Unleashing the Collaborative Potential of your Workforce - Dominic Thurbon

Unleashing the Collaborative Potential of your Workforce

Dominic Thurbon is a world top-ten speaker and a leading authority on Generation Y. As Head of Research for Peter Sheahan, he has researched and written a wide variety of articles and reports on the impact of Gen Y in our workplaces and broader society, as well as presenting at numerous conferences and events on the subject.

After graduating the University of Sydney, Dominic joined Peter Sheahan as lead researcher on his new book, Flip: How counterintuitive thinking is changing everything, which has been published internationally, while simultaneously undertaking his honours thesis in Political Science. Dominic Thurbon actively and regularly commentates on issues including workforce trends, employer branding and attracting, retaining and marketing to Generation Y. He has spoken on these issues to a variety of organisations including Oxfam, the South Australian Government, and The Executive Connection.

Dominic Thurbon’s speaking skills have been recognised with consistent top-ten Australian, Australasian and World rankings in debating. In 2006, he was a semi-finalist at the World Intervarsity Debating Championships (the largest gathering of speakers in the world) held in Dublin, and was the 7th ranked speaker in the world. This year he was a grand finalist at the Championships held in Thailand.

To get ahead in the knowledge economy, companies must capture the expertise already floating around inside its four walls. By using simple social media tools, we can not only capture and search the expertise we already have, but also direct it towards solving pressing business problems. Unleashing innovation and collaboration in this way is a sure-fire method for driving better results!

Unleashing the Collaborative Potential of your Workforce will:

• Show you and your team the model for capturing, sourcing and directing the knowledge inside your organisation
• Identify the connection between information flow and driving innovation, collaboration and productivity
• Save you time, money and energy by helping you capture what you already know
• Prove that if you knew what you knew, you’d be unstoppable!
• Clearly demonstrate how to use everyday enterprise 2.0 solutions to create a more innovative and collaborative

In his work with Peter Sheahan he has led the development of the most comprehensive Generation Y research project in the world and assists in the preparation of presentations to clients such as Google, News Corporation, AECOM and BMW. He has also worked directly with 1000s of Gen Y's through workshops in schools and universities.

Dominic Thurbon’s intense passion for the subject, unrivalled communication skills and desire to bring the Gen Y research to the world makes Dominic a powerful and dynamic presenter, capable of shifting the mindsets of leaders out of the world as it used to exist and into the world as it exists today. To learn more about Dominic Thurbon http://www.platinumspeakers.com.au/speaker1534-Dominic-Thurbon or contact Platinum Speakers and Entertainers on 03 9673 7400