Sheri Jacobs

Sheri Jacobs Speaking Topics

• Unlock Your Capacity to Innovate, Lead, Thrive, and Grow

  In today’s rapidly changing business world, Sheri Jacobs offers a comprehensive approach to innovation leadership. This keynote helps leaders identify the subtle barriers hindering their progress and provides actionable strategies for fostering a culture of innovation. Attendees will walk away with tools to turn obstacles into opportunities and lead confidently through uncertainty and disruption. Sheri's method emphasizes the importance of creating an environment where innovation thrives and encourages calculated risk-taking. Whether navigating technological advancements or adapting to market changes, leaders will gain the skills to drive transformative change within their teams.

  Key Takeaways:

  -Build a culture of trust and innovation within your teams - Master Sheri’s Innovation Capacity Framework to achieve sustainable growth - Transform risk into opportunity by embracing calculated risk-taking and making bold decisions

• How Big Is Your Playground? The Unexpected Power of Boundaries

  Sheri Jacobs challenges the conventional notion of boundaries as barriers, instead positioning them as enablers of creativity and innovation. Through the powerful story of a preschool playground, Sheri shows how setting the right constraints can unlock greater innovation and team potential. Attendees will learn to create the right environment for curiosity and risk-taking, driving sustainable progress.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Understand the relationship between failure boundaries and innovation
  • Use Sheri’s tools to assess your organization’s capacity for change
  • Create a culture where constraints fuel creativity instead of stifling progress

Unleash Your Team's Potential: How To Transform Your Innovation Pipeline

Traditional innovation methods are becoming outdated, leading to missed opportunities. Sheri Jacobs’ “Worst Idea Never” method challenges the norms of brainstorming and introduces a counterintuitive approach that sparks breakthrough innovations. This keynote will show how embracing “bad” ideas can radically transform your innovation pipeline and organizational culture.

Key Takeaways:

• Master the “Worst Idea Never” method to generate unexpected breakthroughs
• Develop an agile, innovation-driven culture within your team
• Leverage emerging technologies like AI to accelerate growth and innovation

The New Rules: How to Lead Innovative Teams, Navigate Uncertainty & Thrive in the Future of Work

The world today is changing faster than it ever has before and only a fraction of the speed that it will in the years to come. As a result, leaders are waking up to the fact that what got us to where we are today aren’t the same ‘best’ practices that will get us to where we’re going.

Today, leaders need to adopt what innovation and leadership expert Sheri Jacobs has uncovered as THE NEW RULES for leading through uncertainty and thriving in the future.

By giving everyone a voice, conducting an environmental scan, assessing change capacity, and taking more shots, Sheri pairs decades of executive leadership experience with breathtaking photography as she paves the way for leaders to not only fix what needs improving but accelerate what is already working, too.

In this actionable, inspiring, and insightful keynote, leaders from all industries and sectors, sizes, and profit status will learn exactly how to lead engaged, creative, psychologically safe, and thriving teams as we collectively navigate the ever-changing future of work together.

Future Transformed: Harnessing AI to Transform Tomorrow’s Enterprise

Want to know how AI can help your organization skip the slow growth curve and make dramatic leaps forward? Sheri Jacobs has helped over 300 organizations do exactly that. Drawing from their extensive research covering more than a million customer interactions, Sheri shows how businesses can use AI not just as another tech tool, but as a game-changer that transforms everything from customer engagement to innovation.

In this eye-opening session, you’ll discover a practical framework for using AI to achieve exponential growth while keeping the human touch that matters. Through real stories and proven strategies, Sheri will show you how to ethically harness AI’s power to revolutionize your organization’s growth trajectory. You’ll walk away understanding exactly how to turn AI from a buzzword into your biggest competitive advantage.