James Lisica | Speaker Profile
James Lisica is an internationally recognized Futurist, Keynote Speaker, and Supply Chain Thought Leader possessing over 25 years of operational, analytical, and commercial experience. He specializes in assisting organizations to develop strategies that reduce costs, enable digital transformation, improve operating efficiencies and deliver game-changing competitive advantages.
Featured keynote topics
A supply chain thought leader possessing over 25 years of operational, analytical, and commercial experience, James Lisica is also the highest-rated supply chain speaker globally, 8 of 10 years. Potential speaking topics include:
Designing your digital supply chain
With newfound urgency, corporate leaders are challenging their heads of supply chain to develop a roadmap for digital development. However, many struggle to define the journey toward digital excellence and to select the right approach. In this session, James covers this journey toward digital excellence and provides a strategic framework to design your digital roadmap for success.
Mastering tomorrow’s technology today
Technology is a competitive advantage only when you make the right bets at the right time. But with so many emerging solutions, which should you invest in and when? Getting this wrong can have dire ramifications for the supply chain and the organization overall. In this session, James covers the emerging technology landscape and provides tactical tools organizations can use to explore tomorrow’s technology today.
Designing ethical & sustainable supply chains
Companies embracing ethical and sustainable innovation will soon wield a powerful weapon to drive efficiencies, cement brand value, and open up profitable new markets. CEOs are now tasking their supply chain leaders to design a roadmap that aligns with these ESG targets. In this session, James covers aligning the supply chain with corporate ESG goals and provides a framework to create a tactical CSR strategy.
The art of cross-functional integration
Cross-functional integration is a critical component of supply chain efficiency and performance, yet over 80% of organizations still fail to achieve it. Most still struggle to define a common vision and strategic approach to align different functional stakeholders. In this session, James covers the art and science behind cross-functional integration, providing frameworks you can use to align the various functions.
Additional bespoke workshop options are available upon request.
Testimonials
Eileen Coparropa, Starbucks
Director, Strategy Optimization, Global Supply Chain
James is one of the best speakers of had the pleasure of hearing throughout my career.
Brett Frankenberg, Coca-Cola
SVP Product Supply Planning & Bottle Sales
James is way ahead of the pack on so many four topics relating to supply chain and commerce.
Giovanni Dal Bon, Unilever
Head of Logistics, North America
James is a world-leading expert in the supply chain and logistics area.
Tina Hu, Kimberly-Clark
Supply Chain & Manufacturing Director
James is a true visionary who effortlessly delivers powerful insights in an engaging and impactful way.
Career overview
James began his journey in the supply chain industry in the 1990s. Honing his knowledge from the ground up in operations before taking on senior management roles with Agility, OOCL, and Maersk. In 2012, he moved to Gartner, where he worked for nearly a decade. He was fundamental in building out their supply chain offering and took the lead role in developing their foundational maturity models, now used by companies in every corner of the world. During his tenure, clients consistently ranked him as their top supply chain speaker, and his sessions at conferences were always highly sought after.
Most recently, he founded Outfox Enterprises, a future-focused think tank supporting supply chain innovation through collaborative research and pioneering thought leadership. Over his extensive career, James has studied and worked with the world’s leading organizations, serving as a trusted strategic adviser to hundreds of multinationals, government agencies, universities, and technology providers.
Organizations and event organizers can confidently hire this speaker to conduct keynotes and workshops about future trends across a diverse range of topics and in the following formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Advisory calls | Discussion with your executives to answer specific questions on a topic, project or subject of choice. |
| Executive coaching | One-to-one coaching and mentoring session between an executive and the selected speaker. Topics are mutually agreed upon. |
| Topic presentation (Internal) | A presentation for your internal team based on a mutually agreed topic with content supplied by the speaker. This format is designed specifically for internal team meetings. Maximum 25 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (Internal) | Webinar presentation for your team members on a mutually agreed topic, including question time. Internal replay rights included. Maximum 100 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (External) | Webinar presentation for your team and external attendees on a mutually agreed topic. Question time and external replay rights included. Maximum 500 participants. |
| Event keynote presentation | Keynote or speaking engagement for your corporate event. Topic and content can be customized to event themes. Includes one-on-one question time and participation in other event sessions if required. |
Book this speaker
Contact us to inquire about booking this speaker for a keynote, panel, or workshop, or contact Kaelah Shimonov at kaelah.s@quantumrun.com
