Carla Johnson
- The World’s Leading Innovation Architect
- CEO of RE:Think Lab
- Consistently ranked one of the top event speakers around the world
In Person-Fee 🛈
Fee Range
$20,000 - $30,000
Virtual Fee:
$15,000 - $20,000
Travels From
Colorado
Could AI bring back curiosity? | Carla Johnson | TEDxSonomaCounty
Carla Johnson Speaker Biography
It used to be that the status quo was the way to go. It kept your company running. And it kept you employed. But in a world that changes at the speed of a TikTok, standing still makes you a sitting duck. Volatility lurks around every corner. Startups have become rock stars. Founders are celebrities. Customers are fickle. Employees are leaving. Disruption is inevitable. But if anyone’s going to disrupt your industry, your company, or your team, shouldn’t it be you?
As the world’s leading Innovation Architect, Carla Johnson’s been breaking the status quo all her life. In 20 years of working with leaders, she’s learned that the safest bet is often the riskiest move. Through years of research and authoring numerous best-selling books, she’s developed frameworks and processes that teach people how to redefine what innovation means in their company, and then equips teams to make innovation everybody’s business.
Carla’s approach transforms organizations by fusing visionary creativity with pragmatic innovation strategies to inspire teams to think bigger and bolder so they can bust out of the status quo. The result is a company culture that becomes a playground of limitless potential while also experiencing unprecedented alignment and growth.
Applied Curiosity
The world around us is moving faster than ever before. While efficiency, productivity, and AI are the de rigueur of the day, teams are struggling to keep pace with change. What if, instead of being a time-consuming distraction, curiosity is the ultimate competitive advantage that’s right under our noses?
It’s time we understand the true fundamentals of curiosity and how to apply them so that we can not only do more, better, and faster, but also find a way to connect on a deeper human level. All while finding a renewed sense of excitement about the future and our collective contribution to it.
Audience Takeaways...
-Discover the structure for what makes a question ‘curious’ and how to apply it.
-Learn the three ways of thinking that makes better results come faster.
-Ignite a movement that values questioning, experimentation, and collaboration to elevate outcomes everywhere.
Ideal for...
-Cracking the curiosity code and learning how to build your team’s curiosity muscles from the ground up.
-Creating an ecosystem that ensures that the way we work is inspired, educated, collaborative, psychologically safe, and grounded in care and intention.
-Building a shortcut to smarter innovation, deeper trust, and monumental growth. Teams that can instantly deploy curiosity will be the ones that thrive in the future of work.
The Muse and the Machine: How Human Creativity Propels an AI World Forward
Leaders face a big choice about AI: they can use it to create structure and predictability so we can do old things faster. Or we can unleash it to build new ways of thinking and working. But as AI grows more powerful by the day, organizations struggle with a paralyzing question: If machines can generate instant answers, what role remains for human curiosity and creative thinking?
This provocative keynote shatters conventional thinking about AI and its role in supporting our human potential. You’ll learn how leading organizations transform AI from a perceived threat into a catalyst for creative breakthroughs. You’ll walk away with a practical roadmap for using AI as a thought partner to unlock your team’s creative confidence and curiosity.
Audience Takeaways...
-Transform AI from a perceived threat into your creative catalyst, unlocking new possibilities and perspectives in your work.
-Learn a proven framework for using AI as a curiosity amplifier, turning each answer into a doorway for deeper exploration and innovative thinking.
-Develop strategies to reawaken your natural sense of wonder and creative confidence, with AI as your supportive thought partner in asking, “what if?”
Ideal For...
-Discovering how to balance technological efficiency with human ingenuity and innovation.
-Unlocking growth by amplifying innovative thinking and creative problem-solving.
-Moving beyond using AI for basic automation to leveraging it for breakthrough and strategic ideas.
The Innovation Factory
People think innovation is expensive, time-consuming, and complicated. That it takes special skills, special titles, and special budgets. Are we doomed to a life of status-quo thinking and underperforming results? Of wistfully dreaming we’re the golden unicorn who comes up with fantastical ideas at the drop of a hat?
What if, instead of struggle and frustration, there was a proven framework for consistently developing the great ideas that drive bottom-line impact? And what if everyone in your organization could learn it?
Audience Takeaways...
-Reimagine the role innovative thinking plays in how teams and organizations get work done.
-Understand why most groups fail at innovation even though they say it’s a key competitive priority.
-Learn the 5 irrefutable steps to innovation that will empower you to consistently come up with inspired ideas for any situation that delivers a bottom-line impact.
Ideal for...
-Demystifying how innovation icons break through status-quo thinking with less friction and less risk.
-Understanding why true innovation can come from anywhere in an organization and lead to measurable results in days, not years.
-Learning how to introduce a new culture of innovation where people are excited to develop new ideas, make good ideas better, and support a mindset of innovation by everyone.
July 28, 2023
We enjoyed working with Carla Johnson as much as we enjoyed her presentation! She accommodated our organization through the arrangements she was flexible on as well as tailoring her presentation to meet the needs of our community. She is truly a down to earth motivational speaker who has innovative ideas herself as well as inspires and sets the framework for her audience to follow her wheel of innovation to develop innovative ideas themselves.
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