The Business Futurist™
focused on
THE 5 YEAR FUTURE
Why 5?
That’s as far as most executives invest.
If you can't win by then, nothing else matters.
Jonathan unleashes
your audience to
See » Invent » Drive
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.™
By answering 3 vital questions
WHY YOUR FUTURE IS CHANGING
How AI, economics, social and geopolitical drive the next five years.
WHY
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
The science-based frameworks that will create the best outcomes for your business, your family and your life.
WHAT
HOW TO START
The small actions you can take today, this year and in the next three to win.
HOW
Jonathan makes the future actionable for your specific audience
» Business Priorities
» Ability to Invest
» Span of Control
» Risk Appetite
Futurists by Time Horizon
1
Ian Bremmer
Shelly Palmer
Shawn Kanungo
Ethan Mollick
5
Jonathan Brill
10+
Daniel Burrus
Amy Webb
Zack Kass
Mike Walsh
15+
Nik Badminton
Peter Diamandis
Gerd Leonhard
Jonathan’s Unique Experience
» Lab Chief & Inventor
» CEO & Fortune 50 Leader
» Global Futurist
» Intelligence Executive
JONATHAN BRILL
The Business Futurist™
Breadth and Depth
Brill brings deep expertise across the range of future-oriented topics.
STRATEGIC INVENTION
Labs and Startups created 350 products, generating $27B+.
ECONOMICS & GEOPOLITICS
Author #1 Economics book in China. Senior Fellow, HBR China New Growth Institute.
BUSINESS INNOVATION
Global Futurist at HP. Directed Tech Vision & Longterm Planning.
AI & TECH
Lab Chief and Inventor for AI, Spatial, Realtime 3D, Food Technology, AEC.
CHANGE LEADERSHIP
Led largest study on leadership under uncertainty. Turned around research lab. $2B transformation.
Jonathan often pairs with or replaces
INNOVATION
Josh Linkner
Tiffani Bova
Chris Barton
Rita McGrath
GEOPOLITICS
Ian Bremmer
Peter Zeihan
Eric Brynjolfsson
BUSINESS
Salim Ismail
Rita McGrath
Mike Walsh
AI & TECH
Amy Webb
Ethan Mollick
Zack Kass
Gerd Leonhard
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
April Rinne
Adam Grant
Nancy Giordano
ECONOMICS
Shaun Dubravac
Adam Busch
The Deep Dive
(on Jonathan)
A practical visionary with deep executive expertise,
Brill does data, not science fiction.
He inspires with what we actually know about
The Five Year Future » Where to Play » How to Win
Lab Chief and Inventor
As the global futurist at HP where he directed technology vision for the company.
He worked closely with HP Labs, the C-Suite, leaders of every function to spot and justify strategic inventions. In addition to running his own firms, he has been an executive at Frog, his own invention house and a consultant to the MIT Media Lab. He has been deeply engaged in AI, spatial computing and cloud for decades.
Jonathan has run invention capabilities focused on 13 industries and the US Government.
He has likely worked and has knowledge and stories that are highly specific to your client’s industry.
350
New products invented by companies
$27B
New line revenue for clients ranging from Pepsico to Samsung
200+
Businesses transformed
Intelligence Executive
His team, are on the ground in over a dozen cities a year, both making sense of the future and inventing the systems to make it possible.
Jonathan is a strategic practitioner, actively advising the board, owner and clients of the world’s largest private intelligence agency, Fortune 50’s, and the US government on AI transformation and startups.
Global Futurist, HP
Directed global intelligence, technology vision, longterm strategy and planning for Fortune 50 tech company. Built global team operating in 32 countries on over 1300 strategic client engagements annually. Personally collaborated with strategic customers in 29 countries and 27,000 employees a year.
Executive Chairman, Center for Radical Change
Brill and his team bring executives to a dozen inflection points around the world to meet the inventors, entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers who are building the future — long before it’s news. He chairs The Apex Dialog, a series of strategic discussions for chiefs of major AI labs, senior military officers and investment executives to roadmap the five year future.
Advisor to the Chairman, Frost & Sullivan
Guide one of the world’s largest private intelligence agencies (1700 analysts, 200 PhDs, 13 industries, 46 countries) on intelligence and analysis issues.
International Bestselling Author, Rogue Waves, Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill)
Guide one of the world’s largest private intelligence agencies (1700 analysts, 200 PhDs, 13 industries, 46 countries) on intelligence and analysis issues.
Jonathan has proprietary intelligence on your client’s industry.
Rogue Waves’ powerful tools have repeatedly helped us get out in front of change.
Nicholas Butts,
Head of Government Relations, HP
A profound contribution to the science of decision making and the psychology of leadership.”
Phil Zimbardo
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University. Past President, American Psychological Association.
An international best selling author on business innovation and decision making, Brill takes the mystery out of the future and makes it yours.
A very important book for managers.
— Wu Chen, Managing Director, The Economist
An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.
Adam Grant,
#1 NYT Bestselling Author