Jonathan Brill

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Futurist and Transformation Architect

Jonathan Brill

Jonathan Brill speaks, writes, and advises on how to create, manage and turn radical change to your advantage. Brill is an expert on strategic foresight and technology innovation. His warm style, compelling stories, and intellectual rigor inspire visionaries and open even the most hard-boiled executives to new ways of thinking and doing.

Harvard Business Review recently called Brill, “The world’s leading transformation architect.” His visionary, yet pragmatic approach to the future is based on years as the Global Futurist at HP where he directed long-term strategy and planning. He is the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute and Board Advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms, with offices in 46 countries.

He is the author of Rogue Waves, Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill), the #2 selling economics book in China. The Economist called it, “A very important book for managers.” and Adam Grant called it, “An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.” He has taught the techniques in it to over 27,000 executives, ranging from startups to the Fortune 500 to the United States Secret Service.

Inc. magazine called Brill “A Silicon Valley legend.” because his innovation consultancies developed over 350 products and generated over $27B USD for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the US government. These projects have ranged from AI, search engines, and metaverse technologies to theme park rides and design of the US Pavilion at the 2015 World’s Fair (Expo Milano) to Taco Bell’s Gordita.

He is a frequent thought leader, speaker and contributor to HBR, TED, Global Peter Drucker Forum, SCMP, SXSW, J.P. Morgan, Singularity, Forbes, Korn Ferry, The Economist Global Business Report, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, Fast Company, The Project Management Institute, Brightline and Thinkers50. He has educated corporate leaders at Harvard and Stanford Universities.

He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab and in management training at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

“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

“Jonathan Brill isn’t Nostradamus but, for the world’s top business and government leaders, he’s the next best thing.” Bronwyn Syiek, Independent board director, Oxford University Press, International Personal Finance, Plc.

THE FIVE YEAR FUTURE:

WHY YOUR FUTURE IS CHANGING
How transformational technologies like AI, economics, social and geopolitical trends impact what’s possible over the next five years.

WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
The science-based frameworks that will create the best outcomes for your business, your family and your life.

HOW TO START
The small actions you can take today, over the next year and the next three to win when your world changes.

“An actionable framework for driving change.” (Adam Grant)

Will the next rogue wave sink your ship – or will you choose to profit from it?

At this moment, rogue waves are forming under your business. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends – the undercurrents of radical, systemic change – are crashing into each other. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. If your competitor can’t ride out the next wave and you can, you win.

In Rogue Waves, Jonathan Brill – a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision-making under uncertainty – shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals. Drawing on years of experience as a Fortune 500 innovation executive, advisor, and entrepreneur, Brill delivers a practical action plan to:

Identify and capitalize on the 10 economic, technological, and social trends that will collide to reshape your business
Turn sudden threats into outsized opportunities
Create a culture of entrepreneurship and experimentation
Build and scale leadership skills and processes to supercharge your company’s agility and adaptability
This must-have survival guide provides the predictive tools you need to take advantage of randomness, turn chaos into profit, and set your company on the course for long-term success.

Resilience is your new strategy for growth.

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