Lior Zoref

WE are smarter than ME – innovation and leadership the with power of collective intelligence

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WE are smarter than ME – innovation and leadership with the power of collective intelligence

Whether we need to make better business decisions, find innovative solutions to big challenges, or transform our lives, collective intelligence is the key to making quicker, wiser, more objective decisions. And when it comes to collective intelligence, Dr. Lior Zoref is the authority to turn to.

Dr. Zoref is a researcher, advisor, TED speaker, and author of the best-selling book, Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything. His speech at the TED 2012 Conference in Long Beach, California, was widely-recognized as a conference favorite. Dr. Zoref received a standing ovation for the out-of-the-box, insightful, and hilarious presentation, which The New Yorker dubbed “delightful.” In addition to bringing an ox live on stage, Zoref used stories of crowdsourcing in action—including a poll of the audience—to illustrate its power.

Originally from Israel and having previously spent 14 years as a vice president in marketing at Microsoft, he is currently a researcher and advisor whose work has been featured in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, NPR, The Huffington Post, and more.

After the success of Dr. Zoref’s TED talk, his book, Mindsharing, further emphasized the power of collective intelligence, exploring how to benefit from the power of fifty, five hundred, or five thousand brains. Translated into many languages, the book was listed by Inc. magazine as one of the “best books for entrepreneurs” alongside books from business legends including Richard Branson, Elon Musk, and Tony Hsieh. It looks at why few of us come close to using the full potential of our online networks, and how to use “mind sharing” in practical and proven ways—including looking at how a manager used LinkedIn to create a year’s worth of market research in less than a day. Celebrated as “a genius who is also an ordinary guy,”

Dr. Zoref has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations including Google, MIT Media Lab, Columbia University, The White House, Nike, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. Dr. Zoref has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including TED, TEDMED, Biomed, and TechEd where he shared the stage with figures like Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jeff Bezos, and more

WE are smarter than ME

In his fascinating and highly-engaging talks, Dr. Zoref looks at the ways organizations and individuals can draw on wisdom of crowds to create a greater output with less effort. He shares techniques major corporations are using now to innovate and problem-solve in record time—all by using the power of “we.”

A passionate speaker, Dr. Zoref inspires a new look at the ways we think and make decisions in the era of social networks. He helps clients shed outdated methods and protocol to leapfrog the competition, and shares ways to “supercharge” thinking and making dreams come true by drawing on resources that already exist.

Transformation Interactive Ideation Experience

It’s a new world. Coronavirus pandemic is changing many industries and has long-lasting impact on every business. Leaders find an urgent need to transform their business and re-energize their employees.

Getting through is a not about how are we going to get through this. It’s about how are we going to change to get through this.

Dr. Lior Zoref helps leaders and organizations untap the hidden intelligence inside their organizations turning it into actionable solutions in record time while motivating and energizing all stake holders to be part of the transformation.

As someone who is an international expect in collective intelligence, written a PhD and a bestselling book on the topic, speak all over the world including TED and the white house while advising some of the largest corporations of the world, Dr. Zoref developed a research based systematic approach for hosing a virtual crowd sourcing process fostering the power of “we” that allows organizations to adapt and transform to the new current and post pandemic world.

The package includes

Defining a strategic business challenge and writing a brief.
Workshop planning.
A virtual workshop. The workshop includes a short keynote, recreating my TED Ox experience (with a real Ox), ideation on steroids in small virtual breakout rooms, ideas pitching from each breakout room representative, voting and ranking best ideas.
Deliveries: A comprehensive ideation booklet which includes the highest rated top-10 actionable ideas in addition to a long list of all ideas generated during the workshop.

Your presentation to our European leadership team was refreshing, relevant and most insightful. They all LOVED IT!
~ Microsoft

Your presentation at our 22nd annual event was the best we ever had. It had everything we would want: an important moving message, a compelling personal story and a lasting impact.
~ Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Technology Association

Your presentation was amazing. We were all talking about you after you left and how perfect your message was.
~ Kristi Webb, President and CEO, North America, Element Fleet Management

Lior Zoref’s presentation to our regional Brand Leadership team was insightful, inspirational and mind opening. Highly recommended!
~ Nike

In your pleasant, humble and humorous way, Lior walked us through his personal story while gifting us with key methods and technics of giving a presentation. I can already see the change and the step up of the team.
~ Kodak

The lecture was inspiring and powerful. All participants were magnetized!
~ Cisco

Lior’s lecture was inspiring, empowering, and taught us that ‘the sky’s the limit’ is not just an empty phrase.
~ Perion

Crowdsourcing is the base line of all sharing economy. Lior is doing outstanding job in providing the experience of how does it really work and the power of crowdsourcing.
~ Uri Levin, Waze co-founder and former president

I used to think it was hard to match Malcolm Gladwell’s skill of presenting complex subjects easily – but Lior Zoref’s matches and at times exceeds it.
~ Vova Soroka

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