DIRECTOR | LISON MAGE
Lison Mage
Lison Mage is the author of “Act Before You Overthink,” a captivating keynote speaker and highly skilled facilitator. Lison graduated with a Masters’ Degree in engineering, worked on three continents, and shifted her career about a decade ago. She explores the fields of psychology and behavioural science, while also practising many extreme sports, such as skydiving and kitesurfing. Mixing both her passion and research, she now shares her insights to help teams foster sustainable performance and strategic decision-making.
Online Presentation: Think Like A Skydiver
At 3,000 feet, a skydiver has approximately 15 seconds to identify a malfunction and execute emergency procedures. There is no time for analysis paralysis. The data is incomplete. The stakes are absolute. Business analysts face a similar paradox daily: stakeholders demand faster decisions, yet complexity grows and perfect data remains elusive. The traditional approach of gathering more information before deciding is breaking under modern time pressures. In this engaging session, Lison Mage draws from his skydiving training and research into decision making under pressure to reveal how elite performers make high quality decisions when time is short and data is incomplete. Attendees will discover the counterintuitive truth: that constraints can actually improve decision quality. Through vivid skydiving stories, neuroscience research, and practical business cases, participants will learn three powerful techniques that skydivers use and that business analysts can adopt immediately:
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Pre Decision Altitude: Setting decision thresholds before pressure hits
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The Emergency Procedures Mindset: Building decision muscle memory through deliberate practice
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Minimum Viable Information: Identifying the critical data points that actually drive outcomes Walk away with a personal Skydiver Decision Framework you can apply to your next high pressure analysis challenge.
Brisbane Presentation: Beat the Possum Paralysis
A possum once broke into a bakery…
What happened next is a cautionary tale for every analyst who has ever wanted just one more data point before making a decision.
It gets harder when your team members think differently, with varying decision-making styles and different thresholds for “enough.” What feels like rigour to one person feels like a roadblock to another.
Using her Thinker Test™, a psychometric assessment that uncovers four distinct Thinking Styles, Lison will show you how to align diverse thinkers around a shared process and accelerate the decisions that matter.
Key takeaways:
- Recognise the warning signs of analysis paralysis in yourself and your team
- Apply techniques to decide faster with sufficient information
- Use the Thinker Test™ framework to bridge different thinking styles and turn cognitive diversity into a team advantage
Come find out what the possum has to do with your next decision…