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Erica Orange: Futurist | Author of AI + The New Human Frontier | Speaker on AI, Human Judgment and Change
Why Book Erica Orange?
Her message is especially relevant as AI changes how teams work and evaluate information. Author of AI + The New Human Frontier and co-founder of Wake the Future, Erica explores how people can strengthen independent thinking, curiosity, and judgment. She gives audiences a reason to engage with change and a fresh perspective on the human capabilities they need to develop.
Why Is Erica Orange Right for Your Audience?
Erica is a strong fit for leadership conferences, strategy retreats, association events, and organizations preparing for technological change. She is particularly relevant when leaders want to move from discussing disruption to examining their assumptions and deciding how to respond.
Book Erica when your audience needs to:
- Put emerging trends into a business context
- Consider the human implications of AI
- Challenge assumptions behind established ways of working
- Strengthen critical thinking in uncertain conditions
- Explore how to maintain credibility and trust
- Start a more thoughtful conversation about future priorities
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- With a clearer perspective on the changes affecting their work
- More aware of assumptions worth revisiting
- Ready to ask better questions before making decisions
- Better prepared to discuss the role of human judgment alongside AI
- Motivated to identify where their organization needs to adapt
Keynote Programs
AI + The New Human Frontiers
Erica explores how leaders can preserve independent judgment and a clear sense of purpose as AI becomes more capable. Ideal for leadership, talent, and technology audiences considering the human side of transformation.
Think Like a Futurist
Erica challenges audiences to reconsider habits and assumptions that may limit their view of what comes next. Ideal for strategy retreats, innovation events, and teams preparing for change.
The Trust Paradox
Erica examines credibility and authenticity in a world of synthetic content and misinformation. Ideal for leaders, communicators, and organizations exploring how to build trust with employees and customers.
Is Erica Orange Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes it faces, and the questions you want people to explore. We can help select Erica’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm her availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Deborah Perry Piscione
Authority on Changing Mindsets, Best-selling Innovation Author and Entrepreneur
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Deborah talks about every organization can develop new mindsets, organizational structures, and product development/problem-solving processes – that will maximize opportunities in the future.
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Audiences leave inspired by her pragmatic presentation on harnessing the energy in every organization.
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Deborah Perry Piscione is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, national bestselling author, media commentator and public speaker.
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Past clients include: Google, McKinsey, TED Talks, Cadence Design, London School of Economics, Microsoft, McDonald's, NetApp, Princeton University, KPMG, Innotown, Qualcomm, Stanford University, and Accenture.
As one of the world's leading thought leaders on the future, a Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author of Secrets of Silicon Valley, Deborah Perry Piscione is the go-to authority on AI transformation, the future of work, and innovation leadership. Currently serving as Chief Future Officer at Work3 Institute and General Partner at Sterling Capital, her latest book Employment is Dead: How Disruptive Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way We Work was named a Top 25 Business Book of 2025 by DisruptTV.
A former legislative aide on Capitol Hill and the White House, Deborah brings a unique perspective spanning Washington power dynamics and Silicon Valley innovation. A Thinkers50 nominee and Senior Advisor for Global Peter Drucker Futures 2050, she speaks at over 100 global events annually on behalf of Harvard Business Review and has advised Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Oracle, Qualcomm, McKinsey & Co, Accenture, Pfizer and Nike.
Deborah Perry Piscione: Recent Recognition:
- Thinkers50 Nominee (2026)
- Harvard Business Review: Regular contributor on AI strategy and future of work
- New York Times Bestselling Author, Secrets of Silicon Valley
- Former Television Commentator: CNN, MSNBC, Fox News
- LinkedIn Learning Author with two flagship courses, “Executing on Innovation” and “Risk-taking for Leaders” reaching thousands of leaders globally (now translated into Mandarin, German, and French)
April Rinne
Global Authority on the New Economy, Future of Work, and Navigating Constant Change, Humanistic Futurist
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Change navigator and guide to help you embrace uncertainty and the unknown
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Top-ranked global futurist with immersive work and travels in 100+ countries
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Bestselling author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
Change defines the present and uncertainty permeates the future. What are the skills, practices, and superpowers that this world in flux demands – and how can you cultivate them with purpose and joy?
