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Speaking Engagements

Help your audience make sense of what's changing. 

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Customers are behaving differently.
Priorities keep multiplying. Teams agree in the room, then execute in different directions.


Innovation, AI, and strategy work are creating activity, but not value.

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Matt Arnold helps leaders and teams make sense of these patterns so they can see what is really happening, align around what matters, and decide what to do next.

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Matt’s talks are practical, thought-provoking, and built for audiences navigating complexity, change, innovation, customer expectations, and strategic uncertainty.

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Topics

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  • Collaborative Sensemaking

  • Futures & Sustainable Innovation

  • Team Dynamics

  • Addressing Complexity

  • Human Centered Design

  • Consumer Insight​

  • Effectual Innovation​​​

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Example Talks

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  • 06.12/26 - From Fuzzy to Feasible: Practical Tools for Clarity & Collaboration (ENTREFest, Iowa City, IA)

  • 06.04.26 - A Portfolio Approach to Innovation: With Collaborative Sensemaking as Foundation (Product Roundtable)

  • 04.16.26 - Navigating Complexity: Practical Tools for Collaborative Clarity (IAC26 - Philadelphia, PA)

  • 03.07.26 - Designing Meaning Together: The Need for Collaborative Sensemaking (World IA Day Keynote - Providence, RI)

  • 03.25.25 - How to Spark Creativity in Work & Life (Behavioral Grooves Podcast) 

  • 10.01.24 - Planning & Executing Your Next Hackathon (Synthesize Pod) 

  • 06.20.24 - Sparking Innovation (Entrepreneurship 2.0, World Business Angels Investment Forum, University College Cork)

  • 03.31.23 - Narrative Prototypes: Long-Form Narrative as Collaborative Sensemaking

  • 04.21.22 - Biomimicry Buzz: Bees as a Metaphor for Collaborative Sensemaking

  • 08.04.21 - Bringing Innovation to Large Organizations (Panel Discussion, Strategic Doing Conference / University of Oregon)

  • 06.28.21 - Effectual Innovation: Bootstrapping & Scaling Innovation (Panel Discussion, hosted by University College Cork)

  • 06.12.21 - The Product Manager's Mindset (Private Event)

  • 06.11.21 - Futures as a Design Method for Innovation (ENTREFest, Cedar Rapids, IA)

  • 05.27.21 - Effectual Innovation: Innovating the Way We Innovate (Panel Discussion, hosted by University College Cork)

  • 09.10.20 - The Iowa Idea: Creativity, Collaboration, Innovation and Persistence (Big Design)

  • 04.15.20 - Collaborative Sensemaking & Wayfinding (IAC20)

  • 02.22.20 - Sensemaking and Wayfinding: Why IA is Essential When Navigating Complex Systems (World IA Day)

For future talks check out Maven and The Sensemakers Club!

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