How will you become a Gamechanger?
The Global AMP is all about transformational growth, of you as a leader, and how you can drive transformation in your business.
It’s not just about leading your current business, sustaining the strategies that others have created. As markets change, your business needs to change. You as the future leader, need to take your business to the next place. To change the game.
That means thinking beyond your current strategy, and your ways of competing and operating – beyond what your current leaders think, as priorities and possibilities. You need to challenge the conventions, the assumptions, and the limits.
Why does the Gamechanger Project matter?
This is your opportunity to develop a new blueprint for the future of your business – or even a new business of your own – and how you will make it happen. And it’s real. Not an exercise, or fantasy. Your future business starts here.
The gamechanger project is one of the most valuable parts of the Global AMP. Both in terms of learning, and ensuring you and your future business get a significant return on your time and financial investment. The project runs throughout the duration of the program – helping you to apply all the best ideas and tools as you progress – and presenting your blueprint on graduation day.
As Global AMP academic director, I’m here to help you. You can also talk to people in your own business – maybe find a sponsor (your CEO?) or develop a project team – even during these early stages. We will have group sessions, and one-to-one sessions, including during each of the XDots at the end of each module. And you can contact me at any time for advice.
What are some examples of Gamechanger Projects?
Over the last few years, Global AMP participants have each developed their projects, and then taken them back to their businesses for implementation, and to shape their own futures. Here are just a few examples:
Sometimes, people even find that the project takes them in new directions, and they start a new venture, either within or beyond their existing business, to make their dream come true.
How can I use the Gamechanger Toolkit?
You are smart and experienced, so you don’t need to just follow a process. But to help you, I have developed a toolkit with a wide range of templates and frameworks to help you think, and apply the Global AMP content.
Use the tools gradually during the program – we will focus on specific ones, in specific sessions – but also you can jump around and explore ideas, go back and redo the early tools again later, and embrace others too.
I have brought together over 200 resources – inspiring articles, trend reports, case studies, toolkits and more – which you can explore for inspiration as you wish.
I have also profiled over 100 business leaders, and 100 most inspiring companies, largely through one to one interviews and published in my various books. You can dip into them here:
Additionally there’s a wide range of useful resources – personally, I chose to search for new insight and ideas in Business Insider, CB Insights, Fast Company, Inc Magazine, McKinsey Insights, Strategy & Business, and many others.
Getting started in Spring 2022
As we have a short pause in the Global AMP, now is a great time to get started thinking about your projects. We have three extra sessions to inspire your thinking, and to learn from other companies and entrepreneurs.
Here are the next dates:
In preparation for an interactive session, I would like you to do some prework – it’s simple – to watch three videos of inspiring business entrepreneurs and corporate leaders, and be ready to talk about them in our online session.
I want you to be curious and interested – in them as people, and in their ideas – so you might also want to check out their businesses more directly, and what they are doing right now.
What can you learn from each of them?
#1 Tan Le, founder of Emotiv … is merging the human brain with technology and blurring the line between science fiction and reality. But before changing other people’s lives, she had to change her own.
Read more about Tan Le: Connecting you, your brain, and the world
#2 Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google X,Udacity and Kitty Hawk … this tech wizard used to head up Google X and hold a tenured teaching position at Stanford University. He is now on a mission to change the way the world learns.
Read more about Sebastian Thrun: AI scientist creating the future of education and travel
#3 Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe co-founder & CEO … on the benefits of DNA testing, and the future of medicine. Recently she partnered with Richard Branson’s Virgin Investments to take the genetics business public.
Read more about Anne Wojcicki: Decoding and recoding the future of healthcare