In 2024, humans’ ability to embrace all kinds of change, uncertainty, and not-knowing isn’t exceptional, but rather table stakes. It’s at the heart of responsible leadership, thriving culture, and effective communication. Put another way, tolerance of uncertainty is the #1 skill we’ll need this year – and beyond.
April Rinne – change navigator, speaker, investor, and adventurer – has been obsessed with these questions for more than 25 years. Her work and travels in more than 100 countries have given her a front-row seat to a world in flux, as well as a world of wisdom to navigate the unknown. Not only is she your guide to developing a “flux mindset,” she’s also ranked one of the 50 Leading Female Futurists in the world by Forbes and is a Harvard Law School graduate, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a member of the Silicon Guild and Thinkers50 Radar, a Fulbright Scholar, and the author of the international bestseller Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change.
April is a trusted advisor to well-known startups, companies, financial institutions, nonprofits, think tanks, and governments worldwide, including Airbnb, Nike, Intuit, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, AnyRoad, and Unsettled as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, and Italy to India. For more than two decades, she’s been known for seeing emerging trends early, understanding their potential, and helping others do the same. April is a bridge-builder between stakeholders, priorities, business models, markets, and those excited about change and those resistant to it. Most recently, she’s been part of Finland’s inaugural “masterclass of happiness,” combining her Finnish heritage and “fluxiness” to reach audiences around the world.
Earlier in life April was a global development executive, an international microfinance lawyer, and a hiking guide. Before that, she spent the better part of four years traveling solo, with an insatiable desire to better understand how the rest of the world lives. (One lesson: Change is universal. How we deal with it is not.) She is as comfortable at Davos as she is talking with microfinance borrowers in an urban slum. A certified yoga teacher, she can often be found upside-down, doing handstands around the world.
The following is also shared, depending on audience and context: April also harnesses her very personal experiences with flux, including the death of both of her parents in a car accident when she was 20.
Michael Rogers
Author, journalist and futurist on future trends and the economy.
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Michael talks about new efficiencies and surprising new intelligent services that will change the very nature of work and challenge us to think differently about technology & innovation.
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Audiences leave with inspired with ideas on how technology and innovation can help leaders identify potential new products, new customers and new challenges.
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Michael Rogers is a best-selling author, technology pioneer and futurist, who most recently served as futurist-in-residence for The New York Times.
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Past clients include: Coca Cola, Chanel, Discover, Pfizer, Oracle, Prudential and Shell.
Michael Rogers is a best-selling author, technology pioneer and futurist, who most recently served as futurist-in-residence for The New York Times. He has worked with companies ranging from FedEx, Boeing and NBC Universal to Microsoft, Pfizer and Siemens, focusing on how companies can think about the future in useful ways. He speaks to audiences worldwide and is a regular guest on radio and television.
Rogers began his career as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. He co-founded Outside magazine and then launched Newsweek’s technology column, winning numerous journalism awards. For ten years he was vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, leading both the newspaper and Newsweek into the new century and earning patents for multimedia technology. He is also a best-selling novelist whose books have been published worldwide, chosen for the Book-of-the-Month club and optioned for film.
Rogers studied physics and creative writing at Stanford University, with additional studies in finance and management at the Stanford Business School Executive Program. He lives in New York City and is currently working on book and television projects.
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Rebecca Ryan is a human sparkplug - part futurist, part economist. She is always engaging - and is one of America’s most influential and innovative thought leaders who helps cities and companies think around the corner to what’s next. Rebecca is the Resident Futurist at the Alliance for Innovation, a Senior Advisor at the Governing Institute, a faculty member at the Institute for Zen Leadership, the Founder of Futurist Camp, the inventor of Futures Labs - and the owner of NEXT Generation Consulting, Inc.
What is Strategic Foresight? "Strategic foresight" is a bland term for a great idea: to look into the future - and figure out what’s coming, so you can be ready. Rebecca is one of a few hundred people in the world who hold the designation of "APF" - conferred to full members of the Association of Professional Futurists. Her peers call her "one of the world's leading futurists" - and she has led foresight projects for Fortune 500 companies and many of America's most innovative cities.
