Over the past 20 years, Madan Birla has presented keynotes and workshops around the world on the topics of professional development, enterprise innovation and growth, and creating a culture of innovation. Each of the listed topics has been delivered as a 1-hour keynote address and as a half-day workshop.
All talks and workshops are customized to meet clients’ unique needs and operating environment.
- Google,‘Gaining Acceptance of Your Creative Ideas’
- Microsoft, ‘Balanced Life and Unleashed Creativity: Two sides of the Same Coin’
- SONY North America. ‘Leading for Innovation and Growth’
- FedEx, ‘Develop Strategic Thinking and Planning Skills in High Potential Managers’ and ‘Taking FedEx to the Next Level of Global Growth and Excellence
- IBM, ‘Leading a Balanced Life’
- Bridgestone North America, ‘Taking Bridgestone to the Next Level of Growth and Excellence: Engaging Everyone in the Innovation Process’
- Smith & Nephew, ‘Taking S&N to the Next Level of Top Line Growth’
- First Tennessee Bank, ‘Unleash IT Innovation to enhance CVP and Successfully Execute Company’s Cross-Selling Business Growth Strategy’
- St. Jude, “Unleashing Creativity and Innovation’
- Tata Consulting Services (TCS), Building and Sustaining an Innovation Culture
- Thomas & Betts, ‘Doing Business in India’
- Hilton Corp., ‘From Successful Technical Professional to an Innovation Leader’
- Hi-Speed Industrial Services, ‘Leading for Innovation and Growth’
- Interactive Services Inc. ‘Leading for Innovation and Growth’
- Bi-Genex, ‘Leading for Innovation and Growth’
- Infosys, ‘Strategic Role of IT in FedEx’s Global Growth and Success’
- Master IT, ‘Taking the Organization to the next Level of Growth and Excellence’
- Wipro , ‘Leading for Innovation and Growth’
- Transport Corporation of India, ‘Leading for Innovation and Growth’
- Acelity, ‘Role of Finance in Taking the Org to the next Level of Growth’
- Madan Birla
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Collierville, TN 38017 USA
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Talks and Seminars at Colleges around the World
- University of Miami, Exec MBA – Taking the Organization to the Next Level of Top Line Growth (Engaging Everyone in the innovation Process) - Creativity and Innovation: The Key to Career Success in the 21st Century (Toppel Career Center)
- Northwestern/Kellogg, Exec Ed - Leading for Innovation and Growth
- Dartmouth/Tuck, Exec Ed - Leading for Innovation and Growth
- University of North Carolina/Kenan – Flagler Exec Ed – Creativity and Balance: A Nurturing Relationship, Exec MBA – Global Supply Chain Management
- Fordham, Evening MBA - Strategic Planning at FedEx
- University of North Carolina Greensboro/Bryan – Unleashing Creativity and Innovation Full Time MBA – Leading for Innovation and Sustainability
- Duke/Pratt Engg. – From a Successful Technical Professional to an Innovation Leader
- Singapore Institute of Management – Building and Sustaining an Innovation Culture
- Indian Institute of Mgmt./Bangalore, Exec Ed – Strategic Role of IT in FedEx’s Global Success
- Indian Institute of Management/Kolkata, MBA – Leading for Innovation: The FedEx Way
- Tecnológico de Monterrey/Mexico City & Pueblo – Leading for Innovation and Growth
- University of California San Diego, Full Time MBA – Leading for Innovation and Growth
- Illinois Institute of Technology/Stuart, Full Time MBA – Marketing Strategy Dev. at FedEx
- University of Maryland/Robert H. Smith, Exec Ed – Leading for Innovation and Growth
- University of Memphis/Fogelman, Exec MBA – Leading for Innovation and Growth School of Education – Creativity and Innovation: Key to Career Success
- Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India – Leading for Innovation and Growth
- Christian Brothers Univ., Memphis – From a Successful Tech Professional to an Innovation Leader
- Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India – Leading for Innovation and Growth
- Columbia, Full Time MBA – Service Quality Management at FedEx
- Madan Birla
10295 Buckland Bluff Cove,
Collierville, TN 38017 USA
Tel: 901 854 7423,
madanbirla@gmail.com www.madanbirla.com
creativity
and
innovation
- Ethan Willis
CEO, Prosper Inc.
NY Times Best-Selling author
Nine Lessons from Nature
To continue growing in today’s highly competitive global economy, companies have to out-think and out-perform the competition. To have a competitive edge, we must have an innovation edge. How do we do that?
In this talk, Madan explains how creativity is natural and essential to personal and organizational success. Organizations just need to create the four (M.I.N.T.) conditions to tap into this natural resource and unleash their competitive edge. In this pursuit, these nine lessons from nature can provide winning edge:
1. Four steps for unleashing your natural creative potential and generating creative ideas
2. Four communication skills to gain acceptance of your ideas
3. Two key leadership skills for engaging your team in developing and successfully implementing creative ideas
4. Two words that guarantee promotions Along the way you will also learn how to Get the recognition you deserve
5. Minimize internal and external negative influences that obstruct creative energy flow
6. Start operating at the next level
7. Stop self-censoring and confidently expressing your ideas
8. Trust yourself that the resources for germinating creative ideas are within you Use the power of positive speaking
9. Build your reputation as a creative thinker Become management’s go-to person for innovative business solutions
Learning Objectives
- Examine in detail the creative thinking process, with emphasis on the critical role of creativity and innovation, both in enterprise growth and career success
- Learn the four requirements for the mind to generatecreative ideas
- Discuss the seven lessons from nature for creating the four requirements
- Understand the importance of your day-to-day behavior in actively engaging the team members in the innovation process
How to generate creative ideas
Managers understand the importance of engaging everyone in generating creative ideas and expect employees to do that. But employees experience difficulty in meeting this expectation because they don't know how. This interactive workshop teaches proven and practical skills to bridge the gap between expectations and reality.
