Vision Beyond the Bottom Line

 

Rod Wallace, PhD, challenges audiences  with his unique blend of expertise at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and social conscience. In insightful speeches, Wallace delivers a thought-provoking view of business today that helps the audience address society’s most pressing problems while profiting themselves.

Rod Wallace, PhD, is an engaging speaker with international experience. Speaking engagements include workshops and presentations to business groups, government organizations, not-for-profit organizations, and more.

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Praise For Rod

Rod was an inspiration onstage!
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I felt every range of emotion when I listened to Rod speak!
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I highly recommend Rod! 
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Dr. Rod Wallace brings complex issues to living,
breathing reality with stories.
Gerry Lantz, Past President,
National Speakers’ Association, Philadelphia

Dr. Rod Wallace is energetic, knowledgeable, and thought-provoking. He entertained my audience with his stories and insights, and more importantly, his pragmatic focus on business profit.
Gregg Stebben, Forbes

I realized today that being socially responsible makes for really good business. 
Business Conference Attendee

Rod captures the key ingredients of success and challenges in our work!
Richard Scobey, President World Cocoa Foundation

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Insightful, entertaining, inspiring: Rod Wallace goes directly to the core of our current issues, distilling the central challenges. Through compelling stories and powerful insight, Wallace provides groundbreaking insights, strategies, and tools for overcoming America’s most pressing issues. When society fails, value is delivered to no one. Solve those problems and create value for yourself—while benefiting society.

PANEL MODERATOR

Deeply knowledgeable in a variety of topics central to business strategy and organizational development, Wallace can lead a panel of accomplished leaders in business, government, or academia.

TEAM TRAINING

Empower your audience to profit themselves while helping solve society’s problems. 

SPEECHES

THREE MISTAKES COMPANIES MAKE WHEN TRYING TO DO SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RIGHT

Looking to improve your own bottom line while benefiting society? As technology progresses, complexity increases, and organizations must be more innovative and collaborative than ever before. Audiences learn strategies and tools to help maximize profit and purpose:

• 3 social responsibility myths that limit return
• 3 steps to higher-level leadership for a clear vision and cross-organization collaboration
• 5 tests that should be passed by value-maximizing, social responsibility efforts

VISION BEYOND THE BOTTOM LINE

In Vision Beyond the Bottom Line, Wallace energizes organizations to create meaningful profit for shareholders by solving society’s challenging problems. As growing technology adds complexity to our world, no organization controls all the moving parts required to enact real change. Visionary leaders must have vision beyond the bottom line and work across organization boundaries to solve society’s greatest issues.

Based on his TedX Talk with the same name, this groundbreaking speech offers insights, strategies, and tools for expanding profit while overcoming American society’s most pressing issues. Wallace answers the following questions and more:

•  Why do we need collaboration across organizations today?
•  What does collaboration across organizations look like?
•  How can businesses profit from cross-organization collaboration for the benefit of society?

DROWNING IN POTENTIAL

In Drowning in Potential, Wallace explores the stark contrast between digital technology’s potential and the complexity it creates in America today. American business and society have been transformed by digital technology, with spectacular benefits. So why is society suffering from such pressing issues caused by the same technology?

Based on the book with the same name, this groundbreaking speech offers insights and strategies for overcoming American society’s most pressing issues. Wallace answers the following questions and more:

•  What are the side effects of digital technology?
•  How have some societies successfully overcome the unintended consequences of new technologies, while most have not?
•  How can we redesign our approaches to leadership and collaboration to address the fallout from digital technology?

HAYEK IS GETTING LONELY:
The Shift from Resource Allocation to Coordination

Friedrich Hayek is famous for describing the critical role of price, supply, and demand in ensuring appropriate resource allocation. For thousands of years, resource allocation has been the focus of economic discussion. Today, coordination takes precedence: how do we make consistent decisions about the use of our allocated resources.

As a result, the way we make decisions, measure the progress of our economy, and more must change. Wallace explains why analysis of our economy must focus as deeply on the impact of coordination problems—just as much as on allocation challenges.

From this speech, audiences will:

•  See how technology is shifting the nature of the core economic problem.
•  View evidence that coordination failures are leading to failures across more than 60% of the American economy.
•  Consider alternate approaches to thinking about economic growth, investment opportunities, and management decisions.

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