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Jonathan Brill writes, speaks, and advises on how to create, manage, and turn radical change to your advantage. He is an expert on strategic foresight and technology innovation. His warm style, compelling stories, and intellectual rigor inspire visionaries and open even the most hard-boiled executives to new ways of thinking and doing.
Harvard Business Review recently called Jonathan Brill, “The world’s leading transformation architect.” His visionary, yet pragmatic approach to the future is based on years as the Global Futurist at HP, where he directed long-term strategy and planning. He is the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute and Board Advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms, with offices in 46 countries.
He is the author of Rogue Waves, Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill), the #2 selling economics book in China. The Economist called it, “A very important book for managers,” and Adam Grant called it, “An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.” He has taught the techniques in it to over 27,000 executives, ranging from startups to the Fortune 500 to the United States Secret Service.
Inc. magazine called Jonathan Brill “A Silicon Valley legend,” because his innovation consultancies developed over 350 products and generated over $27B USD for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo, and the US government. These projects have ranged from AI, search engines, and metaverse technologies to theme park rides and the design of the US Pavilion at the 2015 World’s Fair (Expo Milano) to Taco Bell’s Gordita.
Jonathan Brill blows off steam as the Futurist-in-Residence at Territory Studio, the creative visionaries behind the sci-fi tech in Stephen Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Ghost in the Shell, and Blade Runner 2049, where he develops products and better worlds for both super villains and real-life heroes.
He is a frequent thought leader, speaker, and contributor to HBR, TED, Global Peter Drucker Forum, SCMP, SXSW, J.P. Morgan, Singularity, Forbes, Korn Ferry, The Economist Global Business Report, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, Fast Company, The Project Management Institute, Brightline, and Thinkers50. He has educated corporate leaders at Harvard and Stanford Universities.
Jonathan Brill holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab, and in management training at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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AI is dramatically impacting nearly every aspect of work, but we aren’t considering it holistically. How do we transform our companies and ourselves to thrive in the changing world of work?
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Your audience will walk away with a powerful understanding of AI — what is real and what is hype, why it is important to their jobs in their industry, what to do about it, and how to take action.
The future is uncertain…but yours doesn’t have to be. Future-proofing your success is less about predicting changes and more about creating an adaptable framework for embracing disruption and staying one step ahead.
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This talk will empower your audience with actionable insights into why the world is changing, what to do about it, and how to start.
Some leaders make better bets more consistently. Why? In the largest study on decision-making under uncertainty, we have identified the four skills that separate exceptional from average decision-makers.
Luck, it turns out, isn’t chance. It’s a choice. Would you like a little more luck in your life?
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Your audience will emerge with an ability to make dramatically better decisions and immediately actionable skills and strategies to scale them in their organizations.
Booksby Jonathan Brill
Rogue Waves
Insights from Jonathan Brill
"The rules are open, and the possibilities are endless when you embrace technology. (...) The solutions to our hardest challenges are closer than we imagine when we leverage AI to connect us."
- Jonathan Brill"When we think a few steps ahead, it becomes obvious what we need to do now. (...) The key isn’t predicting every change; it’s preparing for them."
- Jonathan Brill"Shift from overwhelm to empowerment by exploring what AI can do for you. (...) You can't catch up with AI, so you must play and experiment instead."
- Jonathan Brill"AI provides the infrastructure for psychological safety in organizations."
- Jonathan Brill"No matter how successful we are, our experience is statistically irrelevant on the scale of all human events."
- Jonathan Brill"When complexity decreases, events become more intimate and personalized. (...) AI makes previously difficult tasks cheap and accessible."
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In Jonathan Brill's Own Words
"As always, it's amazing to work with my buddy Seth. One of my favorite agents on the planet."
- Jonathan Brill"Always shows up, always makes it happen for his customers. Always makes me look great as a speaker."
- Jonathan Brill"If you need a speaker, if you need someone to inspire your team, to inspire your audience, I cannot recommend The Keynote Curators high enough."
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