About

Lisa Bodell:  Keynote Speaker on Simplification, Innovation & Leadership | Founder & CEO of FutureThink | Bestselling Author of Why Simple Wins

Simplify Work. Unlock Better Thinking. What could your people accomplish if they stopped wasting time on unnecessary work and focused their energy on what actually matters?

Lisa Bodell is the founder and CEO of FutureThink, bestselling author of Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company, and a highly sought-after keynote speaker on simplification, innovation, leadership and the future of work.

Lisa helps organizations eliminate the complexity, bureaucracy and low-value work that prevent people from thinking, leading and innovating at their best. Her message is provocative, practical and immediately actionable: stop adding more—and start removing what gets in the way.

Why Book Lisa Bodell?

Lisa doesn't just inspire people to work differently. She gives them practical tools to actually do it.

Her keynotes challenge one of the biggest problems facing organizations today: people are overwhelmed by meetings, processes, approvals and unnecessary complexity while leaders simultaneously ask them to innovate, move faster and accomplish more.

Lisa shows audiences how to create capacity by eliminating low-value work, simplifying decision-making and giving people more space to think.

The result is a keynote that can change not just how your audience thinks—but how they work the very next day.

What Makes Lisa Bodell Different?

• Founder & CEO of FutureThink — helping organizations simplify and innovate since 2003
• Bestselling author — author of Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company
• Simplification expert — helps organizations eliminate unnecessary complexity
• Innovation authority — teaches people how to challenge assumptions and think differently
• Highly interactive — incorporates audience participation and live exercises
• Immediately actionable — audiences leave with tools they can actually use
• Human-centered AI perspective — focuses on strengthening the capabilities technology can't replace
• Extensive corporate experience — has worked with leading organizations around the world

Why Is Lisa Right for Your Audience?

Lisa is an outstanding choice when your people are overwhelmed, moving too slowly or spending too much time on work that doesn't create enough value.

She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, innovation summits, transformation initiatives and organizations navigating AI-driven change.

Book Lisa when your audience needs to:

• Eliminate unnecessary complexity
• Create more time for meaningful work
• Make decisions faster
• Reduce bureaucracy and low-value processes
• Give leaders more capacity to actually lead
• Challenge outdated assumptions
• Strengthen innovation and creative problem-solving
• Determine where humans add the greatest value in an AI-enabled workplace

Audience Takeaways

Attendees will leave:

• Identifying unnecessary work they can stop doing
• Better equipped to simplify meetings, processes and decision-making
• Understanding how complexity can undermine innovation
• More willing to challenge outdated rules and assumptions
• Equipped with practical tools they can apply immediately
• Better prepared to create space for higher-value work
• Thinking differently about leadership in an AI-enabled workplace
• Ready to simplify how work gets done

Lisa Bodell Keynote Programs

Unleash the Power of Simple: Eliminate Complexity, Reclaim Control, and Win in the Age of AI

Lisa Bodell shows organizations how to eliminate unnecessary complexity before using AI to accelerate the way work gets done. Drawing on more than 25 years of global experience and examples from organizations including Netflix, AT&T, and Pfizer, she shares practical tools for reducing noise, improving focus, and creating simpler ways of working. Attendees learn why AI can amplify broken processes rather than fix them—and how simplification can create the conditions for greater speed, innovation, and performance. Ideal for organizations navigating AI adoption, transformation, and increasing workplace complexity.

Let Leaders Lead: It’s Time to Fix What’s Broken

Lisa examines why leadership has become unnecessarily difficult and what organizations can do to change it. She challenges systems that ask leaders to move quickly while burdening them with excessive process, competing expectations, and unclear authority. Through practical tools and real-world examples, Lisa shows how leaders can replace complexity with clarity, establish stronger boundaries, make better decisions, and balance empathy with accountability. Ideal for leadership meetings and organizations that want to improve execution, engagement, and performance.

Igniting Innovation: AI-Enabled, Human-Led

Lisa explores how organizations can use AI to strengthen rather than replace the human thinking that drives innovation. She shows audiences how curiosity, judgment, and creative problem-solving can be combined with AI to challenge assumptions, explore possibilities, and make better decisions. Through interactive exercises and ideas from Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, participants learn practical ways to question the status quo and approach change more boldly. Ideal for innovation conferences, transformation initiatives, and teams exploring how AI can support more creative and effective work.

Why Book Lisa Bodell Through The Sweeney Agency?

Lisa Bodell combines provocative thinking with practical tools audiences can use immediately—but the real value comes from identifying where complexity is getting in the way of your organization's performance.

The Sweeney Agency can help you:

• Confirm Lisa Bodell's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Lisa Bodell keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your organization's challenges
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Lisa with other leading innovation, change and leadership speakers

Is Lisa Bodell Right for Your Event?

Tell us what's slowing your people down—and what you want them spending more time doing instead.

We'll help you determine whether Lisa is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.

Planning a leadership conference, innovation summit or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Lisa Bodell as your keynote speaker.