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Lisa Bodell

Transform organizational performance with Lisa Bodell, speaker, simplification and innovation expert. Lisa works with leading companies to eliminate complexity and drive meaningful change, delivering practical strategies for Google, Citigroup, and the Department of National Intelligence.

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Lisa Bodell, Speaker | CEO, FutureThink & Bestselling Author
Lisa Bodell

Lisa Bodell

New York City, United States

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$51k–75k

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Lisa Bodell's biography

At a glance

  • CEO and founder of FutureThink
  • Bestselling author of simplification and innovation books
  • Organizational transformation expert for global companies
Lisa Bodell is a simplification and innovation expert who transforms organizational performance by helping companies reimagine work. As FutureThink's CEO and bestselling author of "Why Simple Wins" and "Kill the Company," she delivers practical approaches to eliminate complexity and drive meaningful change. Lisa founded FutureThink in 2003, building one of the world's largest resources for simplification and innovation tools, named by Fast Company among the Best Workplaces for Innovators. Her expertise is sought by leading organizations including Google, SAP, Citigroup, and the Department of National Intelligence, with her insights regularly featured in Forbes, Fast Company, WIRED, The New York Times, and Harvard Business Review. By trading complexity for simplicity, Lisa's methodology unlocks the creativity and energy essential for innovation. She teaches organizations to question the status quo and implement small but profound changes that improve performance metrics while enhancing employee engagement, well-being, and retention. Lisa addresses a fundamental challenge: when important work isn't getting done, it's the work—not the people—that needs fixing. Audiences gain practical strategies to eliminate unnecessary complexity, tools to identify and focus on work that truly matters, and techniques to foster innovation-friendly cultures. Her frameworks provide immediate, actionable steps to reclaim time and redirect energy toward high-value activities. Book Lisa to give your team that rare combination: inspirational vision paired with practical tools for lasting organizational transformation.

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Topics, sessions and talks

Unleash The Power Of Simplification
In her presentation, Lisa Bodell addresses the overwhelming nature of modern work, highlighting how unproductive meetings, outdated rules, and irrelevant reports hinder organizational success. She advocates for a mindset of simplification, emphasizing that small changes can lead to significant improvements in energy, collaboration, and innovation. Attendees will learn why simplification is essential for resilience, how to identify and eliminate busywork, the importance of subtraction over addition, and how removing unnecessary rules can enhance focus and efficiency.
Leading Simplicity: A Roadmap
Lisa Bodell emphasizes that embracing simplicity as an operational mindset can unlock the potential of teams and provide a sustainable competitive edge. She advocates for a culture where challenging the status quo is encouraged, allowing leaders to inspire disruptive thinking and agility. Through engaging exercises, Lisa illustrates how simplicity fosters innovation, collaboration, and growth. Attendees will learn how to create a culture that prioritizes simplification, enhances engagement, and sets the foundation for lasting change and effective problem-solving.
Unleashing Innovation
In her presentation, simplicity expert Lisa Bodell reveals how organizational structures often hinder growth by overwhelming employees with outdated processes and unnecessary complexity. She emphasizes that simplifying work is essential for fostering innovation and allows individuals to focus on their most impactful tasks. Attendees will learn how to eliminate ineffective rules, reignite curiosity and creativity, and apply practical techniques for innovation. Through real-life examples and interactive polling, Lisa demonstrates how small changes can lead to significant improvements in performance.
Activate AI
Most organizations don't have an AI problem, they have a starting problem. Lisa Bodell helps leaders cut through the noise by reframing AI as a multiplier of human talent and giving teams a clear, practical path into adoption. She introduces a framework for mapping work into what to automate, what to keep human-led, and what to protect as distinctly human. Lisa then shows how to identify the right first use cases: low-stakes, high-friction tasks that generate quick wins and build lasting trust. Leaders leave with the language, rhythms, and confidence to go first.

Why we recommend booking Lisa

Lisa Bodell, a renowned simplification expert and bestselling author, transforms organizations by eliminating complexity and unlocking innovation through practical, actionable frameworks that deliver measurable results. Book her to give your team the perfect combination of inspirational vision and practical tools for lasting organizational transformation that improves performance while enhancing employee engagement and retention.

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Testimonials

Lisa blew us away. Inspiring and practical. People were up off their feet, laughing and thinking. Cell phones were constantly going up to take pictures of her presentation. She exceeded all expectations.

Chief Learning Officer, AXA

We valued your insights and presentation so much; it made the event a tremendous success. Feedback is rolling in from the 1000+ attendees and there are nothing but rave reviews for your session!

HR Business Partner

Lisa is everything you look for in a keynote speaker - she's insightful, engaging and energetic. She was the top-rated speaker at our Google events and inspired the entire audience to start a simplification revolution.

Think Events, Google

Think Events, Google

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Email lisa.bodell@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Lisa's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
What is Lisa Bodell's speaking style like?
Lisa Bodell uses interactive polling and group exercises during her sessions to demonstrate how simplification techniques apply in practice, drawing on real-life organisational examples to ground the methodology in concrete outcomes.
What topics does Lisa Bodell specialise in?
Lisa Bodell's sessions cover simplification as an operational mindset, eliminating organisational complexity, and fostering innovation through practical frameworks. She is the CEO of FutureThink and bestselling author of Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company, with clients including Google, SAP, Citigroup, and the Department of National Intelligence.
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