Jonathan Brill is the Business Futurist who will help you win the next five years. He empowers audiences and executives to spot, prioritize, and invent What Happens Next™.
In his presentations, he lays out:
- Why your future is changing — How social, technological, economic, and geopolitical trends are colliding to reshape your options.
- What you can do about it — Proven ways to get two steps ahead.
- How to take meaningful action — The small changes you can make today, this year, and beyond to leverage knowable disruption.
As the Futurist in Residence at Amazon, ranked the #1 Futurist in the World by Forbes and called “the world’s leading transformation architect” by Harvard Business Review, Jonathan draws on his unique experiences as an inventor and intelligence executive. He served as the Global Futurist at HP and as Lab Chief of invention firms in technology, food, and real estate. His companies have created more than 325 products, generating over $27 billion for clients. He is also a board member of one of the world’s largest private intelligence agencies and the only Western Senior Fellow at the HBR China New Growth Institute.
His most recent book, AI and the Octopus Organization: Building the Superintelligent Firm, explains how organizations that distribute authority, embed AI intelligence at the edges, and reward rapid learning and adaptation will become the undisputed leaders of tomorrow.
His book, Rogue Waves, offers a provocative perspective on how the collision of technological, geopolitical, economic, and societal trends will dramatically transform countries, cultures, and industries. Praised by The Economist and Adam Grant, the book provides a pragmatic framework to help business leaders thrive amid radical change and invent their own futures.
Jonathan shares his insights on global stages, in boardrooms, and across leading media outlets including ABC, CNBC, Harvard Business Review, and TED, as well as at research institutions such as Harvard, Duke, CERN, and Stanford. He has transformed these insights into strategic growth programs for clients including Verizon, Samsung, and HP.
- AI & the Octopus Organization™
- The gap between companies that integrate AI holistically and those that dabble will soon define who thrives—and who disappears. In the next five years, agility, not endurance, will determine success.
- Jonathan Brill reveals how leaders can reimagine their organizations to think and adapt as fast as change itself—through decentralized intelligence, AI-augmented decision-making, and empowered teams at every level. Inspired by the octopus, a model of adaptive intelligence, he shows how firms can align a clear strategic core with autonomous, responsive teams that sense and respond to disruption in real time.
- Drawing on research with over a million workforce surveys and firsthand work guiding Fortune 50 transformations, Brill demonstrates how winning organizations don’t just automate tasks—they reinvent how they think.
- Audiences will learn how to:
- Redesign organizations around adaptability rather than control.
- Build AI-powered “SuperTeams” that think faster and perform smarter.
- Define the vision, values, and goals needed to lead in the age of AI.
- Strategic Luck: The Science of Thriving in Uncertainty
- Luck isn’t chance—it’s a skill you can master.
- Most people think luck is random. Jonathan Brill proves otherwise. Drawing on the world’s largest study on luck and decades of research on decision-making, he reveals how luck can be engineered—turning uncertainty into opportunity.
- In this dynamic keynote, Brill blends data, storytelling, and actionable science to show how the most resilient organizations and leaders consistently create their own “good luck.”
- Audiences will learn how to:
- Understand what luck really is—and how to build it intentionally.
- Apply science-backed methods to spot and shape opportunity.
- Use strategic luck to help their organizations thrive through disruption.
- Win the Next Five Years: Spot, Lead, and Win!
- The future might be crazy—but your business doesn’t have to be.
- Jonathan Brill helps leaders spot the societal, geopolitical, economic, and technological trends colliding to reshape business—and shows how to lead through the chaos to win the next five years. He explains why one year is too short and ten is too far: the five-year horizon is where strategy meets action.
- With his signature blend of data, foresight, and real-world tools, Brill reveals how today’s decisions shape tomorrow’s success and how to turn disruption into opportunity.
- Audiences will learn how to:
- Identify the AI, economic, social, and geopolitical forces defining the next five years.
- Apply science-based frameworks to create the best outcomes for business and life.
- Take immediate, practical steps to prepare, pivot, and win the future