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Daniel Burrus

Leading Futurist Strategic Advisor, Disruptive Innovation Expert

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Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Disruptive Innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker. 

 

He has delivered over 3,000 keynote speeches worldwide and is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. His client list includes Lockheed Martin, Verizon, Microsoft, VISA, Deloitte, Google, Procter & Gamble, KPMG, Honda, FedEx, and the U.S. Department of Defense. 

 

He is the author of seven books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Flash Foresight, and his latest book, The Anticipatory Organizationis an Amazon No. 1 bestseller.  

 

Burrus is also a featured writer with millions of monthly readers on the topics of disruptive innovation, exponential change, and the future for a variety of publications, including CNBC, Huffington Post, and Wired Magazine. 

 

He has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on programs such as CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg. Burrus has been quoted in a variety of publications, including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, and Forbes. 

 

Burrus is an innovative entrepreneur who has founded six businesses, four of which were U.S. national leaders in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology-driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social, and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities. 

 

He is the creator of the Hard Trend Methodology and the Anticipatory Organization® Business Model now being used by leading organizations worldwide.    

 

His accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s when he became the first and only futurist to accurately identify the 20 exponential technologies that would become the driving force of business and economic growth for decades to come. Since then, he has continued to establish a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technology-driven change and its direct impact on the business world. 

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Mastering AI’s Future Today

The intersection of AI and human ingenuity is redefining what’s possible in business. In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation, Daniel Burrus shares the most important AI-driven trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide. As a strategic advisor to both the military and leading companies on AI, Daniel will bring clarity to the current and future state of AI technology and its potential to free up human resources to focus on higher-value activities that will foster a new level of productivity, innovation, and growth.


Mastering these capabilities, along with the strategic and safe implementation of AI, will position leaders and their organization to turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage. By learning how to cultivate a future-ready organization where AI and human strengths complement each other, leaders can confidently drive new levels of innovation and profitable growth.


Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:

  • Practical strategies for blending AI-driven insights with human creativity to solve complex challenges.
  • How to build a collaborative culture that leverages AI for enhanced decision-making, problem solving, and accelerated innovation.
  • Specific AI tools for positioning your organization to thrive at the convergence of technology and human potential.

Know What’s Next

Strategies based on uncertainty have high risk. Strategies based on certainty have low risk and high reward. When employees have high levels of certainty, they have the confidence to make bold moves. When a potential customer has high certainty, getting them to say “yes” is much easier. In a world where change is constant, certainty is a rare and invaluable asset.


In this eye-opening and highly motivating keynote, Daniel Burrus shares the most important trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide. By learning to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, leaders can accurately anticipate technology-driven disruptions before they occur—turning disruption into a choice. They can identify problems before they happen, allowing them to pre-solve those issues, understand customers’ needs before they express them, and recognize game-changing opportunities before the competition does.


This simple yet powerful methodology empowers leaders to leverage the science of certainty, transforming predictable technology-driven trends into strategic advantages.


Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:

  • How to identify and act on Hard Trends based on future facts that will happen, providing the confidence to make bold moves.
  • Techniques for using the certainty of Hard Trends to pre-solve challenges before they arise, allowing you to move forward faster.
  • AI tools for transforming disruptive change into powerful competitive advantages.

The Anticipatory Mindset

In today’s world of accelerating disruptions, simply reacting to change as quickly as possible, regardless of one’s agility, will no longer suffice. Leaders who embrace an anticipatory mindset can turn uncertainty into transformative opportunity and advantage.


In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation, Daniel Burrus shares the most important technology-driven trends shaping the future and the opportunities they provide. By learning to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, leaders can accurately anticipate disruptions before they occur—turning disruption into a choice. They can identify problems before they happen, allowing them to pre-solve those issues, and recognize game-changing opportunities before the competition does.


By mastering the principles of anticipatory thinking, you can confidently guide your team through change, stay ahead of disruption, and drive accelerating growth. When you and your team have high levels of certainty, you have the confidence to make bold moves!


Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:

  • How to apply the principles of anticipatory thinking to foresee, leverage, and take advantage of accelerating changes.
  • Strategies for fostering an anticipatory culture that embraces change rather than fears it.
  • An anticipatory mindset, toolset, and skillset for making confident decisions that drive growth and resilience in turbulent times.

Predict, Adapt, Dominate

Equip your sales team with an anticipatory mindset they can use to excel in a rapidly changing market.


In this highly motivating keynote, Daniel Burrus reveals how to use predictive insights and anticipatory strategies to stay ahead of customer needs and industry shifts. This approach builds an anticipatory sales force that doesn’t just respond to change—but capitalizes on it.


By learning to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, sales leaders can provide prospects with the certainty and confidence needed to get them to say “yes.”

Additionally, anticipatory sales leaders can accurately anticipate objections and problems before they occur, allowing them to pre-solve those issues, as well as understand customers’ needs before they express them—ultimately closing more sales.


Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:

  • Tools and techniques for leveraging AI to anticipate customer objections, demands, and preferences.
  • How to transform reactive sales processes into anticipatory, insight-driven actions that elevate results.
  • Practical steps to empower your sales team to lead confidently, exceed targets, and dominate in any market environment.

Beyond AI

As AI and automation transform industries, the greatest competitive advantage lies in unlocking the unique potential of human talent. In this eye-opening and highly motivating keynote, Daniel Burrus shares the most important AI-driven trends shaping the future and the amazing new opportunities they provide.


As a strategic advisor to both the military and leading companies on AI, Daniel will bring clarity to the current and future state of AI technology and its potential to free up human resources to focus on higher-value activities that will foster new levels of innovation and growth. He will explore how organizations are leveraging AI not only to streamline processes but also to empower employees, enhancing creativity, decision-making, and strategic innovation in ways that only humans can deliver.


We are at the forefront of a massive, human-centered productivity revolution that will allow leaders to free employees at every level to do much higher-value work in much less time.


Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:

  • Strategies for integrating AI to complement and amplify human skills rather than replace them.
  • Specific AI tools and insights for applying AI to free up employees at every level for higher-value work.
  • A roadmap for fostering a human-centric approach in a tech-driven environment, maximizing both AI capabilities and human potential.

NextGen Retail

There has never been more opportunity to transform the customer experience and accelerate profitable growth in retail than there is today! The exponential pace of technology-driven change, accelerated by the generative AI revolution, is creating a major opportunity to reinvent retail—making it more relevant, personal, and, above all, highly profitable. AI is at the forefront of this transformation.


In this eye-opening and highly motivating presentation, Daniel Burrus will share the most important trends shaping the future of retail and the opportunities they provide. Burrus, who has been named both a Top Retail Influencer and recently a Top AI Retail Thought Leader, will share insights, strategies, and examples of how to redefine the consumer experience using emerging technologies, including AI, that will foster a new level of profitability across virtual and physical storefronts.


By leveraging AI in new ways, retailers can gain unprecedented insights into customer behavior, optimize inventory management, and create hyper-personalized shopping experiences that increase brand loyalty and consumer engagement. 


Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn:

  • How to use predictive analytics and AI to anticipate customer needs and stay ahead of retail trends.
  • Discover how AI can be used to gain unprecedented insights into customer behavior, optimize inventory management, and create hyper-personalized shopping experiences that enhance brand loyalty and consumer engagement.
  • AI tools to drive sustained innovation and growth by leveraging technology to create a future-focused retail strategy.

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