Learning Solutions 2019 Keynotes
Our keynote speakers will inspire you to think differently while providing tangible takeaways you can apply in your work.
Design Thinking in Learning and Work
Sarah Prevette
Founder & CEO, Future Design School
How do you distill a problem into a creative solution? In the closing session of our conference, Sarah Prevette, who specializes in turning ideas into meaningful innovation, shares her ultimate credo and how it can change your approach to design and work. She'll look at creativity as a skill set and entrepreneurship as a philosophy. Read more →
Digital Storytelling Doesn’t Have to Be Boring
Baratunde Thurston
Futurist comedian, writer, and activist
There’s too much content in the world; getting people’s attention is, like life, hard. Baratunde Thurston was a political blogger for four years, ran digital strategy for The Onion for five years, authored the New York Times bestselling book How To Be Black, which continues to find life on Instagram, and lives to engage communities and tell stories in fun and empathetic ways. Read more →
Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
Sarah Lewis
Author, The Rise and Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Where do new innovations—new ideas—spring from? Sarah Lewis offers a new understanding of what enables creative endeavors. What really drives iconic, transformational change on both a personal and an organizational level? From Nobel Prize–winning discoveries to works of art, many of our creative triumphs are not achievements, but conversions, corrections after failed attempts. Read more →