Emilie Sydney-Smith is CEO of ExO Works, a corporate transformation consultancy which helps large organizations like Visa, HP, BHP and Procter & Gamble; protect themselves against disruption, incorporate the attributes shared by the world’s fastest growing companies; and build new business lines that could grow exponentially.
Emilie has previously led some of the company’s biggest client projects. In her presentations Emilie shares practical, easy processes that she has successfully used with her Fortune 500 and smaller clients to prepare them to survive and thrive in the era of accelerating change.
Previous Experience:
From 2006 - 2014, Emilie sourced and evaluated potential $20 - 400 million investments in energy production start-ups and technologies. She was at the crux of global energy market intelligence and was consistently top-5 rated by delegates when presenting at conferences.
From 2002 to 2005, Emilie managed corporate development and corporate relations for Sydney Gas Limited. She helped grow the startup to a $300 million valuation. She was instrumental in raising the company's poor reputation to a media-recognized “market leader.”
From 1999 - 2002, Emilie worked on the sweeping deregulation of the energy and water markets in Australia and New Zealand, facilitating complex negotiations between senior executives, regulators and Government Ministers.
Talking Points
Truly growing your company - we’ve been doing it the hard way
• Building or buying more of the same is not really growth if profit margins are dropping or the industry is about to be disruptedTruly growing your company - we’ve been doing it the hard way
• How to tell if your company is in that rut and how to jailbreak the company out of that destructive strategy, no matter your role
• Failsafe process for creating growth through new ventures with high profits, high impact that leverage your current talents
• How to create an ultra-productive, inspired, low-politics team culture at the same time with triple the talent retention
• Eureka moments: a different approach to cost cutting and productivity boosts in your current business
• Case studies from work with 30 of the world’s biggest companies
Audience: Mid to senior ranks of medium to large companies
Creating Lucrative New Business Lines
• Failsafe process for creating growth through new ventures with high profits, high impact that leverage your current talentsCreating Lucrative New Business Lines
• Case studies from work with 30 of the world’s biggest companies
• How do you make sure customers urgently desire your new products or services?
• How to create an ultra-productive, inspired, low-politics team culture at the same time with triple the talent retentioN
• Adopting groundbreaking technology that underpins success, rather than “shiny objects” no matter how tech savvy your company is now
• Accessing the world’s top experts in the business niche is easier than you think
Audience: Mid to senior ranks of medium to large companies
Preparing your operations for a dangerous world
• Is the world changing enough for you to care and need to prepare to be directly affected by war, cyberwar, or social mayhem?Preparing your operations for a dangerous world
• Where to start if you’ve never considered what such dangers would mean to you, your loved ones and your organization
• Important lessons for everyone from running simulations of how companies could react to the threats, opportunities and wildcards for their operations
• How to find hope, camaraderie, strength, strategic skills and really valuable business ideas by running simulations ahead of time
Audience: Anyone in small to large business or government, including their Boards
Technophobes were right! Until now.
If you always doubted the value of tech and digitization for your work, it’s no wonder. Early tech rarely lives up to the hype. Most of it was adopted by well-meaning people with horrible outcomes. However, tech just matured to become user-friendly and adaptable and truly give you superpowers. It’s time to fall in love with tech using the easy steps shared in this presentation.Technophobes were right! Until now.
Audience: Non-IT professionals
Enough hype about Generative AI. Here’s how to get its superpowers.
• Let’s stop getting distracted by the theory and focus on what matters for us usersEnough hype about Generative AI. Here’s how to get its superpowers.
• How to use Generative AI to get superpowers
• Case study: Fostering adoption while the cyber team wants everyone to stop using it
• “Data is the new gold” used to be laughable, but now it’s no joke
• Be the hero: how to get your organization’s data up to scratch no matter your job title
Audience: Anyone in small to large business or government
The roadmap for making your IT systems pay off
• Give your people superpowers they loveThe roadmap for making your IT systems pay off
• Pre and post-Generative AI software and data assets and imperatives
• IT should not be a cost center - how to make it propel all your profit centers
• Bridging the needs of executives, IT, cyber security and data creating and data-using teams across your company - without battles
• No more company-wide PTSD from software adoption projects
• Measure what really matters
Audience: executives, IT, change management, middle management
Navigating the World’s Coming Debt Bomb
• Calling out decades of fake growth in companies and countries - why we should be worriedNavigating the World’s Coming Debt Bomb
• When might the debt bomb explode?
• What we can learn from which companies and countries were winners after previous re-assessments of value
• Practical case studies from helping companies around the world to build and buy genuinely lasting value
Audience: Anyone in small to large business, academia or government
Workshop: Simulate practical reactions for your organization to cyberwar, hot war and the creation of hostile trading blocks
Duration: One Full DayWorkshop: Simulate practical reactions for your organization to cyberwar, hot war and the creation of hostile trading blocks
Spend the morning playing an immersive board game to brainstorm operational and strategic implications of threats, opportunities and wildcards facing your organization in escalating cold and hot wartime levels. For instance, how can you fix supply chains, protect people and assets and maintain revenue? Spend the afternoon analyzing lessons and creating preparedness plans to implement. This workshop has a 95% past user rating and teaches participants to think strategically while having fun and reducing their “fight or flight instinct” if a crisis breaks out.
Audience: Anyone in small to large business or government, including their Boards. Sessions can be multi-organization with organisation-specific teams.
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Emilie Sydney-Smith | Saxton Speakers
Emilie Sydney-Smith is the CEO of ExO Works and regular keynote speaker on corporate innovation for clients and conferences around the world. She shares practical case studies from helping some of thew world's largest companies emulate the world's fastest growing companies. Her work includes helping clients improve their existing businesses 10X and creating the new high-tech business lines of the future that are ready for exponential growth.
