Daniel Burrus
Daniel Burrus 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.
He is the author of seven books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Flash Foresight, and his latest book, The Anticipatory Organization, is an Amazon No. 1 bestseller.
Burrus is also a featured writer with millions of monthly readers on the topics of disruptive innovation, exponential change and the future for a variety of publications, including CNBC, Huffington Post and Wired Magazine.
Speaking topics
- Disruptive Innovation: The Megatrends That Are Changing Everything
The exponential pace of technology-driven change has been accelerated by as much as 10 years over the last 18 months, advancing several Megatrends that are already in the process of changing every industry and business model we know. These Megatrends will continue to accelerate, creating more opportunity, as well as more potential disruptions, than any other time in history. Thanks to Daniel Burrus’ award-winning Hard Trend methodology and his proven track record of accurate technology forecasts spanning the past 30+ years, disruptions can be identified long before they disrupt, giving you the opportunity to become a positive disruptor driving transformational change and actively shaping the future rather than reacting to it.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation by one of the world’s leading global futurists, disruptive innovation experts, and serial entrepreneurs, New York Times bestselling author of seven books Daniel Burrus blends rich examples with just the right amount of humor as he shares the most important Megatrends shaping the future and the potential disruptions, as well as the game-changing opportunities they provide.
In addition, Burrus will share industry examples of how both small and large companies accelerated growth by using his Hard Trend methodology to identify the disruptive Megatrends before they disrupted, allowing them to accelerate growth by becoming a positive disruptor. The Megatrends, strategies, and examples will provide attendees with the ability to craft lowrisk, high-reward innovations that elevate value, accelerate growth, and transform results.
Using Burrus’ mastery of storytelling to illustrate examples, deliverables include:
- Identifying the most important MegaTrends impacting the audience and their customers.
- How to identify the Hard Trends that will happen to accurately anticipate disruptions before they disrupt, turning disruption into a choice.
- How to use Hard Trends to identify problems before you have them so they can be presolved.
- How to use Hard Trends to identify emerging opportunities to accelerate growth.
- How to identify the Soft Trends based on assumptions that might happen and the related opportunities to influence them to your advantage.
- How to use the certainty that comes from Hard Trends to accelerate both Everyday Innovation and Exponential Innovation with much lower risk.
- How to use Problem Skipping to accelerate your organization’s growth and your employees’ personal success.
- Ripe for Disruption: What the Future Holds for Business in 2023 and Beyond
Every business and every industry is like a deer looking into the headlights of a new rapid level of technology-driven disruption. Unlike the recent past, the speed and depth of this rapidly approaching disruption is moving far faster and will be far more profound. Reacting as quickly as you can, no matter how agile you are, will no longer be good enough. Thanks to Burrus’ award-winning Hard Trend methodology and his proven track record of accurate technology forecasts spanning the past 30+ years, disruptive changes can be identified long before they disrupt, giving you the opportunity to become a positive disruptor, creating the transformational changes that need to happen as you actively shape the future rather than react to it.
In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation by one of the world’s leading global futurists, disruptive innovation experts, and serial entrepreneurs, New York Times bestselling author of seven books Daniel Burrus blends rich examples with just the right amount of humor as he shares the most important trends shaping the future and the game-changing opportunities they provide. In addition, Burrus will use industry examples to teach attendees how to identify the Hard Trends based on future facts that will happen and how to use those certainties, and the game-changing opportunities they provide, to turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage.
Audience Takeaway
- Identifying the most disruptive Technology Driven Trends impacting the audience and their customers
- How to identify the Hard Trends that will happen to accurately anticipate disruptions before they disrupt, turning disruption into a choice.
- How to use Hard Trends to identify problems before you have them so they can be pre-solved.
- How to use Hard Trends to identify emerging opportunities to accelerate growth.
- How to identify the Soft Trends based on assumptions that might happen and the related opportunities to influence them to your advantage.
- How to use the certainty that comes from Hard Trends to accelerate innovation with much lower risk.
- How to use Problem Skipping to accelerate your organization’s growth and your employees’ personal success.
- The Anticipatory Organization®: Elevate Planning, Accelerate Innovation, and Transform Results
Every business, regardless of its size, has a plan, just as most individuals have a plan of some kind. But having a plan does not guarantee success! Let’s face it, throughout history every business that either failed or experienced a dramatic decline had a plan! Some plans were based on a number of scenarios that may or may not happen. Some were based on current trends continuing, and some were focused on executing a static plan over a number of years.
Burrus, the creator of the award-winning Anticipatory Organization® Planning Methodology, has transformed the way highly successful small, medium, and large organizations, including the Department of Defense, plan and innovate.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation by one of the world’s leading global futurists, disruptive innovation experts, and serial entrepreneurs, New York Times bestselling author of seven books Daniel Burrus blends rich examples with just the right amount of humor as he shares the most important trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide.
In addition, Burrus will use industry examples to teach attendees how to elevate their planning by learning how to separate Hard Trends based on future facts that will happen, from the Soft Trend based on assumptions that might happen to identify game-changing opportunities to accelerate innovation and growth with much lower risk.
Using Burrus’ mastery of storytelling to illustrate examples, deliverables include:
- How organizations of various sizes have used his Hard Trends methodology to accelerate both Everyday Innovation and Exponential Innovation with much lower risk.
- How to identify the Hard Trends that will happen to accurately anticipate disruptions before they disrupt, turning disruption into a choice.
- How to use Hard Trends to identify problems before you have them so they can be pre-solved.
- How to use Hard Trends to identify emerging opportunities to accelerate growth.
- How to identify the Soft Trends based on assumptions that might happen and the related opportunities to influence them to your advantage.
- How to use Problem Skipping to accelerate your organization’s growth and your employees’ personal success.
- Accelerating Growth: Leading with Strategic Foresight
There has never been more opportunity to accelerate profitable growth than there is today! In 2020, everyone was forced to use digital solutions in new ways, which dramatically accelerated the exponential pace of technology-driven change. Agility and adaptability are no longer enough! Accurately anticipating technological changes as well as customers’ changing needs provides the biggest advantage.
In times of unprecedented change and uncertainty, we need to ask ourselves what we are certain about. Strategies based on uncertainty equal high levels of risk. Strategies based on certainty dramatically reduce risk and produce superior results.
Strategic foresight is gained by identifying the Hard Trend future facts that will happen and the game-changing opportunities they represent to craft exponential growth strategies.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation by one of the world’s leading global futurists, disruptive innovation experts, and serial entrepreneurs, New York Times bestselling author of seven books. Daniel Burrus blends rich examples with just the right amount of humor as he shares the most important trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide to dramatically accelerate growth.
In addition, Burrus shares proven trends and strategies for creating the must-have products, services, and experiences that will increase relevancy and accelerate profitable growth.
Using Burrus’ mastery of storytelling to illustrate examples, deliverables include:
- How to accelerate growth by identifying the Hard Trends that will happen and the related opportunities they provide for accelerating growth.
- How to identify the Soft Trends based on assumptions that might happen and the related opportunities to influence them to eliminate barriers to growth.
- How to use the certainty that comes from Hard Trends to accelerate innovation with much lower risk.
- How to use Problem Skipping to move forward faster.
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Speaker testimonials
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.
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 move into a 21st century mindset
I don’t know any other speaker that could present after Bill Gates and ‘wow’ the audience like Daniel Burrus did! He was the perfect choice.
“We asked Daniel Burrus to be the closing speaker at a recent conference for CIO’s. That’s a tough slot to fill as participants often have meeting fatigue after several days of meetings and networking. However, the room was full, anticipation was high and he engaged participants to the very last minute. He was an excellent speaker and rose to the challenge providing a perfect end to a great conference.”
Daniel provided excellent value to our worldwide sales conference this year in Taipei. His presentation was engaging, relevant, and inspiring. I especially appreciate his ability to understand both our business direction and conference themes, and ability to tailor his message to align well with both. Daniel also led an interesting exercise for the participants that left our management team with tangible ideas and inputs from the participants to drive future customer and market engagements.”