She is the author of The Next Big Things: The Future of Local Government (2015), ReGENERATION: A Manifesto for America’s Future Leaders (2013), and Live First, Work Second: Getting Inside the Head of the Next Generation (2007).
As Founder of Next Generation Consulting, Rebecca leads the team that best-selling author Richard Florida calls, “One of the most reliable sources for leaders who want to attract and retain the next generation of creative workers." Rebecca has also been named: Top 100 Most Influential People by Accounting Today and Entrepreneur of the Year by U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
John Sanei
Best-selling Author, Futurist & Keynote Speaker with a passion for psychology & technology
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A co-host of the 2x award-winning business podcast, The Expansive.
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An author and co-author of 11 books, five of which are best-sellers.
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Ranked 5th among the World's Top Futurists for 2025, according to Global Gurus research.
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Faculty at Duke Corporate Education.
John Sanei has worked with thousands of leaders and organizations across the globe, including Google, Mastercard, NASA, Singularity University, and clients in technology, finance, FMCG, consulting, government, education, and beyond. He is a sought-after futurist and transformation specialist who helps decision-makers navigate uncertainty, especially in an A.I-disrupted world, so they can turn anxiety into confidence, complexity into clarity, and confusion into purposeful action.
He speaks on topics including futures thinking, organizational transformation, human adaptability, technology integration, resilient leadership, and the evolving relationship between humans and A.I. His sessions are known for being emotionally resonant, commercially relevant, and rich in insights drawn from neuroscience, psychology, and systems strategy.
Dr. Joel Selanikio
Consultant in technology, healthcare, AI, entrepreneurship, social innovation, big data, and disaster response.
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Joel talks about the future of healthcare using a long range perspective: 100 years of information technology and its impact on health and healthcare.
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Dr. Selanikio helps the audience navigate the possible futures of the industry, and how it will be affected by AI and technology.
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Dr. Joel Selanikio bridges the worlds of healthcare, global health and technology to illustrate opportunities in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud computing, and mobile technology to health, healthcare, and social challenges. He is a recognized innovator in global health, technology, and social enterprise, as well as a former CDC outbreak investigator and Ebola clinic director.
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Past clients include: Royal Society of Medicine, Harvard, Stanford School of Business, DARPA, the World Economic Forum at Davos, and Google.
Dr. Joel Selanikio bridges the worlds of healthcare, global health and technology to illustrate opportunities in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud computing, and mobile technology to health, healthcare, and social challenges. A former CDC outbreak investigator and Ebola clinic director, he also frequently speaks about the challenges of providing clinical services in “the hot zone”, and the role that technology (and humanity) can play in emergencies.
A recognized innovator in global health, technology, and social enterprise, his broad career has allowed him to observe and leverage the great technological changes of our time – including the worldwide shift from personal computers to mobile, the adoption of cloud technologies, and the growing application of big data to healthcare – as few others have done. Named in 2009 as one of Forbes’ “most powerful innovators”, he is a recipient of both the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainable Innovation and the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare for his work in healthcare technology. A TED speaker, he has spoken at or provided consultation to organizations including the Royal Society of Medicine, Harvard, Stanford School of Business, DARPA, the World Economic Forum at Davos, and Google – and been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Economist, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC, among others.
Dr. Selanikio is a graduate of Haverford College and the Brown University School of Medicine, and he continues to practice pediatrics at Georgetown University.
Jason Sosa
Technologist and keynote speaker on AI and the future of finance.
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Scott Steinberg
About Scott Steinberg – Business Strategist & Technology Futurist
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Scott talks about how even the most successful organizations must continually reinvent their products, services and solutions to remain market leaders in an age of growing change, connectivity and globalization.
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Audiences leave with powerful ways to unleash innovation to solutions for better capitalizing on cutting-edge advancements, discover how you and your organization can flourish in tomorrow’s world – and effectively apply its most crucial success strategies and skills in context.
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One of America's top futurists (per the BBC); a bestselling author of Make Change Work For You and Millennial Marketing; and a strategic adviser to CEOs and four-star generals.
