Why MOST CEO SPEECHES don't create passion or purpose - just create Quiet Quitters. 270,000 views of this PURPOSE speech which no AI can deliver. For typical company in an industry often criticised. Reverse Great Resignation! Leadership Keynote Speaker

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270,000 have watched this leadership keynote to live audience of 4500 executives

I have listened to a huge number of CEO speeches over the years to their global teams at major events, and there is often a problem.

The same for Finance Directors. I was once about to start a leadership programme at one of the world's best known Business Schools and the session immediately before me, to introduce the week, was led by the Finance Director.  Just before he entered the room, we had 40 highly energised, highly motivated people, bursting with energy, ideas, initiative and passion.  

As that Finance Director began to speak, the energy drained right out of the room. Within a couple of minutes he had lost the audience, many of whom were doing things like emails, WhatsApping friends or researching their next holiday online.  It was awful and embarrassing.... 

So here's another approach in the video above. It's an unscripted 3 minute piece I did without any rehearsals, quite spontaneously, in the middle of a one hour keynote to 4,500 people on how to create highly engaging corporate events. Just to make a point. Tailored for an imaginary global Insurance company - that industry is often attacked in the media by customers for being slow in paying their claims, and fast in making profits. 

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world.

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The Future of Life Insurance. Why life insurance will boom globally. New pattens for selling life cover, AI automated underwriting , wearable devices, dynamic premiums. How life expectancy will change.How to build your brand.Life Insurance keynote speaker

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Future of Life Insurance - how to build your brand. Keynote for 4,500 executives in Las Vegas

What is the Future of the Life Insurance Industry?

Interview 22 September 2022 following keynote on the future of the life insurance industry for Equisoft in Las Vegas

As one of the world's leading Futurists, I have worked with many of the world's largest insurance companies, companies like Aviva, Prudential, Munich Re and Swiss Re, advising them on a wide variety of global trends, giving keynotes on the future of Life Insurance and many other related issues at their most important global events.

Key issues include these: How will the Life Insurance market change across the world? What is the future of Life Insurance agents, with rapid grow in mobile applications and instant automated underwriting driven by AI / Artificial Intelligence?  How can we improve the application process? How can we expand rapidly in new regions? What about future changes in life expectancy?  

One thing is certain:

Life Insurance will see huge growth globally over the next three decades for a number of reasons....

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including a chapter on the future impact of AI on insurance - AI and Life Insurance underwriting etc.

Read more: The Future of Life Insurance. Why life insurance will boom globally. New pattens for selling life cover, AI automated underwriting , wearable devices, dynamic premiums. How life expectancy will change.How to build your brand.Life Insurance keynote speaker

Queen Elizabeth II: the power of example over a lifetime. Lessons for all great leaders. Why her impact on our future world will be so long lasting. Example is the only form of leadership that endures, because it is based on integrity and authenticity

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The impact of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and of her leadership example, will be very long lasting, because she became one of the most trusted and respected figureheads on the world stage, as well as in her own nation. Her life was rooted in a deep sense of public duty, and a commitment to a life of public service, which was forced upon her by circumstance.

Hundreds of millions of words have already been written about her life, but the most powerful perhaps were spoken....

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Future HR trends, workplace, rapid reversal of % time working from home, office occupancy, motivation, recruitment and leadership in an AI world.How to form most effective teams and why most change management strategies fail. HR keynote speaker interview

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Interview with InBusiness Magazine in Turkey:

What major HR trends do you see at the moment? This is a very confusing time for business leaders and HR directors, with chaos in energy markets related to Russia, disruptions in supply chains, huge inflation, ongoing impact of COVID, impact of AI / Artificial Intelligence on jobs and many other factors. What will all this mean for the future of people management, talent acquisition, leadership development, workplace motivation, home working, virtual teams and career development? In my book The Future of Almost Everything, I warned in 2019 about a possible new viral pandemic, about the risk of Russia taking military action in response to fears of NATO expansion, and wrote that oil prices could reach $145. I always say that the world can change faster than you can hold a board meeting, so HR leaders need more than one strategy.  We need to have backup plans for all important things in the business. This is fundamental to risk management and agility, especially in Human Resource Management....

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including chapters on the future impact of AI on workplace, Human Resources, people management, AI impact on jobs and employment.

