Future-proof your organization and thrive in the face of change
Welcome.
I’m delighted that my presentation, that opened The Neuroverse Virtual Summit 2024, has encouraged you to learn more about how your culture can become a tangible asset that helps your organization to keep thriving in the face of change.
The key takeaways from my presentation are:
Upskill to embrace change: your organization faces constant challenges from external disruptors like AI and internal strategy shifts. Although human instincts resist the unknown, evolution has also equipped us to adapt. By upskilling your talent to strengthen their innate adaptive capacity, teams can learn to harness their collective genius to embrace change, establishing your culture as an asset to ensure your continued success.
Cognitive diversity – a mix of thinking styles – enables teams to embrace change. Skills associated with neurodivergence, such as dyslexia, autism and ADHD, illustrate why combining diverse cognitive styles is crucial for effective problem-solving and innovation. Teams that balance skills in exploration (novelty and change) and exploitation (evaluation and execution) are the ones that can be resilient when faced with change.
Activate cognitive diversity by building a culture of cognitive inclusion so that each team member feels safe accepting and nurturing the new insights and skills offered by other team members. Valuing each team member’s contribution enables everyone to contribute their best, including re-energizing your disengaged and under-performing talent so that your collective genius emerges.
Strategic cultural change: leadership should prioritize and be accountable for your organization’s cultural transformation. Engage a skilled consultant like me to design a cognitive inclusion strategy tailored to your existing strengths so that your organization can sustain change. I have a proven track record of building strategic competencies that provide sustainable competitive advantage; am a pioneer and expert in using metrics to motivate change; and my change experience draws from a rich background spanning commercial, influencing, thought leadership, and people-focused roles.
Benefits beyond thriving in the face of change: everyone has a preferred cognitive style, and so cognitive inclusion naturally enables people of all ages, backgrounds, (dis)abilities, ethnicities, genders, and sexualities to contribute their best. The resulting improvements in employee engagement, wellbeing and mental health lead to higher productivity, engagement, retention, talent acquisition, and profitability, as well as innovation.
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You aspire to have a high-performance culture that thrives on change and engages your employees.
The recipe for success is to train people with diverse styles and skills to reinforce each other’s strengths to release their collective genius and deliver non-stop value to your customers.
A cognitively inclusive culture like this is not just a nice-to-have—it's a competitive edge. Employees in inclusive environments are over five times more likely to stay, and 56% find inclusion more fulfilling than salary. For 70% of the candidates you want to employ, inclusion is a key factor when choosing where to work.
The best part? Not only do business outcomes improve, but so does employee mental health and well-being. Engaged employees are nearly ten times more likely to enjoy their work.
The solution is to transform your culture into a high-performing asset. By embracing best practices inspired by the inclusion of the 30% neurodivergent talent, your organization can become a talent magnet that consistently delivers outstanding results.
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Meet Lisa
I’ve developed a unique perspective from 30 years of working initially as a researcher; and then in a complex, global, political and demanding high-performance corporate culture,
I love making sense of complex situations, including as a founder of Elsevier’s information analytics venture where I was accountable for transforming large data sets into the research metrics visualized in SciVal. I worked in close partnership with university administrators to ensure that insights would be both actionable and used responsibly.
More recently, I transitioned to the people-oriented role of Chief-of-Staff. I honed my change management skills by focusing on transforming a disengaged environment into one that was supportive, empowering and trusting. At one organization, over a 3-year period that even encompassed covid lockdowns and a major reorganization, was that employee NPS rating (a metric showing the gap between people who would recommend working at an organization, and those who wouldn’t) increased from -33 to +30.
When you work with me, you have a partner with a good understanding of academia, who is equipped to get things done. My project management skills are second to none, and I can always find a way to progress. I work by lifting people up, and by uncovering and scaling your institution’s ‘positive deviants’ or existing strengths. I am skilled at creating a safe and trusting environment, and will transform your complex, emotive, ambiguous aspirations into an actionable, measurable plan that everyone engages with.
Contact me
I’m eager to learn more about the challenges your institution is facing, and explore how my services can address them.
Please schedule a virtual meeting at your convenience by using the form below, or email me directly at lisa@lisacolledgeconsulting.com.
Future-proof your organization and thrive in the face of change (presentation and download)
You're a successful leader, and you want to be ready to move immediately when you decide to prioritize a new competitor or customer challenge.
But how confident do you feel about continuing to thrive in the face of all the unknown change awaiting you in the future?
This was the challenge addressed by Lisa’s presentation, which opened The Neuroverse Virtual Summit 2024. Please scroll down to watch the presentation and learn how designing your organizational culture by taking inspiration from neurodiversity inclusion will boost your innovation culture with the bonus of happier, healthier, more engaged employees. You can also download a free pdf version.
The key takeaways are:
Upskill to embrace change: your organization faces constant challenges from external disruptors like AI and internal strategy shifts. Although human instincts resist the unknown, evolution has also equipped us to adapt. By upskilling your talent to strengthen their innate adaptive capacity, teams can learn to harness their collective genius to embrace change, establishing your culture as an asset to ensure your continued success.
Cognitive diversity – a mix of thinking styles – enables teams to embrace change. Skills associated with neurodivergence, such as dyslexia, autism and ADHD, illustrate why combining diverse cognitive styles is crucial for effective problem-solving and innovation. Teams that balance skills in exploration (novelty and change) and exploitation (evaluation and execution) are the ones that can be resilient when faced with change.
Activate cognitive diversity by building a culture of cognitive inclusion so that each team member feels safe accepting and nurturing the new insights and skills offered by other team members. Valuing each team member’s contribution enables everyone to contribute their best, including re-energizing your disengaged and under-performing talent so that your collective genius emerges.
Strategic cultural change: leadership should prioritize and be accountable for your organization’s cultural transformation. Engage a skilled consultant like me to design a cognitive inclusion strategy tailored to your existing strengths so that your organization can sustain change. I have a proven track record of building strategic competencies that provide sustainable competitive advantage; am a pioneer and expert in using metrics to motivate change; and my change experience draws from a rich background spanning commercial, influencing, thought leadership, and people-focused roles.
Benefits beyond thriving in the face of change: everyone has a preferred cognitive style, and so cognitive inclusion naturally enables people of all ages, backgrounds, (dis)abilities, ethnicities, genders, and sexualities to contribute their best. The resulting improvements in employee engagement, wellbeing and mental health lead to higher productivity, engagement, retention, talent acquisition, and profitability, as well as innovation.
