Aaron Dignan
- Co-Founder and CEO of Plumb
- Digital Strategist and Founding Partner, Undercurrent
- Technologies are Transforming our Economy
- Inspiring Change / Culture
Travels From
New York
Aaron Dignan Speaker Biography
Aaron Dignan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Plumb, an automation platform that enables organizations to handcraft AI agents of exceptional quality. Previously, he founded The Ready, an organizational transformation firm that helps the world's largest companies reimagine their cultural operating systems. His bestselling book "Brave New Work" challenged traditional management models, advocating for adaptivity and autonomy over efficiency and control.
Today, Aaron continues this mission by building technology that empowers teams to focus on meaningful work while automating the mundane. His vision consistently centers on liberating human potential through better systems—using AI not to replace people, but to enhance their capabilities and create a more fulfilling (and human) world of work.
Brave New Work
We sit at the precipice of a completely new world. Exponential technologies are transforming our economy in unpredictable ways—democratizing power, concentrating wealth, connecting everyone and everything, and challenging our assumptions about business as usual. In response, new ways of working and organizing are gaining popularity, spurred on by radical entrepreneurs who are willing to question everything about what an organization is and how it should operate. The change we face technologically and culturally is nothing compared to what’s coming. To be ready, Dignan contends we need to focus on making our teams and companies more adaptive, more exponential, and (perhaps counterintuitively) more human. In this presentation, he offers a path to readiness that applies to anyone, from the new hire to the chief executive.
The Ever Better OrganizationManaging Complexity and Uncertainty in the 21st Century
We sit at the precipice of a completely new world. Exponential technologies are transforming our economy in unpredictable ways – democratizing power, concentrating wealth, connecting everyone and everything, and challenging our assumptions about rights and privacy. In response, new ways of working and organizing are gaining popularity, spurred on by Generation Y entrepreneurs who are willing to question everything about what an organization is and how it should operate. The change we face technologically and culturally is nothing compared to what’s coming. To be ready, Dignan contends we need to focus on making our teams and companies more adaptive, more exponential, and (perhaps counterintuitively) more human. In this presentation he offers a path to readiness that applies to anyone, from the new hire to the chief executive.
The Responsive Organization
Tesla, the fastest-growing stock in the automotive industry and maker of the safest car ever made, is run by a software engineer. Amazon has a market cap three times bigger than Target, in spite of the fact that it operates at a loss. Valve is able to run a multi-billion dollar gaming company with a few hundred employees without job titles or managers. What is happening? Technology—particularly software—has had a destabilizing effect on legacy organizations everywhere. Today’s fastest growing, most profoundly impactful companies are using a completely different operating model. These companies are lean, mean, learning machines and are organized around a new pattern: the ability to evolve in real time. In this presentation, Aaron Dignan will speak about his research on organizational responsiveness, his work on the front lines with companies like GE, American Express, and PepsiCo, and why companies everywhere need to change the way they work and organize in order to succeed in an age of uncertainty.
The Game Frame Workshop
The Game Frame Workshop will take your company through a crash course in tackling challenges at work from the perspective of game design. Participants will workshop existing business challenges and walk away thinking like a game designer – equipped with the seeds and buds of solutions. This two day workshop is broken up into three sections: Play, Learn and Design.
