Phil Simon is a frequent keynote speaker, recognized collaboration and technology authority, and college professor-for-hire. He is the award-winning author of eleven books, most recently Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work. He helps organizations communicate, collaborate, and use technology better. Harvard Business Review, the MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired, NBC, CNBC, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times have featured his contributions. He also hosts the podcast Conversations About Collaboration.
Phil Simon’s Speech Topics:
Reimagining Collaboration (New for 2021)
In this new talk, I draw upon the lessons from my book Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work. When it comes to remote work, Covid-19 didn’t change anything; it only accelerated changes that were already taking place.
When offices closed and people started wearing masks, relatively few organizations were able to continue without significant interruption. Indeed, Basecamp and Automattic were the exceptions that proved the rule. Most were wholly unprepared for the massive changes that they had to face:
- They relied upon email for internal “collaboration”
- They continued to rely upon legacy business processes and mind-sets
- They hadn’t built up a remote-first muscle memory
- Most still haven’t—and that’s a big deal. The future of work will be a hybrid one.
In this talk, I provide the context to understand the problem. More than that, I’ll offer meaningful solutions about how organizations can turn this crisis into the opportunity that it is. Specifically, by embracing the Hub-Spoke Model of Collaboration, they can realize a number of benefits:
- The future of work will be a hybrid one.
- Make their employees vastly more productive.
- Unleash the power of their software in a way that they currently cannot.
- Create powerful knowledge repositories.
- Simplify existing business processes.
- Build the foundation for future machine-learning and AI enhancements.
And more.
Note that I’ll be giving this talk remotely for the time being for the foreseeable future—using the very tools that I describe in the book.
More Keynotes and Workshops (contact us for detailed outlines)
- Understanding Big Data
- Agile Analytics
- Building a Culture of Analytics
- The Age of the Platform
- Fixing Business Communication
- Technology Trends
Slides should be as spartan as possible. Period. They should accentuate speakers’ points, not confuse the audience. How can you tell the difference? How do you really know if an audience is paying attention to the person on stage?
It’s usually to pretty easy to determine if attendees are really engaged. Ask yourself if they are looking up at the speaker or down at their devices?
Videos:
Collabosphere 2015: 7 Rules for Fixing Broken Business Communication
How to Create a Culture of Analytics
Phil Simon’s Bio:
Whether in person or virtually, Phil Simon regularly speaks to organizations of all types and sizes on topics such as Big Data, platforms, analytics, communication, collaboration, and technology. Since 1997, Phil has given more than 350 talks, presentations, and workshops to more than 35,000 people on three continents and in eight countries.
Phil has penned eleven books including the award-winning The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business and Message Not Received: Why Business Communication Is Broken and How to Fix It. His latest creation is Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work.
Over the years, he has taught thousands of students a wide variety of management, data, and technology courses both in-person and online. These days, Phil gives guest lectures and serve as a professor-for-hire.
For more than two decades, Phil has worked with individuals and organizations in a wide variety of industries and capacities. At a high level, he does three things today. First, he trains employees on how to use collaborative tools, most notably Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Second, Phil helps organizations with strategy, collaboration, communications, and analytics. Third, he writes articles, white papers, and other long-form content for his clients. Over the last decade, he’s written thousands of posts, nearly 1,300 of which live on his site.
