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Powerful futurist insight ideal for your event’s “Mind Opener” plenary address.
All keynotes advance our understanding – and our capacity for shaping our own future. Dr Davis explores the implications of increasing volatility and complexity (including technology, AI, demographics, global and sector trends) – and gives us breakthrough insight into high performance future making organisations. His fresh perspectives empower people and organisations to optimise the achievement their own potential.
Every booking includes online briefing call(s) to align to your specific event objectives. Dr Davis tunes his talk to be appropriate for audience skill levels, event format, and your event objectives – to give you the best possible result.
Top Selling Keynote Topics
“Future Making: Make sense of the future to act more effectively within it”. The story of better ways of working together to out-perform and be volatility ready in companies, governments, and national economies, and how you can make your future better. Discover secrets that allowed some of the world’s largest organisations to activate their strengths to become highly effective, innovative, strategically agile future-makers.
Learn how you can become a more effective future maker in an increasingly complex and volatile world.
Increase your organization’s capacity to create meaningful value from a world of high-speed technology and market change. Turn volatility into opportunity, and opportunity into success as a high-performing Master of Volatility.
We upgrade our phones. We upgrade our computers. Can we learn to upgrade ourselves and our organisations? The pace of global technological and market change keeps getting faster, and faster, and faster. It’s bewildering. We can’t just keep on struggling to keep up with the change, we need to learn to become the ones who benefit from it. Learn hidden practices that enable us to be more effective at consistently turning volatile change into value – together.
“There is no more important structural problem in our economy than productivity”, said one Federal Treasurer, whilst another observed “95% of productivity gains are coming from 5% of companies”. But advanced economies averaged only 1% productivity growth over the last 25 years.
Dr Davis brings unique insight and perspective to this global question. His Future Maker insight explains how we harness human ingenuity to create human value – more effectively aligning collective action for today’s knowledge, services and wellbeing economy. Is it a breakthrough pathway for low-cost economic stimulation? And what are the implications for boards, policy setters, economies and nations. “Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything” Paul Krugman
Leading teams and organisations through volatile, unknown and unpredictable times requires an upgraded set of leadership skills and techniques. Learn the executive and boardroom secrets of global out-performers, including enhanced evidence based decision making and leadership practices for a new era.
Danny explores stories from the best performers that show how leaders can unlock the unlimited contribution of ingenuity and creativity of team members. How to enable staff to bring their A-game to work, contribute more, and find increased fulfilment and career development in return.
Specialist Business Events
Danny brings an unprecedented capacity to open minds and stimulate futurist curiosity at the forefront of specialist thinking.
He holds a PhD in enhanced Corporate Governance for the creation of future value in large-scale organisations. His multi-disciplinary insight is situated at the integrated culmination of the leading edge of professional discipline research and practice. He works globally with Fortune200 Chairs, Governments and thousands of executive and discipline leaders across all sectors in workshops, advisory roles and in-depth academic research. See his extended bio here.
Danny knows where specialist-discipline thinking is headed, and how it can integrate with the needs, interests, insights and momentum in other disciplines to create future value. Global authority and professional discipline polymath, Dr Davis brings insight from ground-breaking new models, and stories from his extensive interactions with leading academics, expert practitioners and senior leaders.
Danny is uniquely informed to explore the future implications of this new thinking – as inspirational futurist thinking – as it applies to either specific professional disciplines or specific sectors of the economy – or for general staff member audiences. (but not all at the same time !).
Specialist Topics
There are a few normal-looking organisations that have massively outperformed the rest. That’s not a secret. Just normal organisations – that keep on growing their success year on year on year. $500m to $15Bn over 15 years. $15Bn to $140Bn over 10 years. Steady, consistent future-making over-achievement.
Yes. There is a secret to how they operate. Danny’s research across hundreds of organisations has identified the secret, and explains it in terms we can understand, learn from… and if we choose, copy in our own normal looking companies.
“The ONLY way to get large organisations, sectors or even nations to change, is to get them to change themselves”.
We’ve all seen major organisations struggle to make meaningful change – despite awareness, commitment, great skills and huge resources.
Danny brings unique insight and perspective to expose the “hidden infrastructure” that makes complex living-systems organisations and sectors tick – with stories of unlocking staff’s capacity to contribute their creative and productive value. New perspectives for enhanced transformation towards high-performance future-making practice.
Leaders at all levels are unsustainably overloaded. They cannot continue at this pitch. They cannot do more. It is not enough. It is not working. Being a highly effective professional is no longer sufficient.
We need new integrated future-making management practices: Engineering, not heroics. Danny brings a futurist look at organisations and how they work based on the latest observations and research – to give us new insights into our daily lives at work – creating organisations with improved capacity to achieve their best potential.
The biggest global trend in companies and economies over the last 50 years – that has driven $Tns in stock market valuations – is the transition to a knowledge and intangible value economy. The AI boom is just the latest round of change to emerge. But we are still using thinking, planning and innovation techniques from the old-economy physical world.
Danny takes a futurist look at client value in virtual – exploring innovative highly value added digital services and our value creation capacity to deliver it. He explores new insight to build product and service strategies (growth and defensive), future market positioning, and sustainable company value.
In this session, you will learn new thinking and tools to enable you to work effectively within the ever changing AI landscape.
Learn how you can filter out what is good for you from the river of information flowing past. Learn how you can gather enough focus to act, and enough perspective to act where it matters.
Danny shows how to apply Future Maker thinking to help you find your way forward in a complex and volatile world of emerging AI and technology change.
Professional Discipline - "The Future Of" series
This session shares insights to a new way of understanding Corporate Governance based on the latest global research and observations of massively out-performing organisations.
THERE ARE SECRETS TO HOW THEY ARE OPERATING – THAT YOU CAN LEARN AND ADOPT.
Corporate Governance is the system of rules, practices, and processes by which a company is directed and controlled.
How it is implemented is fundamental to the organisation’s effectiveness and long-term success.
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Enhanced Governance Masterclass
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A masterclass view of “the future – and how to lead it” through the lens of enhanced Governance of Sustained Value Creation – and how board directors can appropriately and effectively lead their organisations on the transition to high performance.
Boards play a crucial role in the high-performance operation of the highly effective value creation organisations of the future. Understand the potential of that role, and what you can do today to steward your organisation towards better futures. Visionary insight into the past, current, future, and future better of Corporate Governance.
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