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Terence Mauri
Equip your team to thrive in the AI era with Terence Mauri, global leadership and disruption expert. Terence works with executives to navigate uncertainty and build future readiness, delivering actionable frameworks for innovation courage. Recognized by Thinkers50, he advises Google, HSBC, and Pfizer as an MIT Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence.
Terence Mauri is one of the world’s leading thinkers and keynote speakers on future-ready leadership, disruption, and change, helping organizations stay relevant and resilient as uncertainty becomes the new normal.
He is the founder of Hack Future Lab and the Future Insights think tank, and a three-time bestselling author whose work focuses on how leaders can hone their future readiness in times of rapid disruption. Terence has been named by Thinkers50 as an influential and outspoken voice on the future of leadership and serves as Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at MIT as well as a visiting professor at IE Business School.
Global organizations including Google, HSBC, Pfizer, and Assurant partner with Terence as a trusted advisor on leadership in the Intelligence Age. His ideas have been shared on some of the world’s most respected stages, including the Oslo Business Forum in 2025 alongside Simon Sinek and Scott Galloway. His latest book, The Upside of Disruption, was praised by Chris Barton, Shazam founder, for "breakthrough thinking to unlock huge potential."
Alongside his academic and advisory work, Terence brings firsthand experience from building and scaling $100m+ businesses as a former director at one of the world’s largest advertising agencies, advising companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Google through periods of rapid change. His work blends insight on megatrends, leadership psychology, and real-world case studies to help organizations turn disruption into a tailwind for focus, courage, and value creation. He enables leaders and teams to move faster, think bigger, and adapt with confidence.
Terence’s audiences gain practical ways to think, decide, and lead when disruption is high, from building strategic courage to spotting the opportunities hidden inside uncertainty. His leadership keynotes have been described by Unilever as the equivalent of a double espresso for leaders and by Nike as the most wisdom per keynote, reflecting the pace, clarity, and relevance he brings to every room.
Bring Terence Mauri to your organization to improve future-ready leadership when uncertainty is high.
Topics, sessions and talks
Terence Mauri reframes disruption from a threat into a powerful leadership opportunity. From digital first and cloud first shifts to the rise of AI, Terence shows why playing it safe can be the greatest risk of all. Blending research, case studies, and incisive insight, he explores how leaders can foster courage, unlearning, and trust, helping teams find momentum and growth even when markets and technologies are in constant flux.
Terence Mauri explores how leaders can prepare for a world shaped by rapid technological, economic, and social change. Drawing on his work with global companies and MIT, Terence examines why traditional leadership models no longer hold and how future ready organizations stay adaptable. The session connects megatrends with everyday leadership decisions, revealing how to build confidence, alignment, and resilience as uncertainty becomes the norm.
Terence Mauri challenges organizations to move beyond yesterday’s logic in order to solve today’s problems. Focusing on the concept of Future IQ, he looks at how leaders can turn megatrends into practical milestones, aligning strategy with agility and resilience. Terence draws on his experience with major global brands to reveal how teams can prioritise what matters most and act decisively in fast-changing environments.
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Terence Mauri structures sessions around a framework he calls Future IQ, combining megatrend analysis with case studies drawn from his advisory work with global organisations to translate large-scale disruption into actionable leadership decisions.
Terence Mauri's sessions cover disruption as a leadership opportunity, future-ready leadership in the context of technological and economic change, and building organisational agility through megatrend awareness. He is MIT Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence and a visiting professor at IE Business School, with advisory work spanning Google, HSBC, Pfizer, and Apple, and a keynote at the 2025 Oslo Business Forum alongside Simon Sinek and Scott Galloway.
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