Jonathan Brill
Jonathan Brill shows leaders how to turn AI, disruption, and uncertainty into clear strategy and decisive action for the next five years.
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Jonathan Brill shows leaders how to turn AI, disruption, and uncertainty into clear strategy and decisive action for the next five years.
5.00 of 5
Top rated!Jonathan Brill is one of the most prominent futurists shaping how organizations prepare for what’s next. Ranked the #1 futurist in the world by Forbes and recognized by Harvard Business Review as a leading transformation architect, he equips leaders with the tools to act decisively in a time defined by AI, disruption, and rapid change. With a sharp focus on execution, Jonathan helps audiences move beyond ideas and into strategies that drive measurable results.
Jonathan Brill stands at the intersection of technology, strategy, and transformation. Known for helping organizations “win the next five years,” he translates complex global shifts into clear, actionable strategies. From AI acceleration to geopolitical change and economic volatility, Jonathan enables leaders to not only understand disruption, but to use it as a catalyst for growth.
Ranked the #1 futurist in the world by Forbes and serving as Futurist-in-Residence at Amazon, Jonathan has built a reputation for delivering insights that leaders can act on immediately. His work goes beyond theory. It’s grounded in decades of hands-on experience across industries and technologies.
Booking Jonathan Brill means bringing in a speaker who combines deep expertise with practical frameworks. His keynotes are designed to shift mindsets and spark action, helping audiences rethink how they operate in a world shaped by AI and constant change.
Jonathan’s presentations are tailored to executives, leadership teams, and organizations looking to stay competitive in uncertain environments. He provides clarity in complexity and equips audiences with strategies they can implement right away.
Jonathan’s background spans roles as Head of Invention at Deepinvent, Executive Chairman of the Center for Radical Change, and Global Futurist and Research Director at HP. Across these roles, he has advised multinational corporations, frontier tech companies, and national governments.
His expertise stretches across sectors including transportation, food, consumer electronics, cybersecurity, finance, and defense. This breadth allows him to connect patterns across industries and identify opportunities others miss.
At the core of Jonathan’s work is a proven methodology for transformation in the AI age. He challenges organizations to rethink how they are structured and how decisions are made.
His approach focuses on key shifts:
From hierarchy to network-based organizations
From rigid processes to fluid adaptability
From product-centric thinking to data-driven strategy
These changes are not abstract ideas, they are essential moves for organizations that want to remain competitive as AI reshapes every industry.
Jonathan’s best-selling book, AI and the Octopus Organization: Building the Superintelligent Firm, outlines how future-ready companies operate. He explores how distributing authority, embedding intelligence at the edges, and encouraging rapid learning create organizations that outperform their competitors.
The concept of the “octopus organization” reflects flexibility, intelligence, and responsiveness—qualities that define tomorrow’s market leaders. His insights help leaders understand how to build these capabilities within their own organizations.
Jonathan Brill’s insights have been shared on some of the world’s most influential stages and platforms. He has appeared with media outlets such as ABC, CNBC, CNN, and Forbes, and spoken at events including SXSW and TED.
He has worked with leading organizations including SAP, Singularity University, Amgen, JP Morgan, and Microsoft, as well as top academic institutions like Harvard and Stanford.
Whether on stage or in the boardroom, Jonathan brings clarity, energy, and a focus on outcomes. His ability to turn complex trends into practical strategies makes him a sought-after speaker for organizations ready to take action and shape their future.
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Jonathan blew us away.
Alexis R. TED
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His rigorous, unifying message drives results.
Doug Warner Head of Innovation, Amazon
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Our executives walked away changed.
Anne Devlin Head of Learning and Development, J.P. Morgan
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Jonathan cuts through the noise and gets to a way everyone can approach uncertainty and change with greater confidence.
Tiffani Bova Global Growth and Innovation Evangelist, Salesforce
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The gap between firms that adopt AI holistically and those that dabble at the edges will be the gap between survival and extinction.
Over the next five years, the gap between companies that integrate AI and those that merely experiment with it will spell the difference between survival and extinction. The companies who are willing to embrace change, fundamentally shift mindsets, and adapt at lightning speed will dominate.
In a world of constant change, resilience is no longer enough. Organizations must evolve beyond endurance to agility—developing the capacity to sense market changes early, respond intelligently to customer needs, and adapt faster than competitors. Agility is not about moving faster; it’s about thinking faster—through decentralized intelligence, AI-augmented decisions, and empowered teams at every level.
This means rethinking the traditional hierarchical model and imagining an organization structured like an octopus. While it has a central brain for strategy and oversight, each arm has its own mini-brain—autonomous, responsive, and deeply aware of its market surroundings. A neural ring coordinates these nodes in real time, allowing the institution to make rapid, informed decisions across its entire system—often faster than the central brain could alone.
This isn't theory. Brill has studied organizations already moving in this direction, guided dozens of transformations, and drawn on over a million workforce surveys. What he found is clear: success comes not from simply automating tasks, but from reimagining how organizations function at every level.
By the end of this transformative keynote, you’ll know exactly how to:
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Luck isn’t chance. It’s a choice.
Luck isn’t chance. It’s a science-based skill that you can enhance today.
Most people think luck is a coincidence, a twist of fate, or a gift that some are simply born with. Most people are wrong.
Instead, luck is a science-based skill that your audience can get dramatically better at it — in less than an hour.
As an international best-selling author, scholar on decision-making, and principal investigator of the largest study on luck, Jonathan Brill persuasively argues that luck isn’t an option; it’s perhaps the most impactful factor of success. It’s strategic in your business and in your life.
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. By the end of your time together, Jonathan Brill will show you how to find rainbows, dodge riptides, survive meteors, and make gold, one lucky move at a time.
You and your team will be given an eye-opening look into:
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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.
Right now, geopolitics, economics, and AI are all colliding with social change to create chaos, and the reality is, by the time something makes news, it’s history. But this isn’t a threat—it’s an opportunity. This is your moment to spot, to lead, and to win your five year future.
Why five? One year is too short. Ten is science fiction. We can action the five-year future. It’s close enough to know a lot about AI, society, geopolitics and economics, yet it’s far enough to be able to pivot and reinvent.
It’s fine to plan just for this year, or year three—but when you get there it sure helps to have prepared. The decisions you make now will determine how well you can adapt to the changes AI will bring in the next five years.
We can already spot the outlines of tomorrow in what’s happening today. Jonathan Brill will show you why your future is changing, what you can do about it, and the small actions you can take today to win the next five years.
By the end of this transformative keynote, you’ll know exactly:
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Disruption isn’t an edge case. It’s the main case. Use it to your advantage.
In this awe-inspiring journey to the frontlines of tomorrow, Jonathan Brill shows you and your team how to leverage changing societal, political, and cultural landscapes to create new avenues for opportunity. In other words, he gives you the tools you need to reshape your industry, one innovation at a time.
As the HP’s Business Futurist, bestselling author, and celebrated inventor, Jonathan Brill is no stranger to disruptions. Today, he’s using his repeated ability to spot disruptions and turn them into opportunities to empower the next wave of industry powerhouses.
Touted as “the world’s foremost transformation architect,” by Harvard Business Review, Jonathan Brill 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 of leveraging the AI in to leadership roles, empowering organizations with the tools they need to create results instead of resistance.
By the end of this transformative keynote, you’ll know exactly how to: