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The New York Times described Daniel Burrus as one of the top three most in demand business gurus in the United States. He is generally considered one of the world’s leading experts in the area of global trends and future innovations. His tried and tested methodologies for increasing revenue through the embracing of technological innovations have led to him being much in demand by many Fortune 500 companies. His seven books have included the highly regarded Technotrends as well as Flash Foresight, which made the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
At the start of the 1980s Daniel distinguished himself by being the only writer in his field accurately to identify the most important twenty technological advances which would influence the economy in the coming decades. His almost uncanny ability to predict the changes which technology will impose on business has benefited many hundreds of top end clients. Daniel is also much in demand for his views in the media, contributing to CNBC, Huffington Post, Wired magazine, Examiner.com and many others.
Daniel has delivered more than 3000 keynote speeches in his career, every one carefully tailored to the needs of his audience. Sharing his insights with humor and motivational force, he gives his audiences the toolkit they need to exploit the opportunities inherent in rapid technological change.
Daniel Burrus’ experience is anything but purely theoretical; in his final year of college he distinguished himself by directing a federal research grant, one of the first undergraduates ever to do so. He founded and managed six businesses, of which four swiftly became national leaders. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a company which offers the benefits of his unparalleled knowledge of technology driven trends to clients looking for the new opportunities new technology offers.
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 is the author of seven books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Flash Foresight and his latest Amazon No. 1 bestseller, The Anticipatory Organization.
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.
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, the Anticipatory Organization® Business Model, used by leading organizations worldwide, and he is a founding member of the Department of Defense Joint Services Futures Group.
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. They included digital electronics, AI, distributed computing, genetic engineering, lasers, optical storage, photovoltaics, fiberoptics and nanotechnologies to name a few. 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.
Burrus is a featured writer, reaching millions of monthly readers with his insights on disruptive innovation, exponential change and the future. His work is featured across various platforms, including LinkedIn, where he is a member of an exclusive invitation-only group of experts. On LinkedIn alone, he has built a following of over 1.2 million professionals.
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.
“Whatever problem you've got, that's not it." Daniel explains that if your problem were the ones you think they are, you would have solved them already. He explains how you have to look for the “invisible solutions to impossible problems.”
Daniel Burrus brings decades of experience of research into the effects of technology on business and economics, alongside his almost preternatural ability to predict the technological challenges of the future, to a series of entertaining, enthralling and motivational speeches.
Daniel prides himself upon tailoring his speeches exactly to his audience, so he can show healthcare professionals how technology can transform their field, show educationalists how technology can accelerate learning, show specific businesses what technologies will become important in their sphere; workers in virtually any environment can benefit from Daniel’s insights.
As well as his profound expertise in the field of technology, Daniel’s business experience has given him an unparalleled insight into marketing and sales; he uses the skills which have been in demand from companies such as Lexus, Cadbury Schweppes, Kellogg’s, Google, Toshiba and many others to show you how you can see opportunities which are invisible to all your competitors, allowing you to reinvent your business before it becomes moribund.
Mastering AI’s Future Today: How to Thrive in a World Where AI and Human Ingenuity Meet
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, fostering 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 organizations to turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage.
By cultivating 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: Leveraging The New Science of Certainty
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: Leading with Certainty in Uncertain Times
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: Dramatically Elevating High Performing Sales Teams with Predictive Insights
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.
Navigating Tomorrow Today: Leveraging the Power of Generative AI and Hard Trends
Generative AI is transforming industries and reshaping the future at an unprecedented pace. In this eye-opening keynote, 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, fostering a new level of innovation and growth.
By combining Hard Trends that will happen with generative AI, you can anticipate market shifts, enhance decision-making, increase productivity, and drive competitive advantage. Learn how to harness AI and other transformative tools to lead with confidence and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn: - How to leverage generative AI to gain actionable insights, increase productivity, and enhance strategic foresight. - Techniques for identifying and capitalizing on Hard Trends to mitigate risks and seize new opportunities. - Practical approaches and specific AI tools for integrating AI-driven innovation into your business for long-term, profitable growth.
Turn Disruptive Change to Competitive Advantage: Building an Anticipatory Mindset for Unpredictable Times
Every business and industry is in the midst of unprecedented disruption as the generative AI revolution and rapid technological advancements bear down like oncoming headlights. This wave of disruption is occurring at an unparalleled speed and depth, promising to have profound effects. Simply reacting as quickly as possible, regardless of one’s agility, will no longer suffice.
In this captivating and inspiring presentation, Daniel Burrus will share the most disruptive technology-driven trends influencing the future of your industry and the transformative opportunities they enable. He will also share specific AI tools that can be safely used to dramatically increase productivity, allowing you to accomplish far more in much less time. Additionally, he will highlight what not to do with AI.
