Carolee Belkin Walker

How to Embrace the Suck: Capture the Potential of Disrupters to Achieve Results

We live in a world of disrupters, and while there is strategic value in adding tools and resources to accomplish your company’s or clients’ goals, there is something to be said for taking the “Chopped” approach to achieving results. By accepting the limits placed on resources, for example, or disrupters beyond your control, you have the unprecedented opportunity to unlock creativity and truly out-of-the-box thinking. Embracing obstacles is more critical than ever and takes skill and endurance.

In this provocative talk, Carolee Belkin Walker uses examples from high-profile recoveries of Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad so you can see your leadership potential and how it's directly tied to empowering your team to feel comfortable expressing “stupid” ideas by having their back. Using examples where every day the stakes were high in achieving results, the talk illuminates how finding the courage to embrace obstacles can help managers lead through change.