Draft:Jonathan Brill

Jonathan Brill is an Inventor, best-selling author, and renowned keynote speaker. He draws upon his unique experiences as Global Futurist at HP, Board Advisor for Frost & Sullivan, Senior Fellow at the HBR China New Growth Institute, and Invention Consultant for numerous Fortune 50 companies and the US Government, to help global leaders future-proof their businesses.

AI Advisor and enthusiast, Jonathan was involved in Microsoft's early touch computing interfaces and machine learning, advising Samsung on AI investment priorities, and his work with Frost & Sullivan on the use of AI and other technologies to enhance data analysis and decision-making processes.

His book, "Rogue Waves," offers a provocative perspective on how the collision of technology innovation, geopolitical, economic and societal trends will dramatically transform countries, cultures, and industries, and has become standard reading in the risk management field.

Education and Career

Jonathan is a graduate of The Pratt Institute where he majored in industrial design. He also attended Stanford Graduate School of Business, participating in Stanford's one year general management training for seasoned executives. Beyond the general management training, the program focuses on fostering and implementing change: how to overcome barriers to change and identify opportunities for innovation.

Inventor and Entrepreneur

Lab Chief and Inventor for AI, Spatial, Realtime 3D, Food Technology, AEC. Jonathan created 350 products, generating over $27B in revenue.

Global Futurist, HP

Jonathan directed global intelligence, technology vision, longterm strategy and planning for Fortune 50 tech companies. Built global team operating in 32 countries on over 1300 strategic client engagements annually. Personally collaborated with strategic customers in 29 countries and 27,000 employees a year.

Executive Chairman, Center for Radical Change

Brill and his team bring executives to a dozen inflection points around the world to meet the inventors, entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers who are building the future — long before it’s news. He chairs The Apex Dialog, a series of strategic discussions for chiefs of major AI labs, senior military officers and investment executives to roadmap the five year future.

Advisor to the Chairman, Frost & Sullivan

Helps to guide one of the world’s largest private intelligence agencies (1700 analysts, 200 PhDs, 13 industries, 46 countries) on intelligence and analysis issues.

Writings and Accolades

His International Bestselling Rogue Waves, Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill)

Forbe’s Thinkers50 — Strategic Disruption That Works, insight to how to make disruption work for your business

Forbes Building Your Rogue Radar: How To Spot Unexpected Peril And Opportunity

Harvard Business Review’s Identify — and Mitigate — Risks to Your Career (with Dorie Clark)

Forbes 3 Ways To De-Risk AI For Hiring Decisions: Beyond Plug-And-Play

Fast Company How to spot tomorrow’s macrotrends before they change everything

Harvard Business Review's How HP Turns Business Catastrophes to Their Advantage

Number 1 Ranked Business Futurist by Forbes

TED Interview Future-Proofing Your Business in Our Rogue Wave Era

Autodesk 8 future-proofing business strategies from Jonathan Brill

The world’s leading transformation architect, according to Harvard Business Review

Futurist Keynote Speaker

As the Executive Chairman, Center for Radical Change, Jonathan and his team have interviewed more than 1000 business leaders and done survey research with 2.7 million managers to understand why some leaders are dramatically more effective than others when the world changes. His team are on the ground in over a dozen cities a year, both making sense of the future and inventing the systems to make it possible.

Using his platform as an AI futurist inventor, futurist keynote speaker, and innovation author Jonathan has helped more than 27,000 leaders develop the skills they need to embrace change and turn it from risk into opportunity.

Jonathan shares his insights on global stages, in board rooms, with media brands like ABC, CNBC, Forbes, SXSW, and TED, at institutions like Harvard and Stanford, and with numerous companies including SAP, KPMG, Amgen, JP Morgan, and Microsoft.

Keynote topics include:

• THE 5-YEAR FUTURE: When we take the effort to understand the relationship between cause and effect. We increase our power to shape what happens next.Why five? One year is too short. Ten is fiction. We can action the five-year future. It’s close enough to know a lot, yet far enough to reinvent. It’s fine to plan just for this year, or year three—but when you get there, it sure helps to have prepared for What Happens Next.™Knowing the options you must create— and when — lets you make better choices — today and tomorrow — with the facts you have.
• AI ON YOUR ORG CHART and THE OCTOPUS ORGANIZATION: AI is already taking over the tech space. Now, the real question is how can you use it to become a better leader? A proven methodology of leveraging the AI into leadership roles, empowering organizations with the tools they need to create results instead of resistance.
• STRATEGIC LUCK: Most people think luck is a coincidence, a twist of fate, or a gift that some are simply born with. Luck isn’t chance. It’s a science-based skill that you can enhance today.Based on the largest study on decision-making under uncertainty, these are the four missing pieces that separate the exceptional from the average.

References

Harvard Business Review China: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KQU0P75q4YsC6Qg7TFC7Mw

Forbes: https://thinkers50.com/blog/strategic-disruption-that-works/

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanbrill/2021/07/12/building-your-rogue-radar-how-to-spot-unexpected-peril-and-opportunity/

Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/90667124/how-to-spot-tomorrows-macrotrends-before-they-change-everything

Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2021/01/identify-and-mitigate-risks-to-your-career

External Links

Jonathan Brill Website The Center for Radical Change