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Ayse (Eye-Shay) Birsel has lectured at corporations and conferences from Amazon to Colgate Palmolive; TEDxCannes to Fast Company Innovation Festival. She speaks on personal and professional transformation, and designing your work, your team and your life.
Ayse is known for her interactive and high energy talks, where she engages audiences to experience their own agency in the moment, and leaves them with tools and principles they can take back to transform their own work, their discipline and their life.
You can see a list of her upcoming and past talks, and also view her videos.
Below are examples of topics. All her keynotes can be offered as 1 hour masterclasses, half or full day workshops. Please contact us to schedule a talk, or discuss a topic you have in mind for a customized talk.
DESIGN THE WORK YOU LOVE
You will learn how to:
Bring clarity to your purpose at work
Reframe your work to align it with your and your company’s values
Remove self-made obstacles
Identify opportunities to do more of what you love
Rally your collaborators to get there
Doing a job you love can fundamentally accelerate your success. Ayse Birsel—a Fast Company Most Creative person and inc.com contributor—will build on her book, Design the Life You Love, a Step-By-Step Guide To Building A Meaningful Future to give you agency to imagine your best work and radically transform your professional performance by doing more of what you love.
DESIGN THE TEAM YOU LOVE
You will learn how to:
Define a shared purpose
Build ownership by including everyone around the table
Create a safe space for learning and teaching
Break silos to leverage combined strengths
Today’s problems are too difficult for one person to solve alone. Great teams and strong collaborations are the secret sauce of leading, innovative corporations. In this talk, award-winning designer/collaborator extra-ordinaire and a Fast Company Most Creative person, Ayse Birsel will discuss strategies for leading and participating in highly collaborative teams that believe in the power of a shared purpose.
DESIGN THE LIFE YOU LOVE
You will learn how to:
Break your own preconceptions that slow you down
Reconnect with your values to live what matters most
Visualizing your future to plot an original roadmap to get there
Prototype and live the life you love
Our life and work are a continuous loop. If you design your life, you will also design your work. Ayse Birsel has worked with thousands of people of all disciplines who have transformed their life and work, through her book, Design the Life You Love, a Step-By-Step Guide To Building A Meaningful Future and her corporate sessions. In this moving talk Ayse will talk about her own transformation, why the old roadmaps don’t work anymore and how to use optimism, an open mind and empathy to create your own roadmap to design, prototype and live your best life.