THE ‘BREAKING YESTERDAY’ KEYNOTE
Jef’s standard keynote is ‘Breaking Yesterday’.
It brings together new insights (such as ‘The Fracture’) and classic metaphors (Sheeping & Red Monkeys). Discover all different insights on this page.
Depending on the wanted duration of the Keynote and the target group, ‘Breaking Yesterday’ can be tailored. If you book Jef, there is always an intake included to discuss which parts can be omitted or should definitely be added. And of course the title can be changed as well.
‘Breaking Yesterday’ can organized as a keynote, a seminar or a longer intensive workshop. Live or Hybrid. In Dutch or English. Worldwide.
The choice is yours …
“It’s time to ‘Break Yesterday’ and release the true potential in all of us.”
Six Breaking Insights
Switch3D - The Battle of the Smarts
What is happening with the world? What battles have to be won by Passionate & Talented people to transform organizations into learning & innovative eco-systems? Why are we facing the end game of value based on ‘Discipline & Intelligence’?
3D-Smarts are Bright
What is the disruptive impact of passion & talent on learning & innovation? What is Real Learning and the impact of Learning Competences (Social Skills, Digital Natives, ChatGPT & More) on learning and innovation?
The Power Defect
What is the most dramatic innovation killer within organizations and how to ‘kill’ this killer? Why do most disruptive innovation projects fail?
Red Monkey Innovation Management
A disruptive view on the future of agile, continuous and disruptive innovation. Why do we need a different executive style to boost learning & innovation. Why do executives fail in change? What is needed to succeed? You will never ever forget the Red Monkey metaphor!
The Switch3D Fracture
Our biggest challenge is not disruptive innovation, it is the resulting disruption in employment. What should be the impact on education, management and HRM?
Managers are Heroes
What disruption in Management Style is needed to boost Red Monkey Innovation Management? Management development has always lagged reality. Self directed teams and abolishment of hierarchies was ok in the past but completely wrong today. What management competences have to be developed by managers to become heroes?
Jef Staes has given hundreds of lectures on information and innovation. Settings have varied from large audiences (e.g., TEDx) to smaller interactive groups.
The need for a new approach to innovation is always at the center of each talk or discussion.
OTHER TITLES & TOPICS
Designing Keynotes, Seminars and Workshops is like cooking. For ever event you have to mix the right ingredients at the right time. Success is only possible if you take into account the challenges of your audiences and the time you have to deliver your ‘content’.
Based on Jefs experience in the field of learning, management, innovation and culture change the number of possible variations on the content of ‘Breaking Yesterday’ are only limited by your and our imagination. Just explain your challenge and we will propose the right session with the right ingredients and the right title.
Introduce Jef to your audience
Jef Staes, architect in the field of learning & innovative organizations, not only takes you through thinking errors in organizational development but also offers solutions. With an extensive pallet of confronting insights, he not only makes clear where managers and policymakers go wrong, but he also offers solutions to transform organizations into (real) learning and (disruptively) innovative (network) organizations.
Jef is the author of 'I was a sheep', 'My manager is a hero' and 'My organization is a jungle’. Today his most challenging project is the Red Monkey Story. A holistic story based on all Jef’s ideas and concepts that helps organizations to boost their power to learn and innovate.
Starting his carreer as an engineer in digital telephony, he later found his passion as a Training Manager and Corporate Learning Officer. It is the fusion of his experience in digital and his experience in the field of learning & development that forms the basis of a unique, confrontational and pragmatic view of cultural innovation.
Since he became an independent keynote speaker and author he gave hundreds of keynotes for all kinds of organizations … whether it is for smaller groups or really big events, his passion and energy remains the same. No one will ever forget his metaphors and mind opening concepts.
“Information is the fifth element”