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Past clients include: IBM, PwC, The US Dept. of Defense, Dell, MTV.
Hailed as The Master of Innovation by Fortune magazine, and World’s Leading Business Strategist, award-winning strategic consultant, trends expert, and professional speaker Scott Steinberg is a bestselling expert on leadership, change + innovation. A go-to resource for C-level leaders, he has served as a source of thought leadership, insight, and consulting for over 1000 leading brands, and advised on household-name products found in 100+ million homes.
One of America's top futurists (per the BBC); the author of Make Change Work For You and Millennial Marketing; and among today's top business strategy + leadership training providers, the Fortune 500 calls him a "defining figure in business + technology" and "top trendsetter to follow."
A strategic adviser to CEOs and four-star generals, firms like IBM, PwC, and the US Dept. of Defense regularly seek his insight. As the CEO of BIZDEV: The International Association for Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, and management consulting + market research firm FutureProof Strategies, he helps partners stay one step ahead of emerging trends – and drive growth around them.
One of the world's 150 most influential keynote speakers + futurists, and today’s #1 generations expert and technology expert (per Google), he offers breakouts, workshops, and speeches at meetings/events, and has consulted on dozens of industry-leading solutions. A noted content strategy, social media + communications expert, his eye for business analysis has also led to work as an insider for 600+ media outlets from CNN to The Today Show. From Dell to MTV, he’s worked with many top brands to drive success. An expert witness + board member who advises C-level leaders, attorneys + investors, he also offers sales and media training, and hosts many executive summits.
Rohit Talwar
Leading Global Futurist, Speaker, Author and CEO of Fast Future
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Rohit talks about how organizations can navigate a rapidly changing reality in his highly customized keynote and helps clients understand the key future factors driving innovation, growth and disruptive change
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Audiences leave with the key topics and learning takeaways that address how their specific organizatons can address the critical factors of future success.
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Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning and thought provoking speaker, strategic advisor, author, entrepreneur, and the CEO of Fast Future.
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Past clients include: 3M, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, American Express, Barclays, Bayer, BP, Citi, Deloitte, DeutscheBank, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, EE, Emaar, Emirates, Etisalat, and EY.
Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning and thought provoking speaker, strategic advisor, author, entrepreneur, and the CEO of Fast Future. He delivers keynote speeches, executive education, consultancy, research, and future-focused leadership mentoring to clients internationally. He helps clients understand the key future factors driving innovation, growth and disruptive change. He works with major corporations, governments, professional services, investors, associations, business schools, and NGOs - to help them anticipate, prepare for and create the future. He has delivered over 1,500 keynote speeches and executive workshops in 70+ countries on six continents.
Rohit leads Fast Future Publishing - delivering a series of multi-contributor books exploring the emerging future. He is the co-author of Designing Your Future, lead editor and a contributing author for The Future of Business, and editor of Technology vs. Humanity. He is also a co-editor and contributor for the recently published Beyond Genuine Stupidity - Ensuring AI Serves Humanity, and The Future Reinvented - Reimagining Life, Society, and Business. He is also working on two forthcoming books: Unleashing Human Potential - The Future of AI in Business, and 50:50 - Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.
His new book Aftershocks and Opportunities – Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic Future published on June 1st, 2020 draws on contributions from 25 thought leaders around the world to explore the emerging possibilities and risks and the resulting critical actions required to navigate our way out of the current health crisis and economic disruption.
Rohit delivers fully researched and completely customised presentations for each keynote, and has the audience spellbound with his story of ending up on Interpol’s most wanted list due to identity theft. He has undertaken a wide range of foresight research studies for clients as diverse as the UK Government, Heathrow Airport, Amadeus, and the European Commission
Rohit’s primary objective is to support clients in exploring and shaping the emerging future - putting people at the center of the agenda. He helps clients understand the key future factors driving innovation, growth and disruptive change. Rohit highlights the new thinking and business models being enabled by exponential technologies such as AI, blockchain, and hyperconnectivity and uses case studies to demonstrate how firms across sectors are reinventing themselves in the era of smart machines. He then explores the mindset shifts and leadership capabilities required to compete in the emerging future. Finally, he demonstrates how to harness the next waves of innovation to unleash human potential and ensure a very human future for our organisations.
