FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Everyone has the same capital. The same technology. The same intelligence.
Only you have your people.
Imagination is the competence this era demands — the capacity to see what doesn't exist yet and decide what comes next. The one edge that's yours alone.
Leaders bring Theresa in at the moments that decide direction.
Annual strategy offsite or executive retreat
Innovation agenda gone incremental
AI strategy conversation with real stakes
Growth plateau no one can quite explain
Leadership transition
Strategy process that keeps producing the same few options
Speaking
Most rooms are full of smart people arriving at the same answer. That's an imagination problem, and most leaders haven't named it yet.
Theresa names it, then shows a room how imagination really operates — the competence that drives how a team thinks, one that can be understood, strengthened, and put to work. Drawing on the science and the language of the Imagination Framework, the Default Script, and the Generative Cliff, she gives an audience a new way to see this moment. People leave knowing how imagination works, and how to lead with it.
Drawn from The Imagination Age and nearly thirty years of work with executives and senior leaders.
For keynotes, leadership gatherings, and senior-team convenings, virtual or in person.
Imagination Labs
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AI Lab
Intelligence is abundant now. The edge belongs to those who know what's worth building.
What stays human · what to tell your team · where to point the tools.
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Leadership Lab
The thing that made your team effective replaced the thing that made it original. What was replaced can be rebuilt.
How the Default Script is costing you · restoring original thinking · when conviction becomes a risk
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Strategy Lab
The greatest risk in your organization is the thing no one questions. The advantage goes to the team that questions it first.
Interrogating success · breaking the frame · seeing before you decide
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Customer Lab
The distance between you and your customer isn't data. It's imagination.
The customer you stopped seeing · the persona that isn't real · the signal under the noise
Ninety minutes. Virtual. Led by Theresa.
Executive Imagination Intensive
Theresa's deepest and most rigorous engagement, designed for the senior team setting an organization's direction. This is where imagination becomes something the team can use with intention — the competence behind its most important decisions.
Your team learns the science behind it and how to put it to work, understanding the three modes of imagination through the Imagination Framework, surfacing the Default Script beneath its strategy, and breaking the binary that traps strategy in two options. The Five Imaginative Leader Disciplines give them practices to continue generating new thinking while they sharpen what already works. Your team comes away able to interrogate the success no one thinks to question, reach options it couldn't see on its own, and lead with the full range of imagination, naming and choosing the mode each moment demands.
A custom, three-part series, scoped to your team's work on an opening call.
“I've spent more than three decades in executive roles across corporate and mission-based organizations. Theresa is the rare thought partner who can sit across from a leader at any level and ask the question that shifts how the work gets done. She writes about and guides others through the transitions most leaders are navigating alone. She is not just teaching about imagination; she is living it. The way she shares ideas and works with groups has changed how I think about the present and the future. I only wish we had started working together sooner.”
— Scott Morgan, CEO
About Theresa
Theresa Stroisch has spent nearly thirty years working with executives and senior leaders on the questions that shape careers, institutions, and lives — across philanthropy, global law, disaster relief, and roles inside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is the author of The Imagination Age: Reclaiming Your Most Essential Competence. Her work brings imagination forward as a named competence — research-grounded, leadership-tested, and built for the era organizations now face.