Dom Price is a work futurist at Atlassian and emphasises the importance of teamwork and values in the workplace to ensure that systems operate through thriving distributed teams.  

In this presentation Dom focuses on dysfunction. Dysfunction is the gap between what we know and what we apply. 

Organisations need to think about their values and culture. Hire for values and recognise behaviour that aligns with those values. It is important to understand change and build a connected enterprise to create thriving teams. This requires a balance between command, control and flexibility, emphasising that most change can be influenced by the organisation. 

The number one determinant of a healthy, productive, effective team is psychological safety and a sense of belonging. Building meaningful relationships within teams by identifying and investing in strong, functional relationships and addressing struggling or dysfunctional relationships is essential.  

Drive sustainable evolution by making small changes every week. 

 

Key Takeaways: 

  • We want to build enterprises, organisations that have the same shared goals, the same shared outcomes, but work with freedom to achieve them. 
  • Understand change and realise that most of the change needed to drive growth is within the organisation. For example, how we understand change and the impact of the change that is going on around us. 
  • Command, control, flexibility and a shared inclusive language: The best organisations have all these elements. 
  • Drive one degree of change every week, which leads to sustainable evolution.  
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Dom Price Work Futurist and Visionary at Be Luminous
Dom Price is a Work Futurist, team obsessive, and Partner at Be Luminous and someone who has lived the chaos of scaling... More

Dom Price is a Work Futurist, team obsessive, and Partner at Be Luminous and someone who has lived the chaos of scaling a business from the inside out. Joining Atlassian as employee #600, Dom stayed for 12 years as their resident Work Futurist, helping grow the company to over 16,000 people globally. That’s not theory – that’s scar tissue.

Dom operates at the intersection of tech and humans, and his mission is simple: upgrade the human operating system of how we work. Because as he’ll tell you, “a fool with a tool is still a fool… you’ve just made them faster.” In a world drunk on AI and the next shiny solution, Dom is the pragmatic voice asking whether your people are actually set up to use it well – driving change that’s sustainable, not just spectacular.

As a keynote speaker, Dom doesn’t trade in polished frameworks or borrowed wisdom. He shares real, lived experience the messy, hard-won kind which is exactly why he’s in demand. Less thought leader, more battle-tested practitioner.

Co-creator of the Atlassian Team Playbook, TED speaker, and advisor to C-suite leaders globally. Dom believes that work and life should be about thriving, not just surviving. A keen traveller and veteran of 53+ countries, he calls Australia home. Manchester made him. The rest? Still very much in progress.

 

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