Lisa Bodell

Lisa Bodell is the founder and CEO of FutureThink who helps organisations reduce complexity and create space for innovation and better ways of working through keynotes and advisory work.

  • Founder and CEO of FutureThink, a firm focused on simplification, leadership and innovation.
  • Author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, published by Routledge.
  • Forbes contributor writing on simplification, change and innovation.
  • Delivered a TEDx talk on simplification and change.
  • Works with large organisations across sectors on innovation and ways of working.

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Key speaking topics

  • Organisational simplification
  • Innovation strategy
  • Reducing workplace complexity
  • Challenging the status quo
  • Leadership and ways of working
  • Creating space for meaningful work

Ideal for

  • Senior leadership teams
  • Strategy and transformation leaders
  • Innovation and change teams
  • Corporate conference audiences

Audience outcomes

  • Clear understanding of how complexity limits innovation
  • Practical approaches to simplifying processes and priorities
  • Tools to challenge outdated practices and assumptions
  • Greater clarity on creating space for higher-value work

Why organisations work with Lisa Bodell

  • Combines leadership experience with published research and practical frameworks.
  • Brings a clear focus on simplification as a driver of innovation and performance.
  • Experienced in working with large organisations across sectors.
  • Provides structured thinking that supports strategic change initiatives.

Biography

Lisa Bodell works with organisations that want to remove unnecessary complexity and create the conditions for meaningful innovation. As founder and CEO of FutureThink, she advises and speaks to senior leaders on how to simplify strategy, streamline ways of working and unlock higher-value performance.

Her work centres on challenging entrenched practices and helping organisations rethink how decisions are made, how time is spent and how priorities are set. Through keynote presentations and advisory engagements, she equips leadership teams with practical approaches to reducing friction and focusing on what matters most.

Bodell is the author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, both published by Routledge, where she explores how organisations can escape the complexity trap and build cultures that encourage innovation and accountability. Her ideas on simplification and change have reached global audiences, including through her TEDx talk on how simplification drives meaningful transformation.

In addition to her books and speaking engagements, she writes as a Forbes contributor on topics including innovation, leadership and organisational effectiveness. She works with large organisations across sectors, supporting leaders who are navigating growth, transformation and the need to modernise how work gets done.

Talks

Killing Complexity - Why Simple Wins

This presentation addresses how organisational complexity undermines performance, morale and innovation, and shows how adopting simplification as a mindset can free up time, energy and focus for work that matters most.

Key takeaways:

  • How simplification sparks action and enables teams to move faster with greater focus
  • Practical techniques to eliminate unnecessary rules, reports and busywork
  • Ways to create more time for innovation, trust, engagement and adaptability

Leading Simplicity - A Roadmap

This talk provides leaders with practical tools to embed simplicity into their operating model, align teams around what matters and build a culture with a bias for action and continuous improvement.

Key takeaways:

  • How to cultivate a culture where challenging outdated practices is the norm
  • Methods to integrate simplification into daily operations and decision-making
  • Approaches to align teams, reduce stress and create space for problem-solving and innovation

Unleashing Innovation

This session explores how organisational structures and habits can restrict innovation and outlines practical techniques to shift mindsets, challenge the status quo and unlock creative problem-solving across teams.

Key takeaways:

  • How existing values and structures can hold innovation back and how to rethink them
  • Techniques to reignite curiosity, inquiry and creative problem-solving
  • Practical approaches to reinvention and engaging everyone as a change agent

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Lisa is everything you look for in a keynote speaker – she’s insightful, engaging and energetic. She was the top-rated speaker at our Google events and inspired the entire audience to start a simplification revolution.
Think Events, Google
Lisa's message around change and simplification is incredibly relevant and compelling. Her talk is thought-provoking, challenging and necessary given today's complex and ever-changing business environment.
Global Managing Director, Accenture
Lisa is one of the most outstanding presenters I have ever seen. She passionately delivers well-articulated messages that engage the audience and encourage action. Her insights will become essential elements of our culture.
CEO, NYSE Euronext
Lisa’s presentation was the absolute favorite of our 3-day offsite! I now have a totally new way of looking at simplification and innovation. I would recommend her and her team to anyone planning an event in a heartbeat.
Vice President, Delta Airlines
Incredible. Lisa captivated the audience with insightful, well-articulated thoughts about technologies and trends that could transform our industry. In a very short time, she energized people to be more proactive about shaping our future.
VP for Worldwide Innovation, Pfizer
Lisa blew us away. Inspiring and practical. People were up off their feet, laughing and thinking. Cell phones were constantly going up to take pictures of her presentation. She exceeded all expectations.
Chief Learning Officer, AXA
Over the years, I’ve tried many ‘gurus’ to educate our leaders. Lisa is the real thing – she’s inspiring, motivating, practical, and memorable. She ignites the possible with the audience. She was the top rated speaker at our executive events.
Executive L&D, AT&T
Lisa made my leadership team think in new ways and helped us develop winning business ideas right in the room. My team now embraces change and innovation rather than fearing it.
Managing Director, Citi
Lisa’s presentations have transformed the way our leaders think. Lisa provides a mix of practical, easy to use tools and inspiration, which has helped to create a new mindset around how to innovate in all parts of our company.
Executive Director of Enterprise Learning, Merck
Such a professional! Very insightful! It was the best of all sessions!
Pasha Holdings
Amazing presentation! Extremely informative and thought provoking!
Financial Reporting Specialist, Prudential
People loved her message of simplifying and ‘getting rid of stupid rules.’ This could be a risky message for a company like ours, but she made clear distinctions about the controls that regulated industries like ours have to maintain vs. the types of things that can be stopped. There were a number of spots where it was clear that she did her homework. She was able to deliver her message while speaking to things that were very specific to our industry or even company. On top of her ‘on stage’ performance, she was just a delight to have on site. Everyone that she engaged with, from our senior executives to the person that put her microphone on was blown away by how much energy she gave them.
Fortune 500 client
Lisa was a dream to work with and provided insights and tips on how to kill complexity in the workplace. Our members love takeaways they can implement upon their return to work...Lisa provided those and more!
Vice President of Operations, Dental Trade Alliance