The End of an Era ?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

A Whole New Mind
Doctors. Lawyers. Engineers. That's what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But were Mom and Dad right? Actually, the future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind, people like artists, inventors, storytellers, caregivers. These right-brained people are the next business elite – the women and men who will power your organization. In this entertaining and provocative presentation, best-selling author Daniel Pink surveys evidence from around the world to reveal how the forces of Abundance, Asia, and Automation are nudging us into an era defined not by traditional "knowledge workers," but by creators and empathizers. He explains what this transformation means for your organization – and he offers hands-on tools and tips, as well as real-life examples, for how you can navigate this new terrain.
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How to Give Your Organization a New Brain
These are tumultuous times for business: prosperity is growing – yet disruptive forces lurk just around the corner. Computers do jobs better and faster than high-paid professionals – while armies of overseas white-collar workers can do other jobs at a fraction of the cost. How can your organization survive amidst the chaos? Best-selling author Daniel Pink believes that the era of "left brain" dominance – and the Information Age that it engendered – is giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities – inventiveness, empathy, and meaning – will govern. And organizations that incorporate these new "right-brain" abilities will flourish.
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What Talent Wants: Inside the Hearts and Minds of the Free Agent Workforce
Daniel Pink, author of the bestselling Free Agent Nation, offers an unprecedented look at the people who can make or break your organization. Based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with people who have abandoned organizational life to work for themselves, this provocative and entertaining presentation will give you unique insight into what makes talented people tick. The key to keeping great people is to learn why great people often want to leave – and to understand what they're getting working for themselves that they feel they can't get working for you. At this presentation you will learn:
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The Boomer Workforce and the End of Retirement as We Know It
Over the next 18 years, millions of baby boomers will turn 60. Dan Pink explains what this seismic demographic shift means for individual careers and for organizations needing to rethink their approach to human resources. Drawing on his books Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind, Pink delves in to how today's seniors can harness the power of their right brains and use it to remain competitive in the workforce on their own terms while phasing themselves into retirement. In doing so, these boomer free agents are changing company business models and flipping the script on fundamental labor issues such as education, training, and Social Security. As a free agent himself, Pink's energetic, forward-thinking presentation will offer boomers in the audience practical yet inspirational advice for turning their golden years into paths to greater professional success and personal fulfillment. It will also provide the all-important insights to companies who need to know how this trend will affect workforce management for years to come.

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