Rohit has delivered keynote speeches around the world and for clients across the globe. Example clients include 3M, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, American Express, Barclays, Bayer, BP, Citi, Deloitte, DeutscheBank, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, EE, Emaar, Emirates, Etisalat, EY, GE, Generali, IBM, Intel, KPMG, Latham and Watkins, Linklaters, Microsoft, Nokia, Norton Rose Fulbright, Novartis, O2, Orange, PWC, Pepsi, SAP, Sara Lee, Tata, The Singapore Government, The World Government Summit 2016 (UAE), and Twofour54.
Jack Uldrich
Global futurist, sought-after business speaker on technology and trends.
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No one can predict the future, but Jack Uldrich can help you prepare for it. Jack is a global futurist, speaker, and author of 13 books, including award-winning best sellers, who helps organizations gain the crucial foresight they need to create a successful future. His talks land at the intersection of advancements in technology, change management and leadership and are styled to educate, inspire and entertain.
Jack speaks over 50 times a year especially on the transformation of finance, health care, agriculture, education, energy, retail and manufacturing. He argues that creativity and action are more powerful and versatile than knowledge. He professes the transformational principles of unlearning, or freeing yourself from obsolete knowledge and assumptions, as a strategy to survive and thrive in an era of unparalleled change.
Jack is a former naval intelligence officer, Defense Department strategic planning official and served as the director of the Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning under Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.
Jack is inspired by the role he is meant to play to help businesses pivot toward a new future. The publishing arm of Fast Company (Greenleaf Book Group) secured him to write two books in 2020: Business as Unusual and The Rise of Generation RE. Jack’s remarks are always customized for your industry and speak to your audience’s particular issues and concerns.
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Vivek Wadhwa's background is impressive - an entrepreneur, academic, business strategist, author, keynote speaker wrapped into a wonderfully vibrant and charismatic package. His research is focused on the critical advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials, and how these advances are creating disruptive changes for companies, industries, governments and the culture at large.
Vivek just rejoined Harvard as a Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School, Labor, and Worklife Program, where he will help lead a critical three-year research project on the effects of technology on future employment and work. This will be the first study on how technology will affect the core foundations of our economy.
He is also currently a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, he teaches on CMU's Silicon Valley campus about the latest exponential technologies; technology convergence and industry disruption; risks and regulation; and the new rules of innovation. Vivek was also a Director of Research at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, and Fellow at Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, and Emory University. Remarkably, he has held as many as six simultaneous appointments at top universities.
Vivek's syndicated column for The Washington Post is one of the world's most popular columns on all things technology and innovation. His newest best-selling book is Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back. Previous books include the award-winning, The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future, he also wrote The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, which was named by The Economist as a Book of the Year of 2012, and Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, for which the Financial Times named him #2 on its global list of the top ten men worth emulating.
This talent for communicating the complexities of global technological advancements in simple, almost poetic ways, have made Vivek one of the most in-demand keynote speakers in the world. He gives more than 100 talks every year to the most prestigious and powerful audiences, including world leaders, CEOs, industry organizations, universities, entrepreneurship groups, and a multitude of national science and engineering academies.
He started his career as a software developer and gained a deep understanding of the challenges in building computer systems. His experience as Vice President of Information Services at investment banking powerhouse CS First Boston (CSFB), spearheading the development of technology for creating computer-aided software-writing systems, was so successful that CSFB decided to spin off that business unit into its own company, Seer Technologies. As its Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Wadhwa helped grow the nascent startup into a $118 million publicly traded company.
The explosive growth of the internet afforded Vivek with an even greater opportunity to help businesses adapt to new and fast-changing technologies, and founded Relativity Technologies. As a result of his vision, Forbes.com named Wadhwa a Leader of Tomorrow, and Fortune declared Relativity one of the 25 coolest companies in the world.
In 2012, the U.S. Government awarded Wadhwa distinguished recognition as an "Outstanding American by Choice", for his "commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans". He was also named one of the world's "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine in that year; in June 2013, he was on TIME's list of "Tech 40", one of forty of the most influential minds in tech; and in September 2015, he was second on a list of "ten men worth emulating" in the Financial Times.
