Understanding Cognitive Load and the Cost of Holding It All Together

Before your conference event and program gets underway, it's valuable to address the mental load many of us are carrying.

This cognitive load directly impacts our ability to focus, our energy, and for your event, the ability to absorb new information, learn and develop.

Some of the best insights from speakers on your conference program are at risk of not landing due to audience cognitive overload.

This opening session sets the scene for coping with the information load for the conference and explains why common productivity hacks too often miss the mark.

The group will be better able to engage, think clearly and get greater value from everything else that follows in your conference program.

When there’s too much information, too many perspectives and no clear picture, sensemaking is the modern leadership capability that helps you work out what’s going on… and what to do about it.

Harvard Business Impact’s research on the top business challenges and leadership strategies for 2026 names sensemaking as the capability for these times … as The Institute for the Future forecast.

“Nearly 4 in 5 say that it will be very or extremely important for leaders to master sensemaking under uncertainty … in the next 3 - 5 years.” (Harvard Business Impact)

Learn from Lynne Cazaly’s extensive work in Sensemaking over the past 10 years, her published books, learning programs and insights.

This transformative keynote session (and optional workshop) sets delegates up with practical sensemaking skills they’ll use and apply immediately and through ongoing change and complexity.

It’s FOBO (fear of being obsolete) not FOMO that’s on our minds!

How do we remain valuable, relevant and productive in a world that’s always changing?

Lynne presents the 25 essential ‘Clever Skills’ capabilities needed to survive and advance in today’s - and tomorrow’s - workplaces. These skills will help you blend adaptability with innovation and critical, clever thinking … plus augment well with AI.

Optional extra of a copy of ‘Clever Skills’ the book for each participant.

Who isn’t overloaded, overwhelmed and exhausted from too much of everything?!

Lynne brings together incredible insights and learning to point you in the direction of relief so you’ll have a fresh sense of how to tackle what truly is a cognitive load crisis.

You’ll understand why it’s been too hard for too long and coping with all of this information has been a challenge. And now, AI is only making the flood of information slop worse with ‘AI brain fry’ already impacting us.

This will be a life-changing session!

This keynote has been delivered to audiences like technology teams, educators, principals, CEOs, aged care leaders, health care leaders, pharmaceuticals, building and construction, Human Resources, social services and more…

Optional extra is a copy of the book ‘Argh! Too much information, not enough brain : A Practical Guide to Outsmarting Overwhelm’ for each participant.

In these complex times, better decisions come from seeing what others miss!

This keynote introduces the concept, skill and practice of ‘fractal fluency’. It’s the ability to recognise patterns, cycles and recurring structures that happen across work, teams, tasks, projects … and in your own performance, thinking and behaviour.

This practical and interactive experience exposes participants to pattern matching skills, pattern identification and pattern recognition, helping them deal with and anticipate change, adapt to shifting situations and understand why their previous patterns may have worked less effectively.

The session can be presented with options including live and visual landscapes of greenery, flowers and other patterns of nature.

Contact Lynne Cazaly to discuss the optional extras and possibilities.