Automotive and Manufacturing:

Manufacture agility, innovation, and resilience across your organization with AI business futurist Jonathan Brill.

Automotive and Manufacturing Partners Include

In an age of disruption, Jonathan Brill puts manufacturers on the fast track to innovation. 

With a background as a Fortune 50 manufacturing executive, inventor and CEO, he brings a unique perspective to the rapidly evolving manufacturing industry. Through his expertise as an business futurist and AI speaker, he helps industry leaders stay ahead of emerging social, economic and technological issues and create their own path to growth.

Discover the Intersection of Innovation & Insight

AI. Digital Training. Industrial Automation.

These topics are more than just industry buzzwords.

As a keynote speaker, Jonathan invites you to explore these concepts through a more holistic lens, giving you a fresh perspective into the future of your industry…if you choose to create it. 

The Top 5 Trends Driving Manufacturing

A Futurist Who Sees The Future Because He Builds It.

Jonathan Brill has been called many things.

A practical visionary, he grew up on the factory floor in his family’s generator manufacturing firm. Since then, he has been hailed as:

"The world's leading transformation architect," — Harvard Business Review 
“#1 ranked futurist in the world” — Forbes 
“The next best thing to Nostradamus for the world's top business and government leaders." — Oxford University Press
"A Silicon Valley Legend." — Inc. Magazine

Beyond his work as the global futurist at HP where he directed long-term strategy, advisor to the CEO at Frost & Sullivan, one of the largest global private manufacturing technology intelligence agencies, Jonathan is deeply aware of East Asian markets as the Senior Fellow at the HBR China New Growth Institute and the author of international bestseller, Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill).

You could easily consider him a visionary in strategic foresight and technology innovation.

But he’d rather teach you how to do the same. 

As an manufacturing futurist and keynote speaker, Jonathan doesn’t just outline how your audience can navigate change; he invites you into the intricate science of engineering solutions, managing change, and creating dynamic growth strategies that leverage disruption.

With each speaking engagement, he dives deep into the unique challenges facing your audience and shows a path to growth.

Simply put, he helps you find certainty in uncertain times, leaving you with the tools you need to reshape your future without allowing it to reshape your mission.

Of course, don’t just take his word for it.

Jonathan: Vision in Action

Companies have invented 350 new products

$27 Billion in new line revenue generated for clients ranging from Pepsico to Samsung

200+ Businesses transformed

When you’re ready to stop avoiding disruption and lean into it, Jonathan Brill is here to light the way.

Trending Topics of Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

AI on Your Org Chart


AI is dramatically impacting nearly every aspect of finance, but we aren’t considering it holistically. How do we transform our companies and ourselves to thrive in the changing world of work?

Outcomes: Your audience will walk away with a powerful understanding of AI — what is real and what is hype, why it is important to their jobs in the financial industry, what to do about it, and how to start.

Architect Your Future


The future is uncertain…but yours doesn’t have to be. Future-proofing your success is less about predicting changes and more about creating an adaptable framework for embracing disruption and staying one step ahead.

Outcomes: This talk will empower your audience with actionable insights into why the world is changing, what to do about it, and how to start.

Leading With Luck


Some leaders make better bets more consistently. Why? In the largest study on decision-making under uncertainty, we have identified the four skills that separate exceptional from average decision-makers. Luck, it turns out, isn’t chance. It’s a choice. Would you like a little more luck in your life?

Outcomes: Your audience will emerge with an ability to make dramatically better decisions and immediately actionable skills and strategies to scale them in their organizations.