Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/15/2024.
In the last three years, every single workplace on the planet has been through a re-org 1-7 times. The move to all or partially remote workforce? Suddenly finding you have five generations of people with extremely different working styles and expectations side by side in the same company? Being able to metabolize and respond to major social uprisings? To tackle any of these is to re-organize the operating agreements, values, and behaviors of your organization. What about if you have to tackle all three by Friday, like most people leaders are asked to do?
This Keynote and workshop is about how to recognize the demand for innovation, and how perspective-taking and storytelling can crack open pathways to new ways of working inside organizations at any stage of growth. Emily shares her own experience of how she learned to recognize the demand for innovation, what she discovered interviewing hundreds of people leaders on their biggest challenges, and what she has uncovered about workplace innovation in the last two years of growing her new venture, Film Forward. Film Forward is an experiential learning platform driving workplace performance, engagement, and inclusion with learning journeys built around the world’s best short cinema.
To put the keynote into action, Best will share an award-winning short film and lead the group in a reflection exercise – demonstrating the possibilities of bringing creative solutions if you’re willing to invite in new perspectives.
Innovation is not magic. It's driven by a set of conditions that any organization has the power to create. From years of working across a wide range of corporate clients, Emily and her team have clear examples of how shifting and clarifying simple organizational agreements in small ways and large can create brand new conditions for innovating with inclusion.
After over a decade of supporting community driven creators to tell stories that support and uplift their communities, Seed&Spark has become a central repository of how storytelling can gather and galvanize groups to move the culture forward. We'll watch a short film and clips and build excitement around story-powered community building.
"Community building" has been a trendy way to rename many conventional marketing tactics and leave the communities feeling talked at, ignored or worse, exploited. Sharing the story of the unconventional tactics Best and her team use in building and growing Seed&Spark's vibrant creator community, this talk explores what it means to really be in community in a rapidly changing world.
In this talk, Emily Best paints a portrait of media’s role in programming our society’s bias, not just through the films Hollywood has been churning out over the years but the very business model built to produce them. Through the arc of her experience building Seed&Spark, she demonstrates film’s untapped potential to undo some of the damage that has been done with equitable storytelling.
Emily Best is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Demand for Innovation [Keynote & Workshop], Innovation is Not Magic, Storytelling for Good: Building Real Community, Building Community That Wants You To Grow and Deprogramming Implicit Bias: The Untapped Potential of Film. The estimated speaking fee range to book Emily Best for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Emily Best generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Issa Rae, Jenni Gold, Rosie Perez, Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Diane Guerrero. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Emily Best for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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