Breakthrough Mindsets for Breakthrough Performance
Azran delivers an inspiring and thought-provoking keynote speech designed to energize executive leadership teams, results-driven sales teams, and catalyze powerful conversations at client engagement events, using his own experiences of building attacker businesses across a wide-range of industries that are relatable to your audience. This keynote can cover the four elements of strategic leadership in the AI-era, agile leadership with a growth mindset, empathetic leadership with trust and psychological safety and resilient leadership to build courage.
These four pillars can also be delivered in further detail through workshops ranging from one to four days with interactive exercises and facilitated group coaching sessions.
Strategic leadership in the AI-era
Leading in today’s complex and fast-changing world powered by AI, leaders need to adopt a growth mindset, build a culture of experimentation, be willing to take bolder risks and manage risks to move faster and learn quicker than the competition – or get left behind.
The world has never moved faster than ever before. Yet, this is the slowest it will ever be going forward. This module frames common strategic limiting beliefs and techniques to shape a culture and lead a fast-moving company.
How past successes can limit us
How risk management can stop us from trying and learning
How pilot projects can lull us into complacency
How the ‘Paper to PDF’ mindset can limit our digital transformation
Techniques to lead in the AI-era:
Lean more on people decisions over business plans
Rebuild risk management through a portfolio of innovative bets
Co-funding and collaborating with other parties
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Agile leadership with a growth mindset
How can leaders shape a culture of moving with speed and learning quicker than the competition?
This module covers a range of simple yet effective techniques to build an agile mindset with teams, using powerful ‘learner’ language in meetings and uncover hidden problems front-liners face that are hidden from top management. It dives into how to recruit and train for curiosity, lead executive meetings differently, and offers a provocative model for performance management in a fast-changing world.
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Empathetic leadership to build trust and psychological safety
Leaders today require a whole new set of superpowers. They must find the sweet spot between showing people they care and managing for accountability and performance at the same time.
This requires building trust and psychological safety to have necessary tough and courageous conversations. This module covers frameworks for using radical candor in the workplace, applying the Trust Equation, and using powerful techniques to give and receive feedback that inspires productive action.
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Resilient leadership to build courage and overcome setbacks
Today’s challenges demand leaders to take bold and calculated risks and brace their organizations to embrace mistakes and failures if it produces valuation learnings
This module covers our T.H.I.N.K. framework for building personal and team resilience and techniques to manage personal energy levels and strengthen mental fitness to achieve peak performance in the workplace.
T = Take Control
H = Hopeful Outlook – what can I learn from this
I = Informed Actions – respond rather than react
N = Nurture myself
K = Know my goals
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Client Testimonial
Recommendation
Sathish Shankar
Managing Partner, Bain & Company Southeast Asia
"It has been a real pleasure getting to know Azran and working with him over the years. He is a unique CEO - a great combination of strategic skills and operational acumen. He is a cut-through thinker who can distill complex issues to their essence. Azran is a very good listener and is always open to a counter point of view. Azran's ability to get things done has been instrumental in getting AirAsia X off to a fast start as a new airline with a pioneering business model. Finally, I've always admired Azran's ability to manage a great work-life balance despite a demanding job - he has graduated from Marathons to Ironman competitions!"
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Fiona Harris
Chairman, Barrington Consulting Group
"I loved the way he thought and I loved the way his organisation thought. It made me think how are we going to incorporate that into the various organisations I am involved with. It was inspirational."
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Greg Gaunt
Executive Chairman, Lavan Legal
"Well I knew Azran already because we are on the Curtin Asia Business Centre advisory Board together so I knew he was a very interesting character and I think he gives you just a different perspective about what's happening in the world."
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Steven Cole
Managing Director, Cole Corporate
"He was exciting, innovative, challenged the status quo. That was the best thing about it and as a consequence makes you rethink a lot of traditional theory."
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Lihua Jin
Learning & Development | Coaching | Talent Assessment
"Edward Lynx had invited Azran as a guest to speak to a group of Executive Managers of one of the leading multinational companies in the automotive industry. Azran’s experiences of working in a complex industry and his practical tips and insights into the topics of innovation, agility and speed, and winning tomorrow’s business were most appreciated and truly inspiring!"
Rion Kinosaki
Global Lead, Advance People Analytics
"Azran was a guest speaker at our Development Centre in Shanghai. His session was interactive and inspiring, with Azran tying well into the session the links to our own organisation. He was engaged, open and approachable with the audience. I would definitely recommend Azran for speaking engagements around topics such as entrepreneurship, agility and similar areas."
Wan Marlini
Organisational Development Practitioner, PETRONAS
"Inspiring, engaging and humble — three words that reflect Azran as a speaker and as a person. I’m honored to have had the opportunity to meet Azran in person to have him speak to 200 of my organisation’s top leadership team. His ability to relate to the audience (and make them crack-up) despite being in different industries is amazing."
