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Keynotes can be customized, and can also be written by Sally to a brief. All Keynotes are designed for 45-minutes + 15-minute question time, and can be extended as per the Options List below each summary. Simultaneous translation to Spanish can be provided for in-person and online presentations.

These Keynotes serve not only to inform and inspire, but to activate possibility thinking in every listener. The Keynotes are customized to the audience, and include interactions that create sticky moments, helping to create new habits around exponential thinking and possibility mindset. Every Keynote addresses the Fourth Revolution - the rise of machine intelligence - and emphasizes the importance of creative thinking to enable humans to use those new tools for impact.
"I felt like my mind was stretched to think differently and bigger! Sally is very energizing and inspiring!" 
Participant, Connect Bogota Future Visioning Session, 2022 
You're a rock star! I overheard people commenting on how perfect your keynote was to kick off ETS and set a tone of optimistic, creative problem solving". 
Organizer, Energy Thought Summit, 2022 

Introduction to Exponentials

Outlines the fundamental difference between linear and exponential thinking, the metrics we need to focus on in the Fourth Revolution, and the common characteristics of exponential technologies and exponential organizations. This keynotes provokes thinking around unexpected and accelerated convergence, and emphasizes the importance of authentic purpose and inclusive innovation for any individual or organization seeking to flourish with impact.

​Outcomes: 
  • An understanding of exponential systems
  • an experience of possibility thinking
  • Adjacency Mapping Tool, a tool for exploring convergence 

Exploring Exponential Systems 2022 and Beyond
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Details the evolution from exponential organizations to larger exponential systems. Outlines the fundamental difference between linear and exponential thinking, and the importance of Purpose for strategizing in exponential change. Examines proactive strategies including preto-typing and prosumer models, and convergence of B2B and B2C in the reach for consumer data.This keynotes provokes thinking around unexpected and accelerated convergence, and emphasizes the importance of authentic purpose and inclusive innovation for any individual or organization seeking to flourish with impact.

​Outcomes: 
  • An understanding of exponential systems
  • An understanding of how to pretotype
  • An understanding of frugal innovation and prosumer outreach
  • an experience of possibility thinking

10X Leadership: Leading with Vision and Inclusion
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Never has it been more important to lead with hope, and with vision. Purpose and Trust are fundamental in guiding strategy through exponential change. This keynote first explores the role of Purpose - how it can provoke moonshot thinking as well as strategy - then moves into inclusion and how every stakeholder might be part of consistent growth. Examining strategies for structured idea sharing,  and using case studies and challenges around unexpected convergences, this keynote is fast-paced, thought-provoking and effective.

​Outcomes: 
  • An understanding of the new metrics around strategy in the Fourth Revolution
  • An understanding of how to work with Purpose to build platforms, trust and new markets
  • Tools to provoke and then develop moonshot thinking
  • Concepts for developing inclusive culture throughout the workplace

A Bright Green, Circular Energy Future
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Sally works as an inventor working at the bleeding edge of renewable technologies, including wave energy, current energy and  - her particular passion - affordable green hydrogen. This keynote includes her insights on new battery technology, affordable energy storage options, Circular economy innovations and future directions in transportation and building energy systems. Exploring resilience and decentralized energy solutions, Sally also poses the question: if we have abundant renewable resources for energy generation, can we remove the focus on efficiency and thus serve more people?

​Outcomes: 
  • An overview of current research in green hydrogen, wave energy, offshore wind
  • An overview of current thinking around energy storage options with an emphasis on either circular lithium, or Li-alternatives
  • Insights into designing circular systems at various scales
  • Insights into the potential of decentralized systems and micro-factories

Next Generation Expectations & Behaviors
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Sally works on disruptive digital strategies around next generation expectations with organizations including IKEA, Rockwell Automation, PepsiCO and Citi. Sally is Generation X, with a keen interest in GenerationZ (25 years and under). Sally’s book, EPIC Resilience, has unexpectedly resonated with GenerationZ readers in their 20s, resulting in wide-ranging, first-hand feedback on what these consumers are looking for, and what they expect in a job and in a product or service. Sally’s expertise in GenZ expectations is based on research from around the world, and first-hand feedback and interaction with teenagers and 20-somethings in Latin America, Australia and the USA.

