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Jonathan Brill

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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.

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Forbes #1 ranked futurist globally
Futurist-in-Residence (Emeritus) at Amazon
Generated $27B+ for clients across industries

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.

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AI And The Octopus Organization

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.

Strategic Luck: The Science Of Thriving In Uncertainty

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.

Architect Your Future

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.

Win The Next Five Years: Spot, Lead, Win

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.

Why we recommend booking Jonathan

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.

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Amazon

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