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Aaron Dignan
Digital Transformation
Future of Work
Effective Leadership
Transform workplace culture with Aaron Dignan, speaker on organizational transformation and adaptive leadership. Aaron helps companies replace bureaucracy with autonomy and adaptivity, delivering insights to clients including Microsoft, GE, and Airbnb through his consultancy The Ready.
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Aaron Dignan sees the same phenomenon everywhere he looks. Our most trusted and important institutions—business, healthcare, government, philanthropy, and beyond – are struggling. They’re confronted with the fact that the scale and bureaucracy that once made them strong are liabilities in an era of constant change.
For the past ten years, he has studied organisations and teams with a new way of working that prioritises adaptivity and autonomy over efficiency and control. Aaron contends that teams everywhere need to join them in the future of work.
As the founder of The Ready, a global organisational transformation and coaching practice, he helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organisation and dynamic teaming. Clients include GE, Kaplan, Lloyds Banking Group, Microsoft, Citibank, FreshDirect, Hyatt, Airbnb, Bloomin’ Brands, Charles Schwab, PG&E, Fidelity, New York Public Radio, and charity: water.
Aaron is an active angel investor and helps build partnerships between the startups and end-ups he advises. He has sat on advisory boards for GE, American Express, PepsiCo, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, as well as the board of directors for Smashburger.
His latest book, Brave New Work, was published in 2019.
Book Aaron Dignan as a speaker to revolutionise your team's approach to work with his proven expertise in adaptivity and autonomy. With a decade of experience transforming top companies like Microsoft and Airbnb, he offers actionable insights for thriving in an era of constant change. His compelling vision and practical strategies will inspire your organization to embrace the future of work.
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Aaron Dignan draws on a decade of field research across organisations including GE, Microsoft, and Lloyds Banking Group to build a case for structural change, using client examples to illustrate how self-organisation and dynamic teaming function in practice.
Aaron Dignan speaks on organisational transformation, the future of work, self-organisation, and adaptive leadership. He is the founder of The Ready, a global organisational transformation practice whose clients include GE, Microsoft, Lloyds Banking Group, and Airbnb, and is the author of Brave New Work (2019).
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