Josh Allan Dykstra
Future Of Work Keynote Speaker
Topics
WHY A.I. IS NOT THE FUTURE
CATEGORIES: Artificial Intelligence, Change, People Operations, Future Of Work, Technology, Collaboration, Creativity, Innovation, Productivity, Complexity
Organizational leaders face uncertainty about effectively harnessing AI, especially in people operations. OpenAI research reveals 80% of U.S. jobs will be impacted by GPTs, yet 70% of leaders admit lacking the skills to fully leverage AI’s potential.
Counterintuitively, the key isn’t about the technology itself, but about cultivating a culture of experimentation and renewable Human Energy™, ensuring people know what to DO with the technology and can consistently show up at their best — resilient, energized, and performing at sustainable peak levels.
In this timely and high-impact keynote, future-of-work expert Josh Allan Dykstra shares an innovative formula to maximize A.I. AND optimize your people. You’ll learn to leverage A.I.’s strengths by understanding its core limits, and empower your organization to build a resilient culture that will thrive amidst uncertainty.
ATTENDEES LEARN:
- Clear frameworks to boost innovation and engagement by tapping the benefits of human intelligence, fueling fresh ideas and sustainable growth.
- Leadership practices to accelerate team performance and agility through psychological safety, enabling bolder decisions and rapid experimentation.
- Practical tools and worksheets to clarify strategic direction, ensuring your AI efforts directly amplify business goals and multiply impact.
Energizing Change: Transforming Work With Human Energy
In today’s chaotic business climate, leaders and teams are grappling with massive uncertainty. A.I. is reshaping industries, return-to-office is everywhere, inflation is squeezing margins, and global instability is forcing unpredictable shifts. It feels like every day brings new volatility, leaving organizations overwhelmed, reactive, and struggling to keep up.
Change is constant… but could there be a way to make it energizing?? Trying to manage this endless turbulence with old strategies won’t work. To thrive we must look beyond technology and tap into the most powerful and renewable resource we have: the energy of our people.
In this inspiring and thought-provoking keynote, leadership expert Josh Allan Dykstra will take you on a thrilling journey from the past to the future to unlock fresh insights that will help you and your team navigate unrelenting changes with more creativity, resilience, and impact.
YOUR AUDIENcE WILL LEAVE WITH:
- The Human Energy Canvas™, a playbook for leading through uncertainty and helping you turn chaos into creative opportunity
- 6 practical worksheets containing tools and practices that will energize your team and boost resilience in the midst of constant change and volatility
- A powerful strategy to build psychological safety across in-person, hybrid, or remote teams, improving learning agility and innovation
- A simple framework to unlock untapped reserves of motivation, naturally reduce burnout, and drive engagement via flow states — leading to increased productivity
Forget Company Culture, Fix Your WORK Operating System Instead
The pressure to create great “company culture” can feel overwhelming. We know our culture needs to be top notch to attract the best talent, retain key players, and generate innovative ideas. But do we actually know what to do to make our culture amazing?
Instead of focusing on “culture,” great leaders prioritize their work operating system (OS). Just like the OS on a device, our work OS silently guides how teams interact, collaborate, and make decisions — setting the standards for what’s possible. And the VERY best leaders focus on making their OS energizing.
In this fresh and counter-intuitive keynote, organizational change expert Josh Allan Dykstra shows us how to create the most energizing and rewarding culture imaginable… by not focusing on “culture” at all.
ATTENDEES LEARN:
- The 3 key ingredients required to “upgrade” your work OS to leverage Human Energy™, helping attract and retain talent and create breakthrough results
- A simple exercise any leader or manager can use to begin upgrading their work OS within their sphere of influence, from the team to organizational level
- The ebOS (Energy-Based Operating System) Canvas — a highly powerful tool for clarifying and upgrading your workplace OS, and organizing it to optimize Human Energy
- The step-by-step playbook for how Josh’s tech company #lovework implemented an ebOS amidst rapid growth
Areas of Expertise
SELF-MANAGEMENT & DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING
Because fiat hierarchy is outdated technology.
