KEYNOTES
A talk should not end when the applause does.
It should follow people out of the room.
Mark Eve speaks about the choices intelligent people keep reducing to the same two answers and what becomes possible when they look at the whole life or organisation around the decision.
The Alternative Is Unthinkable
Why do we keep saying there is no alternative when something in us already knows there is?
Mark takes the audience through the assumptions beneath a decision, the cost we count when we leave, the cost we ignore when we stay and the answer we ruled out before we properly looked at it.
Nobody is told to stay, leave or make a dramatic change. The audience leaves with a way to question the answer it has been repeating.
Other keynote subjects
WHOSE IDEA OF SUCCESS ARE YOU LIVING?
Family, work and culture give us definitions of success long before we are old enough to question them. This talk asks what happens when the definition no longer fits but the life built around it keeps going.
SEE THE WHOLE TREE
Work, money, health, love and family do not behave like separate lives. This talk puts them back together and asks what the loudest problem has been hiding.
WHAT ARE YOU PROTECTING?
Sometimes we keep something because it is still right. Sometimes we keep it because too much else would move if it changed. This talk looks at the difference.
LEADERSHIP AND THE UNTHINKABLE ALTERNATIVE
Organisations become attached to the story that produced the last answer. Mark looks at how capable teams keep circling a familiar choice and miss what is outside it.
What is included
BEFORE THE ROOM
We discuss the audience, the setting and what is actually happening. The emphasis is agreed before Mark walks on stage.
IN THE ROOM
A live keynote with time for questions or conversation where the event allows it.
AFTER THE ROOM
Agreed reading, questions or short follow-up material can help the conversation continue. Anyone may also use the free Clearing privately.