structures, detailed planning and promises of rewards or threats of punishments. But it is just that, an illusion.

Leadership is the decisive factor between successful and unsuccessful change efforts.

The rate of change is surpassing our capacity to keep up and research indicates that leaders who try to have all the answers and tell their people what is required are least likely to create successful change. And the reason lies in our brains.

Work with the brain, not against it.

Understanding how our brains react and respond to change is critical for effective change leadership and to enable and sustain high performance.