Through industry-specific examples, Burrus will provide actionable insights on identifying Hard Trends—future certainties—and demonstrate how to leverage these certainties, along with the game-changing opportunities they offer. This will enable attendees to harness disruption and change, transforming them into advantageous opportunities.
Key Takeaways and What You Will Learn: - How to leverage disruption as a catalyst for innovation and strategic growth. - Techniques for identifying predictable Hard Trends that turn uncertainty into an advantage. - Steps to foster an anticipatory culture that views change as an opportunity rather than a threat.
Beyond AI: Using AI to Unlock Human Potential in a Hyper-Automated World
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: Leveraging AI and Predictive Trends to Drive Unstoppable Innovation and Growth
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.
SPEAKING.COM: What special preparation work do you do before a speaking engagement?
BURRUS: Someone asked me since I’ve been keynote speaker for so many years now, “how much time do you spend working on my speech?” Truthfully, I spend very little time working on my speech and more time studying the audience. I actually customize my speeches for each audience. My wife has heard me speak more than anyone else on the planet and she’s always amazed at how different each presentation is. Now, obviously, there are things that I talk about in every speech like certain “how-to’s” but I relate that to CEOs from hospitals versus 2000 CEOs from technology companies in a very different way. I treat speaking kind of like a mini consultation and actually deliver solutions and things that they can take and use.
SPEAKING.COM: What would you like people to take away from your presentations? And what kind of audiences do you think would best benefit from your message?
BURRUS: The biggest takeaway is that you can indeed anticipate disruptions before they disrupt, and become anticipatory as a leader and as an organization. You don’t have to be disrupted by all of this incoming change; rather, you can learn to make disruption and change your biggest competitive advantage. You’re either going to be the disruptor or the disrupted, and I want people to learn to be positive disruptors. I want to empower people to become active shapers of the future and create better futures for themselves and for others.
The best audiences for my message are leaders and innovators. My audiences tend to be C-suite executives, managers, leaders from all over the world, or people that are trying to do something very innovative. I tend to talk to leaders rather than the people that are trying to get to the basics of just learning how to do something.
SPEAKING.COM: Have you had any particularly memorable speaking engagements or unusual situations arise while you’re on the road?
BURRUS: When you have given 3000 keynotes around the world, you do experience a lot. I had an event not long ago in China where I had 12,000 people with 35 different languages being translated. It was a real thrill to be able to really engage them and to get them all reacting and laughing at the same time, because there’s an art and a science to doing international humor that translates well into all of those different languages.
Another one that stands out was the first time I gave a speech in Moscow to the top 200 business people from all over Russia and of course, it was being translated. When I finished speaking, the first question that came to me was, “Are you of Russian heritage? You know us so well.” That was exactly what I wanted to hear because as I said earlier, I really take the time to get to know the audience so that I become one with them, no matter where they are from around the world.
One final memorable one is when I traveled to South Africa around 2001 or 2002 to give a 30-minute speech. I was only going to be there for 18 hours, because I had to get back for some other speeches, but I said, “Yes,” to that 30-minute speech in South Africa because I felt the opportunity was there to make a big difference. The client was a cellphone company that wanted to expand through the continent of Africa.
Remember, this was before the iPhone, so when I spoke to them, I said, “Stop thinking of yourself as a telecommunication cellphone company and start thinking of yourself as an economic empowerment company because you’ll make a bigger difference. If you look at where the cellphone is going to evolve based on hard trends, it will eliminate the problems that we have based on infrastructure in Africa.
“We don’t have good highways, we don’t have many banks all around Africa and we don’t even have electricity in many places. What you have to realize is the phone is going to become a powerful tool, very quickly. It’s going to become the bank, it’s going to become your GPS, it’s going to become not just your phone, but your multimedia computer.
“So here’s what you do as a strategy, as an economic empowerment company. The first thing you do is you start a foundation in every African country. You do is you go into a community that, for example, has no electricity. and you use either solar, if they have a lot of sun, or you use bio-degradable if they have a lot of plants, and you bring electricity to that community through that foundation. In other words, you’re going to help them get water out of the well without having to use a crank.
“Now that they have electricity, you can help them with cellphones and start communicating and lifting themselves economically out of the poverty that they probably are in, in some form, because now they can communicate, collaborate, and innovate. As they start growing, competition will come in, but when it does you’ll be beyond the competition because they will remember you helped them get water out of the well.”
That was the essence of the 30-minute speech, and within a couple of years, they were in over 30 countries doing exactly what I talked about. It was a huge success, and they actually helped lead the way to bringing Africa technically into the future.
