Tom delivers entertaining, engaging and visually rich keynotes and workshops on creative collaboration, business transformation, and harnessing emerging technologies.

TED Talk | Build a Tower, Build a Team

Tom presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem" — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?

TED Talk | Got a wicked problem? Show me how you make toast

Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Learn how to run this exercise yourself, and hear Wujec’s surprising insights from watching thousands of people draw toast.

TED Talk | Make Ideas Visible

Tom Wujec shows how to apply a simple, powerful, and surprisingly scalable principle to solve almost any problem in business and in life. Making Ideas Visible helps teams build a shared understanding, systematically explore options, and create clear and intelligent choices. Visuals are an incredibly powerful, yet vastly underused tool to foster deeper thinking and richer collaboration.

TED Talk | Learn to Use the 13th Century Astrolabe

Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices — the astrolabe. With hundreds of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new.

XPRIZE | Innovation is a Team Contact Sport

In a brief segment, Tom talks about the power of prototyping as an engine for innovation and collaboation.

Wicked Problem Solving | Making Thinking Visible

This excerpt from the PMI Wicked Problem Solving Practitioner course builds on the Draw Toast exercise to explain how visuals can be used to clarify, share, and develop mental models. With custom animation and scored soundtrack, it builds a foundation for making thinking visible.

Virtual Keynote | Technology Transformation

This presentation, delivered for the Lean Construction Institute, explores the impact of emerging trends in technology and how to harness them to create more resilient companies

Virtual Keynote | Design and Run Better Meetings

Meetings are among the most ambivalent activities in business. In some cases, they’re simply timewasters that take people away from real work. And in other cases, meetings are where the real action is. It’s where decisions are made, products are green-lit, people get hired, and teams get fired. Meetings are where we design our future and where we create change. Learn how to identify what jobs your meeting can accomplish, how to select plays to perform these jobs, and how to engage people at all levels of seniority to shift from passive bystanders to active participants.

Virtual Keynote | Navigating the Stages of Crisis

The problem with navigating a crisis is that most of us don’t face them often, so when one starts, we don’t know how to begin tackling it. In this presentation for Miro, Tom walks attendees through the crisis curve; a template to help teams tackle any crisis. By following his template, attendees will be able to stabilize and fix a crisis, and ultimately move beyond it stronger than ever before.