“Simone clearly connected with our global audience.”
As the owner of the UnitedHealth Group’s emerging leader program, Simone was the obvious choice to support our virtual session. Our audience of 1,600 leaders was highly engaged based on comments we received both during and after the session. Simone clearly connected with our global audience through her passion, her impactful storytelling, and her deep, actionable knowledge on what it takes to innovate in the real world, at the individual level.
—Walter Baumann, Learning & Development, UnitedHealth Group
KEYNOTE
TOPICS
How You Can Do Better (and Feel Better) with Less
Leaders and teams are feeling the pressure of a “Do More with Less” era. Demands for increased productivity with fewer resources are creating more stress and stifling innovation.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this fun and interactive keynote, Dr. Simone Ahuja presents the Less Makes Better approach—a practical strategy that empowers teams to focus on the resources they already have, so they can do better – and feel better – with less..
Drawing on insights from her bestselling books and work with leading organizations, Dr. Ahuja introduces a simple framework to turn massive challenges into manageable actions and transform overwhelm into engagement.
If you’re looking for an optimistic, actionable keynote that equips your teams to be more productive, more innovative, and feel more energized in a fast-changing world, The Ease Equation is an experience you won’t want to miss.
Additional Keynotes
Simplify, Innovate, and Lead with Less
In today’s fast-paced world, your teams need more than just ideas—they need focus, effective execution, and the right tools to get results with fewer resources. In this keynote, Dr. Simone Ahuja reveals how AI can help you do better with less by simplifying work, boosting productivity, and accelerating innovation.
With relatable examples and actionable insights, Dr. Ahuja will show you exactly how to use AI to cut through the noise, get clear on what truly matters, and turn ideas into action - without the overwhelm. If you’re ready to move from embracing AI to activating the power of AI, this talk demystifies the exact process, and offers a step-by-step approach to leveraging AI for better problem solving, higher engagement, and maximum impact - at work (and at home!)
Accelerating Sales Transformation:
Unleashing Customer-Centric Innovation for an Effortless Yes
Unlock the transformative power of customer-centric innovation in driving sales excellence. This session is specially crafted for sales teams so you can revolutionize your approach and energize teams to achieve unparalleled growth.
Discover vital strategies to consistently elevate sales potential with a simple, proven customer-centric framework. With it, you’ll learn how to shift focus from assumptions to a genuine understanding of your customers’ needs and communicate in a language that resonates with them. It doesn’t have to be hard, and it’s a lot more fun when it’s almost effortless for your customers to say ‘YES’ to your offerings.
The Intrapreneur’s Playbook:
Empowering Intrapreneurs to Lead Everyday Innovation
Imagine if your organization’s most game-changing ideas weren’t just coming from the top but from passionate intrapreneurs throughout your teams. Dr. Simone Ahuja’s engaging keynote, The Intrapreneur’s Playbook, unlocks the everyday innovation potential of every team member, accelerating progress toward your organization’s goals.
Drawing on insights from her book Disrupt It Yourself, Simone provides a simple, actionable roadmap to help attendees turn their ideas into impactful actions aligned with company objectives—without adding to leadership’s workload. Your audience will learn how to select the best ideas and leave with practical tools to put them into action immediately.
They’ll build clarity and confidence in their ability to drive results - at work - and beyond, empowering them to make a meaningful impact wherever they are.
Being YOU at Work:
The Power of Authentic Leadership
Being authentic at work isn’t about oversharing or holding back—it’s about feeling safe to be yourself so you can lead with clarity, creativity, and confidence. In this engaging keynote, Dr. Simone Ahuja reveals how genuine leadership at every level can fuel productivity, innovation, and a culture of trust.
Drawing from her bestselling books and experience driving innovation and culture change with global organizations, Simone shares practical insights and actionable steps to help attendees build better relationships, have difficult yet productive conversations, and lead with purpose.
Glow Up Your Problem Solving:
How to Harness Your Unique Power to Drive Innovation
In a world that’s always changing, staying on top means staying innovative—not just for companies, but for you, too. We all bring something unique to the table, but are we really using our differences to spark change and make real impact?
Join Dr. Simone Ahuja in this fun and engaging keynote, where you’ll learn how to harness your own diversity and turn it into your superpower for solving problems better and faster—regardless of your title or resources. Learn how unique perspectives lead to fresh ideas and big wins, both for your career and your company.
Simone will also share how you can help create a culture where everyone feels safe to speak up, and step into your role as an Intrapreneur, an in-house entrepreneur, who knows how to take a great idea, and make things happen.
Every keynote experience
with Simone is followed by an
Insight-Rich
Conversation
where Simone shares high level strategies and recommendations for you, your teams and your organization, based on her work with scores of organizations similar to yours.
These deeper, highly personalized sessions are designed to help leaders cut through the noise and move forward with confidence. With a mix of tailored advice and personal coaching, she guides executives to sharpen their focus, simplify decisions, and unlock their potential, empowering leaders to drive meaningful change and lead with more clarity and ease.
Cracking the Intrapreneur’s Code
In this fun, highly engaging, and customized working session, Simone helps intrapreneurs get unprecedented clarity on advancing innovative ideas. Together, intrapreneurs map out their personal Intrapreneur’s Code roadmap using a battle-tested evergreen innovation tool. Simone guides the cohort through course definition and correction. This clear and confidence-building process helps minimize risk and maximize the learning that leads to the greatest innovation impact and business growth.
Your intrapreneurs will:
Frugal (Jugaad) Innovation to Do More With Less
Based on her books (international bestseller Jugaad Innovation and Disrupt It Yourself), Dr. Simone Ahuja will help your teams build a jugaad mindset - one that aims to create high value with few resources for as many people as possible. She shares simple tools that, coupled with this mindset, help your intrapreneurs take decisive action now. Building the skills of a fast and frugal entrepreneur creates the foundation for creativity, self-empowerment, and inclusive innovation that will help your business build a sustainable pipeline of innovative ideas and talent
In this course, you'll learn to:
Building Your Most Intrapreneurial Moonshot
In this fast-paced and fun working session, Simone helps teams advance big-ticket innovation that connects to your organization’s business goals. Together, your cohort of intrapreneur shoots for the moon and maps out a clear and actionable roadmap to get there. They’ll gain innovation, optimism, and confidence through hands-on experience and easy-to-use tools. Simone will guide your teams to ensure that action steps are high impact and learning is captured and shared, so your teams build agility and a consistent approach to growth through internal innovation.
In this course, you'll learn to:
Blasting Through Barriers to Intrapreneurship
Are you moving too slow? Not enough time? Not connected to end-users? Simone will unpack intrapreneurial barriers and map out specific strategies to navigate them in this interactive and fast-paced half-day session. This workshop will help you bond as a team and shift focus from barriers to solutions so your teams can drive better, faster, and even cheaper innovation.
In this course, you'll learn to: