Emilie Sydney-Smith

Emilie Sydney-Smith

NY, US
Emilie helps organizations around the world to adopt the same methods that have propelled the fastest growing companies into exponential growth, using practical, proven, fun processes.

Emilie Sydney-Smith shares practical, easy processes that she has already used successfully with her Fortune 500 and smaller clients to prepare them to survive and thrive in the era of accelerating change.

o Futurist strategic planner for exponential organizations with resourceful, action-oriented approach
o Solid history of generating imaginative, commercially-successful solutions
o Persuasive communicator and award-winning speaker, dealing with senior leaders and all levels
o Regular presenter with top 5 audience ratings at industry conferences
o Enthusiastically steps up to any challenge, honest, inspires others, trusted to excel.

Emilie is a Certified ExO Consultant with ExO Works, whose purpose is the global transformation of business, and the related non-profit Fastrack Institute, which is accelerating technology into society.  

Track Record:

Emilie brings 20 years' broad experience in energy technology screening and commercialization, private equity, capital raising, business development, due diligence, investment, keynote speaking and project management.

Emilie is co-Founder and CEO of Unearth Corp, which transfers technology from space programs into the global energy industry. Unearth Corp proving up a technology that could take 40% of cost out of a key process in the energy industry. It is also repurposing rugged sensors, telemetry and batteries from space programs that can be used in extreme environments, gathering real-time data from previously invisible industrial processes for the first time.

From 2006 - 2014, Emilie sourced and evaluated potential $20 - 400 million investments in energy production start-ups and technologies. She was at the crux of global energy market intelligence and was consistently top-5 rated by delegates when presenting at conferences.

From 2002 to 2005, Emilie managed corporate development and corporate relations for Sydney Gas Limited. She helped achieve 400% shareholder gains and raised $200 million for this turnaround company, which became Australia's 230th largest public company. She was instrumental in raising the company's poor reputation to a media-recognized "market leader." Emilie regularly acted as the company's spokesperson in high-stakes media engagements.

She won first prize in a presentation competition and was said to have given "the best presentation I had heard in 20 years" by an investor.

From 1999 - 2002, Emilie consulted on the sweeping deregulation of the energy and water markets in Australia and New Zealand, facilitating complex negotiations between senior executives, regulators and Government Ministers.

Prior to that, she managed a luxury boutique hotel and events in Indonesia for a local Royal Family/Governor.

Specialties:
o Corporate transformations
o Urban transformations
o Consulting
o Change management
o Keynote speaking and workshops
o Evaluating disruptive technologies
o Project leadership
o Strategic planning
o Private equity and venture capital
o Capital raising and investment analysis
o Technology transfer
o Energy project development
o Corporate relations
o Investor relations
o Team development
o Government and community relations

Emilie Sydney-Smith shares practical, easy processes that she has already used successfully with her Fortune 500 and smaller clients to prepare them to survive and thrive in the era of accelerating change.

o Futurist strategic planner for exponential organizations with resourceful, action-oriented approach
o Solid history of generating imaginative, commercially-successful solutions
o Persuasive communicator and award-winning speaker, dealing with senior leaders and all levels
o Regular presenter with top 5 audience ratings at industry conferences
o Enthusiastically steps up to any challenge, honest, inspires others, trusted to excel.

Emilie is a Certified ExO Consultant with ExO Works, whose purpose is the global transformation of business, and the related non-profit Fastrack Institute, which is accelerating technology into society.  

Track Record:

Emilie brings 20 years' broad experience in energy technology screening and commercialization, private equity, capital raising, business development, due diligence, investment, keynote speaking and project management.

Emilie is co-Founder and CEO of Unearth Corp, which transfers technology from space programs into the global energy industry. Unearth Corp proving up a technology that could take 40% of cost out of a key process in the energy industry. It is also repurposing rugged sensors, telemetry and batteries from space programs that can be used in extreme environments, gathering real-time data from previously invisible industrial processes for the first time.

From 2006 - 2014, Emilie sourced and evaluated potential $20 - 400 million investments in energy production start-ups and technologies. She was at the crux of global energy market intelligence and was consistently top-5 rated by delegates when presenting at conferences.

From 2002 to 2005, Emilie managed corporate development and corporate relations for Sydney Gas Limited. She helped achieve 400% shareholder gains and raised $200 million for this turnaround company, which became Australia's 230th largest public company. She was instrumental in raising the company's poor reputation to a media-recognized "market leader." Emilie regularly acted as the company's spokesperson in high-stakes media engagements.

She won first prize in a presentation competition and was said to have given "the best presentation I had heard in 20 years" by an investor.

From 1999 - 2002, Emilie consulted on the sweeping deregulation of the energy and water markets in Australia and New Zealand, facilitating complex negotiations between senior executives, regulators and Government Ministers.

Prior to that, she managed a luxury boutique hotel and events in Indonesia for a local Royal Family/Governor.

Specialties:
o Corporate transformations
o Urban transformations
o Consulting
o Change management
o Keynote speaking and workshops
o Evaluating disruptive technologies
o Project leadership
o Strategic planning
o Private equity and venture capital
o Capital raising and investment analysis
o Technology transfer
o Energy project development
o Corporate relations
o Investor relations
o Team development
o Government and community relations

Becoming an Exponential Organization

As a result of accelerating technological change, a new breed of businesses is scaling ten times faster than established organizational structures - exponential organizations - while many established companies are failing. Emilie describes the shared, measurable characteristics and attributes of these organizations, and reveals how to most effectively implement these ideas into both start-ups and established companies.

We are living amidst the greatest wealth creation ever seen, so learn...

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Disruptive Convergence

Emilie describes major breakthroughs occurring in a series of accelerating technologies like renewables, sensors, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, Blockchain, robotics, biotech, drones, cybersecurity, private space projects and many more. She describes the converge of these technologies and helps audiences trace the flow-on effects that may surge through unexpected industries and society as a result.  She tailors this analysis to each specific audience.
Educational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Favorite New World-Changing Technologies

This is a fun, interactive one-day workshop sampling of the most mind-blowing new technologies that will soon transform our lives, health, economy, environment, democracy, safety and pursuit of happiness.

We are now inundated with an overwhelming amount of information.  Although everyone comes across many new technologies, it can feel chaotic working out where they fit into the big picture of accelerating change.

Emilie succinctly illustrates/showcases the main...

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Brainstorming of New Exponential Initiatives

Emilie leads outcome-obsessed brainstorming sessions, so that you can immediately start putting new technologies and business methodologies to profit-driving use. 

She helps companies determine how to implement the same processes that were instrumental in making the world's fastest growing companies into multi-billion dollar "unicorns".

She often then helps companies to implement those new initiatives and access her global network of business chiefs, tech luminaries,...

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Prosperity Amid the Clash of Ideologies

Accelerating technological disruption is widening the gap between tech optimists and those being economically and psychologically left behind or alarmed.  When presenting to organizations, Emilie explores the impact that this widening gulf is having on global governance and society, and describes the balance we need to find in developing safe, beneficial technologies for humanity.  She explores how the audience can best position themselves and their families to prosper from the...
Educational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Investing in Exponential Organizations

Emilie combines her decade of private equity, venture capital and investment banking experience with her work on transforming some of the world's biggest companies into Exponential Organizations to advise investors around the world. She shares how to evaluate the potential of companies to delight future customers amidst accelerating market changes and avoid being disrupted. She help investors spot companies that are leveraging new business tools to achieve tenfold improvements in cost,...
Educational / InformativeTechnical / Specific