Mike Walsh
Author of The Algorithmic Leader and Speaker on Change, Technology and Innovation.
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Mike Walsh: Futurist Keynote Speaker on AI, Leadership & Transformation | Bestselling Author | HBR Columnist | Fortune 50 Advisor
Reinvent Your Organization for the AI-Powered Future. AI isn't simply changing how we work. It's changing what organizations can become.
Known for combining provocative ideas with practical business insight, Mike helps leaders understand how AI, algorithms, automation and digital labor will reshape organizations—and what they need to do now to stay relevant and competitive.
His message goes beyond adopting the latest technology. The real opportunity is to reinvent how your organization works, makes decisions and creates value.
Why Book Mike Walsh?
Mike doesn't simply predict the future. He helps leaders prepare to compete in it.
As a strategic advisor to Fortune 50 companies, Harvard Business Review columnist, bestselling author and global researcher, Mike studies how the world's most innovative organizations are using technology to transform the way they operate.
His global perspective allows him to connect emerging technologies with changing customer behavior, workforce expectations and new business models.
Audiences leave with something more valuable than a list of trends: a clearer understanding of what AI means for their organization and how leaders need to respond.
What Makes Mike Walsh Different?
- Futurist for leaders — focuses on the strategic implications of technology rather than technology alone
- AI and digital labor authority — explores how AI agents will reshape organizations and work
- Fortune 50 advisor — works directly with senior leaders navigating transformation
- Harvard Business Review columnist — translates emerging trends into practical leadership insights
- Three-time bestselling author — including The Algorithmic Leader
- Global perspective — researches innovation, technology and consumer behavior around the world
- Leadership focused — explores how decision-making must evolve in the Algorithmic Age
- Highly customized — connects his research directly to the client's industry and challenges
Why Is Mike Right for Your Audience?
Mike is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where AI is heading, what it means for their business and how they need to lead differently as a result.
He is particularly effective for CEO conferences, executive leadership meetings, AI summits, technology conferences, association events and organizations navigating significant transformation.
Book Mike when your audience needs to:
- Understand what's coming next in AI
- Prepare for AI agents and digital labor
- Reimagine how their organization operates
- Identify new opportunities created by automation
- Lead people confidently through technological disruption
- Make smarter data-driven decisions
- Rethink customer and employee experiences
- Move beyond incremental improvement toward genuine reinvention
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding how AI agents could reshape organizations
- Better prepared for the next decade of AI-powered transformation
- Thinking differently about the future of work
- Recognizing where human capabilities create the greatest value
- Better equipped to lead hybrid teams of humans and machines
- Understanding why AI requires organizational—not simply technological—change
- More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
- Ready to rethink how their organization creates value
Mike Walsh Keynote Programs
Abundant Intelligence: How Digital Labor Will Rewrite the Rules of Business. What happens when AI stops being simply a tool and becomes part of your workforce?
AI agents capable of independently analyzing information, making decisions and taking action represent a fundamental shift in how organizations may operate.
Mike explores the emergence of digital labor and what it could mean for organizational structure, governance, workforce strategy and competitive advantage.
He challenges leaders to look beyond today's copilots and chatbots and consider how organizations will operate when humans work alongside potentially vast networks of intelligent digital agents.
Ideal for: CEO conferences, AI summits, executive leadership meetings and organizations developing their AI strategy.
The AI-Powered Decade Ahead. Are you using AI to improve what you already do—or rethink what your organization could do?
Mike takes audiences on a journey toward 2035, exploring how AI, algorithms and automation could drive a new industrial revolution.
He argues that the greatest opportunity isn't simply making existing processes faster. It's reimagining customer experiences, redesigning organizations and finding entirely new ways to solve problems.
Technology is only part of the transformation.
Leadership ambition will determine what organizations actually do with it.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, technology events, strategy meetings and organizations preparing for long-term transformation.
The Future Favors the Bold. Incremental improvement may help you keep up. Bold thinking is what creates what's next.
Technology breakthroughs, changing customer behavior, geopolitical uncertainty and machine intelligence are challenging many of the assumptions on which organizations were built.
Mike shows why successful transformation requires leaders willing to experiment, challenge conventional thinking and make courageous decisions.
Because the future isn't simply an upgraded version of the present.
It requires leaders willing to reinvent it.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, transformation events, executive meetings and organizations facing disruption.
The Algorithmic Leader. What capabilities will leaders need when machines can increasingly analyze, predict and decide?
Based on his bestselling book The Algorithmic Leader, Mike explores how AI, automation and algorithms are changing leadership itself.
He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, use data, design teams and combine machine intelligence with uniquely human capabilities.
Audiences leave with practical ideas for redesigning their organizations, reimagining their roles and reinventing how they make decisions.
Ideal for: Leadership development programs, executive conferences, technology events and organizations developing future-ready leaders.
Why Book Mike Walsh Through The Sweeney Agency?
Mike Walsh combines AI expertise, strategic foresight, global research and practical leadership insight—making him particularly valuable when you need executives to understand not simply what technology is doing, but what they should do differently because of it.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Mike Walsh's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Mike Walsh keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your industry and AI priorities
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Mike with other leading AI, futurist and future-of-business keynote speakers
Is Mike Walsh Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what your leaders need to understand about AI and the future ahead.
We'll help you determine whether Mike is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an AI summit, executive conference, leadership meeting or association event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Mike Walsh as your keynote speaker.
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Futurist, author, and Hall of Fame Speaker, Crystal Washington equips organizations with the knowledge they need to become “future-proof.” As a technology strategist and certified futurist, Crystal makes complex artificial intelligence, social media, and app technology easy to understand and accessible for everyday people.
Crystal’s clients include Fortune 100 companies, including Google, American Express, and Pfizer. As a sought-after keynote speaker, she has entertained and educated audiences around the globe. As one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, she appears weekly on season two of the Emmy nominated show Life 2.0. She’s also appeared in numerous publications, including Entrepreneur and Bloomberg Businessweek, and major television networks regularly call on her as a tech expert.
Crystal is the author of One Tech Action and The Social Media Why.
Nicholas J. Webb
World Renowned Innovation and Healthcare Futurist, Best-selling Author
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Nicholas Webb: Innovation and Healthcare Futurist | Bestselling Author | Speaker on AI, Leadership and Customer Experience
Why Book Nicholas Webb?
The author of books including The Innovation Mandate, What Customers Crave and Happy Work, Nick explores how innovation, customer insight and workplace culture support growth. His energetic presentations combine research, stories and practical ideas, with content tailored to the audience’s industry and priorities.
Why Is Nicholas Webb Right for Your Audience?
Nick is a strong fit for leadership conferences, healthcare events, innovation meetings and customer experience programs. He is particularly relevant when an organization wants people to understand changing expectations, identify opportunities and turn new ideas into action.
Book Nick when your audience needs to:
- Understand trends shaping its industry
- Explore how AI could change work and service delivery
- Build a culture that supports practical innovation
- Use customer insight to improve experiences
- Strengthen employee engagement and retention
- Make clearer decisions during rapid change
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Better able to connect emerging trends with business priorities
- Equipped with ideas for turning innovation into useful action
- More aware of what customers value and what frustrates them
- Ready to consider how employee experience affects organizational performance
- Clearer on opportunities to improve service, culture and leadership
Keynote Programs
Healthcare Future Trends and Artificial Intelligence
Nick explores the forces reshaping healthcare, including AI and changing expectations among patients, providers and staff. Ideal for health systems, payers, life sciences organizations and healthcare associations preparing for change.
Unlock the Superpower of Innovation
Drawing on his experience as an inventor and CEO, Nick shows how organizations can build a culture that turns ideas into growth. Ideal for teams seeking practical ways to move innovation forward.
Thrive in the Customer Experience Economy
Nick examines how a deeper understanding of customers can inform better experiences and stronger loyalty. Drawing on What Customers Crave and What Customers Hate, this program is ideal for sales, service and customer experience audiences.