“A ‘must-hear’ presentation.” Steven A. Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
“By applying the principles of Flash Foresight to our business, in less than a year we have been able to double our revenues and increase the value of our company by a factor of four, and we feel the biggest impact is yet to come.” Arni Bellini, CEO, Connectwise
“I don’t know any other speaker that could present after Bill Gates and ‘wow’ an audience of CEOs like you did! You were the perfect choice.” Steve Morrison, Policy Management Systems Corp.
“This is the third time you’ve addressed this conference and each presentation has been better than the last…and I wouldn’t hesitate inviting you back to a future conference!” John E. Burkey, First Data Resources
“You were fabulous! You received rave reviews from our participants for the relevancy, insight and expertise of your presentation material and style. You are the only keynote speaker we have invited back numerous times. I am convinced the extraordinary success of your continued contribution is due in no small part to the enormous amount of time you put into each presentation by customizing it to fit the unique and challenging needs of our CMO audience each year.” Stephanie Fischer, CEO, Global Retail Marketing Association
“Our people, without exception, felt that your ideas were provocative, original, and timely. Your entertaining style captured the audience and compelled them to listen, think, and apply your thoughts to their own professional and personal lives. You truly made a memorable impression on the audience.” Mark McNutt, Xerox Corporation
“It came as no surprise that you were rated the top speaker in our audience evaluations. Your unique blend of wit and insight awakened all of us to the need to develop the knowledge network necessary to move to a 21st century mind set.” Robert Howe, IBM Corporation
“Your thoughts on how to create an opportunity for change through a customer focus is the excellence our team is striving for. The framework you provided on innovation, creativity and customer value will be instituted as a management practice to enable the technology infrastructure group to take Wells Fargo to the next stage.” Victor Nichols, Wells Fargo
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The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage
Technology-driven change is accelerating at an exponential rate, but moving fast in the wrong direction will only get you into trouble faster! Reacting to problems and digital disruptions, no matter how agile you and your organization are, is no longer good enough.
The Anticipatory Organization teaches you how to separate the Hard Trends that will happen, from the Soft Trends that might happen, allowing you to jump ahead with low risk and the confidence certainty can provide. Accelerate innovation and actively shape the future—before someone else does it for you!
Digital transformation has divided us all into two camps: the disruptor and the disrupted. The Anticipatory Organization gives you the tools you need to see disruption before it happens, allowing you to turn change into advantage. In The Anticipatory Organization, Burrus shows us that the future is far more certain than we realize, and finding certainty in an uncertain world provides a big advantage for those who know how and where to look for it.
Inspired by the dramatic results that organizations are experiencing from his award-winning learning system, The Anticipatory Organization offers a comprehensive way to identify game-changing opportunities. Using the principles of this proven model, you will learn how to elevate planning, accelerate innovation, and transform results by pinpointing and acting upon enormous opportunities waiting to be discovered.
Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible Today we all face more impossible challenges than ever before. But flash foresight lets you transform the impossible into the possible, revealing hidden opportunities and allowing you to solve your biggest problems—before they happen.
Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading forecasters, corporate strategists, and visionaries. Over the past quarter century, he has established a reputation worldwide for his exceptional record of accurately predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world.
“Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could predict the future—and be right?” writes Burrus. “You can: all you have to do is leave out the parts you could be wrong about! And the amazing thing is, when you know where to look, there’s more than enough you can be right about to make all the difference.”
From small businesses to multinationals, individual careers to entire industries, Flash Foresight looks at how Burrus’s seven radical flash foresight “triggers” have transformed dozens of careers, fortunes, and lives. Both engaging and enlightening, Flash Foresight provides an easy-to-implement blueprint for applying the same strategies to your own business, enabling you to see the invisible and do the impossible.
In the past, flash foresight was useful. Today, as the pace of technological change accelerates almost beyond the point of comprehension, it’s an imperative.
Technotrends: How to Use Technology to Go Beyond Your Competition Burrus, technology futurist, and Gittines (What Men Won’t Tell You But Women Need to Know) begin this intriguing book by rejecting the widespread notion that the U.S. has completely lost its competitive edge in the global marketplace. They argue that the time has come for America to once again play by its own rules, new rules that will take us beyond the competition.
Employing a dramatic mode of inquiry, they describe the “techno-education” of seven fictional characters who play cards under Burrus’s guidance. This framework enables the characters to identify and analyze a plethora of technical trends from “electronic data interchange” to “fuzzy logic”—software that can deal with conflicts and contradictory commands. The authors also offer stimulating perspectives on core technologies, management and marketing theories, education, training and changing American industries. The card-playing strategem, however, limits the authors’ effectiveness in developing their major themes.
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