Christina Gerakiteys

Location
Australia
Areas of Expertise
Innovation
Artificial Intelligence
Purpose

Expert Bio

Christina Gerakiteys is the Co-CEO of SingularityU Australia (SUAU) and a globally recognized catalyst for change, exponential thinking, and human potential. A fully accredited SingularityU Faculty member, Christina founded the first SingularityU Chapter in Australia in April 2018 — now the 8th Country Partner of Singularity University worldwide — and has since launched the SUAU Global Impact Challenge and the SUAU Summit. As the founder of UtopiaX, a creativity and innovation consultancy, she is a sought-after keynote speaker, corporate program designer, and university facilitator whose curricula are rooted in design thinking, Moonshot Thinking, and experiential learning. Christina lectures in Business, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, and has collaborated with members of Simon Sinek's team to develop organizational and personal self-discovery programs. She hosts the SingularityU Australia Summit podcast, Inspire for 5, and has delivered keynotes at prestigious events including Vivid Ideas, the Creative Innovation Conference, and the Inspiring Women Leaders Digital Conference in Madrid. A second-generation Australian of Greek heritage — and descendant of the entrepreneur behind iconic Australian treats Violet Crumble and the Choc-Top ice cream — Christina brings a rich legacy of innovation to everything she does. She is a regular contributor to the Front-End Innovation blog, a frequent radio guest on business and innovation topics, and the producer of the annual Hunter Innovation Festival. Currently pursuing a PhD in Creativity and Innovation, Christina serves as a director on several companies and actively advocates on innovation committees, driven by her unwavering mission to inspire leaders to harness exponential technologies and solve humanity's grand challenges.

Sessions

The Future of Us How to dream big, lean in and lead forward to ensure ideation to execution.

We begin in the land of Science Fiction and land back on earth. Where do you want to be? What does the future of the organisation look like? We will explore and discuss how we will arrive there and consolidate the outcomes in the first steps to action!

Target Audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students

Key takeaways: The importance of science fiction and imagination; Innovation strategy and why it's everyone's business; Identifying impact drivers in an organisation

What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be? How to lead with certainty in a certainly uncertain future.

Who are the leaders we most admire and why? What are the traits that we want to adopt? What are the roles and responsibilities of leaders who can navigate an uncertain future? How do you go about defining the roles and responsibilities of your teams?

Target Audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students

Key takeaways: Self reflection on leadership attributes, Defining leadership style, Actions for continuous growth and learning

A Moonshot Mindset How to create and execute on a Moonshot, one step at a time

A Moonshot Mindset has inspired innovation throughout history. Most organizations operate from a Unique Selling Proposition. The brave organisations, the ones impacting lives on a global scale, Moonshot. Set your mind to an impossible idea and use technology to bring into reality.

You need courage and persistence. You need to think big. You may not think it is possible. Moonshot Thinking is choosing to be bothered about how you make it real.

You will come away from this keynote thinking differently. Wanting to be the change. With the courage to be audacious. Determined to find a way to impact lives.

Flow with our 6 Steps to a Moonshot Mindset from Ideation to Execution. Prepare to push the go button on transformation.

CEO and futurist Christina Gerakiteys will give an insight into some of the technologies that exist as well as explore the mindset that will be required to execute on a new type of strategy. Expect to come away feeling inspired and empowered to implement something new to future proof your business.

This keynote serves as an opening to a conference, executive program and leadership series.

Key takeaways: The ability to shift Mindset to imagine possibilities; an awareness of developing fields and technologies and where the future might take us; a process to ideate and execute on big picture thinking.

Target audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students.

Celebrating Success One Failure at a Time? How to create a culture of success for innovation

Celebrating Success One Failure at a Time is the name of Christina's recently published book. In this talk Christina highlights the importance of defining success and failure on your terms and how failure is a moment in time. It addresses the psychological safety required to lead innovation in any industry.

Journey through the highlights and lowlights of the life of entrepreneurship. We readily read the adventures of the rich and famous, those that 'made it' to unicorn status or those who have crashed, yet we rarely hear of the entrepreneurs achieving great things through their ten year overnight success story - the tortoises competing with the hares.

Author and futurist Christina Gerakiteys will give insights into the journeys of six 'not-so-famous' entrepreneurs, their highs and lows, their wins and their losses.

This keynote serves as an inspirational opening to any leadership, business and entrepreneurial event.

Key takeaways:

- The importance of perception and definition around successes and failures

- Six strategies to help you win in the topsy-turvy land of business and entrepreneurship

- The importance of psychological safety to build a culture of successful innovation

Target audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students

Disrupt or Disrupted? How to write your role to create a future by design for an exponential future.

What role will you play in an exponential future? Will you be a driver, impacting the future to good, or will you be a passenger and hope to survive the status quo?

