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About Lisa

Lisa Bodell is the founder and CEO of FutureThink, a bestselling author and keynote speaker. For more than 25 years she has helped organizations fix what’s broken in work and leadership by challenging outdated assumptions, simplifying how work gets done, and restoring clarity, momentum and agency.
FutureThink is the company Lisa founded and leads as CEO. It helps organizations simplify work, strengthen leadership and build the capability to change and innovate.
Lisa is the author of Why Simple Wins (Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters) and Kill the Company (End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution). She also writes for Forbes and Fast Company.
Leading global organizations including Google, Microsoft, Gartner, CVS, Delta, Citi, P&G, Merck, SAP, American Express, Zoom and NBCUniversal.

Keynotes

Lisa Bodell speaks about simplification as the foundation for stronger leadership, organizational transformation, and innovation. Her work focuses on three essential shifts: Simplify Work (work transformation), Lead Through Simplicity (leadership transformation), and Build Capability (people transformation). She also addresses innovation, critical thinking, and how organizations can use AI effectively by simplifying work first.

Lisa Bodell delivers three signature keynotes:

  1. The Power of Simple: Accomplishing More by Doing Less — Helps audiences eliminate unnecessary work, challenge complexity, and reclaim time and energy for innovation and meaningful work.

  2. Leading Through Simplicity: How to Drive Transformation That Lasts — Shows leaders how to eliminate outdated processes, empower teams, and make simplification an everyday organizational habit.

  3. Unleashing Innovation: AI-Enabled, Human-Led — Focuses on critical thinking, challenging assumptions, and using AI to support creativity and innovation.

Each keynote is practical, engaging, and designed to give audiences strategies they can put into action.

Audiences leave with practical strategies to challenge complexity, eliminate unnecessary work, and focus on what matters most. Lisa shares real-world examples and actionable tools to help leaders simplify processes, empower their teams, and create lasting organizational change. Attendees also learn why simplifying work before introducing AI leads to better results. Her goal is to help people reclaim their time, energy, and focus so they can do their best work.

Yes. Each keynote is tailored to your audience, industry and the challenges your organization is facing, so the examples and takeaways land with your people.
Leadership teams, executive offsites, sales and company kickoffs, HR and L&D conferences, and any organization dealing with complexity, change fatigue, slow decisions or burnout.

Workshops

Yes. Lisa Bodell offers hands-on, practical workshops designed to help leaders and teams simplify work, eliminate unnecessary complexity, and create lasting organizational change. Participants identify what’s slowing them down, remove outdated processes, and develop practical strategies for making faster decisions and establishing clearer priorities. Often paired with her keynotes, these workshops turn inspiration into action, helping organizations create more time, energy, and focus for meaningful work.

Yes, and it’s one of the most effective ways to work with Lisa. The keynote builds shared belief across the room. The workshop turns it into decisions and actions your teams own.
Yes. Lisa delivers keynotes and workshops in person, virtually and in hybrid formats.

Booking

Send your event date, location, audience size and goals through the booking form. The team will confirm availability and next steps.

Fees depend on the format (keynote, workshop or both), location, travel and level of customization. Send an inquiry for a quote.

Lisa’s calendar fills early, so reach out as soon as you have a date in mind, ideally several months ahead. Shorter-notice requests are still worth asking about.

Watch her speaker reel and full talks on YouTube.

Ready to Simplify, Lead, and Transform?

Make room for what matters. Bring Lisa Bodell to your next event and give your leaders practical tools to simplify work, drive change, and help people do their best work.