Workshop Overview
AI Strategy Workshop
From Insight to Intelligent Action
Artificial intelligence is reshaping organizations faster than most leadership teams are prepared for. Decision cycles are shrinking. Complexity is rising. The real challenge is no longer understanding that AI matters—it’s determining what deserves attention, what can wait, and how to move forward without unnecessary risk.
This interactive workshop helps leaders move from broad awareness of AI’s impact to clearer priorities and more confident action in their own operating environment.
Led by futurist and AI strategist Jonathan Brill, the session equips senior teams with practical frameworks for navigating AI-driven change over the next several years while designing organizations that can adapt as their conditions continue to evolve.
Jonathan has advised Fortune 50 companies, governments, and global organizations on how emerging technologies reshape strategy, leadership, and organizational design. His work focuses on helping leaders make better decisions when certainty is unavailable and the stakes affect their people, performance, and long-term relevance.
Meet Jonathan
Jonathan Brill helps audiences and executives make sense of AI, turning ideas into action to win the next five years.
As an AI advisor and inventor, best-selling author, and renowned keynote speaker, Jonathan draws upon his unique experiences as Global Futurist at HP, Board Advisor for Frost & Sullivan, and Strategic Advisor to Amazon, Verizon, Samsung, Pepsico, and IBM, helping them transform and invent their own futures.
Jonathan has lived and worked on the cutting edge of both business innovation and AI for decades. Through his hard-earned expertise and insight, he’s created a proven methodology for embracing organizational transformation in the AI age. His approach drives a cultural shift—from hierarchy to network, from rigidity to fluidity, from product-centric to data-driven—empowering organizations with the tools they need to create results instead of resistance.
His rigorous, unifying message drives results.
Sample Workshop Agenda
Understanding What Is Changing
Participants begin by developing a shared understanding of how AI and related forces are altering their business landscape. This helps leaders clarify:
- Which AI shifts are most relevant to their industry and context
- How AI is changing competitive dynamics and what will make their company special in the market
- How AI impacts the way their organization needs to function in terms of technology adoption, decision speed, closeness to customers, and other critical factors
The discussion is not around technology itself, but rather focuses on what the technology means for the company’s strategy and future.
Clarifying What Matters Most
With a clearer view of the landscape, leaders examine where AI creates meaningful opportunity as well as real risk. Participants explore:
- What demands attention now versus later for their teams
- Where their existing structures create friction, delay, or blind spots, as well as where they currently excel
This work helps teams move from general interest in AI to focused strategy.
Designing for Intelligent Action
The final portion of the workshop focuses on how the organization should change to act effectively in an AI-infused world.
Jonathan introduces the Octopus Organization as a mindset and structure for operating in this new world. The Octopus Organization combines a clear strategic center with distributed intelligence and empowered decision-making close to the customer, supported by AI-enabled sensing, learning, and fast action. Rather than prescribing a single operating model, this framework helps leaders rethink:
- Where decisions should live in their organization
- How information should flow across their teams
- How to balance speed, accountability, and coherence as their systems scale
The emphasis is on action that is informed and adapted to their unique context.
A Blueprint for AI Transformation
The octopus is agile at the edges and aligned at the center. That’s the management pattern organizations need now.
Eight Arms
Push everyday decisions to the edge, equipping frontline teams with AI-powered judgment and freeing leaders to focus on bold moves.
Neural Necklace
Break silos with seamless, AI-driven communication networks that keep the whole system aligned.
Three Hearts
Balance three modes of leadership: analytical (pause and assess), agile (move fast), and aligned (keep culture and purpose strong).
Adaptation Champion
Like the octopus rewriting its RNA, build resilience into your core systems so you can adjust before disruption hits.
Who This Workshop is For
The workshop is intentionally designed for leaders with varying levels of AI familiarity. No prior AI strategy or technical expertise is required, and conversations focus on organizational design and decision-making rather than workforce replacement. Content can be adapted across industries and sectors while remaining grounded in participants’ real-world priorities.
Experience
This session blends insight with application through:
- Strategic perspectives grounded in real-world advisory work
- Facilitated discussions tied to participants’ actual challenges
- Practical frameworks for evaluating risk, opportunity, and timing in their environment
- Structured exercises that surface clear next steps they can act on
Audience
This workshop is well suited for:
Executive and senior leadership teams
Strategy, innovation, and transformation leaders
Organizations planning or scaling AI initiatives
Teams seeking clarity before major AI investments
Outcomes
Participants leave with:
A shared understanding of how AI is reshaping their environment
Clearer priorities grounded in their organizational reality
Greater confidence in AI-related decision-making
A foundation for building more adaptive, resilient structures that support their long-term goals
Why This Workshop
AI increases opportunity while compressing decision time. Organizations that succeed will not be those that chase every new capability, but those designed to sense change early, focus attention wisely, and act with intention in their own context. This workshop helps leaders build that capacity.
Your Questions, Answered:
Who is Jonathan Brill, Anyway?
Outside of being an AI speaker, author and business futurist, what else does Jonathan do?
Along with delivering hundreds of keynotes in 29 countries, Jonathan is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Radical Change and a board member of Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s leading market intelligence firms, which covers 13 industries in 46 countries. He is also the Senior Fellow at the HBR China New Growth Institute, a senior leaders board member in the Fortune 50, and an advisor to the US Secret Service. He previously ran invention labs that produced over 350 products.
What drives Jonathan to do this work?
Simply put, Jonathan is obsessed with effective change. More specifically, he’s passionate about learning how the world works so that we can build a better one. It’s his belief that human potential is expanded exponentially by change, and he’s here to help his clients leverage this truth to their advantage.
Inside Jonathan’s Keynotes:
Does Jonathan customize his keynotes?
Of course! Jonathan understands that your organization is unique. That’s why he works with you to ensure that every aspect of your keynote is tailored to your needs, goals, and long-term vision.
What if I need something besides a keynote?
When you’re ready to elevate your operations, Jonathan is here to help. He leads field innovation and strategy programs around the world and Architect Your Future workshops with senior leaders.
Ready To Book Jonathan?
How do I book Jonathan?
Jonathan is available for speaking engagements through select non-exclusive partners and direct bookings. You can also directly book Jonathan for consultation, workshops and other opportunities.