Featured Speaker
Maybe It's Not Them
See What You're Missing
What if the workplace behavior that's driving you crazy makes perfect sense?
The employees who won't take initiative. The teams that resist change. The same frustrations that keep resurfacing despite new processes, more training, and repeated conversations about accountability.
Leaders often observe exactly what people are doing but misunderstand why. Then they waste resources solving the wrong problem. And the problem comes right back.
Behavior is a response to conditions.
But our assumptions about people's motivations can blind us to the very conditions influencing their behavior.
In this provocative and humorous keynote, Maybe It's Not Them challenges leaders to stop treating their interpretations as facts, examine the conditions driving workplace behavior, and confront the possibility that the can of worms is the very thing that needs to be opened.
Katherine Robinette reveals how to recognize the clues hiding in plain sight, ask better questions, and see what's really going on—so we can stop chasing symptoms and start shaping solutions that work for our people, our organization, and our goals.
Want to take it further? Pair the keynote with an interactive companion workshop where participants put the insights to work on their own real-world challenges. Through hands-on individual and group activities, they'll challenge their assumptions, explore alternative explanations, and discover new ways to tackle the problems that have been driving them crazy.
You've nothing to lose but the problem.
Takeaways:
- Recognize when an assumption is driving their inquiry.
- Uncover four specific, overlooked conditions that often influence results.
- Discover the one question that shifts assumptions into invitations—and opens the door to better solutions.
Make Work Less Work
...And Participation Hard to Resist
Culture, engagement, productivity, profitability, longevity, and adaptability have one thing in common: the people doing the work.
The same people in completely different workplaces can produce vastly different results. Why?
Because some workplaces make it simple and compelling for people to thrive. And some don't.
Think about how much energy gets spent navigating unnecessary obstacles. Waiting for decisions. Working around processes that don't work. Trying to figure out who's responsible for what. Doing things the hard way because that's how they've always been done.
And then we wonder why people aren't more engaged, productive, or willing to take initiative.
When work is harder than it needs to be, even capable, committed people struggle to deliver their best. You can spend a lot of time, money, and effort on encouragement, accountability, and team-building—and still not overcome the friction built into the way work gets done. Let's fix that.
In Make Work Less Work, Katherine Robinette reveals what it takes to turn “clocking in for work” into “wanting to be part of it.” Through humor, relatable stories, and practical insights, she shows leaders how to intentionally shape a work experience where participation is hard to resist.
Takeaways:
- Identify what barriers, blockages, and friction points reveal about the conditions shaping work.
- Experience examples of great conditions in action.
- Learn practical first steps to intentionally shape the work experience so meaningful participation becomes more compelling.