Keynotes and Workshops

Peripheral Thinking™: How to be the Disruptor, not the disrupted.

Disruption often comes from outside. Disruptors find opportunities that industry insiders can’t or won’t. While companies worldwide have improved their agility and adaptability, these skills are still reactive. Disruptors use Peripheral Thinking™ to proactively change the landscape that the disrupted must adapt to. You’ll learn the secret skills that history’s disruptors use to thrive in any market condition. You can be the Disruptor or the disrupted. Your choice.

Peripheral Thinking™: How to challenge convention and thrive in any environment.

Conventional wisdom and industry best practices are often defined by the industry’s leaders and subject matter experts. While the advice is well-intentioned, without a broad set of experiences, it will be from narrow perspectives. There’s a secret set of super-skills innovative leaders have used for centuries to challenge convention and set new standards for success. You’ll learn the one skill they all have in common, and you’ll have it for the rest of your life.

Peripheral Thinking™: The skill every CEO needs to future-proof their business.

When facing unexpected changes, some people and companies ignore them, expecting problems to pass by. Others muscle their way through, coming out the other side having adapted but with little sustainable improvement. Then there are the few. These innovative leaders do more than come up with a fix. They innovate before and beyond obstacles. Every Time! Learn how to identify coming challenges using indicators from unrelated industries and build a repository of action-ready solutions to future-proof your business.

Peripheral Thinking™: The sales professional’s secret weapon.

Relationships and differentiation are everything for sales professionals. Building relationships requires confidence relating to people from various backgrounds, industries, cultures, and countries. You have more diverse experiences than you realize. The Peripheral Thinkers™ contextual model helps sales pros realize the value of their experiences and use them to create unique, highly engaging interactions with clients and prospects. Conventional approaches do nothing more than guarantee mediocrity. Peripheral Thinking™ connects the dots for clients and prospects, setting you apart from the rest.

Peripheral Thinking™: [Your Event Title or Theme].

This thought-provoking keynote guides audiences on an engaging journey of discovery. Using research, stories, statistics, and client successes, Paul's unique insights on creative problem-solving and solution creation will inspire you to think, feel, and act differently. Paul exposes a secret skill found innately in 10% of the population and many of the world's most prolific inventors, corporate pioneers, mathematicians, rocket scientists, and artists. Refined from four decades of work with clients in 31 industries and 27 countries on six continents, Paul shares this super-skill in a way anyone can use to create new perspectives that transform individuals, leaders, companies, and industries.