Peter de Jager

Biography

Peter de Jager is a speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to the Rational Assimilation of the Future. He has published hundreds of articles on topics ranging from Problem Solving, Creativity and Change to the impact of technology on areas such as privacy, security and business. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific American. His monthly schedule is hectic... In addition to presentations and seminars on the topics above, he writes about a dozen regular columns. In total, slightly more than 1,000,000 readers have an opportunity to share Peter's thoughts each month. Having spoken in more than 34 countries he is recognized worldwide as an exciting and engaging speaker. His audiences have included the World Economic Forum, The World Bank and The Bank for International Settlements. His presentations use humor to challenge the myths surrounding our understanding of the Change process and the benefits of technology. His talks are suitable to both staff and upper management. His single-minded objective, despite the global nature of some of the issues, is always to provide actionable solutions and new avenues of approach to seemingly intractable problems. His presentations and workshops are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most distinctively - provocative. His work forces you to think differently about things you thought you were already sure you knew. In May 2001 he was honored by CIPS for his work in Y2K and was recently appointed as an Associate Director of The Global Future Forum a Unisys Corporation initiative.

Publications

A collection of both Humor and Hubris relating to the biggest, dumbest, most idiotic blunder in the history of technology...Known to one and all as the Y2K Millennium Bug

Titles

Managing the Chaos Brought About by Change Management is faced with two conflicting situations. a) We must implement all Change that is necessary and, b) We must resist all Change that isn't. These are both obviously true and therefore pose a paradox and a Management Challenge; a) How can we get people to embrace the Change that is necessary? b) How can we create an environment that allows rational resistance? This session examines the tools available to organizations to help them achieve what at first glance appears as an unsolvable conundrum. The presentation is interactive, thought provoking and guaranteed to generate good, deep, discussion about how Change is, and should be, implemented in an organization. The emphasis is on changing how your organization thinks about this thing we call "Change" -An interactive discussion about Change in general -A presentation of the Virginia Satir Change process model, which consists of the following concepts: 1) Status Quo - What happens before the Change takes place. 2) Foreign Element - The event that initiates the Change process. 3) Resistance - Exactly WHY do people resist? 4) Denial - What it is, and what you can do about it. 5) Chaos - The beginning of the learning curve. 6) Integration - Exactly how we regain competence. 7) New Status Quo - The reinstatement of the Status Quo. -Interactive exercises, even with large audiences to demonstrate the validity of the model -Real life examples to make it relevant to your audience