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Duncan Wardle
Former Disney executive. Forever a fan. After 30 years, you never lose your ears. As Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, Duncan and his team helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new storylines and experiences.
In Person
£32000 - £36000
Price based on UK delivery
Virtual Event
£16000 - £18000
He now brings his extensive Disney expertise to audiences around the world using a unique approach to Design Thinking, helping people capture unlikely connections, leading to fresh thinking and disruptive ideas.
Delivering a series of keynotes, workshops and ideation forums, his unique Innovation toolkit helps companies embed a culture of innovation into everyone’s DNA.
Duncan is a multiple TED speaker and contributor to Fast Company, Forbes & the Harvard Business Review. He teaches innovation Master Classes at Yale, Harvard, and Edinburgh University.
In his 25-year career at the world’s most innovative organization – The Walt Disney Company – Innovation and Creativity Keynote Speaker Duncan Wardle learned many important things about building a profitable business and a winning creative culture. The most important? If you want to be different, you have to Think Different!
Speaking Keynotes
The Theory of Creativity: You’ve got the power!
Keynote Takeaways
- How to innovate by challenging the rules of your industry
- Learn real-life examples of how to embed a sustainable culture of innovation and creativity throughout your organization
- Learn tools on how to encourage every employee to think creatively
Delivering Customer Experience Magic: Give your customers exactly what they need
The best brands in the world may have great products and service, but they thrive because of an unrelenting passion and focus on customer experience.
Through this engaging and interactive Keynote, Duncan will share how to transform your business from product-centric to customer-centric and reap the rewards that come when customers believe the work you do is truly magic.
Keynote Takeaways:
- How to turn a product centric culture into a consumer centric one
- How to leverage “high-tech” to enable “high-touch”, delivering record guest satisfaction
- How to address the biggest consumer pain points and what that can mean for revenue
Embed Innovation Into Everyone’s DNA: Learn the toolkit for innovation
None of us are going back to “Business as Usual”, and the secret sauce to success lies in the culture you create at work. But innovation is not something that happens by chance. It’s the result of building an environment in which it can thrive, and you have to give people a set of tools that you may use every day to grow.
Keynote Takeaways
- A fresh outlook on daily tasks
- An approach to tasks with new levels of creative thinking
- A mindset that allows innovation to flourish at work
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