Deborah Perry Piscione

Deborah Perry Piscione's Speech Descriptions

Deborah Perry Piscione lays out the best practices for democratizicing innovation, creating more value, and spurring growth. A renowned expert on innovation methodology, Piscione’s guidelines and insights for fostering and managing a vibrant organization are based on the real-life practices of world-class companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Google. She understands that the driving force of innovation is people and emphasizes the arts of leading, risk-taking, and cultivating a collaborative environment of “Yes, and…” that will enable your business to thrive in today’s fast-paced markets.

How to Create a Risk-taking Culture

It's no coincidence that our most revered business icons are also the boldest risk-takers, such as Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. Yet with so much emphasis on short-term stock price gains and bottom line focus, organizations tend to act too safe, resulting in a stagnant business culture which generates entirely forgettable results in a world that demands significant solutions. If groundbreaking innovation is about taking calculated risks, then why do companies not only set reams of policies and procedures to limit risk, but also spend no resources developing the key skills and systems for effective risk-taking?

In this poignant presentation, Deborah discusses how to get back into the business of taking risk. Based on her series of books, including The Risk Factor: Why Every Organization Needs Big Bets, Bold Characters, and the Occasional Spectacular Failure, Deborah Perry Piscione explores risk-taking as a powerful tool for leaders and their organizations. By looking into the fascinating heroes of risk, Piscione makes the case that for your culture to act smarter, faster, and with more agility and creativity, you must explore the one core leadership skill that has been completely ignored in corporate cultures. She explores both the individual skills and organization systems to unleash risk-taking. This is a very exciting speech for an entire audience.

The Secret to Silicon Valley's Staggering Growth

Why do governments around the globe keep sending delegations to Silicon Valley to try to discover its secrets? What is it that Silicon Valley can teach the rest of the world about creating value from ideas, build new forms of business and create disruptive innovation? The secret is in the synergy that creates an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

In this keynote, speaker Deborah Perry Piscione explains how different parts of the ecosystem come together as an interconnected web, such as the collaborative dynamics between private and public sectors, the interplay between higher education and the business community and the commercialization of know-how. Piscione takes a close look at the spirit of entrepreneurialism, examining the six characteristics that all Silicon Valley entrepreneurs radiate -- passion, authenticity, love of ideas, an appetite for risk, trustworthiness, and resilience. You will find this an extremely enlightening and inspiring keynote.

It's Our Turn: The Rise of Powerful Business Women

From her experiences running the renowned national women's networking program Alley to the Valley, Deborah Perry Piscione has an unparalleled understanding of what enables women to become great leaders and accomplish their ultimate goals. Even with the rapid rise of women in great leadership roles, the playing field is still pitched away from women.

Deborah talks about the skills and networks you need to develop, as well as the collective risks that women need to take to showcase the strengths of women leaders and improve organizational cultures and productivity. She addresses enduring myths that permeate the minds of decision makers, and provides clear cut solutions.

Turbocharging People: Getting Great Things Done in the Age of Innovation

We all understand how hard it is to manage people. Since human behavior can be unpredictable, we set policies and procedures to limit behavior, and focus our energies on managing productivity and investing in technological solutions. This has led to organization cultures that over reward production at the expense of under rewarding creativity, risk-taking, problem solving, and a general passion for innovation and improvement.

In this breakthrough presentation based on her new book, The People Equation: Why Innovation Is People, Not Products, Deborah Perry Piscione shows that every organization can develop a mindset, an organizational structure, and product development/problem solving processes that will maximize creativity and innovation.

Using examples from admired organizations and from her research into world class business practices, Piscione shows how to create a culture where risk-taking is rewarded, mavericks are encouraged, collaboration between highly competent people is nurtured, and, when experiments and new initiatives are proposed, the response is to ask how rather than question why. This is a truly inspiring and pragmatic presentation on harnessing the creative energy in every organization.

Bold Leadership: Corporate Courage

Leadership is about courage. The courage to chance failure as the price for succeeding big. The courage to ignite the passions of your workforce and being open to great ideas from anyone at any time. It is about doing what is right, and seizing the moment when the iron is hot. So, why is this so hard? Because in all of the books and speeches about leadership, what has been neglected is how to master the art of risk-taking.

In this exciting presentation, Piscione shows how risk can become an incredibly powerful tool in the leader's tool belt. Deborah reveals the key differences between gambling and calculated risk-taking, and how to master the skills of risk. Audiences are then able to build a culture that not only focuses on producing the work, but also create and execute a steady flow of ideas to improve every aspect of the organization, and recognize a leader's bias toward their own ideas to find the balance between long-term value creation and short-term profitability.

Improvisational Innovation: Key to Building a Culture of Growth

In this presentation, Piscione discusses a methodology in innovation called, Imporovisational Innovation, which democratizes the ability for anyone at any level to create and experiment.

Improvisational innovation offers a formal process by which anyone can submit ideas, be taken seriously, and be protected in the process. She explores how to allow good ideas to bubble up from anyone at any time, and solve the age old leadership dilemma of, "How do I know if someone in our company has a brilliant idea that will either generate new revenue or save the company money?"