Phil Brunkard

Leadership in essence is about persuasion — winning people’s hearts and minds. Leaders must connect with empathy and emotion to lead, influence, and inspire. Stories connect with us emotionally. And our emotions drive our decisions subconsciously. We do this before we apply logic and intellectual reasoning to justify the decision we already made subconsciously. Leadership […]

The Space Race Has Restarted Today’s interest in the space industry is the most intense since the Apollo missions first captivated the world in the 1960s. Billionaire space tourists in reusable rockets, a planned return trip to the moon, and smaller, cheaper satellites designed to operate in low Earth orbit (LEO) promising to connect the […]

In einer Krise können sich Menschen und Unternehmen auf außergewöhnliche Weise verhalten. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie die richtige Strategie für die Zukunft und ein nachhaltiges Innovationskonzept anwenden können.

Apprenez à reconnaître les attributs clés d'une innovation réussie en temps de crise et à en tirer des leçons. En savoir plus.

Goodbye features, hello value. Learn the benefits of taking a human-centered design approach within your IT organization.

There’s more to ensuring that technology enables business value than meets the eye. There is no single value proposition to communicating the value of technology to stakeholders. Each stakeholder perceives value differently. Value is in the eye of the beholder. You Think You “Deliver” Value To Business Stakeholders … But You Don’t Value for stakeholders […]

Tech leaders are facing a talent shortage. On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, my colleagues Dan Bieler, Rikki Schmidle, Ash Mukherjee, and I hosted a client workshop to listen, collaborate, and share insight on sourcing and retaining the best tech talent. A diverse group of technology and talent leaders came together with the same common challenge: how […]

Elite sports leader create a vision, set a strategy, and recruit the right people for the team’s success. Other parallels with business leaders can also be instructive.

Learn the the four core types of stories that leaders should tell to inspire innovation and action in their organization.

Introduction to two leadership storytelling reports. Master Storytelling For Impactful Leadership, reveals what storytelling is and why it is a highly impactful communication tool. The companion report, Use Leadership Storytelling To Communicate Tech’s Business Value And Inspire Action, explains how to develop your leadership stories.

Learn how you can drive innovation success by creating an emotional connection to your stated vision and purpose. The three important stories that technology leaders should be telling to drive innovation and transformation success are: 1) continuity; 2) novelty; and 3) transition.

Get an insightful look at the innovation lessons technology executives can learn from the new commercial space race.

Get five tips on how to incorporate crisis-driven innovation principles into your innovation competencies and practices.

The business world has much to learn from firefighters to be fully fit for any crisis or future scenario. Learn seven key tips from a volunteer firefighter and ex-CIO.

Offers a perspective on how innovative space technology can open new business opportunities and make the world a better place as well as identifying some of the key risks involved.

Tech leaders must include sustainability within today’s strategies and key decisions to be truly future fit. They must think and plan beyond the obvious cloud benefits, make the future digital workplace a sustainable workplace and adapt intelligent automation to eliminate waste.

Learn how the Amazon Leadership Principles can guide your Future Fit Technology Strategy.

Recognise and learn from the key attributes for successful innovation in a crisis.

Face aux menaces à court et à long terme, les dirigeants informatiques et Tech Leaders ont besoin d’une vision claire et de stratégies hautement adaptatives. Découvrez ce qu’être un "Future Fit" leader requiert.