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Daniel Burrus, a world-leading futurist, helps businesses anticipate tech disruptions, stay ahead, and thrive in an AI-driven landscape.
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Our people, without exception, felt that Daniel Burrus’ ideas were provocative, original, and timely. His entertaining style captured the audience, and compelled us to listen, think, and apply our thoughts to our own professional and personal lives. He truly made a memorable impression.
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Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Disruptive Innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker.
He is the author of seven books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Flash Foresight his latest Amazon No. 1 bestseller, The Anticipatory Organization.
He has delivered over 3,000 keynote speeches worldwide and is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. His client list includes Lockheed Martin, Verizon, Microsoft, VISA, Deloitte, Google, Procter & Gamble, KPMG, Honda, FedEx and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Burrus is an innovative entrepreneur who has founded six businesses, four of which were U.S. national leaders in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology-driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.
Burrus is a featured writer, reaching millions of monthly readers with his insights on disruptive innovation, exponential change and the future. His work is featured across various platforms, including LinkedIn, where he is a member of an exclusive invitation-only group of experts. On LinkedIn alone, he has built a following of over 1.2 million professionals.
Book Daniel Burrus for your event, and equip your team with the tools to anticipate changes, minimize risks, and leverage “Hard Trends”—predictable, impactful changes that can shape your industry.
See keynotes with Daniel BurrusHow to Thrive in a World Where AI and Human Ingenuity Meet.
The intersection of AI and human ingenuity is redefining what’s possible in business. In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation, Daniel Burrus shares the most important AI-driven trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide.
As a strategic advisor to both the military and leading companies on AI, Daniel will bring clarity to the current and future state of AI technology and its potential to free up human resources to focus on higher-value activities, fostering a new level of productivity, innovation, and growth. Mastering these capabilities, along with the strategic and safe implementation of AI, will position leaders and their organizations to turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage.
By cultivating a future-ready organization where AI and human strengths complement each other, leaders can confidently drive new levels of innovation and profitable growth.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:
Leveraging The New Science of Certainty.
Strategies based on uncertainty have high risk. Strategies based on certainty have low risk and high reward. When employees have high levels of certainty, they have the confidence to make bold moves. When a potential customer has high certainty, getting them to say “yes” is much easier. In a world where change is constant, certainty is a rare and invaluable asset.
In this eye-opening and highly motivating keynote, Daniel Burrus shares the most important trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide. By learning to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, leaders can accurately anticipate technology-driven disruptions before they occur—turning disruption into a choice. They can identify problems before they happen, allowing them to pre-solve those issues, understand customers’ needs before they express them, and recognize game-changing opportunities before the competition does.
This simple yet powerful methodology empowers leaders to leverage the science of certainty, transforming predictable technology-driven trends into strategic advantages.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:
Leading with Certainty in Uncertain Times.
In today’s world of accelerating disruptions, simply reacting to change as quickly as possible, regardless of one’s agility, will no longer suffice. Leaders who embrace an anticipatory mindset can turn uncertainty into transformative opportunity and advantage.
In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation, Daniel Burrus shares the most important technology-driven trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide. By learning to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, leaders can accurately anticipate disruptions before they occur—turning disruption into a choice. They can identify problems before they happen, allowing them to pre-solve those issues, and recognize game-changing opportunities before the competition does.
By mastering the principles of anticipatory thinking, you can confidently guide your team through change, stay ahead of disruption, and drive accelerating growth. When you and your team have high levels of certainty, you have the confidence to make bold moves!
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:
Dramatically Elevating High Performing Sales Teams with Predictive Insights.
Equip your sales team with an anticipatory mindset they can use to excel in a rapidly changing market.
In this highly motivating keynote, Daniel Burrus reveals how to use predictive insights and anticipatory strategies to stay ahead of customer needs and industry shifts. This approach builds an anticipatory sales force that doesn’t just respond to change—but capitalizes on it.
By learning to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, sales leaders can provide prospects with the certainty and confidence needed to get them to say “yes.”
Additionally, anticipatory sales leaders can accurately anticipate objections and problems before they occur, allowing them to pre-solve those issues, as well as understand customers’ needs before they express them—ultimately closing more sales.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:
Leveraging the Power of Generative AI and Hard Trends.
Generative AI is transforming industries and reshaping the future at an unprecedented pace. In this eye-opening keynote, Daniel Burrus shares the most important AI-driven trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide.
As a strategic advisor to both the military and leading companies on AI, Daniel will bring clarity to the current and future state of AI technology and its potential to free up human resources to focus on higher-value activities, fostering a new level of innovation and growth.
