Available to book
Jonathan Brill
Future-proof your business with Jonathan Brill, AI keynote speaker and Forbes #1 ranked futurist. Jonathan works with executives and leadership teams on AI strategy, business transformation, and disruption planning, recognized by Harvard Business Review as the world's leading transformation architect.
Jonathan Brill is a business futurist and AI strategist who helps executives turn the collision of AI, geopolitics, and economic change into competitive advantage.
Ranked #1 futurist by Forbes globally, Jonathan serves as Futurist-in-Residence at Amazon (Emeritus) and has been described by Harvard Business Review as the world's leading transformation architect. He is Head of Invention at Deepinvent, Executive Chairman of the Center for Radical Change, and former Global Futurist and Research Director at HP. His best-selling book, AI and the Octopus Organization, translates his research into an actionable framework for building AI-native firms. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, ABC, and spoken at Harvard, Stanford, and TED.
Drawing on decades of innovation work across transportation, finance, cybersecurity, defense, and consumer electronics, Jonathan has generated over $27 billion for clients and brought more than 350 products from idea to market. His work with companies including Verizon, Samsung, PepsiCo, IBM, JP Morgan, and Microsoft shows how distributed intelligence and empowered teams consistently outperform traditional models when markets shift fast.
To date, Jonathan has trained more than 27,000 leaders in the skills needed to turn disruption into opportunity. Audiences leave Jonathan's sessions with concrete tools: frameworks for sensing and responding to market disruption, science-backed approaches to strategic decision-making under uncertainty, and specific steps to begin organizational transformation before competitors do.
If your audience needs to act on the future rather than react to it, Jonathan Brill delivers the tools to do exactly that.
Topics, sessions and talks
Jonathan Brill opens by framing a challenge most leadership teams already feel but haven't named: the gap between organizations that integrate AI structurally and those that experiment at the edges is widening fast. Drawing on over a million workforce surveys and firsthand transformation work, Jonathan introduces the Octopus Organization model, a structure where decentralized, AI-augmented teams operate autonomously while a central brain holds strategy and oversight. Attendees come away with a practical architecture for redesigning their organizations around adaptability, and a clear picture of where to start.
As principal investigator of one of the largest studies on luck ever conducted, Jonathan Brill makes a persuasive, data-backed case that luck is not a personality trait, it's a learnable skill. Blending research with personal experience, he walks audiences through four science-based methods that systematically turn uncertainty into opportunity. The session is structured to deliver immediate practical value, leaving participants with tools they can apply to strategic planning, risk decisions, and leadership challenges well beyond the event itself.
Jonathan Brill draws on his tenure as HP's Global Futurist and his record as a serial inventor to argue that the goal isn't to predict disruption, it's to design around it. Rather than presenting disruption as a threat to manage, Jonathan frames shifting societal, political, and technological landscapes as the raw material of competitive advantage. Audiences leave with the top ten trends shaping the next business cycle, a framework for embedding AI into leadership thinking, and three actionable tools for building an organization that creates the future rather than reacting to it.
The central premise of this keynote is deceptively simple: one-year plans are too short to matter, ten-year plans are too far to action, but the five-year horizon is where smart organizations can genuinely compete. Jonathan Brill maps the collision of AI, geopolitics, economics, and social change into a coherent picture of where business is heading, then hands audiences the tools to navigate it. Participants leave with science-based frameworks for scenario planning, clarity on the decisions that will define their organization's position, and concrete actions to begin taking immediately.
Jonathan is a recognized authority on business futurism and transformation, experienced across Fortune 50 strategy, invention leadership, and advisory work with governments and global brands. His findings are drawn from more than a million workforce surveys, giving audiences data-backed, ready-to-apply insights on how AI, geopolitics, and economic shifts will reshape their industry, and how to lead that change before competitors do.
Testimonials
Featured Projects
often considered together
Zack Kass
Artificial Intelligence
Future Trends
Business Strategy
Cien Solon
4.7
Artificial Intelligence
Business Strategy
Effective Leadership
Sol Rashidi
Artificial Intelligence
Data and Privacy
Business Strategy
frequently asked questions
Something we've not covered here?
To book Jonathan Brill, email jonathan.brill@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Jonathan's availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
No. PepTalk adds no booking fee, so you pay the speaker's fee and nothing beyond it. The service, from shortlist through to contracts and event-day logistics, is included. For repeat or multi-event bookings, PepTalk can agree preferential rates with your procurement team.
Share your event date, audience, format, objectives and budget, and PepTalk sends a hand-picked shortlist within 24 hours. Each suggestion comes with a profile, a fee and a recommendation on the strongest fit. Once you choose, PepTalk handles contracts, travel and logistics through to event day.
The typical fee range is the speaker's standard in-person fee in their home market, shown in their local currency. It moves with format, location, date and session length: virtual sessions and shorter slots usually cost less, while international travel and peak dates cost more. Send your brief to PepTalk and the team will confirm the exact fee in your currency.
Not all of them, and it makes no difference to your booking. PepTalk's network of 15,000+ speakers covers talent the team works with directly alongside speakers represented by agents and agencies worldwide. PepTalk approaches the speaker, negotiates the fee and handles contracting either way.
Three to six months ahead is comfortable for most events, and 12 months is better for large conferences, peak-season dates or one specific in-demand speaker. Shorter timelines are workable, and PepTalk regularly fills last-minute and replacement bookings within days. Availability is the constraint, so get in touch as soon as you have a date.
Get the right person
Tell us what you’re working on and we’ll match you with the talent your audience won’t stop talking about.
