Mike Walsh: Digital Futurist

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  • Now is the time for transformational leadership. Customers are changing, generational priorities are shifting, and industries are being reshaped by the collision of AI and data-driven business models.

  • In this new world, only organizations willing to adapt, experiment and embrace learning at scale will succeed.

     

  • There is nothing inevitable about progress.

  • The status quo is the path of least resistance. A better, brighter future is the direct result of radical reinvention not incremental improvement.

  • Too often we fail to commit energy and resources to the real drivers of difference: projects that depart from the norm, products or services that never e



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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.

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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.

Take a moment to sign up for Mike’s newsletter and receive a weekly thought piece on how leaders can leverage emerging technologies, new ways of working and transformative mindsets to reinvent their organizations and their role in them.

Mike Walsh | Digital Futurist

FUTURIST
Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike takes an anthropological approach – scanning the near horizon for emerging technologies and disruptive shifts in human behavior, and then translating these into pragmatic plans for digital transformation. A prolific writer and commentator, Mike’s views have appeared in a wide range of international publications including BusinessWeek, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.

Global Nomad
Constantly traveling the world for the best ideas, Mike Walsh spends more than 300 days a year on the road interviewing innovators, entrepreneurs and corporate revolutionaries to provide his clients and audiences with a fresh and compelling vision of tomorrow’s opportunities.

Speaker
Mike Walsh has delivered close to a thousand keynote speeches around the world to companies in almost every industry. His customized presentations leave audiences prepared and inspired to transform the way they do business.

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