Jay Acunzo

Speech Topics

• Innovation Impossible: How Incredible Teams Make Creativity a Habit, Not a Hail Mary

  When most teams hear the call to “innovate,” the work morphs into stress-induced, one-off attempts to be creative or juice the numbers. Teams try to “go big,” or trend-hop, or sprint all-out in a reactive, exhausting way. This is simply not sustainable. It would be so much easier if our everyday way of operating naturally led to creative breakthroughs. In this eye-opening, hilarious talk, Jay Acunzo helps attendees achieve what previously felt impossible: making innovation a habit. Using unexpected stories and powerful studies, Jay helps attendees understand why our tendency is to try and “go big” once in awhile, instead of evolve all the time. In the end, they’ll walk away with a framework for making every little thing they do add up to something huge. Creativity isn’t a substitute for the real work. It is the real work. Attendees will learn: • The cultural and behavioral forces that causes our once-successful innovations to grow stale. • A repeatable system to answer three crucial questions: WHAT needs changing? WHEN should we change? HOW should we change it? •The four traits innovative teams share.

• Break the Wheel: Escaping Conventional Approaches to Become the Refreshing Exception

  Our world is overflowing with ideas and answers, available instantly, everywhere, from everyone. Yes, the dark side of the Information Age seems to be Advice Overload. But when everyone inside and outside your team has a million answers for what works best “in general,” the real question becomes: What works best for you? It feels like we’re caught on an endlessly spinning wheel of best practices, conventional wisdom, and trends we “have to” jump on. To do our best work, we need to break the wheel. In this fast-paced, inspiring talk, Jay Acunzo will hand attendees a sledgehammer. This talk takes attendees on a wild ride through Jay’s years of research, with hilarious but eye-opening stories of real businesses from diverse sectors who made the decision to break from best practices — only to do their best work ever. Finding best practices isn’t the goal. Finding the best approach for you is. Attendees will learn: • The hidden problems with “best practices” and the reasons end up average, not our best. • One transformative behavior teams and individuals can make to unlock greater innovation. • Six critical questions to ask to make better decisions, faster, when surrounded by too much information.

• Start Here: How to Make Things That Make a Difference by Changing How You Begin

  Building a successful business or project is no longer about grabbing attention. It's all about holding it. Today's best teams embrace: Success isn't about who arrives. It's about who stays. When that's the job, the only "tactic" that works is to create better, more resonant experiences. This type of work has nothing to do with tools or budget. (With apologies to CapitalOne, it doesn't matter what's in your wallet. What's between your ears matters far more.) In this inspiring yet practical talk, author and showrunner Jay Acunzo takes you inside the hidden techniques causing some of the world's best creative experiences to feel so darn gripping, unpacking the powerful psychological frameworks and tiny choices that visionary creators use -- and you can use, too. You'll journey through science and story to uncover the root problem with so much mundane work, before learning how to turn passive audience into passionate superfans by changing how you START your process. We all want to earn trust and love, but our current approach actually hurts our cause. We're beginning our work in the entirely wrong place. It's time to learn how to more consistently make things that make a difference -- for our careers, our companies, and our communities. Attendees will learn: • The hidden problems with “best practices” and the reasons end up average, not our best. • One transformative behavior teams and individuals can make to unlock greater innovation. • Six critical questions to ask to make better decisions, faster, when surrounded by too much information.

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