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Leo Johnson

Transform business resilience with Leo Johnson, speaker and innovation strategist. Leo works with global organisations to navigate climate change, AI disruption, and geopolitical instability, delivering Oxford-backed insights as PwC's Head of Disruption & Innovation.

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Leo Johnson

Leo Johnson

London, United Kingdom

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£11k–25k

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Leo Johnson's biography

At a glance

  • Co-author of Turnaround Challenge: Business & the City of the Future
  • Presenter on Down to Business, World Challenge, FutureProofing, and more
  • Judge for the FT’s Boldness in Business Awards
Leo Johnson, Visiting Business Fellow at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise & Environment, lectures on the university's most popular Masters programme. He presents several BBC World and Radio 4 series on megatrends and innovation, including Down to Business, World Challenge, FutureProofing, Hacking Happiness, and Hacking Capitalism. Leo has also served as an adviser at PwC to the Global Centre for Transformative Leadership and now as PwC's Head of Disruption & Innovation. In his presentations, Leo explores the converging trends impacting today’s business leaders, such as climate change, generative AI, and geopolitical instability. He examines how these factors influence an organisation’s global standing and forecasts divergent future scenarios. Leo outlines strategies and innovation advantages necessary for navigating business disruption, with a focus on transformational leadership during times of upheaval. After studying at Oxford and INSEAD, Leo joined the World Bank as a Resource Economist before co-founding Sustainable Finance, a boutique advisory firm later acquired by PwC Group. He is the co-author of Turnaround Challenge: Business & the City of the Future and a regular contributor to the Financial Times. Leo also serves as a judge for the FT’s Boldness in Business Awards.

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Leadership And Innovation In A Time Of Crisis
We are at the hairpin bend of history, and to navigate this transition and accelerate into new areas of growth is going to take three critical leadership skills. Leo Johnson takes you through all three. The first is reading the curve - seeing, without wilful blindness, the colliding megatrends that are reshaping the business landscape. The second skill is drifting the curve and the third is accelerating out.

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Book Leo Johnson to energize your team with cutting-edge insights on leadership, innovation, and navigating disruption. His expertise from Oxford, BBC, and PwC will transform threats into opportunities, unlocking your team's full potential.

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Email leo.johnson@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 Leo's availability and fees. 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 a bit about your audience.
What is Leo Johnson's speaking style like?
Leo Johnson structures his sessions around a three-part leadership framework, using the metaphor of navigating a hairpin bend to guide audiences through reading converging megatrends, managing the transition, and identifying growth opportunities on the other side.
What topics does Leo Johnson specialise in?
Leo Johnson speaks on leadership in crisis, megatrends reshaping the business landscape, and disruption and innovation strategy. He is a Visiting Business Fellow at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise & Environment and PwC's Head of Disruption & Innovation, and has presented multiple BBC World and Radio 4 series including FutureProofing and Hacking Capitalism.
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