Nan Delivers Keynotes with "INSPIRING Creative Energy"
Strategic Storytelling Presentation at LinkedIn. Photograph by Lisa Kessler.
Nan Crawford specializes in creating interactive, dynamic environments for learning. Her presentations are invigorating and inspiring experiences that leave audiences eager to take on the challenges before them. Even in the virtual realm, Nan has audience members up on their feet and experientially engaging in the ideas at hand. Nan has facilitated executive roundtables, moderated panels, and presented workshops and seminars. She has worked with groups ranging from intimate circles to keynote stages with thousands in the audience.
In-Person and Virtual Keynote Topics include:
Breakthrough Leadership
Innovation & Courageous Creativity
Collaboration & High-Performance Teams
Data Storytelling & Increasing Influence
Breakthrough Leadership
Extraordinary times call for exceptional leadership. Nan Crawford provides actionable insights to drive better communication and stronger focus, while helping audiences expand what’s possible. This dynamic presentation offers techniques and tools that enable leaders to get out of their own way. You’ll better understand the behaviors that drive performance and the clear patterns that dictate how successful leaders and organizations think, communicate, and act.
“Powerful. A bringing together of the people, ideas, and values of the whole event.”
— Alan Webber
Founding Editor
Fast Company
Resilience & Navigating Change
“Meaningful. Nan’s presentation generated an environment of ongoing respect and appreciation for each person.”
— Heather Henderson
Director of Training
Office Depot
Beginnings Follow Endings — Resilience, Tenacity & Navigating Change
How can leaders and their organizations not just survive, but thrive in these tumultuous times? Those looking to build back better must balance focus with flexibility to embrace change and seek the opportunity in uncertainty.
Offering a compelling, proven framework for sharpening assets and developing agility, Nan Crawford helps audiences seize opportunities within the chaos of constant change. She deftly leverages current neuroscience research, training listeners to navigate fear and self-doubt, enabling them to find a consistent source of clarity and calm, decisiveness and determination, that enable leaders to bring their best to the most challenging situations.
By the end of this plenary talk or workshop, audiences will leave understanding that confidence doesn’t come from knowing what will happen; it comes from knowing you can adapt to whatever happens.
“Nan Crawford helped us create a tremendously creative, innovative, engaging and successful event!”
— Chris Bahr
Director of Product Management
IBM
Courageous Creativity & The Innovation Imperative
Innovation is a business imperative. Ask Blockbuster. Ask Kodak.
The status quo can be seductive, as it often feels solid and safe. Our brains’ survival mechanisms can interpret changes to the status quo as a fundamental threat. So how do we transform resistance into readiness and inertia into action?
When we challenge the status quo — when we look at what is and ask what could be— we have the potential to create something extraordinary. In this engaging, experiential session, audiences learn how to transform resistance into acceptance, lethargy into energy, and inertia into action. Nan Crawford helps audiences distinguish between risk-taking and recklessness. The session offers insights from Nan’s research into creativity, improvisation, and cognitive flexibility. You’ll leave with the keys to unlocking decisive action, robust collaboration, and confident leadership.
“Nan is an insightful presenter and coach who radiates creative energy. We hired Nan to design a custom offsite event for my entire Design and Trend team at Target. We launched with a keynote before a highly interactive day of training. The results were incredible. She helps her clients leverage their own strengths for greater connection and productivity.”
— Robyn Waters, Vice President of Trend, Design, and Technical Specifications, TARGET
Data StorytellinG — the art & SCience of CONNECTION & INFLUENCE.
The Harvard Business Review writes:
“Data can persuade people, but it doesn’t inspire them to act; to do that, you need to wrap your vision in a story that fires the imagination and stirs the soul…”
So how do organizations collecting huge swaths of information translate their analysis into far more than information? How do analysts and leaders convey insights that inspire action and drive organizational strategy? Emerging neuroscience shows us exactly how story — the oldest tool of influence — changes our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Nan Crawford provides proven techniques for crafting compelling, concise narratives. And her tools enable you to tell your story in a compelling way, so you connect with hearts and minds, while delivering concrete business results.
“Inspiring. Thoughtful. Powerful. Innovative… are some of the many positive comments we received. We have a tough audience and you exceeded our expectations in every way.”
— Johanna Hernandez
Office of Innovation & Strategy
City of Tucson