Tamara Ghandour

In an era where the relentless tides of change have left us fatigued and resistant, inertia can set in, hindering progress. But here’s the exciting truth: shifting empowers us to break free from exhaustion and resistance, unleashing innovation and seamless adaptation. In our rapidly evolving world, the ability to innovate and adapt amidst change has become the key to success. Explore the power of shifting as a powerful mindset and strategic tool for success that helps you stay ahead of, even harness change, instead of falling behind. Through real-world examples, actionable insights, and engaging stories, this session will equip you with the mindset and strategies needed to navigate uncertainty and embrace change, ultimately propelling you towards sustained growth and achievement.

You’ll Learn How To:

– Harness Your Brain: Tap the power of your unique Everyday Innovator® style, tapping the full potential of your best brain and unleashing the power of innovation within you for more confidence, adaptability and success.

– Create a Shifting Mindset: Understand the psychological and emotional elements of embracing change, and how adopting a shifting mindset can lead to resilience and innovation.

– Top strategies for Agile Adaptation: Learn easy-to-implement techniques for rapidly adapting to shifting circumstances, enabling you to stay ahead in a fast-changing world.

– Tools to Navigating Uncertainty: Discover effective ways to manage uncertainty and ambiguity, turning potential challenges into opportunities for personal and professional growth.

– Building a Culture of Adaptability: Gain practical insights into fostering a team culture that encourages and supports continuous learning, adaptability, and collective thriving

Business-as-usual isn’t enough anymore. The cost of not ingraining innovation into your DNA is stark – a quick path to irrelevance in today’s rapidly changing and dynamic environment. To succeed in this fast-paced, ever-changing landscape, you must strengthen the new skill required for success – human innovation. Your employees require it, your clients demand it, and your competition will force it. The good news is, the key to outmaneuvering change and outperforming the competition is already within you and the teams you lead. You simply need to unlock it. Tamara will take you on an inspiring journey of self-discovery and transformation that will unlock your greatest competitive advantage as a leader, a team, and an organization – human ingenuity. In this high-energy session, Tamara will help you remove the shackles of self-doubt and embrace a path of innovation and achievement that will create measurable outcomes.

You’ll Learn How To:

– Nurture Your Essential Innovator Traits: Cultivate your unique Everyday Innovator style®, strengthening your creative problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making skills.

– Foster Resilience Amidst Challenges: Cultivate unwavering everyday resilience, enabling you and your teams to rebound from setbacks and fortify the mental endurance required to thrive in change.

– Conquer Resistance to Change: Overcome internal barriers that hinder progress, quelling self-sabotage, and dismantling needless friction, all to foster an environment of change and innovation.

– Inspire Collaborative Innovation: Foster a culture of collaborative brilliance, where each team member contributes their innovative potential, collectively driving your business towards unprecedented heights.

In a rapidly evolving world, a coaching culture emerges as the catalyst for unprecedented growth and success. Being the only one driving innovation and growth isn’t going to cut it in volatile and uncertain times. Thriving amidst new challenges and opportunities necessitates the elevation of collective abilities and outcomes. In this high-energy keynote, Tamara will delve into the vital importance of cultivating a coaching culture and how your unique approach can nurture trust, collaboration, and foster an inclusive atmosphere where diverse talents thrive. Embrace a future where abilities are magnified, outcomes are amplified, and everyone thrives in an environment of collaboration and growth.

You’ll Learn How To:

– Embrace the Coaching Mindset: Build a robust coaching toolbox to lead with adaptability and excellence, elevating everyone’s performance and outcomes.

– Recognize the Pivotal Coaching Moments: Create a more wholistic approach, seizing daily opportunities for empowerment and improvement, propelling progress.

– Leverage Your Unique Coaching Style: Harness your unique Everyday Innovator® traits as drivers of a transformative coaching culture.

– Overcome Internal Resistors to Change: Conquer the mental and emotional resistors to change that are sabotaging your best efforts and creating unnecessary push back.

– Cultivate a sustainable Coaching Culture: Tap the collective wisdom of the group, creating a positive ripple that fuels individual development and collective success.

We all know we live in a world driven by the need to grow and innovate, but where do you start? Right here! Join Tamara and your fellow attendees as she takes you on an exhilarating journey of tapping into the collective wisdom of the room. Together, you’ll unlock the ideas hiding in plain sight and leverage the power of collective wisdom to ignite innovation and achieve unparalleled success. In this ‘unkeynote’ you’ll discover how you navigate innovation and change, experience energizing, easy-to -implement innovation activities that unlock the opportunities and solutions, and tackle real-world challenges. Experience the magic of collective wisdom as you explore the art of co-creation. Through real-time experimentation, learn how to harness diverse perspectives, leverage collaborative thinking, and leave with co-created solutions that transcend individual limitations.

You’ll Experience:

– Ignite Your Everyday Innovator® Mindset: Transform obstacles into opportunities, driving growth with fresh perspectives.

