CLICK into Wild Innovation
Strategic Activation for Problem Solving, Innovation, and AI Readiness.
A practical, story-driven keynote that activates leaders and teams unlock an innovation mindset so they can adapt and grow through a repeatable framework when the landscape keeps shifting.
CLICK is a strategic framework for unlocking the innovation mindset needed in our highly-changing environment. Built for leaders and teams navigating AI shifts, market volatility, and cross-disciplinary challenges. It reactivates five intrinsically human cognitive switches so people can:
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Focus on what matters under pressure
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Adapt with purpose in uncertainty
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Act decisively when conditions keep shifting
As tech piles up, fluency drops, stress rises; pace outruns us. The fix isn’t more tech. Harness five human traits to adapt and innovate in the face of technostress.
This is innovation fluency for perpetual change, reconnecting with key innate capabilities people already have so adoption is faster, collaboration is sharper, and problem-solving becomes second nature.
THE PRACTICE OF CLICKING INTO INNOVATION
How do we turn change and challenges into innovative solutions that create new value?
It starts with curiosity, spotting what’s shifting or not working.
It expands through new lenses, borrowing insights across fields.
It advances with ingenuity, using what you have to build a workable first step.
It strengthens through criticism, welcoming feedback as calibration.
And it sustains through kickstarting in the face of uncertainty, weaving it into the process and making it part of the fabric of innovation, because uncertainty is intrinsically human.
Put simply: innovation is not just invention. It’s problem-solving under change, using levers that are intrinsically human, done with speed, relevance, and impact.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Technostress is the strain created by our relationship with digital tools, from email to chat to apps to AI, when their pace and complexity outrun our ability to adapt. Researchers have studied it for decades; it reliably dents focus, satisfaction, and output.
Inside organizations, technostress tends to come from five predictable creators: techno-overload, invasion, complexity, insecurity, and uncertainty. Naming these patterns is useful because you can design against them.
After this keynote, your audience will:
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Increase retention by helping people see progress and purpose.
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Build adaptability and reduce change fatigue.
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Adopt new tools with confidence and turn change into daily innovation.
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Problem-solve faster with an effective mental model.
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Improve cross team collaboration by shifting from labels to lenses.
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Reduce burnout by turning technostress into focus and forward momentum.
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Make it stick and measure it with post event tools.
STAGECRAFT YOU CAN TRUST
Yrmis Barroeta has lit up stages from TEDx San Francisco to intimate, high-stakes rooms where the future is being built, sharing the spotlight with leaders in technology, health, business, and bioscience.
A former Parsons School of Design faculty member, she created the school’s first entrepreneurship curriculum blending innovation strategy with real-world execution. Known for high-impact keynotes, Yrmis leaves audiences energized, equipped, and ready to adapt, problem-solve, and innovate in the face of constant change.
Anadel Alberti
CEO & Founder
of Audaciously Authentic
"Yrmis delivered an engaging and masterful keynote—packed with powerful insights and teachings that stay with you long after the event."
Allié McGuire,
CEO & Co-Founder, AwareNow Media
“Yrmis doesn’t just give a talk — she invites you into an experience. She has this incredible way of taking big, complex ideas and making them feel personal, human, and deeply inspiring. If you’re looking for a speaker who brings both heart and brilliance to the stage, Yrmis is the one.”
Vanessa Duarte
Chemist, specialist in food science & anti-inflammatory nutrition
"Yrmis grew up close to the wildlife, and it shaped the way she sees the world. Her creativity flows like a river finding its way, her adaptability and her problem-solving is as instinctive as survival in the wild. She reminds us that you don’t always have to be original you just have to think how it can be done better. Through her analogies from nature, she shows that obstacles can become adventures, and that we all have the power to contribute to innovation."
Dr. Scott Thomas C.
“Thank You for Your Inspiring Talk at the Creativity Conference
Hi Yrmis, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your talk at the Creativity Conference. Thank you for sharing your perspective—it was truly a highlight of the event!
Warm regards"
WHY NOW?
Teams are operating in a state of constant technostress, navigating AI shifts, market volatility, and leadership changes. In this environment, skills training alone cannot close the gap.
This session unlocks the human capabilities that drive lasting performance: curiosity, adaptability, and creative problem solving. The result is faster adoption, stronger collaboration, and solutions that stick.
It is a proven approach to retooling the way teams think and act, transforming existing talent into a competitive advantage in an era of unrelenting change
BRING CLICK INTO WILD INNOVATION TO YOUR EVENT
Let's fill your room with energy, insight, and action that lasts. This keynote is available for a few select engagements per year, make yours one of them.
This talk is a strong fit for events focused on: innovation, strategy, leadership, and cross-functional audiences like:
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Innovation and strategy summits
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Women’s leadership conferences
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Global Audiences and High-Impact Programs
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Employee learning & development programs
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Hispanic Heritage Month
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Wellness and work performance events
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AI and future-of-work activations, gatherings and staff's retreats
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University commencements and MBA intensives
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Virtual keynotes, internal team sessions, or all-hands
Keynotes
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Turning creativity into a repeatable skill immediately frames innovation as a capability, not a buzzword.
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Thriving through technostress connects to current organizational pain points (AI acceleration, burnout, digital overload).
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Working when fluency breaks captures adaptability, a powerful concept for leaders navigating constant change.
Good to address:
AI and the Future of Work: Help your people adapt faster and make innovation a daily habit as AI rewrites the playbook.
Change and Adaptability: Keep momentum under constant change with a simple mental model.
Innovation: Turn nonstop updates into useful innovation that improves results.
Leadership: Equip your managers to adapt faster, reduce overwhelm, and unlock team problem solving.
Culture and Wellbeing: Turn technostress into focus and progress to reduce change fatigue and burnout.
"My promise to you: Low lift for planners. Direct access. Fast setup.
I make time to connect with your attendees after the talk, where the best conversations happen."
- Yrmis
TAILORED KEYNOTES
Get a keynote shaped to your goals and your audience.
With more than 25 years solving problems with innovative solutions across industries, Yrmis also shares the practical, entrepreneurial mindset teams need inside companies. She shapes the message to fit your team’s context and the challenges ahead.
