Transformative Growth in the
Age of Permacrisis
OpenMindedness: A workshop for C suites and personnel
Permacrisis: an extended period of instability and insecurity resulting in a reduction in most people’s personal drives to make the world better from their place in the working economy.
How can we turn the tide of negative performance trends in business?
By inspiring a new view of the world and of the individual, built upon traditional human values as seen in a new light.
“Developing a growth mindset that prioritizes the willingness to learn over the gift of being naturally brilliant is key.” – Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Future-Proof Your Senior Management: Develop Growth Mindset for Tomorrow’s Challenges
In today’s rapidly evolving world, staying ahead requires more than just technological expertise. To remain competitive and future-ready, your C-level executives must develop essential mental competencies that enable them to achieve success in the changing business landscape. Our training programs focus on cultivating these critical skills.
The Importance of Growth Mind Skills
The business environment is constantly being disrupted. It’s crucial to equip your top executives with not only hard skills but also strategic skills—the mental tools needed to thrive in modern business. Key competencies such as innovative thinking, openmindedness, creativity, emotional intelligence, resilience and wellbeing are vital for navigating the complexities of today’s business. In an age of continuous crisis, these skills empower leaders to excel in their roles and drive their organizations toward growth and prosperity.
Adaptability and Resilience
To ensure your organization remains resilient and competitive, your C-level executives must be agile and prepared to adapt to new challenges and opportunities. Our workshop is designed to help your leadership team to stay ahead of the curve.
Our Expertise
Our training program is backed by the combined business experience of over 100 years working with Fortune 500 companies across various industries. This extensive experience has enabled us to distill a robust knowledge platform tailored to make your management future-ready.
Benefits of Our Workshop
Helping develop the following competencies:
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- Growth Mindset: Developing the mental ability to grow and thrive in challenging situations
- Innovative Thinking: Fostering creativity and strategic problem-solving
- Emotional Intelligence: Enhancing cognitive skills and leadership capabilities
- Wellbeing: Developing balanced and resilient life habits that will help achieve sustainable top performance
- Agility: Preparing executives to swiftly navigate through crises and capitalizing on new opportunities
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Invest in your leadership today to build a stronger, future-ready and resilient management team for tomorrow.
Discover how our tools can help elevate your C-level executives’ competencies and achieve your strategic goals.
There has never been a workshop like this one
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- Operational methods to achieve a high-performance Flow state team.
- The new social compact between employer and employee.
- A blueprint on enhancing employee and company performance.
- Insights from Formula 1 drivers’ success.
- Discover the human-powered enterprise.
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The entire workforce can become inspired. Leadership can opt to share parts or the full workshop with all personnel. A suggestions manual can be distributed electronically to the whole team. A video program of methods of increasing personal effectiveness can also be shared with all employees.
About Dr. Gerald “Jerry” Zaltman
Dr. Gerald Zaltman is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is co-founder of the consulting firm Olson Zaltman, and a former member of the Executive Committee of Harvard University’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative. Zaltman revolutionized the field of marketing with the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), a pioneering method of interviewing that draws on the tools and insights of cognitive neuroscience, art therapy, psychoanalysis, and linguistics to probe consumers subconscious thoughts and feelings. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, US News & World Report, Time magazine, and many other publications.
Zaltman holds a PhD in sociology from Johns Hopkins University (his thesis was on the formal and informal communication systems used by theoretical high-energy physicists), an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Bates College. Prior to his tenure at Harvard, he taught at the University of Alaska, Northwestern University (where he was co-director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology), and the University of Pittsburgh, where he was co-director of the University Center for the Study of Knowledge Use. Among his many books are the bestselling How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market; Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal about the Minds of Consumers; and most recently, Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking.
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- Creator of three U.S. Patents for market research including ZMET in use by leading firms across the globe.
- Author of the forthcoming book, “On Not Knowing,” describing the pathways to imaginative, successful decision making.
- Recipient of many major awards recognizing his pioneering thinking and impact on management practice and theory including:
- 2015. The bi-annual Sheth Foundation Medal for Exceptional Contribution to Marketing Scholarship and Practice
- 2015. Inducted into the inaugural American Marketing Association’s Fellow Program
- 2008: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Henry Grady “Buck” Weaver Award, sponsored by General Motor
- 2007: The Advertising Research Foundation Member Recognition Award
- 2000: The AI Press Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Marketing Advances
- 1992: The Knowledge Utilization Society’s Thomas J. Kiresuk Award for Excellence in Scientific Research
- 1990: The Association for Consumer Research Distinguished Fellow Award
- 1989: The American Marketing Association‘s Richard D. Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award
Dr. Zaltman’s academic specialization is in innovation, social change, and the representation of thought, which is expressed in a variety of publications throughout his career.
Dr. Zaltman’s Wikipedia page 
Dr. Zaltman’s LinkedIn page
About Bill Harvey
Bill Harvey has invented many of the existing structures in the new media industry, including set-top box data, deterministic big data-based ROI measurement, and addressable commercials. Bill has been an acknowledged leader in working with top industry associations who have been eager for his inputs.
Many in the marketing field have also become followers of Harvey’s work in Human Intelligence, metacognition, and consciousness.
Through his Sponsorship Effectiveness Index, Harvey helped jumpstart the field of branded content as a new and more powerful form of advertising. These new viewpoints are relevant to all businesses and need to receive attention at the C-suite level, hence this new workshop.
Bill is also an avid writer having published 3 non-fiction and 4 novels in a series. He has received awards for these books. One, in its 6th edition, has served as a textbook at university courses.
Bill has also spoken at many colleges and universities including the Wharton School of Business.
Bill has received many honors and awards over the years.
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- 2023: Cynopsis Measure Up Hall of Fame Inductee.
- 2022: Emmy® Award Recipient – Engineering and Science Technology area
- 2020: Sequent Partners Stars of Attribution: People and Ideas Reshaping Advertising Measurement
- 2018: Market Research Council Hall of Fame Inductee
- 2014: Recipient of the premiere ARF Erwin Ephron Award.
- 2008: The ARF Great Mind Award
About Chaim Oren
Chaim Oren is an international well-being expert. He is a keynote speaker and writes and lectures about well-being to companies around the world. He is also a Brand Ambassador for Hintsa Performance – a global leader in wellbeing and human performance. Chaim is an accomplished international marketer in the US, Europe and Israel. Having started his career at the New York office of Young & Rubicam, he later co-founded Zoëtics Inc., a Manhattan-based strategic marketing consulting firm. Over the years , Chaim Oren has consulted for many Fortune 500 companies, US states and tech companies.
After returning to Israel, he held senior management positions at the Israeli office of McCann Erickson, an American global advertising agency, and Ruder Finn, a global public relations agency. He also served as the CEO of Tupperware’s Israeli branch (NASDAQ TUPP) and later managed the Israeli office of Jupiter Research (NASDAQ FORR). Most recently he served as the Commercial Representative for the State of Connecticut in Israel.