Learning Objectives
- Understand creativity in the business world and the critical role played by employees at every level in making an organization innovative.
- Learn to create the required four conditions for the mind to generate creative ideas.
- Using case studies, identify and practice the two key questions to engage the mind in creative problem solving.
- Develop a personal action plan to create the required conditions and unleash your natural creative potential.
“Many people believe that the way to drive innovation is to carve out a few creative people. Our view is entirely different. We need innovation from everyone.”
- David Whitman
CEO, Whirlpool
“CEOs on Managing Globally,” FORTUNE
How to Gain Acceptance of Your Ideas
Every company has sound ideas that don't get accepted or implemented successfully because the person with the idea lacked the necessary communication and people skills. People operate with the assumption that when there is a great idea, everybody will see it and rally around it. The reality does not support this assumption.
Learning Objectives
- Understand that innovation – generation, acceptance and implementation of creative ideas is a people process.
- Using case studies, analyze and understand the factors that drive human behavior.
- Learn the four proven communication and people skills to gain wholehearted acceptance.
- Develop a personal action plan to practice the required communication and interpersonal skills.
“Hasbro’s key skill is our ability to design and make great games and toys. We develop intellectual property, so it’s important to develop the creativity and skills of our people.”
- Al Verrecchia
CEO, Hasbro
Leading for Innovation and Growth
This seminar presents a step-by-step blueprint for building and sustaining an innovation and performance culture. It starts out by asking the question, “If business leaders recognize the need for innovation, why is it that only a few succeed in that quest?" What exactly are the roadblocks to innovation? The five most common roadblocks are discussed. The managers will develop the required competencies and skills to adapt to the new and unforeseen realities. Using real world case studies the seminar trains leaders to thrive in complex environments, deliver innovative solutions and act on behalf of multiple stakeholders.
Learning Objectives
- Internalize that in today's highly competitive global economy, companies must innovate to grow.
- Understand the five most common roadblocks to innovation, and how effective leaders overcome them.
- Define the five dimensions and the corresponding five leadership responsibilities for building and sustaining this culture.
- Describe the proven leadership practices and organizational support systems for successfully fulfilling each of the five leadership responsibilities.
“Creativity in any large organization does not come from one individual, the celebrity CEO. That stuff’s B.S. Creativity in an organization starts where the action is – either in the laboratory, or in R&D sites, at a customer place, in manufacturing.”
- Sam Palmisano
CEO, IBM
BW Online, March 17, 2003
From a Successful Technical Professional to an Innovation Leader
The standard leadership training, most managers have been through, does not work for technical managers and professionals. One of the reasons for this gap between training and leadership behaviors on the job is that technical managers and professionals are programmed differently. They have a strong preference for left-brain/analytical activities. Innovation is a people process, and leading for innovation calls upon right brain capabilities. This seminar is specially designed to address this and the other four root causes.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the opportunities for technology (IT/ engineering) in developing and executing innovative growth strategies.
- Internalize the importance of three skill sets – technical, managerial and leadership – all key to making the full contribution.
- Understand the five dimensions and corresponding leadership practices for building and sustaining an innovation and performance culture.
- Gain insights into the drivers of human behavior in the work setting and how to positively influence these drivers.
and Leadership Excellence
“By the time most of us reach the position we have worked for, we have thought of the balances in our lives. All of us at times lose perspective in handling those balances. the great benefit Balanced Life offers is crystallizing all the elements needed to lead a fulfilling life. Decisions and choices grow easier and more clear.”
- Gayle Christensen
Director of Marketing
Federal Express
Balanced Life & Leadership Excellence: A Nurturing Relationship
The standard leadership training, most managers have been through, does not work for technical managers and professionals. One of the reasons for this gap between training and leadership behaviors on the job is that technical managers and professionals are programmed differently. They have a strong preference for left-brain/analytical activities. Innovation is a people process, and leading for innovation calls upon right brain capabilities. This seminar is specially designed to address this and the other four root causes.
Learning Objectives
- Focus in-depth on the day-to-day leadership behaviors needed for tapping employees’ creativity and commitment.
- Discuss the negative impact unresolved life balance conflicts have on the above leadership practices.
- Unleash leaders’natural creative potential by removing the roadblocks created by unresolved life balance conflicts.
- Develop apersonal action plan for restoring and sustaining work-life balance.
“Madan’s seminar was “very valuable in pointing out that one can only be truly effective and creative on the job when the whole self is in balance.”
- Pat Ferguson
Vice President, Human Resources
Holiday Inn
Facilitating a week-long Executive Seminar in Leadership for 2019 Executive MBA class, Fogelman College of Business and Economica, University of Memphis
Induction into the College of Education Alumni Hall of Fame
Seminar Topics
- ►Talks and Interactive Workshops at Businesses
- ►Talks at Colleges and Universities
- ►Participants' Feedback
Unleashing Creativity and Innovation:
- ► Nine Lessons from Nature
- ► How to generate creative ideas
- ► How to gain acceptance of your ideas
- ► Leading for Innovation and Growth
- ► From a Successful Technical Professional to an Innovation Leader
- ► A Nurturing Relationship
Balanced Life & Leadership Excellence: