To navigate the challenges of an unpredictable future, you need to envision and explore a wider range of possibilities. You need to leverage actionable insights to truly transform your business into a future-forward organization. You need a new mindset – and a new toolset.
Our keynotes go far beyond the “sage on stage” model of information dissemination. We deliver immersive participatory experiences designed to educate, entertain, and most importantly, create measurable change. We don’t hide behind fancy language, but say it like it is and focus on practical takeaway value. We stretch and challenge you and your workshop participants, as learning happens in the sweet spot of just outside our comfort zones. With us, you don’t just sit and listen; you do.
Instead of delivering a pre-packaged keynote or workshop, every (and we mean every) session we deliver is created specifically for you and your audience. We start the process by asking you, “What does winning look like?” and then work backward from there. It is the only way we know to create something truly outstanding – something we can be proud of. Life is too short (and you and your audience too important) to do anything less.
We never talk about things we don’t have expertise in, even if it’s hip and trendy. Here is what we do know well, and just like a good dinner, most of our sessions are mix and match.
In a world where change is the only constant, understanding and preparing for the future has never been more critical. With our proven, practical tools and frameworks, as well as cutting-edge insights, we turn you into a “practical futurist” – ready for anything the future might throw at you.
Drawing from our groundbreaking book “Disrupt Disruption,” we offer a fresh perspective that challenges conventional wisdom on the topic.Our practical approach to innovation not only demystifies the process but also equips you with the tools to innovate continuously and effectively.
What worked yesterday just doesn’t work tomorrow anymore (and likely doesn’t serve you well today already). Find the answer to the question, “How do you lead into and in the unknown?” and reframe uncertainty as a window into opportunity with the help of our insights and frameworks.
How do you build an enduring organization in a constantly and rapidly changing world? By distilling insights from hundreds of leaders and organizations that have successfully managed change repeatedly, we offer answers to the eternal quest: “The goal of the game is to stay in the game.”
Innovation requires action. Our rapid prototyping approach accelerates the innovation process, allowing for quick iteration and learning. This hands-on method ensures that your innovations are market-ready and poised for success—faster than ever before.
Truly understand what AI is, why it matters, and why it is all happening now. Plus, plenty of practical examples, use cases, and thought-provoking explorations on where AI will go, all delivered at just the right level of detail—not too detailed and not too high-level.
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Join us on an exciting journey into the future, where rapidly changing technology, increasing uncertainty, and the complex world of business collide. In a time when change is the only constant, thinking like a futurist will give you a powerful advantage. But all too often, we get lost in confusing tech-speak, caught up in hype, and swept away by unrealistic optimism. It’s time for a more practical approach to thinking about the future—one that cuts through the noise and gives you the tools to identify emerging opportunities and challenges. This solution-focused mindset sees the future as an exciting space for experimentation and learning.
In this session, we’ll explore key principles and methods from the worlds of strategic planning, entrepreneurship, tech innovation, and design. You’ll come away with an unbeatable introduction to envisioning the future and understanding how to seize it. Together, we’ll map out a path forward and equip you with a futurist’s toolkit. You won’t just learn how to predict what’s coming, but how to actively shape it and make it your own. Join us as we enter the age of “Practical Futurism.” Let’s roll up our sleeves and get ready to build the future we want to see!
Join Pascal Finette on a fascinating journey to unpack the true meaning of disruption, as we explore the key themes from his bestselling book, “Disrupt Disruption.” In a world where the term “disruption” is often overused and misunderstood, we’ll challenge common assumptions and offer a fresh, thought-provoking perspective on what it really means to be disruptive.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with trailblazing entrepreneurs who have created entirely new categories and seasoned executives who have successfully steered their companies through major industry shifts, we’ll share practical, real-world strategies. Whether you’re an established organization facing the threat of disruption or a startup founder looking to make your mark, these actionable insights will help you stay resilient in the face of change.
This session isn’t just about predicting what the future holds for your business; it’s about empowering you to actively shape it. We invite you to join us on this challenging but essential journey to move from being disrupted to becoming the disruptor. Learn how to harness the power of disruption, take control of your future, and become a master of business transformation.
Join us on an eye-opening exploration of the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models, where the pace of change is breathtaking and we’re on the cusp of a “gradually then suddenly” transformation.
We’ll unpack the reasons behind this monumental shift, grounded in the powerful principle of Wright’s Law, and take a closer look at the evolving landscape of Generative AI (GenAI), where language models are redefining what’s possible. By reflecting on how we’ve adapted to past technological disruptions, we’ll challenge common myths and misunderstandings about AI.
Together, we’ll explore the exciting potential and current limitations of AI, from its impact on search engines and software development to its amusing struggles with spelling “mayonnaise”. You’ll come away with practical insights and strategies to help you thrive in the AI era, with a focus on the power of affordable, rapid experimentation. Get ready to dive in, separate hype from reality, and embrace the opportunities of the AI revolution.
In a world of constant change, how do you ensure your organization catches the right wave and rides it to success—over and over again? Join us as we explore the key to long-term viability: “Sustainable Relevance.”
Drawing on be radical’s latest research, we’ll provide a robust toolkit to help leaders stay agile and adaptable in the face of shifting customer needs and market demands. Learn how to consistently deliver products and services that fulfill your customers’ “job-to-be-done,” even as the landscape transforms.
Through real-world examples and actionable insights, you’ll discover how to navigate the balance between adapting to change and upholding your core values. We’ll explore the power of experimentation, customer understanding, and strategic foresight in anticipating future shifts. Join us as we chart a course towards enduring success and learn how to build an organization that thrives in the face of uncertainty.
Join us as we unveil the most profound transformation reshaping the marketplace—the shift from traditional product pyramids to the hourglass economy. Experience firsthand how the once-familiar middle ground is rapidly disappearing, creating unprecedented ripple effects across the global economic landscape. For over a decade, we’ve been closely monitoring and documenting this seismic shift.
In this eye-opening session, we’ll share insights gleaned from our extensive research and provide you with robust strategies to adapt and thrive amidst these rapid changes. It’s not just about weathering the storm; it’s about harnessing the power of change to flourish. We’ll explore how embracing the profound shifts in technology and markets can become your competitive advantage. You’ll come away with a practical roadmap to not just react, but to innovate and lead in a dramatically evolving economic landscape.
Discover the secret to making a decade’s worth of progress in a fraction of the time, using only a small portion of the resources you might expect. We’ll explore the art and science of Rapid Prototyping, a powerful methodology that takes you from initial concept to validated insights quickly and efficiently.
We all face the challenge of trying to iterate rapidly, gather real customer feedback, and test our assumptions, while also keeping costs down and making the most of our limited time. In this hands-on session, you’ll have the opportunity to decode the innovation formula used by tech titans like Alphabet/Google [x] to fuel their explosive growth.
Join us to uncover the key ingredients that will help you go from guesswork to concrete insights in record time, without breaking the bank. This is your invitation to the future of innovation—a world where time is compressed, resources are used wisely, and ideas come to life at lightning speed. Get ready to turbocharge your innovation process and achieve game-changing results!
In this thought-provoking session, we’ll combine the worlds of uncertainty and polarity thinking to unlock effective leadership in uncharted waters. Learn to reframe uncertainty as a canvas for future scenarios and a sandbox for curiosity and experimentation. Master the art of balancing short-term results with long-term vision, and control with adaptability. Discover how polarity thinking empowers you to lead your organization confidently into the unknown.
In a competitive environment where business models get disrupted daily and your competition looks nothing like it used to, how do you not only stay relevant but leapfrog forward? The future of innovation today belongs to the crowd who can outperform and outcompete closed systems. You will learn from first-hand experience how to harness the power of decentralized ideas, resources, and skills; how to bridge untapped geographies and leverage innovation at the edges.
While technologies are maturing exponentially, organizational structures and processes remain stubbornly linear. Yesterday's best-practices – like the Five-Year-Plan or Innovation Funnel – are not sufficient to navigate today's fast-paced, tech-driven world. Explore the groundbreaking new Seven-Layer model which describes and provides actionable insights into the makeup of the future organization. Learn why most companies fail in their digital transformation by only focussing on the upper layers of the model and how to truly transform your business into a future-forward organization.
Disruption Mapping provides a simple, intuitive system for organizing thoughts about a likely future development or trend and identifying possible long-term implications (positive and negative) in a structured but highly collaborative way. This highly interactive, practice-oriented workshop will help you think more deeply about the dynamics of disruption — anticipating future implications and exploring unintended consequences. As a result, you & your team will be better able to foresee future opportunities and emerging threats to your business.
