SPEAKING EVENTS

Colin and Bill deliver engaging speeches, fireside chats and audience Q&A sessions offering a combination of practical tools that leaders can apply to their company as well as stories and examples from their time working day to day with Jeff Bezos and the senior leadership team at Amazon. Previous clients include PagerDuty, Maersk, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, DoorDash, The Hartford Insurance, and many more.

How Amazon Built an Invention Machine

In this talk, Colin and Bill explain how Amazon built an Invention Machine by establishing a set of Leadership Principles combined with scalable, repeatable processes for hiring, metrics, decision-making, innovation, and organization structure. Colin and Bill take audiences inside the room and demonstrate how the principles key to "Being Amazonian" can be scaled and applied to any organization.

Measure For Success: Managing with Controllable Input Metrics

By managing inputs, not outputs, Amazon was able to identify and improve the most important customer value drivers like fast shipping, vast selection, and low prices while achieving operational excellence. In this talk, Colin and Bill explain the importance of controllable input metrics and how to identify and embed them into your management processes.

Working Backwards from the Customer to Drive New Product Innovation

Amazon is one of the most innovative companies of the 21st century, with multiple worldwide hit products like Kindle, Amazon Echo, Prime, and AWS. Learn how Amazon created a scalable, repeatable process enabling everyone in the organization to start with customer needs and work backwards to effective product solutions.

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