Navigating �The Badlands:�
How to Thrive in Turbulent Times

Learn to jump-start your journey through �The Badlands� and create the advantages needed to thrive.

Be one of the prosperous who successfully weather the upcoming, and single-most challenging, economic and social upheaval of the last 1000 years. This speech will help you understand the macro-economic shifts to occur in this historic cycle of �disruptive innovation.�

Allowing you to make sense of the confluence of the �seven global drivers� that transform the way we do business and live, Mary will help you see new opportunities in this hostile, yet beautiful, landscape by targeting organizational obstacles such as �competency addiction� and �strategy decay.�

Getting to the Future Fast:
Eight Principles to Steer Through �The Badlands�

Learn to move into the future fast AND first.

The Badlands demand a unique �leadership readiness.� Including �scan, scout, steer, not ready, fire, aim,� the eight �principles of transformation� use The Badlands as a crucible for rapid learning of the new competencies needed to match the challenges of this uncertain environment.

The Future of Global Work:
Jobs Here, Jobs There; NOT Jobs Everywhere

Gain a clear understanding of the future of jobs.

The restructuring of jobs and work around the world will continue to have.a profound impact upon virtually every individual and organization. Mary's compelling analysis of the �big picture� includes implications and imperatives crossing a number of industries and markets.

Globalization: Making the Right Choices

Gain insights into globalization�s �trade-offs.�

We are at �the point of no return� concerning globalization and all its consequences, intended AND unintended. With over-developed economic networks and under-developed social and political systems, globalization at present is imbalanced and unsustainable. Develop the needed �guts and soul� to understand key �levers� that accelerate a better and more inclusive future.

Unprecedented Opportunities for Women:
Lead the Journey of Your Lifetime�

We are at the tipping point of the most significant trend of the last 50 years: A �critical mass� of women�s changing roles.

Women have become business, government and social leaders, developing unique styles creating bottom-line economic and social results. Whether 20 or 60 years of age, women can learn to use the current environmental turbulence to create opportunities, accelerate leadership and harness their energy for the benefit of any organization.

The Global Net Generation:
Ready to Play�On Their Terms

Learn the characteristics they share and their vast differences across cultures.

Over the next 10 years, the rapid devlopment of young knowledge workers around the globe�particularly Asia�will will create a big shift in human resources. An elite of the more than one billion people between the ages of 15 and 24 years old, they will be eagar to access and assist the success of the growing global economy. They will not be passive partners, however: These natives of The Badlands will have their own agendas and demands in exchange for their work.

Become an Insider to China�s Future:
Target Your Best Opportunities

Gain practical insights into pitfalls of this seemingly enigmatic marketplace.

China will come of age in The Badlands, rising to be a major economic and political power. While a lot of information exists about China, little comes together to make coherent sense. Everyday, executives from both Chinese and multi-national companies make wrong turns, backsliding in their quest to create China�s new marketplace�often costing their very existence. Take home a framework to help target your best opportunities.

The Chinese Consumer Conundrum:
Breakthrough Strategies

Become equipped with a unique roadmap for reaching these elusive consumers.

Deciphering the Chinese consumer-base is just plain difficult: It becomes a �moving target� as consumerism slowly diffuses. Many ideas and products can take hold quickly, but fail to reach sustained mass-market proportions nor reach them, rapidly extinguishing. Become equipped with a unique roadmap for reaching these elusive consumers.

Health Care�s Imperative:
Busting Through the Greedy, Gruesome Gridlock

Gain insight into this conundrum and develop strategies for radical innovation and new leadership.

Health care in America is paradoxical: Stunning technical innovation mixed with the gruesome gridlock of legacy problems keeps health care �lost in the familiar territory� of business as usual. Gain insight into this conundrum and develop strategies for radical innovation and new leadership.

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