Bio

I am a global futurist, award-winning keynote speaker, author, and the CEO of Fast Future. I help clients navigate disruption, understand the emerging landscape, and shape the future. I have a passion around futureproofing ourselves, and how to advance individual lives, society, and business by harnessing new ideas, innovation, and disruptive developments such as 'corporation zero' thinking, AI, and human enhancement. I am currently helping clients understand and develop strategies for crypto, blockchains, metaverses, and AI. Through live and virtual speaking, executive education, research, consultancy, and my books I advise leaders in business, government, and NGOs globally. Current topics include: • The implications for business and government of Crypto, NFTs, metaverses, and blockchain • Grand challenges – emerging global scenarios, trends, shifts, opportunities, and risks • The future of work, corporation zero, and next generation strategies and business models • Building futurist leaders - developing foresight, resilience, and anticipatory abilities • Exponential technologies such as AI, immersivity, 5G / 6G, and quantum. I've delivered 2,000+ keynote speeches and executive workshops in 70+ countries on six continents. I am the co-author and lead editor of eight books on the future. My latest are Aftershocks and Opportunities—Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic Future, and Aftershocks and Opportunities 2: Navigating the Next Horizon. Each keynote is fully researched and customised I am often asked to tell the story of how I ended up on Interpol’s most wanted list due to identity theft. I have undertaken a wide range of foresight research studies on megatrends, the cryptoeconomy, the future of work and jobs, emerging technology, finance, legal, aviation, hotels, migration, and the shadow economy. I appear regularly in the media, including the BBC, Sky TV, and State TV in China, India, South Korea, Singapore, and the UAE. I have been covered 5,000+ times globally in national newspapers including the Financial Times, Guardian, Metro, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Times, Times of India, and Washington Post. Clients include 3M, American Express, Astra Zeneca, AXA, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Bayer, Boeing, BP, BT, Citibank, Deloitte, DeutscheBank, DHL, Emaar, Etisalat, Eurapco, EY, Gartner, GE, Generali, GSK, Heathrow, HP, HSBC, Huawei, IBM, ING, Intel, KPMG, Latham & Watkins, Mastercard, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Nokia, Nomura, Novartis, Panasonic, Pepsi, Pfizer, PWC, RBS, SAP, Shell, Siemens, Tata, Vodafone, VW, and The World Bank.