Outcomes: 
  • Insights into the particular demands of GenZ
  • Exploration of prosumer and co-creation models inside and outside an organization
  • Concepts for a rich, interactive, online environment serving all generations

Future-Forward Resilience
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Explores modern resilience as a system for finding opportunity in the chaos of constant change. This keynote covers decentralized systems, exponential systems, co-creative ecosystems and a rethink of how we define work, home, travel and comfort. Examines the convergence of many of the life and business verticals we take for granted, to find opportunity for growth, for new businesses and for new communities. 

Outcomes: 
  • Activation of 10X Mindset
  • A state of play overview of converging life and business verticals
  • An understanding of how decentralization might look for industries and businesses
  • Insights into the future of Work and Life at Home
  • Understanding of how EPIC works as a scalable strategy for confidence, growth and inclusion.

The 10X Human: Resilient, Transparent, Ingenious
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This new era of relentless exponential change has left many people feeling powerless, overwhelmed, even inconsequential. In the rush to celebrate 10X technology the human element has been neglected.  But in the Singularity, Machine Intelligence is met with Human Ingenuity.  Human ingenuity is that unique, underexplored ability that every human brain has to make unexpected connections and imaginative leaps and to delve in the realm of possibility. Human creativity is unparalleled. 

Modern business has generally valued knowledge and rational thinking over imagination, possibility and moonshot thinking.  As the Fourth Revolution upends traditional business practices around the world, unleashing the creative power of our human capital is the key to consistent growth. The future of work is not prediction and analysis, it is imagination and creation.  The future of leadership is not control and hierarchy, it is trust, transparency, and inclusion.  Living with relentless change means cultivating the personal resilience, mental and physical, to constantly work at the edge of chaos - and flourish.  This new era requires a new way of thinking and a new way of being.

Every person deserves the chance to level up their ingenuity and creativity,  and to reignite their curiosity. 10X Humans wielding 10X technology will achieve incredible things.

Outcomes: 
  • Activated 10X Mindset
  • Optimism
  • An understanding of how inclusion and innovation will drive growth
  • An understanding of frugal innovation and prosumer outreach
  • Best practice in failing forward
  • An outline of how to structure for inclusive innovation​

The Future of....
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As a multi-award-winning inventor, and a futurist, researching and practicing innovation, Sally’s work places her firmly at the convergence of many future-forward industries. She has pioneered plastics innovation, co-created Diversity & Inclusion frameworks, co-hosts TheNextBillionCars, wrote a Circular Green Hydrogen Roadmap for the Caribbean and recently designed a hydrogen-fuel cell house/vehicle hybrid transporter. Sally adds new information to every keynote to ensure that the content is immediate. Importantly, Sally ensures that her audience understands their active role in creatively envisaging future uses for exponential technologies.

​Outcomes:
  • Overview of exponential technologies, systems and directions 
  • Optimism
  • An understanding of frugal innovation’s “creativity before capital”
  • Many ideas




Options:
  • Innovation Quadrants, a tool for tracking innovation, and guiding explosive vs incremental growth (+15-minutes) 
  • Parkour Inversion, a disruption tool for new systems and possibility thinking (+20 minutes)






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​Options:
  • Adjacency Mapping Tool, a tool for exploring convergence 
  • GenZ Behaviors and Expectations (+20-minutes)








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​ Options:
  • Adjacency Mapping Tool, exploring moonshots with 10X tech 
  • Maximizing GenZ in the Workplace 
Options:
  • ReThinking, exploring a reconsideration of scale in energy innovation (+30 mins)
  • Adjacency Mapping Tool, exploring circular systems (+15-minutes)
  • Thinking Backwards, mapping a robust, economical, accelerated pipeline (+30)
Options:
  • Thinking Sideways: the Meyer-Briggs inversion to reveal the importance of including both introvert and extrovert thinking (+20 minutes)
  • Thinking Backward: Backcasting to create cultural change in an organization
Options:
  • Thinking Sideways: the Meyer-Briggs inversion to reveal the importance of including both introvert and extrovert thinking (+20 minutes)
  • Thinking Backward: Backcasting to create cultural change in an organization
Options:
  • Product Pipeline workshop to extend the thinking into ideas exploration and future-forward product/service development (+60-180 mins)
  • Thinking Backward: Backcasting to plan robust, accelerated delivery