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Keynote Speakers

Bill Jensen
CEO
The Jensen Group

Harvard Business Review, CNBC and Fast Company have called Bill Jensen today’s foremost expert on work complexity and cutting through clutter to what really matters.

He has spent the past two decades studying how work gets done. (Much of what he’s found horrifies him.)

He is an internationally-acclaimed author and speaker who is known for provocative ideas, extremely useful content, and his passion for making it easier for everyone to work smarter, not harder.

His first book, Simplicity, was the Number 5 Leadership/Management book on Amazon in 2000. His next best-seller is Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More.

He’s currently finalizing his latest book, Hacking Work, which chronicles how employee-hackers are actively saving business from itself, one bad act at a time. The saddest thing is that this book, and all the hacks inside it, wouldn’t be necessary if the design of work didn’t suck so much!

Bill holds degrees in Communication Design and Organizational Development. He’s CEO of The Jensen Group, whose mission is:
To make it easier to get stuff done. Among the Jensen Group’s clients are Bank of America, Pfizer, Genentech, NASA, The World Bank, Johnson&Johnson, Walt Disney World, American Express, British Petroleum, Chevron, the US Navy SEALS, the government of Ontario, Singapore Institute of Management, Guangzhou China Development District, and the Swedish Post Office.

Bill’s personal life fantasy is to bicycle around the globe via breweries.

James Calder
Director of Research
Woods Bagot

James is a practitioner, facilitator, author and part-time educator interested in all facets of the strategy, design and use of the workplace. He has extensive experience in Europe and the Asia Pacific with the world’s pre-eminent organisations across most business sectors. James has developed workplace strategies for lawyers, professional services firms, investment banks, retail banks, universities and the public sector.

His work at the highest levels of management gives him a unique perspective on the opportunities for the future workplace of users, organisations and suppliers, and in the issues associated with the planning and design of accommodation resources. He speaks regularly at conferences around the region and has conducted study tours locally and overseas. He is regularly called on by the media for expert opinions on issues of architecture in the workplace.

Research projects have been undertaken for clients such as Fuji Xerox in Japan, ABN AMRO in Europe and GPT in Australia. James has also worked with many developers to ensure buildings are future-proofed for changing tenant demands. Key buildings include 126 Phillip Street, Aurora Place and Terminal 3 at Heathrow.

James is a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne and is assisting in the development of a postgraduate course focusing on the workplace.