Read more: Future HR trends, workplace, rapid reversal of % time working from home, office occupancy, motivation, recruitment and leadership in an AI world.How to form most effective teams and why most change management strategies fail. HR keynote speaker interview

Energy as a national security strategy. Added incentives to go green. Futurist view of Future of the energy industry, oil, gas, coal, solar and wind in a post-COVID world impacted by regional conflict

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What is the outlook for the energy industry for the next decade?  I have advised many of the largest green energy companies and traditional energy companies on the future. 

In “The Future of Almost Everything” published in 2019, I warned that unstable prices would create a lot of chaos in future for energy companies, and I was right.  Energy forecasts always have to be seen in the context of the global economy, geopolitics, technology, innovation, urbanisation, migration and social transformation.  I wrote in 2019 that we would be likely to see unstable oil prices with all kinds of supply and demand shocks, and prices ranging from above $180 to below $40. Just so. 

And I also wrote that these price convulsions would drive many green energy companies out of business, which is what is already happening...

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on the future energy industry.

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10 steps to make your business more sustainable. Migrating from Net Zero to Carbon Zero. Keys to responsible business, CSR, going green. Sustainability keynote speaker - author of SustainAgility book - how smart innovation will help save our planet

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Sustainability, Green tech innovation and future of oil and gas - Keynote for Seminarium Chile

Over the years I have advised around 400 of the world's largest 2000 companies on a wide range of future trends including sustainable businesss, green tech innovation, reducing emissions and related issues.

As I predicted in my book SustainAgility, we are now seeing a global stampede by multinationals to make their products and services more sustainable.  

Here are 10 practical steps to deliver this...

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on sustainability and reduction in carbon emissions.

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President Putin's greatest risks now - impact on war with Ukraine. Risk of Russia war with NATO. Russia's past is key to it's military future. War and Russian economy, Russian foreign policy and political aspirations. Geopolitical risks keynote speaker

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30th April 2026 comment on posts below:  Europe continues to be at major risk of a further Russian miscalculation, but at same time, President Putin now faces multiple additional challenges, which are growing rapidly, are interconnected, and will be increasingly hard to deal with:

These include 

- Static front lines - despite media reporting in Russia, changes very minor - a snail would reach Kiev faster than speed of advances over the last year

- Poor access to accurate information about what actually happening - typical in dictatorships where bad news is often hidden

- Unsustainable losses of troops and equipment - huge numbers of deaths

- Rapidly growing techno-power of Ukraine long range and short range drones, astonishing speed of innovation

- Growing resentment in cities like Moscow from web disruption and censorship etc - a threat to economic growth

- Very high inflation and interest rates - unsustainable without eventual economic collapse

- Disruption of oil and gas exports - attacks, seizure of tankers, sanctions

- Sanctions resulting in higher import prices of huge range of vital materials / / components / products 

- Poorly developed manufacturing base - plus corruption at many levels

- Multiple loan defaults by companies starting to hit large banks

- Shortage of skilled workers - due to huge military deployment

- Even greater shortage of talented executives - 1m migrated shortly after conflict began

- Returning soldiers from battle to towns and villages with severe injuries and resentment about treatment of troops on front lines

- Growing numbers of bereaved parents, many with very disturbing stories

- Gossip about front-line abuse / atrocities / corruption undermining troop morale

- Collapse in fertility rates

- Rising alcoholism to record levels

- Impact of huge numbers of criminals released from prison causing challenges on front line and local communities

- Psychological trauma in large numbers of Russian troops as a result of combat exposure in terrible conditions, overseen by uncaring or corrupt superior officers

The greatest challenge of all

We can debate which of the above are most significant, but the greatest issue for President Putin and his leadership is something else entirely....

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Future of Work - keynote speaker on workplace changes after COVID, new career aspirations, changes in workplace motivation, home working, virtual teams, portfolio workers, future of offices and flexible workplaces

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Future of Work and Impact on Business. How will people want to work after COVID?  Most of my global clients need to know the Future of Work and how their teams will operate in future.  What will happen to future career choices, commuting, team meetings, office occupancy?  

Will home working continue, or will too much virtual working destroy the future of the business?  What trends will we see in future business travel? Will large offices become redundant?

I've been predicting global trends for 30 years - and here's a few forecasts for future of work over the next decade...(and yes I also warned repeatedly in books, keynotes at conferences and in media broadcasts about global risks from new pandemics like COVID).

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including the impact of AI on workplace, jobs, employment, offices, team management, change management and career opportunities.

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