Leadership in a Time of Rapid Change
Based on Lucid Leadership, Nick explores how leaders gain clarity about their markets, cultures and responsibilities. Ideal for executives and managers navigating changing priorities.
Is Nicholas Webb Right for Your Event?
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Jared Weiner
Leading Futurist & Speaker on Global Trends, Co-Founder + Creator at Wake the Future
About
Jared Weiner is Co-Founder + Creator at Wake the Future. Wake the Future is a content and thought leadership platform built to wake people up to the realities of a chaotic future, and to ultimately empower humans in an age of AI. Jared considers himself a “reformed futurist,” inspired to apply his experience and learnings toward a renewed purpose – one that is more authentic to who he is, and what matters most to him personally: his family.
Jared has been a futurist and global keynote speaker for nearly two decades. Over that period, he’s served as Partner at The Future Hunters, a futurist consultancy and industry pioneer. Jared has long helped senior leaders prepare for what’s ahead. His speaking has taken him to Colombia, Turkey, Australia, Hong Kong, Morocco, Panama and Poland.
Jared is past Chairman of the Board of the World Future Society. And he served on American Express OPEN’s Digital Advisory Board. He holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester (UofR), and an M.B.A. from the Simon Graduate School of Business at the UofR.
Jared is a New York City native and will always have big city DNA. But he and his wife (+ business partner) Erica, along with their son, now live near her hometown of Rochester NY, where they first met in college. Jared’s biggest passions are travel and 80s music. He also enjoys hiking, basketball, history, wine and suffering through being a NY sports fan.
John Winsor
Innovator, Entrepreneur, Author and Speaker on The Future of Work
About
John Winsor is an entrepreneur, thought-leader and global authority on the future of work, open talent and remote work. John’s ideas, expressed through his writing, speaking, and the companies he’s built, have placed him at the intersection of innovation, disruption and storytelling.
John is currently the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), which studies AI and Workforce Transformation strategies, and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising to organizations, people, and platforms to co-create the future of work.
Recently, he has been leading a global industry coalition made up 4000 global leaders in the open talent and innovation industry to start a non-profit trade association, The Center for the Transformation of Work with the goal of Transforming work for a billion people by 2025.
In his past life, John was the chief innovation officer of Havas, when Havas purchased his open advertising agency, Victors & Spoils, in 2015. Winsor founded V&S after introducing the advertising world to the practice of co-creation in his role as vice president and executive director of strategy and innovation at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. Winsor had merged his company Radar Communications, the world’s leading open strategy and research company, with CP+B back in 2007. Other companies Winsor founded include Sports & Fitness publishing, sold to Conde Nast, and the Gravity Games, sold to NBC.
Winsor’s new book, “Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Crowd to Solve Your Biggest Challenges,” published by Harvard Business Press, comes out in the fall of 2023.
Winsor’s is also the author of “Beyond the Brand,” “Spark,” “Flipped,” and the best-selling “Baked In,” winner of the 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in marketing. Winsor is also an advisor to the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Forbes and Digiday.
Winsor was an early digital nomad. Twenty years ago, he found a satellite dish, mounting it on his house in a village in Mexico and connecting in illegally to a network in Canada to communicate with the world. He has also worked on his skiing, surfing and climbing exploits from Fiji to Alaska.
Bob Woodward
Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist, Author and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
About
Bob Woodward gained international attention when he and Carl Bernstein uncovered the Watergate scandal in 1973. Since then, he’s worked to shine a light on the inner-workings of secret government. Woodward’s factual, non-partisan revelations to readers and speech audiences provide a view of Washington they’ll never get elsewhere.
Woodward has written about the last ten U.S. presidents and chronicled how the power of the presidency has evolved. He is author of 23 bestselling books – 17 went to #1 – more than any contemporary nonfiction writer. In his speeches, Woodward looks at the expanding powers of the presidency and the important lessons that can be learned from the presidents he’s covered.
He can also assess the role of the media and how well it is (or isn’t) doing its job. Audiences will be awe-struck by insights from this living journalistic legend. Currently associate editor for The Washington Post where he’s worked since 1971, Bob Woodward has won nearly every American journalism award including two Pulitzers.
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