By combining Hard Trends that will happen with generative AI, you can anticipate market shifts, enhance decision-making, increase productivity, and drive competitive advantage. Learn how to harness AI and other transformative tools to lead with confidence and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:
Building an Anticipatory Mindset for Unpredictable Times.
Every business and industry is in the midst of unprecedented disruption as the generative AI revolution and rapid technological advancements bear down like oncoming headlights. This wave of disruption is occurring at an unparalleled speed and depth, promising to have profound effects. Simply reacting as quickly as possible, regardless of one’s agility, will no longer suffice.
In this captivating and inspiring presentation, Daniel Burrus will share the most disruptive technology-driven trends influencing the future of your industry and the transformative opportunities they enable. He will also share specific AI tools that can be safely used to dramatically increase productivity, allowing you to accomplish far more in much less time. Additionally, he will highlight what not to do with AI.
Through industry-specific examples, Burrus will provide actionable insights on identifying Hard Trends—future certainties—and demonstrate how to leverage these certainties, along with the game-changing opportunities they offer. This will enable attendees to harness disruption and change, transforming them into advantageous opportunities.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:
Using AI to Unlock Human Potential in a Hyper-Automated World.
As AI and automation transform industries, the greatest competitive advantage lies in unlocking the unique potential of human talent. In this eye-opening and highly motivating keynote, Daniel Burrus shares the most important AI-driven trends shaping the future and the amazing new opportunities they provide.
As a strategic advisor to both the military and leading companies on AI, Daniel will bring clarity to the current and future state of AI technology and its potential to free up human resources to focus on higher-value activities that will foster new levels of innovation and growth. He will explore how organizations are leveraging AI not only to streamline processes but also to empower employees, enhancing creativity, decision-making, and strategic innovation in ways that only humans can deliver.
We are at the forefront of a massive, human-centered productivity revolution that will allow leaders to free employees at every level to do much higher-value work in much less time.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:
Leveraging AI and Predictive Trends to Drive Unstoppable Innovation and Growth.
There has never been more opportunity to transform the customer experience and accelerate profitable growth in retail than there is today! The exponential pace of technology-driven change, accelerated by the generative AI revolution, is creating a major opportunity to reinvent retail—making it more relevant, personal, and, above all, highly profitable. AI is at the forefront of this transformation.
In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation, Daniel Burrus will share the most important trends shaping the future of retail and the opportunities they provide. Burrus, who has been named both a Top Retail Influencer and recently a Top AI Retail Thought Leader, will share insights, strategies, and examples of how to redefine the consumer experience using emerging technologies, including AI, that will foster a new level of profitability across virtual and physical storefronts.
By leveraging AI in new ways, retailers can gain unprecedented insights into customer behavior, optimize inventory management, and create hyper-personalized shopping experiences that increase brand loyalty and consumer engagement.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:
A ‘must-hear’ presentation!
Steven A. Ballmer
By applying the principles of Flash Foresight to our business, we have been able to double our revenues and increase the value of our company by a factor of four in less than a year. Even so, we feel the biggest impact is yet to come.
Arni Bellini
Our people, without exception, felt that Daniel Burrus’ ideas were provocative, original, and timely. His entertaining style captured the audience, and compelled us to listen, think, and apply our thoughts to our own professional and personal lives. He truly made a memorable impression.
Mark Mcnutt
Daniel Burrus’ thoughts on creating opportunities for change is the excellence we have been striving for. His framework on innovation, creativity, and customer value will become the management practices that will take us to our next stage.
Victor Nichols
This is the third time Daniel Burrus has addressed this conference, and each presentation has been better than the last. I wouldn’t hesitate to invite him back again in the future!
John E. Burkey
Daniel Burrus was fabulous! He received rave reviews from our participants for his relevancy, insight, expertise, and style. He’s the only keynote speaker we have invited back numerous times. I am convinced the extraordinary success of his continued contribution is due in no small part to the enormous amount of time he puts into each presentation, customizing it to fit the unique, challenging needs of our audience each year.
Stephanie Fischer
It came as no surprise to me that Daniel Burrus was rated the top speaker in our audience evaluations. His unique blend of wit and insight awakened all of us to the need to develop the knowledge necessary to thrive in the 21st century.
Robert Howe
We are going through an incredible digital transformation right now, and in his keynote speech, Daniel touched on a large number of points that tied everything together with practical strategies that we can immediately take action on. He really energized our dealer network to embrace the transformation that we’re going through. I can’t recommend Daniel enough!
Steve Rosenburg
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