Emotional agility is more important today than at any other moment in recent history. Leaders and their people are experiencing intense pressure. They are simultaneously being asked to:

1. address the current needs of a world in flux, with challenges to where and how people work along with the repercussions on culture, engagement, and wellbeing; and to also
2. craft the future world of work with the need for rapid re-invention.

The ability to effectively meet complexity cannot be mandated. Nor can it be brought to life through strategy alone. Rather, this capacity depends on the core human skills of emotional agility.

This practical and powerful talk, explores:

• The demand for flexibility, teaming, customer-centricity, innovativeness, and inclusiveness from culture and talent has never been greater.
• At the same time, increasing complexity in organizations conspires against these outcomes, leading to rigidity, black-and-white thinking, and transactional relationships.
• There can be no true organizational agility without the psychological agility of its leaders and employees. Emotional agility is a key skill set for individuals, teams, and organizations
• Emotionally agile people are dynamic. They demonstrate flexibility in dealing with a fast- changing, complex world. They face stress and setbacks with curiosity, compassion, and courage, and make choices that are values-connected and serve who they most want to be in life and work.
• The critical, internal psychological habits that enable employees to engage others across organizations, to team, and flourish.
• How getting hooked by thought, emotions and stories stops us, and our organizations, from thriving.
• How to show up to difficult emotions in oneself and others.
• How to move from rigid thinking to flexible curiosity.
• How to elevate unique human capacities (empathy, compassion, courage, and connection) in the face of stress and setbacks.
• How to maximize the likelihood that values (e.g., inclusion) will be enacted.
• Other essential steps to cultivate the emotional agility skills that are crucial human differentiators in a future, more automated world of work.