Speaking Topics
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Highly regarded as an engaging and energetic communicator and skilled facilitator, Clark Murdock can provide added value to your organization’s meetings, conferences, or corporate off-sites. He offers a full range of speaking options, from conducting small seminars to giving formal lectures to large audiences, bringing breadth and depth of experience as a change agent, analyst, and teacher.
Dr. Murdock is particularly effective in engaging and stimulating small groups.
“I believe that the key to effective learning is an interactive environment that enables smaller audiences (20-30 people) in more informal settings to actively involve the speaker and participants in spontaneous exchanges that create memorable moments that both resonate and last.”
Speaking options include:
Here's what clients have had to say about Clark Murdock's speaking engagements:
“Thought provoking and insightful.”
“Exceptional and candid!”
“Lots of stimulating ideas.”
- Modular Presentations
Stand-alone, 90-120 minute sessions designed to be inserted into a longer program. Dr. Murdock provides a detailed, substantive outline that is distributed to each participant at the beginning of the session. He says, "I believe strongly that PowerPoint presentations are overused and suppress discussion." Instead he talks briefly (15-20 minutes) to the outline and, in the unlikely event that no one has made an intervention, asks someone to share their views on a particular point. Discussion dynamics drive the flow of the entire session, although Dr. Murdock will ensure that all of the topics covered in the outline, which are the participants' takeaways, are covered.
- Half-Day or Full-Day Events
These longer engagements begin with a session in which Dr. Murdock, in the manner described above, presents the Future Making approach to organizational change. He then serves as moderator and discussion facilitator as other notable experts, provided by Murdock Associates and tailored for each client, will present their perspectives. The event ends with a Murdock-led discussion of lessons learned from the contrasting perspectives offered by the speakers.
Future Making Speaking Topics
Future Making: Getting Your Organization Ready for What’s Next, is targeted at the people who make the decisions for organizations and for the men and women who support and shape the decision-makers. Like the book, Future Making talks are intended to actively engage participants in highly-interactive discussions that will help them to do their jobs better.
- Future Making: Redefining the Role of Planning, Planners and Plans. Click here for more detail.
- Representing the Future.
- 21st Century Corporate Strategy — Innovation, Execution, and the Right Strategy.
- Strategic Visioning — Why It's Important and How To Do It.
- The Care and Feeding of Your Boss.
Copies of Future Making: Getting Your Organization Ready for What’s Next can be provided to all participants, if the client desires.
Murdock Associates, Inc. donates 10 percent of all revenue from Future Making talks and appearances to nonprofit organizations helping recent veterans.
Other Topics
Contact Clark Murdock for more information and to schedule speaking engagements.