Our present moment of heightened uncertainty is a perfect time for exploring the relationship between the questions we ask and the answers we find and for learning to use today’s uncertainty as a springboard for tomorrow’s creative inquiry. The question generation workshop (like an ideation session where you start by assuming that you DON’T already have the answers – or even the right questions) is one of our favorite tools for engaging curiosity, opening a more inclusive conversation, challenging assumptions, and fostering innovation.
Going beyond the nomenclature, participants will explore the practical “Eight Word Mission Statement” framework to connect purpose (both your companies and your personal) to an actionable and guiding mission statement. Going from the bigger why to the actionable and measurable how is imperative to bringing purpose to life, applying this framework to the triptych of self/other/world will make for better, more effective leaders.
Pascal Finette is a globally-renowned and acclaimed public speaker, covering topics from disruption, digitization, technology trends, organizational and cultural transformation, new business models, decentralized innovation, leadership, and entrepreneurship, in formats ranging from high-profile keynotes, live and online next level learning experiences to workshops and executive roundtables.
Anchored in his experience as a trained economist and with more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry, he has helped thousands of clients see the future of exponential technology, how economic models are shifting to identify new opportunities and develop successful disruptive business strategies. As an innovative and impactful keynote speaker, Pascal will bring this expertise to your audience whether in person or online, blending frontier technologies, and thought-provoking knowledge with deeply engaging, refreshingly honest, and highly motivating presentations.
Pascal is a master at drawing audiences into a spellbinding future where artificial intelligence, robotics, synthetic biology, and other exponential technologies solve humanity’s greatest challenges. His presentations make sense of our rapidly accelerating, changing and converging world — cutting through the noise, synthesizing the essentials and connecting the dots to prepare your company or career for the exciting opportunities ahead.
Called a “prophet” by Germany’s leading TV station ARD, featured in a primetime documentary about Silicon Valley (ARD: “Go West, Ihr Genies!” — watch here), on the cover of Brazil's leading business magazine Epoca Negócios, and voted one of the top 100 Internet influencers by Wirtschaftswoche, Pascal’s work is on the edge of technology, entrepreneurship, transformation and global impact.
Pascal is a frequent speaker and lecturer at several acclaimed universities and businesses schools around the world, including Berkeley Haas School of Business, Stanford University, London Business School, International Institute for Management Development (IMB), European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), HEC Paris, and ESADE.
He’s the author of the book “The Heretic - Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs”, contributed to many bestselling business books including “The GuruBook” and “Revolution? Ja, Bitte!” and is currently working on a new book about the future of organizations and business models.
Learn more about him and watch some of his talks below (and see his talks and media appearances on our video page), check out his resume and get in touch to discuss your event and how we can create an unforgettable experience for your audience together.
Jeffrey Rogers is an award-winning educator and sought-after speaker and facilitator obsessed with one essential question for our time: How do we thrive as leaders and learners in a world of accelerating change and systemic disruption?
Around that investigation as his central theme, he weaves keynote sessions, live and online learning experiences, and designs workshops to spark mindset-shifting conversations touching on: emerging technologies and social trends, convergence and complexity, innovation and impact, and leadership and the imperative of lifelong learning.
Foundationally, Jeffrey believes the future is too important to be left solely to the futurists, and his grand professional goal is to empower more people to think/act/live and lead like the future is theirs to create. He’s connected dots and ideas for a long list of Fortune 500 companies, been a top-rated facilitator and moderator of executive education programs and international summits for Singularity University since 2017, and dropped in as a guest lecturer and workshop leader at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, and the Empowerment Summit at ECAL in Lausanne.
Engaging, dynamic & oriented toward practice, Jeffrey is a captivating speaker for a crowd of thousands and a thoughtful and playful facilitator for more intimate live online or in-person workshops and roundtables — everything from inspiring crash-course keynotes on exponential technology & futures-thinking to multi-day immersive learning journeys into creative leadership and organizational change.
Discuss your live online or in-person event with us via Email: [email protected] or complete our inquiry form, and we will be in touch shortly.
* Please note that we, unfortunately, need to be very selective about pro-bono engagements, as Pascal has too much stuff on his plate as it is. If you want him to speak at your event pro-bono, send us an email giving some context as to why you want him to speak.