– Awaken Dormant Ideas: Employ techniques to unearth the hidden brilliance within yourself and teams.

– Leverage Collective Wisdom: Convert challenges into actionable ideas, propelling forward momentum.

– Craft Co-Creation Toolbox: Amplify collaboration, fostering innovation and enduring success.

– Fuel Lasting Innovation: Infuse co-creation into your daily approach, driving ongoing transformative growth.

In a world that’s constantly evolving, settling for the ordinary is no longer an option. The price of neglecting personal potential and growth is high – a life that lacks the fulfillment and meaning you deserve. To thrive in this dynamic environment, you must cultivate a new set of skills for success – the skills of personal innovation. Your own potential demands it, your aspirations command it, and your dreams will be the force behind it. The exciting truth is that the key to navigating life’s challenges and achieving your desires already resides within you. You just need to unlock it! In this session, Tamara will guide you through an empowering experience that will reveal your greatest asset – your inner brilliance – and help you unlock unique Everyday Innovator® talents to achieve your dreams.

You’ll Learn How To:

– Amplify Your Authentic Innovator Strengths: Dive deep into your unique Everyday Innovator® style and cultivate what makes you exceptional, unveiling a boundless source of creativity and possibility.

– Build Your Custom Innovator Toolbox: Develop a toolbox with tactics and tools to activate your talents and help you excel at creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and confident decision-making, every day.

– Cultivate Resilience in the Face of Adversity: Strengthen your everyday resilience, enabling you to bounce back from setbacks and fortify the mental endurance required to thrive amidst change.

– Overcome Barriers to Progress: Break down internal barriers that hinder your personal development, silencing self-sabotage and dismantling unnecessary friction that holds you back.

– Foster Collaborative Brilliance: Surround yourself with collective support and environment that propels you towards your envisioned life.

Amidst today’s rapid market shifts, innovation emerges as your ultimate sales ally. Secure deals and stay ahead in an evolving landscape. Your clients demand fresh answers to novel challenges – and it’s you they’re seeking. Prepare to dominate the NEXT NORMAL with newfound insights, unparalleled problem-solving, and the unwavering confidence and ability to be the ultimate client resource. In this session, Tamara guides you to unlock your greatest competitive advantage – your innovative mind and everyday tools.

You’ll Learn How To:

– Craft Distinctive Value: Amplify your unique Everyday Innovator™ style, standing out as the distinct and irreplaceable partner clients seek.

– Empower Confident Decisions: Dissolve client resistance, empowering them to embrace change, progress with certainty and get to the “yes” you seek.

– Solve with Innovation: Sharpen your curiosity and creative skills to get in the door and deliver game-changing solutions to clients’ unique challenges.

– Accelerate Buy-In: Communicate in a way that drives faster buy-in, and enhanced sales potential.

– Navigate the NEXT NORMAL: Excel in a swiftly changing landscape, leveraging innovation for unmatched sales mastery.

The impact of Tamara’s break-through work on human-centric innovation can be seen in individuals, teams, and organizations across the globe. As the creator of the proprietary Innovation Quotient Edge (IQE) assessment, host of the popular business podcast – Inside LaunchStreet, and the president of LaunchStreet Consultancy, Tamara has helped thousands gain the competitive edge by unlocking the power of innovation. With 25 plus years of business experience, Tamara knows what it takes to truly drive innovation and growth in an ever-changing marketplace.

Tamara is a sought after keynote speaker and advisor thanks to her unique ability to make innovation accessible and tangible for everyone. Through a combination of neuroscience, brain mechanics, behavioral and social psychology, experience, Tamara developed the IQE assessment and tools, the only tool that helps people discover their unique style of innovation so they can bring out the best in themselves and those around them. For many leaders and teams its become the secret sauce for igniting peak performance and develop high-performing teams that innovate and win.

Tamara’s company, LaunchStreet, is the go-to innovation partner for companies like Arrow Electronics, Schneider Electric, Disney, Red Robin, RICOH and US Army Research Labs when they want to create a culture of innovation that wins and develop innovative solutions for their biggest challenges. Her IQE system has helped ignite, scale and sustain innovation inside and out organizations of all sizes. Most importantly her work helps everyone realize their innovation capabilities and apply it daily.

At 27 she was the youngest person ever named to leadership in a leading global advertising agency. If you’ve walked the aisles of Target you’ve pushed your cart past products and brands that have benefited from Tamara’s innovative approach – everything from Cheerios and Johnsonville Sausage to Procter & Gamble and Clorox. She has run multi-million dollar businesses and launched a few of her own, learning from her successes and, most importantly, her failures. Tamara has been featured on the TODAY SHOW, EO FIRE Podcast, the New York Times, Denver Business Journal, NBC 9News and on radio stations across the country. As a kid in computer camp, Tamara won the “I’ll try anything once” award – a motto she still lives by.