Automotive & Manufacturing
Jonathan Brill is the AI business futurist you need to win the next five years.
We don’t know what we don’t know. AI is coming, and we need to prepare ourselves and our organizations to be ready.
Meet Jonathan
#1 Ranked Futurist in the World by Forbes, Futurist-in-Residence at Amazon, and "The world's leading transformation architect," according to Harvard Business Review, Jonathan Brill helps audiences and executives take advantage of the collision of AI, geopolitical, economic and societal trends, to transform their business, mindsets, and turn ideas into action to Win the Next Five Years.
As a strategic advisor, inventor, best-selling author, and renowned keynote speaker, Jonathan draws upon his unique experiences as Head of Invention at Deepinvent, Executive Chairman of the Center for Radical Change, and former Global Futurist and Research Director at HP to guide multinational corporations, frontier tech firms, and national governments. Tapping into his decades of business innovation and AI expertise, across transportation, food, consumer electronics, cybersecurity, finance, and defense industries, Jonathan has become the go to strategic advisors for business executives around the world.
Through his hard-earned expertise and insight, he's created a proven methodology for embracing organizational transformation in the AI age. This creates a fundamental cultural shift—from hierarchy to network, from rigidity to fluidity, from product-centric to data-driven. Jonathan offers audiences specific strategies that will distinguish tomorrow's business leaders from today's laggards.
Jonathan, Vision in Action
New products invented by companies
New line revenue generated for clients ranging from Pepsico to Samsung
Businesses transformed in 15 years
A few visionary partners
Key Trends Reshaping Manufacturing
- New Globalization
- Labor and Automation
- Rising Debt and Aging Populations
- Rising Debt and Aging Populations
- The Closing Innovation Window
- Data Economy
New Globalization
The shifting global order is disrupting markets and production. It’s also changing regulation and defense industrial policy around the world. If you understand what is means for you, you can develop a superior supply chain and go to market strategy.
Labor and Automation
Structural labor shortages and automation are colliding. Now, industry leaders must know to transform them into a systemic edge.
Labor and Automation
Structural labor shortages and automation are colliding. Now, industry leaders must know to transform them into a systemic edge.
Rising Debt and Aging Populations
The collision of rising capital costs, aging labor, and consumers are shaping both production and consumption. By understanding the larger patterns, you can prioritize investments that will increase your ability to respond to this new economy.
The Closing Innovation Window
Increased competition and easier copying are forcing more rapid innovation. At the same time, they are, making it harder to profit from. Manufacturers face a choice: either invest in advanced technology that’s hard to copy or outsource innovation, which might lead to less uniqueness. Understanding how to balance these options will help you stay competitive in areas others can’t.
Data Economy
Data sharing has the potential to improve improve supply chain efficiency, but it’s often resisted because it can weaken competitive edges. Knowing where to share and when to protect your data can help you secure a strong niche by leveraging or enhancing others’ contributions.
Services
Keynotes
Get your people thinking bigger. Build awareness of the change to come and tools to turn it into opportunity.
Strategy Tours
Experience the future of AI first hand. Meet the people who will drive disruption and build your action plan.
Advisory
Spot future disruption. Define your investment and transformation priorities. Invent new growth.
Popular Keynotes
Win the Next Five Years
The future might be crazy but your business doesn’t have to be. Jonathan Brill helps you spot the societal, geopolitical, economic, and technological trends colliding and impacting your business. He will show you how to lead through the chaos and take action today to win the next five years.
Outcomes:
- How AI, economics, social trends and geopolitics drive the next five years.
- The science-based frameworks that will create the best outcomes for your business and your life.
- The small actions you can take today, this year and in the next three to win the next five years.
AI & the Octopus Organization™
The gap between firms that adopt AI holistically and those that dabble at the edges will be the gap between survival and extinction. It's time to rethink the traditional hierarchical model and imagine an organization structured like an octopus: a central brain for strategy & oversight, and arms that are autonomous, responsive, and deeply aware of their surroundings.
Outcomes:
- Understand how to redesign your organizations around adaptability, not control.
- Learn how to use AI to create autonomous SuperTeams that push creative boundaries, and make better, faster decisions.
- Cultivate the vision, values, and goals your org & team needs to leverage AI effectively.
Architect Your Future
Disruption isn’t an edge case. It’s the main case. Future-proofing your success is less about predicting changes and more about creating an adaptable framework for embracing disruption and staying one step ahead. Jonathan Brill has guided today’s top companies as they future-proof their operations with proven strategies to win. Now, he’s here to show you how to do the same.
Outcomes:
- Navigate unprecedented times with the top 10 trends you need to know about.
- Invent your future with the transformative power of AI.
- Learn the three actionable tools to Architect Your Future.
Strategic Luck
Luck isn't chance. It's a science based skill. Merging an impactful blend of heart-felt personal experiences and hard data, this keynote experience takes audiences on a journey through the four science-based methods that transform uncertainty into opportunity in nearly everything you do.
Outcomes:
- The reality of what luck is and how to create it for yourself.
- Why luck is a must for organizations looking to survive disruptions.
- Science-backed strategies for creating lucky opportunities, even out of thin air.
Let's Create
What Happens Next.™
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.