Dan Ward

Consultant and Author

Speaking

Are you looking for a fast-paced, story-filled, entertaining presentation that provides practical ways you can innovate more effectively and manage complexity in your organization, your process, and your systems? If so, I’m your guy.

In my keynotes, workshops, and book chats, I share first-person examples from my own career as a military technologist and show how you can use the same methods in your own projects. Here are some of the topics I address:

Dan Ward Speaking at SXSW

Dan Speaking at SXSW

  • F.I.R.E.: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation. A practical guide to rapid innovation.
  • The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide To Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse. Managing complexity.
  • Faster, Better, Cheaper – Revisited: A close-up look at what NASA attempted and accomplished under the Faster, Better, Cheaper initiative, leading to lessons for today’s technology leaders

Each presentation is customized for your specific group’s interests and needs. I have spoken at South By South West, The Lean Startup Conference, SAP Ariba Live, and at universities around the world. Other audiences include The White House, Microsoft, EMC, L-3 Communications, the United States Air Force Academy, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

For inquiries about speaking engagements, drop me a note directly or contact my representatives at the HarperCollins Speakers Bureau or SpeakInc.

Want to see me in action? Here’s a video of a Simplicity Cycle talk I gave at EMC’s Cloud Foundry Dojo in Boston.