“Mike Maddock is one of the most uniquely engaging thought leaders I know. His authentic style is captivating and his ability to inspire using critical lessons from both Startups and Fortune 100’s is priceless. I’d recommend him to our CMO and our CFO because they’d both love learning from him.”
Mike Maddock is an entrepreneur, an inventor, a writer and a keynote speaker. Mike calls himself an Idea Monkey because he loves to solve problems with disruptive ideas. This passion for problem solving led him to establish Maddock Douglas, Inc. in 1991. Maddock Douglas has become an internationally recognized innovation agency that helps leading corporations invent and launch new products, services and business models. It is the perfect place for Idea Monkeys and the (Ring) Leaders who keep them on track.
Mike highlights how the best teams move from insight to idea to profitable outcomes. He tells firsthand stories of successes and failures gleaned from more than 25 years of launching new products, services and business models. You can expect an engaging experience that leaves the audience with the language, tools and know-how to change the world. Mike’s purpose is to inspire and empower curiosity. Speaking and coaching are a natural way to live this purpose. Leaders love how he links entertaining and authentic stories with proven and practical tools. And since most of Mike’s lessons come from firsthand experience working and learning from exceptional leaders, his delivery is authentic, amusing and humble.
KEYNOTE TOPICS
Innovation Unstuck:
Learn how and why innovation teams get stuck and proven ways to break them free. How can a sophisticated organization be so committed to a life-or-death mission — innovation — but still not achieve it? This was the innovation paradox we wrote about in our first book Brand New: Solving the Innovation Paradox.
Sadly, years later, research shows that the paradox is more pronounced today than ever. Companies are still getting stuck despite 84 percent of CEOs saying innovation is critical to their strategy (a 20 percent jump since we wrote the book). The good news is that the pattern of where and how innovation teams get stuck is predictable. Better yet, there are proven and reliable ways to get your team unstuck, accelerating innovation success in your company. Learn how the best teams move from potential to permission to pipeline to profits.
Key take-aways:
Maslow famously pointed to the hierarchy of needs that drive human behavior. Organizations have a similar hierarchy of needs specific to driving successful innovation. Learn about the 4 most critical needs and how the best leaders address each of them.
Learn how to manage and measure the distinctly different types of innovation.
Learn about the most dangerous person on your team and what to do about him or her.
Find out why the best Disruptors “embrace the hate to innovate”.
Free the Idea Monkey
…to focus on what matters most!
Do you want an innovative culture? The most innovative companies have discovered and mastered the balance between Idea Monkeys and Ringleaders to create this culture. This fun, interactive presentation has consistently rated a 9.5+ for Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). The speech is based on Mike’s book Free the Idea Monkey and shows you how to manage the healthy, essential tension between the divergent and convergent thinkers on your team. The presentation will help your people distinguish between the big idea people and the ones who make sure the most important ideas actually happen. It will celebrate the roles of each and then help your leaders understand their own strengths and weaknesses — giving each ideas on how to get the most out of themselves and the people they manage or the people who must manage them.
Key takeaways include:
What’s great about Idea Monkeys and Ringleaders.
How to develop the innovator’s mindset.
The innovation portfolio and where Idea Monkeys and Ringleaders do their best.
Key innovation truisms that the best companies have discovered.
Techniques to get the most out of the creatives and the operators.
Plan D—Be The Disruptor!
What do Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Walt Disney have in common? They are all Disruptors, which means they know how to blow sh** up for the good of the whole.
Do you?
Boxer Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth.” Today, leaders are being “punched in the face” by the confluence of game-changing technology, aggressive entrepreneurs and impatient consumers. This leaves winning leaders with three choices: They can be the Disruptors themselves, partner with Disruptors, or learn how to manage Disruptors even better.
This presentation is based on Mike’s best-selling book Plan D. It is a highly entertaining talk that focuses on the unexpected, amusing and replicable superhero powers of business Disruptors. Mike will teach you how to dream, drive and deliver like the “crazy ones.”
You are working on Plan A. You are thinking about Plan B. Now it is time for Plan D.
Key takeaways:
The three keys to being the Disruptor—not the disrupted
Disruptor frameworks that you can easily “parallel engineer” (read: steal)
How Disruptors find a yin for their yang
Why Disruptors believe in ghosts (and you should too)
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