The title of my keynote is Breakdown as Breakthrough: How Personal Upheaval Can Ignite Systemic Innovation and Corporate Imagination.

When systems fail—whether personal or institutional—we’re offered a rare chance not just to rebuild, but to reimagine. This keynote tells the story of how profound personal disruption became the unlikely catalyst for radical reinvention, offering a blueprint for turning loss into visionary solutions. Drawing on firsthand experience, it explores how the intimate terrain of breakdown can lead to bold new ways of building—ways that serve not just survival, but transformation. From micro-level crisis to macro-level insight, the talk reveals how what breaks us may also break open the outdated systems we inhabit. Corporate leaders will be invited to look inward as a means of thinking outward—cultivating companies that solve problems instead of multiplying them, that make meaning, create resilience, and dare to reimagine what's possible.