Futurist keynote speaker, leadership strategist, and author
Senior executives, boards, technology leaders, innovation teams, and organizations navigating AI, automation, and large-scale transformation.
Mike Walsh inspiring new keynote presentation will offer audiences an insight into the organizations and leaders that are successfully navigating this period of change, and how to create a playbook for their own transformation.
Becoming future-proof is more than just about getting through the current crisis – it is about being ready for the new world that awaits us on the other side.
In this inspiring keynote, Mike Walsh, futurist and author will present a vivid portrait of a brave new world orchestrated by machines that think, and how tomorrow’s leaders can upgrade their capabilities to survive and thrive in an age of accelerating technology.
In this keynote, Mike Walsh will outline the forces shaping the future of business and consumer behavior, and the lessons learned from successful Fortune 500 companies on leveraging disruptive innovation, adopting a data-driven mindset and leading change through digital transformation.
The digital keynote is a 30 minute, 4K pre-recorded keynote shot on multiple studio quality cameras, and professionally edited with dramatic video cutaways and a music score.
The current topic of this keynote is ‘New Rules For A New World’, and focuses on how the crisis is accelerating digital transformation, what some of the world’s most successful organizations are doing to adapt to the new normal, and how leaders need to reinvent themselves for the future.
Following the keynote, the audience will be able to interact live with Mike for a 15 minute Q&A session.
Mike Walsh is one of the world’s leading futurists on business, leadership, and digital transformation. He is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy focused on helping organizations design for the 21st century. As a global nomad, strategist, and provocateur, Mike advises some of the world’s most influential companies on how to navigate disruption, emerging technologies, and the realities of an algorithm-driven economy.
He is the bestselling author of The Algorithmic Leader, a practical and optimistic guide on how leaders can remain relevant when machines become smarter than humans. The book reframes leadership for an era defined by artificial intelligence, automation, and data-driven decision-making, emphasizing judgment, imagination, and ethical clarity over technical expertise alone.
Mike is also the author of Futuretainment, which won a prestigious design award from the Art Directors Club in New York, and The Dictionary of Dangerous Ideas. A prolific writer and commentator, his insights have appeared in leading global publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing companies for the 21st century. A global nomad, futurist and author of the bestselling book, The Algorithmic Leader, he advises some of the world’s biggest organizations on digital transformation and disruptive innovation in this new era of machine intelligence.
A prolific writer and commentator, Mike’s views have appeared in a wide range of international publications including Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, BusinessWeek, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. Each week he interviews provocative thinkers, innovators and troublemakers on his podcast, Between Worlds.
His latest book, The Algorithmic Leader: How to be smart when machines are smarter than you, offers a hopeful and practical guide for reinventing leadership and organizations.
Mike’s other books include Futuretainment (winner of the design award by the Art Director’s Club in New York), published by Phaidon, and The Dictionary Of Dangerous Ideas.
Mike travels over 300 days a year worldwide: researching trends, collecting case studies and presenting on the future of business and leadership.
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