Keynote Speaker – Charlene Li

Keynote Speaker – Charlene Li

Bestselling Author, CEO, Harvard Alumnus and Expert in Disruption, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

Bestselling Author, CEO, Harvard Alumnus and Expert in Disruption, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

At the forefront of some of Society’s Biggest Transformations

From the emergence of the Internet to the rise of artificial intelligence, Charlene has been at the forefront of some of society’s biggest transformations. For the past three decades, she’s worked as an author, analyst, and entrepreneur, exploring and explaining the new world being created right before our eyes by these new technologies.

That’s what Charlene does. But what she lives and works for is creating the “big gulp” moment.

That moment is what happens when you move from a place of confusion, where something is happening to you, to a place of understanding, where you have agency over your situation. Helping leaders take that first step toward a sense of empowerment and optimism, tempered by the knowledge of the journey ahead, is what drives her.

At the Heart of Disruption

After earning an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. degree magna cum laude from Harvard College, Charlene has spent the past three decades helping people see the future and thrive through disruption. She has advised executives and boards to recognize the vital truth that companies can’t simply innovate in order to stay competitive. They must transform.

As a sought-after expert on disruptive transformation, leadership, customer experience, and the future of work, Charlene has worked with hundreds of organizations—ranging from Adobe to Southwest Airlines and 14 of the Dow Jones Industrial 30 companies—to provide her insights to support a winning strategy for disruptive growth and a plan to identify and seize an opportunity no one else has the audacity or confidence to reach for.

Throughout her career, Charlene has been at the edge of disruption. She worked in newspapers in the early 1990s and helped them navigate the shift from print to online. As a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, she covered interactive advertising, search marketing, and the rise of social media. In 2008, she founded Altimeter Group, a disruptive competitor that challenged analyst firm incumbents such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, which was acquired by Prophet. Charlene went on to serve as the Chief Research Officer at PA Consulting, where she led the company’s thought leadership program. She currently leads her own firm, Quantum Networks Group.

Accolades

• Named One of the Most Creative People in Business and Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company
• Named by Inc Magazine as One of the Top 50 Leadership Innovators
• Named by Adage as One of its Top 40 Women to Watch
• Named by LinkedIn as One of the Top 10 Marketing Influencers
• Named by NowPublic as One of the 50 Most Influential People in Silicon Valley
• Named by Thinkers 360 as a B2B Marketing Leaders to Follow

Books:

• Winning with Generative AI: The 90-Day Blueprint for Success – Being Released Soon!
• The Disruption Mindset – 2019
• The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation – 2015
• The Seven Success Factors of Social Business Strategy – 2013
• Open Leadership – 2010
• Marketing in the Groundswell – 2009
• Groundswell – 2008

Keynote Topic:

Leadership in the Digital Age

Digital technologies have revolutionized relationships, and leadership is no exception. To be truly engaged, effective leaders must harness and master the power of digital communications and branding, especially with the challenges of leading a distributed team.

In this speech, Charlene explains that the key is understanding how your leadership style can be extended and scaled through digital techniques to achieve your most important goals. You’ll learn the art and science of how to listen, share, and engage with employees and customers in the digital era. We’ll also discuss common objections and concerns of leaders and how to address them.

Key Takeaways:

• Master a new way of developing relationships, which begins by stepping out of traditional hierarchies.
• Listen at scale, share to shape, and engage to transform.
• Shift to a digital mindset.
• Apply the right digital tools to meet strategic goals.