Pamela Meyer Speaker Biography
Business Agility Expert and Best-Selling Author
PAMELA MEYER, Ph.D., is a leading Agile Innovation expert who works with leaders, teams, and organizations that must be more agile and innovative to compete in a rapidly changing world. Through her in-depth research and expertise in understanding how adults learn to innovate and improvise, along with two decades of working with Fortune 500 to Fortune 50 companies, Meyer helps business leaders implement best practices to drive results. Pamela Meyer recognizes that agility is a non-negotiable competence of our time. With proven strategies, she shows organizations how to make the agility shift to respond to and seize new opportunities presented by the unexpected and unplanned.
Keynote Speaker
Pamela Meyer is a sought-after keynote speaker who inspires audiences around the world with new perspectives and actionable ideas to become more agile and innovative.
Books
A thought leader for business success, Meyer is the author of five books on agility, innovation, and learning, including her newest book, Staying in the Game: Leading and Learning with Agility for a Dynamic Future, and The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams and Organizations and From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement, as well as the creator of the Agility Shift Inventory™. She has also contributed chapters to edited books on transformative learning and written numerous articles and papers.
Leadership Development
Specializing in leadership and team development, Meyer helped design the new manager training program for T-Mobile, based on The Agility Shift. The program recently received national attention with a Brandon Hall HCM Excellence in Learning award in the Best Unique or Innovative Learning & Development Program category.
ScrumMaster
A Certified ScrumMaster®, Meyer also helps leaders, teams, and organizations adopting agile frameworks, and initiating scaled agile transformations, to make the necessary mindset and practice shifts to energize engagement and realize results.
Business Agility Expert
In addition to working with organizations, Pamela Meyer brings two decades of experience teaching business agility, organizational change, and adult learning at DePaul University in Chicago, where she served as director of the Center to Advance Education for Adults.
When not speaking or consulting, Pamela maintains her own agility through amateur ski racing and is a four-time NASTAR national gold medalist.
Pamela Meyer Speaking Topics
Making the Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams and Organizations
Most of us know that we cannot expect people or organizations to be effective using ways of thinking and working designed for another era. Success today depends on our ability to learn and adapt in the midst of change. It depends on shifting both our mindset and organizational practices. Pamela Meyer will help you make this agility shift in her high-content, high engagement keynote. In this dynamic session, Pamela draws on her years of research and experience helping teams and organizations across sectors to become more agile and innovative. Not only will you learn how organizations are thriving in the midst of uncertainty and change through inspiring examples, you will leave with ideas you can use right away to start making your own agility shift. In addition, you will discover: How to make the mindset shift necessary for agile success; How to improve your capacity to respond to unexpected and unplanned; challenges and opportunities using available resources; The six dynamics of the agility shift to boost performance and engagement; How becoming more agile will improve your bottom line and sustain your success. This keynote is based on themes and best practices from Pamela’s book, The Agility Shift: Creating Agile Leaders, Teams and Organizations (Routledge, 2015). Pamela will be happy to sign copies of the book at the conclusion of her keynote.
Jumpstarting Agile Teamwork: Lessons and Best Practices From High Stakes Teams
Creating the Agile Organization: Mindset, Models, and Metrics for Success
Leading and Learning With Agility for a Dynamic Future
Leading the Agility Shift
Pamela Meyer Books
Staying in the Game: Leading and Learning With Agility for a Dynamic Future Hardcover
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Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations
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Permission: A Guide to Generating More Ideas, Being More of Yourself and Having More Fun at Work
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From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement
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Pamela Meyer Speaker Testimonials
Pamela facilitated what turned out to be my favorite — and I’d say the best — leadership retreat of my 30+ year non-profit career. She brought wit and wisdom, and fun and focus, to a very diverse group of executives. We aligned around mission. We identified opportunities for growth and advancement. We dove deep on a few game changers. And we left energized to do more for our clients, and to do it better.
- Thresholds |
DON’T MISS IT! Meyer’s energizing Staying in the Game program inspired our team to reflect and build on our strengths and lead and learn with agility in a constantly changing landscape.
- Valerio Dewalt Train |
Pamela Meyer was the perfect opening speaker for our client conference. She inspired our participants to be more agile and innovative, and energized them to take fresh ideas back to their organizations.
- Saba Software |
Each time Pamela Meyer speaks at Chicago SHRM she rocks the house! Her dynamic approach to innovation, agility, and organizational effectiveness really hits a chord with our members as these are challenges that many Human Resources professionals are trying to solve within their own organizations. We can’t wait to have her back to share her latest ideas and approaches and bring her new book!
- Chicago SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management) |
