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With more than 25 years of entrepreneurial and senior management experience, Felipe Gomez has developed a solid narrative and portfolio of products and services that give leaders, teams and organizations reliable and proven tools to reach extraordinary performance. Leveraging his passion for music and with a piano on stage, Gomez will inspire his audience and provide tools to consistently aim for operational excellence, create meaningful connections and build effective cultures of innovation. He is the author of the bestselling book, Attitude-E: The Method for Being Entrepreneurial and Fulfilling your Dreams.
His keynote presentation centers around the Power of Virtuosity: what it means to be a “virtuoso” and why it’s an important quality for organizations in today’s world; identifying the keys to be a virtuoso in everything we set out to do; the mindsets and behaviors that leaders and organizations should adopt to thrive in the #NewNormal; the importance of perfecting our methods, being more aware of the attitudes we assume and doing everything we do with love and passion.
Gomez is a Business Administrator from the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia with an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The new normal of consistent change is leaving leaders concerned about being left behind. Instead of implementing half-baked, panic-driven ideas, it’s time to identify the Easter eggs the future has left for us. In this talk, technology futurist Crystal Washington will show you and your team how to innovate, thrive and enjoy the ride.
Key takeaways: understand the gifts the future really has to offer, allowing you to shape and manipulate for your ultimate outcomes; identify the most under-utilized Easter eggs of innovation...which you already have in your basket; create a framework to future-proof your career and organization...and avoid getting scrambled.
One of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, Crystal has worked in revenue management and corporate sales managing Fortune 500 accounts and repeatedly breaking company records. She founded her own social media consulting firm called Black-Market Exchange and authored two books: One Tech Action and The Social Media Why.