Sarah Prevette

What is the one factor, above all else, that determines the success of a company? People. As one of the top startup thought leaders in North America, Prevette mentors high  performance teams, and has incredible insight into the best ways to cultivate their creative  confidence—empowering them to take risks that drive amazing results. Prevette delights  with practical advice and humorous anecdotes encouraging team leaders to do away with  micromanagement in favour of methods that yield effective, motivated and happy  employees. She encourages leaders to reflect on their organization’s recruitment, retention and employee growth strategies by developing empathy for individuals’ aspirations, strengths and opportunities for growth. Walk away with the courage to face  your organization’s persistent issues, and develop strategies for keeping world-class talent  where they belong.   

65% of children currently entering primary school will have jobs that do not yet exist. As the  world changes, education needs to shift to support this new landscape. Sarah Prevette empowers schools to develop their students’ future-ready skills, notably  their creativity, ambition and resourcefulness. A renowned business leader and successful  entrepreneur, Prevette is ready to share her deep understanding of the skills that students  need to exist in modern workforces that are highly adaptive and consistently disrupted by  technology.  This talk has major implications for both public and independent school leaders as we move  into an increasingly diversified world of work. It comes with important takeaways about the  methods through which we assess students and the experiential opportunities we provide  them to engage with the world around them. It’s time to revolutionize the way schools think about technology, design and student success.   

How do you distill a problem into a creative solution? Embrace design thinking? Empower your team? Pinpoint where your skill set and passion converge? Enter Sarah Prevette, serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Future Design School. In this talk, Prevette shares her ultimate credo and how it can change your business: Creativity as a skill set; entrepreneurship as a philosophy. Innovation can be taught, she says, as long as you embrace the mentality and deftness of the entrepreneur. Her keynotes and workshops are a hands-on exercise in identifying your organization’s problems and finding effective, out-of-the-box solutions that you can implement tomorrow. Prevette—a delightful, no-holds-barred speaker—draws on her years of experience and work with some of the most successful business leaders on the planet to share stories, lessons, and activities that will build your game plan. She’s a joy to both watch on stage and work with behind the scenes; the human version of an “aha!” moment.