SIGNATURE KEYNOTE

ADJUST YOUR VIEW

Four perspective shifts that change what you are able to see

We share fourteen billion photographs a day and were never taught to read a single one.

We treat them as records of what happened, when every image is actually a decision: what to include, what to crop out, and who gets to be seen.

In Adjust Your View, photographer and educator Jen Allison takes that idea off the wall and into the audience’s own life. Through four stories: a half-Ironman in a torrential downpour, a teaching job she was certain she did not deserve, a charcoal drawing she found framed in her late father’s office, and the eighteenth day of her son’s life, when a cardiologist told her to get to the hospital fast, she shows a pattern that holds in a boardroom as much as a hospital room.

We rarely control what happens to us; we always choose the lens through which we look.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Carry one repeatable question into every decision: Am I seeing what is in front of me, or the story I already have about it?

• Reconsider impostor syndrome: Reading self-doubt as a sign of growth rather than proof of not belonging.

• Spot the inherited expectations quietly driving their choices, and learn how to revise them.

• Understand the power of choosing a new perspective when a plan, a diagnosis, or a role does not go as imagined.

• See why curiosity over certainty builds stronger teams, clearer decisions, and the safety that real innovation needs.