Reimagining Work in an Unknowable Future
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Event Details
This webinar is based on a 50-minute seven-module course designed to help adult learners "re-imagine their careers in an unknowable future." The webinar will highlight activities to help the attendees consider a wide range of potential career alternatives given their unique interests, background, and skill sets.
These activities include: creative ways to invent a new job, and how to find a trend and be a part of it.
The webinar will also illustrate the changing nature of work – past, future, present, new future, and enable the participants to discover and apply specific techniques to further dimensionalize future careers, articulate different research methodologies to discover aspects of the imagined future job, and adopt a new world view of work.
Lifelong Learning + Continuous Creative Thinking =
Future Career Success
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Bryan W. Mattimore is Cofounder and “Chief Idea Guy” of the Growth Engine Company, a 24-year-old innovation agency based in Chicopee, Massachusetts. In his business consulting career, Bryan has “ideated” and managed over two hundred successful innovation projects, leading to $3 billion in new sales annually for one-third of the Fortune 100 companies. Clients include: IBM, LVMH, Merck, Pepsi, P&G, Mondelez, and Unilever. Bryan is a Senior Fellow with The Conference Board, and an innovation and marketing instructor for Caltech in their Executive Education Department. His two-day creativity workshop, Ingenious Problem Solving combines the newest advances in generative AI with proven group ideation techniques. Bryan’s seven books on creativity, ideation and innovation processes include 21 Days to a Big Idea, and Idea Stormers. A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College with a major in psychology, his two new books on creativity and AI are Quirks and Quotes. |
Christopher Bishop is a TEDx speaker, ex-IBMer, former NYC studio cat, touring rock musician, and future workplace consultant, embodies the power of focusing on the fringe. His nonlinear, multimodal career path is a testament to his adaptability and versatility, qualities that he brings to his talks and workshops. He just returned from two weeks in London, where he delivered lectures and workshops on “How to succeed at jobs that don’t exist yet” at various prestigious universities, including the London School of Economics, London Business School, Royal Holloway University, the Institute of Physics, and the National Physical Laboratory. Chris’s expertise extends beyond his workshops. He is a sought-after high-tech MC - a role he recently showcased at The Economist’s Business Innovation Summit in London. Among his activities, he led Fireside Chats with the COO of LinkedIn and the CIO of P&G, demonstrating his ability to engage and facilitate meaningful discussions. The focus was on how AI is being deployed at an enterprise level in these companies. He has served as Master of Ceremonies and panel moderator at multiple technology conferences in London, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New York, Paris, Singapore, and San Francisco. Chris is an active member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) and plays a vital role on the Workforce Technical Advisory Committee. He also hosts the Quantum Tech Pod and has interviewed over seventy C-suite executives at leading quantum companies. The podcast is available on Apple Music and Spotify. |
