Jos Dirkx

For the past 20 years, award-winning author, CEO, and global speaker Jos Dirkx has helped audiences unlock potential by demonstrating why teams stop innovating and how to keep ideas alive. Underpinned by the concept of range, diversity of thought and Collective Intellectual Capacity (CIC), Jos shares global best practices to turn creative intelligence and inclusive systems into a driving force for profit and purpose, equipping teams with the tools it takes to reach brilliant breakthroughs.

With insights from Fortune500 CEOs and leaders of the world’s most prominent Social Impact ventures, in addition to real-life case studies garnered through her travel to over 100 countries, Jos shares ground-breaking research and practical ways to innovate, ensuring your teams and company don't just survive, but consistently thrive. With a wealth of global experience, Jos shares a tried and tested, formulaic yet adaptable approach for agnostic innovation to solve our biggest challenges. Develop the must-have mindset, rituals, and practices to make great ideas happen, even in a rapidly changing world. Accompanied by a book, course, and workshops, the Why Great Ideas Die keynote is set to inspire teams, talent and their great ideas - exactly when our world needs them most.?

TAKEAWAYS: Audience members learn how to consistently design, create and execute great ideas. By demystifying why great ideas die and what teams and leaders must do to leverage collective intelligence to outshine competitors, audience members:

• Learn how to routinely tap into the power of collective intelligence
• Understand and apply major research by scientists like Page, Phillips, Zhang, Jiang, and Tambe that demonstrates why top-performing individual players lose out time and time again versus average players of diverse ability – and how to rectify this downward spiral within their own organizations
• Explore how a randomized UCT Monte Carlo model shows where in organization great ideas die to avoid negatively affecting and weakening their business, which reduces capacity for innovation, and ignoring a team’s full potential
• Identify and discover how their leadership weaknesses can be turned into strengths, to truly leverage Environmental, Social and Governance opportunities and challenges
• Position themselves as 21st cent. leaders, leveraging the right technology and solutions