Lisa Renner

Lisa Renner is a speaker, author, and internationally recognized expert on collaboration as a business growth strategy. With more than 10 years as a successful CEO, Lisa has walked the talk, repeatedly crossing boundaries and collaborating with competitors to construct a successful family of six collaboratively-owned companies by the age of 36.

As a spokesperson for the collaborative movement, Lisa led the fight against Capitol Hill regulation that threatened collaborative business models. But her passion is sharing her insights with today’s leaders, teaching the strategies and tactics she learned personally building successful collaboratives. In her keynotes and workshops she addresses the challenges organizations struggle with and unlocks the secrets to finding and aligning with the right partners to generate real return on collaboration.

Lisa is a member of the National Speakers Association, has served on the boards of several national organizations, and is frequently sought out by the media for her insight and expertise on collaboration.

Lead, Follow and Get Out of the Way: The Art of Collaborative Leadership

Engage customers… Innovate new products…Tap into new markets… Oh, and do it with half your staff and one third of your budget.

We’re all feeling the pressure. The company is flattening. Staff and budgets are being cut. Yet, the expectation for you as a leader is to find a way to produce more than you did yesterday. The good news is you’re not limited to your internal resources. In fact, businesses are recognizing that future growth will be driven by collaboration with customers, vendors, business partners, and even competitors.

IBM Global CEO Study 1700 CEOs from 64 countries were asked to cite the key areas their organizations needed to change to be successful. The most common response—partnering/collaborating with external organizations. However, they admitted they lack the skills necessary to be successful.

The problem is that companies need one behavior, yet teach another. Traditional leadership training focuses on developing operational leaders who perform well when in direct control over their resources. Collaboration requires leaders who can subordinate their agenda, yield power and give up resources for the greater good. More importantly, they must be able to influence others to do the same.

In this interactive session drawn from Lisa’s book, 1+1=3 The New Math of Business Strategy, you will learn the secrets to becoming a powerful collaborative leader.

Key Learning Points:

 Discover the 3 keys to collaborating with customers, vendors and competitors

 Learn how to unleash the Collaborative Leader in you

 Build trusted partnerships

 Lead by connecting, inspiring and influencing

 Maximize control by giving it away

One+1=3 The New Math of Business Strategy: How to Unlock Exponential Growth Through Competitive Collaboration

1+1=2 is no longer enough. To be successful, today’s leaders must make 1+1=3. In this session you will discover how to unlock exponential growth for your business by collaborating with your competition—those companies you’ve always avoided at all costs. To many this may sound counter-intuitive. But in the most recent IBM Global CEO Study, 1700 CEOs from 64 countries were asked to cite the key areas their organizations needed to change to be successful. The most common response—partnering/ collaborating with external organizations, to include their competitors. However, they admitted they lack the skills necessary to be successful.

In this interactive session based on Lisa’s book, 1+1=3 The New Math of Business Strategy, you will learn what you need to do to position both yourself and your organizations to collaborate successfully, and what key assets you already possess that can open the door to explosive growth. Attendees will leave the session energized, with loads of ideas and ready to take the next steps toward a collaborative growth strategy for their organizations.

Key Points:

◾ Move collaboration from a buzzword to a core growth strategy for your organization

◾ Use The Three Pillars of Collaboration (Mindset, Assets and Organization) to build your foundation for success

◾ Advance up the growth tiers of the Collaboration Growth Index and create more value

◾ Mitigate risk and maximize your return on collaboration

◾ Find the right collaborative partners

◾ Implement and ensure long-term success

If your business has all the growth it needs, then you don’t need this session. If you want to make 1+1=3 and take your organization’s growth to a new level, hire Lisa now to speak at your next meeting.

Sleeping With The Enemy: How to Collaborate With Your Competition for Exponential Growth

For decades businesses have spent millions to fend off the competition. In today’s economic climate, they can no longer afford this game of “who has the deepest pockets to buy or protect market share.” Leaders in all industries are recognizing that growth in the 21st century will be characterized, not by building higher walls and barriers to entry, but by crossing boundaries to leverage the complementary assets and competencies of their competitors.

This presentation represents more than 10 years of research on collaborative success. Attendees will learn how to identify opportunities for collaboration for their organizations and the criteria for building highly aligned collaboratives that demonstrate improved managerial focus, reduced risk, accelerated implementation, and earlier realization of return on collaboration (ROC). They will leave the session energized, with loads of ideas and ready to take the next steps toward a collaborative growth strategy for their organizations.

Key Points:

◾ Why Collaborate? – Key economic forces driving collaboration strategy – The top strategic problems collaboration is solving, and why competitors make ideal partners

◾ How to Recognize the Opportunities – The most common collaboration drivers; identifying which ones are power levers for your organization – Collaborative examples with specific data showing top line growth and bottom line cost savings

◾ Selecting the Right Partners – What to look for in the right relationships, and how to build a foundation for trust

◾ Where to Collaborate – Group exercise to identify the best areas to collaborate for your organization (optional depending on length of session)

◾ Formula for Success – Overcoming obstacles and identifying the critical elements that must be in your collaborative strategy to increase your potential for success and long-term sustainability

◾ Unique Collaborative Successes – Never-before-seen examples of successful collaboration taken from a broad range of industries – to stretch our thinking