The ImpactEleven mission is simple: to put talented people with a powerful message in position to make an impact on the world.Each member of the ImpactEleven team was once just someone who believed they had a message and experiences that could transform businesses, industries, and lives. Answering that call to the platform, we’ve been fortunate to impact millions of people for the better and changed our own lives along the way. It wasn’t easy— it’s never easy. But through our collective experiences, both at every step of the journey and in our ongoing careers today, we’ve developed a system for launching, growing and scaling a speaking career that maximizes potential and minimizes wasted time, effort, money, and missed opportunities.No one can guarantee success as an expert or professional speaker. What we can do is invite people with unlimited potential to join our community and discover resources they won’t find anywhere else, including a community that provides a complete road map that will guide you toward a fulfilled and successful career on your terms.Yes, we teach the nuts and bolts of monetizing expertise, from stage presence, sales, business plans, blueprints and creative services that will help establish credibility and drive business growth. But the impact of ImpactEleven is so much more than that. We invite you to join this tribe and navigate the journey of creating impact with us. We truly are better together.It’s your story. It’s our deepest privilege to help you share it with the world.

In The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce, Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley team up again to deliver a guidebook for leaders navigating the uncertainty of a post pandemic world in a sequel to their successful book The Adaptation Advantage. Leaders today must acknowledge and respond to the fundamental shifts that lay the foundation for effective leadership: From managing people to enabling success, from viewing peers as competitors to seeing them as collaborators, from applying extrinsic pressure on workers to unlocking intrinsic motivation, and from driving productivity with unquestioned authority to inspiring value creation by leading with empathy. In this book, you will learn about the five interlocking trends that brought us the empowered workforce: The Great Resignation, the Great Refusal, the Great Reshuffle, the Great Retirement, and the Great Relocation collectively delivered the Great Reset. These trends, building for a decade prior to the pandemic, saw employees leading jobs; restructuring where and how they work, accelerating retirement, and reordering the role of work in their lives.The Empathy Advantage offers advice on how to lead a complex, diverse, and multi-generational workforce to out-perform your competition. This book will inspire you to: Rethink Your Workforce: You'll gain new insights into today's empowered workforce and how best to tap their intrinsic motivations.Rethink Your Organization: You'll learn how to reorganize work to become resilient in continuous change.Rethink Your Leadership: You'll discover superpowers and unleash your Empath Advantage.Whether you are a seasoned executive or an emerging leader, The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce speaks to those who are ready to embrace a more influential and engaging form of leadership, and will earn a place in the libraries of anyone with responsibility for recruiting, engaging, leading and retaining the next generation of workers.

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Future-of-work strategist Heather E. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the augmented era. As a keynote speaker, Heather gives lucidity to complex topics through her research rich, graphic frameworks, and powerful metaphors. LinkedIn ranked her as its #1 global voice for education and McGowan was listed as one of the Top 50 Female Futurists in Forbes. NYT columnist Thomas Friedman describes her as “the oasis” when it comes to insights into the future of work. McGowan is the coauthor of The Adaptation Advantage (April 2020) and the Empathy Advantage (March 2023).

I champion humans in the learning-centric future of work.I contribute to the careers discussion to catalyze the important conversations needed now to prepare for the future of work.

Heather E. McGowan, internationally-renowned future-of-work strategist and a ‘LinkedIn Top Voice on Education’, is joining Swinburne’s Centre for the New Workforce. Based in the US and one of the world’s most innovative thinkers on the future of work, Ms McGowan will join Swinburne as an adjunct professor, in what is her first academic appointment globally. She will share her expertise on the challenge of ‘learning for the future of work’ with the Centre.

The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce (2011) is comprised of half the university enrollment and secured by an endowment of a $20 million gift (largest gift in the university’s 127-year history).STRATEGIC VISION + PLANNING Reporting directly to President and Provost as the strategic architect for this new college and charged with integrating 18 existing programs and 50% of the undergraduate enrollment into a new core curriculum and majors. Crafted the vision for future academic planning based upon ecosystems of capabilities. This plan won the American Association of University Administrators’ prestigious John L. Blackburn Award. CURRICULUM Designed unique, interdisciplinary curriculum that attracted national attention from serial entrepreneur Steve Blank (who declared in both Fast Company and Xconomy that “College and Business Will Never Be The Same”) and won the Core 77 top National Design Award for Education. Created an immersive design thinking-based program on disruptive business model innovation and advised on the framework for the Strategic Design MBA REORGANIZATION Crafted a matrix management strategy, integrating job functions, responsibilities and reporting structures, enabling the college to optimize economies of scale for the first time NETWORK + THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Created the first international university network of thought leaders on innovation, organized into a newly designed fellows program, speaker series and advisory council.

The Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Design and Business (RISD-CDB) is a 10-year-old department within the RISD that helps industry, educational institutions, and government entities set up and manage collaborative design research projects with RISD students, faculty and alumni. Led the broad infrastructure development to expand capacity for research to attract new revenue streams for the Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Design and Business (RISD-CDB), a 10-year-old department within the RISD that helps industry, educational institutions, and government entities set up and manage collaborative design research projects with RISD students, faculty and alumni. Created a screening matrix and methods to evaluate all forms of return-on-investment and industry engagement by assessing factors of revenue, contribution to knowledge base, repeatability, scalability and required resources.

MEADOW BROOK LANE CAPITALCreated strategy and all marketing messaging that attracted seed investment for this socially responsible, boutique investment bank and financial advisory company. Led the business model innovation for the acquired entity - Corporate Social Responsibility Wire News (CSR), which maximized strategic alignment with MBLC investment banking and financial advisory activities and became a thought leader in corporate social responsibility. PIONEER CAPITAL PARTNERS Orchestrated innovative financial transaction for this boutique financial advisory firm (spin-off of Meadowbrook Lane Capital), focused on leveraged buyouts and management buyouts, building cross-disciplinary teams for both acquisitions and start-up ventures, as well as securing debt and equity to execute transactions Notable successful transactions include:

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Since 1988, Safety 1st (now part of Dorell Juvenile Group) has developed and refined a comprehensive line of 300-plus children’s products that include car seats, strollers, potty seats, play yards, swings and infant hygiene products as well as child safety items.