Keynote: Unleash Your Curiosity

The longer we manage a destination, a brand, or a team, the more likely it is that our hard-earned expertise has inadvertently created structural blind spots. In this high-energy Monday keynote, New York Times bestselling author and innovation consultant Diana Kander pulls back the curtain on how successful organizations unknowingly sabotage their own future growth by relying on past playbooks. 

Drawing on core principles from her book, Get Curious and Grow, Diana shows us how we can level up the simple questions we ask ourselves on a daily basis to get significantly better results and drive meaningful innovation. She will dissect the trap of "additive bias"—our natural instinct to solve problems by adding more initiatives, technology, or layers to our plates when subtraction is often the optimal strategic move. Packed with practical tools to institutionalize curiosity as a daily habit, this session will shift your mindset from defending legacy models to actively de-risking new ideas, uncovering hidden opportunities, and framing the very questions you will reflect on throughout the event.

Key Takeaways

• How to ‘institutionalize’ curiosity in your organization with simple daily habits
• How to dramatically reduce the ‘risk’ of new ideas and supercharge growth
• How to avoid allowing your past success to sabotage your future growth