An organisation, driven by its vision and values, needs to create space for Ideation and Innovation. Who does it and why do they do it? Balance the risk with the reward, business as usual with the Near Future. Expose the mindset to create the legacy of the Future Future!

CEO and futurist Christina Gerakiteys will give an insight into some of these technologies that exist as well as explore the mindset that will be required to execute on a new type of strategy. Expect to come away feeling inspired and empowered and with tools to implement something new to lead and future proof your business.

This keynote serves as an opening to a conference, executive program and leadership series.

Key takeaways:

- The ability to shift Mindset to identify future possibilities for your organization

- An awareness of developing and converging fields and technologies and where the future will take us with case studies

- Customising boundaries for your exponential, abundant and sustainable longevity

Target Audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students

Future Forecasting - Data, AI and Hyper-Personalisation How to integrate convergence, hyper personalization and technology to ensure an abundant future.

Data is the new black. Do we know enough to harness the benefits to turn it into gold? What is the hype around hyper personalisation and how can you leverage the benefits to be the disruptors rather than the disrupted?

Data is not simply a collection of siloed information. Data is the collection of human habits and expectations. Our habits and expectations. With technology (from nanotechnology, bionics, and robotics to artificial intelligence, networks, sensors, AR, VR and synthetic biology) we have the ability to converge and to hyper personalise every aspect of our lives.

Key takeaways

- Accelerated thinking on how data can deliver a strategically differentiated experience to customers.

- Identification of core strategic capabilities and partnerships to stay competitive in an exponential landscape.

- Articulation of 3 actions to commence execution on becoming a data mature business.

Target Audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students

Intro to Exponentials: How to create an exponential and impactful future.

We are now all too familiar with the term Exponential. How has exponential growth shown up in your organization? What have we learnt from organizations that have progressed from deceptive to disruptive? And how might you join them?

During this keynote we will cover the Great Convergence, walk through the 6 D's of disruptive growth, and examine Customer Centricity and Hyper Personalisation. We will examine the impact of technologies including 3D, AR, VR, XR, AI, Quantum, synthetic biology, data and the Metaverse on our collective futures.

The future has already begun. How will you maximise your impact?

This keynote serves as an opening to a conference, executive program and leadership series.

Key takeaways:

- What can we do now with the convergence of technologies that we couldn't before?

- How will we operate from a disruptor's mindset, from abundance over scarcity, so as not to be disrupted?

- How might we converge fields (health, education, environment) to achieve results and solve humanity's grand challenges?

Target Audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students

Science and Spirituality? Convergence or Divide?

We are living in the Age of the Great Convergence. Silos are over. Everything is interrelated and interconnected. Nature has built her ecosystems on this premise for thousands, if not millions of years. Indigenous tribes have lived in an interrelated and intertwined ecosystem as passed down through yarning over generations. Humans had a desire to dissect and deep dive in order to understand concepts and give meaning. The Age of the Great Convergence has exploded the interconnectedness of health with environment and education, with agriculture and manufacturing, with law and socialisation.

Will quantum physics and quantum metaphysics now converge to create a new apex? Will quantum science and the laws of energy finally prove that we are all simply vibrating atoms? If we are all vibrating energy, will it be proven that we all come from one source? Will the laws of physics and science prove that we are spiritually all interconnected? And if that is the case, what else might we be on the cusp of proving?

This keynote serves as a thought provoking and discussion stimulating look into an unknown and limitless future. It is suitable for the thinkers, the debaters and the leaders who wish to be challenged and stimulated to consider and create an exciting future.

Key takeaways: The ability to shift Mindset to consider an unconsidered future; An awareness of developing and converging fields and technologies and where the future will take us with case studies; A look into the possibilities of a quantum future.

Target audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students

What are you in the Business of? How to use First Principle methodologies for an exponential and abundant future.

Every business has a narrative that shines on its foundational purpose. That Kodak moment could have been avoided through the application of First Principle Thinking. We travel briefly through the history and practices of Netflix, Amazon and Zappos to uncover the business you are really in. Then we identify the practices to ensure you are not left behind like Blockbuster or Kodak or Nokia.

A positive workplace culture is a 'not-negotiable' for the sustainability and longevity of an organization moving forward. How will you future proof yours? Collaboration, connection, conversation and convergence, as well as an Innovative Mindset are all tools required to see your longevity.

Key takeaways:

- Uncovering the WHY behind the 'how' and the 'what' and why it matters to organizational sustainability and success

- Begin to build your future formula for success and impact through First Principle methodologies

- Breaking down assumptions and uncovering the core challenges

Target Audience: C-suite, Founders, Upper Management, Frontline Teams, Innovation Drivers, Entrepreneurs, Students

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