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About
PROVOCATIVE… POWERFUL…PERSUASIVE… THIS IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE FUTURIST. CHRIS RIDDELL IS AN AWARD-WINNING HUMAN FUTURIST, FORENSIC OPTIMIST AND ENERGISING CATALYST-COMBINING INSIGHT AND ENERGY TO PROVOKE, INSPIRE AND SURPRISE.
In the chaotic state of our world today, there’s never been a more critical time for optimism with rigor. The uncertainty, unpredictability and sheer pace of our hyper-connected world is Chris’ passion and life’s work. His obsession with making sense of the discomfort and challenges of this rapidly changing landscape has powered his thinking for over 15 years.
Equally potent across myriad industries, Chris’ insight and expertise has benefitted trail-blazing start-ups, government bodies, and Fortune 500 companies. As a renowned strategist and senior business advisor, Chris has worked globally with some of the biggest and most influential brands and businesses on the planet including Jaguar Land Rover, Facebook, Australia Federal Police, Ebay, Vodafone and Macquarie Bank. His intuitive and instinctive approach to tracking global patterns and unlocking opportunities has had significant impact on how businesses-and humans-can take purposeful steps towards creating real and lasting positive impact. And making an impact is what Chris is arguably most famous for…because being in a room with Chris Riddell is an immersive and transformational experience. A combination of rigorously detailed insights delivered with unparalleled enthusiasm, and dynamic screen content…all wrapped up in sensational showmanship-any amount of time spent with Chris is a wildly entertaining and deeply revolutionary experience.
His unique skill of taking what we know-and fear-about our world and encouraging changes in attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and mindsets-is critical to business and social transformation. No sector, subject or stone is left unturned in his quest to make sense of the challenging and disrupted world of ‘the future’. This is the power of the Chris Riddell experience. It’s real… relatable… relevant… and revelatory.
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FUTURE LEADERSHIP CREATIVE. CONNECTED. CURIOUS.
The most innovative leaders in the future will face more unknown unknowns and will thrive in a world in chaos and continual flux. This is the beginning of the next wave of cultural transformation to becoming true business leaders. Chris will take your audience on a journey to show how the most extraordinary leaders innovate through a crisis to build future-proof businesses. He’ll transform mindsets to realize how real-time data powered by artificial intelligence is the enabler for leaders in the next normal
THE NEW CUSTOMER
WHAT WILL THE CUSTOMER OF 2030 LOOK LIKE… THINK LIKE… BEHAVE LIKE?
AND CAN WE PREDICT THEIR NEEDS BEFORE EVEN THEY KNOW WHAT THEY WANT?
The ‘future of customer’ is a story of data, real-time information, and radical experience transformation. And in a post-pandemic era, it is more important than ever to deeply understand the genetic construct of your customer and their continually evolving needs.
Generation Alpha—the “children of the millennials”—are already guiding many of the purchasing decisions within their families. They are expected to be the longest-living and wealthiest generation to have ever lived. This will be the most diverse, demanding, and tech-saturated generation we’ve ever seen, and we need to understand who they are—and what’s important to them—right now.
BUSINESS BEYOND 2030
It’s never too soon to prepare your business for the new world of tomorrow. A dramatically different world that requires a fresh perspective on business, on leadership and on our global community.Let Chris energize, inspire and excite you by immersing your business and your team in the critical factors that have the power to affect how we do business today and how we evolve and thrive towards the future.His always-on and hyper-relevant presentations are like a shot of business adrenaline—injecting a much-needed sense of interrogated optimism… and imparting valuable and actionable outtakes.customized keynote themes…- THE NEW CUSTOMER What will the customer of 2030 look like… think like… behave like? And can we predict their needs before even they know what they want?
- REINVENTED BUSINESS When our ‘business as usual’ is anything but… how can we continue to grow, thrive and innovate? What could incredible business look like amidst the incredibly unusual?
- RESILIENT LEADERSHIP With the world at a precipice—how can business leaders reinvent themselves, and embrace real-time decision making for the challenges ahead?
- FUTURE TRUST How can we build enduring consumer trust in an age where we gain digital leverage by merely pushing the “Enter” key?
- RADICAL INNOVATION In this new era of innovation, how can we identify drivers of future trends, and develop new product and service ideas to drive rapid growth and innovation?
- HYPER DISRUPTION What are the key trends that will determine a path forward amidst a chaotic and fluctuating world—and how can we embrace this volatility?
HIGH SPEED BUSINESS
How do you grow and ensure relevance in a world that is changing faster and faster as each day starts?
Adopting a culture of deep innovation across the business, thinking and behaving like a start-up, and finding the entrepreneurs from within your business is more important than ever. Business leaders are under more pressure than ever to understand how to bring new world, blended and exponential thinking into existing businesses.
Trust has taken a radically different meaning in the world after tomorrow, and it’s a new currency for businesses.
How is this possible in a well-established business, and how can you create environments for ideas to flourish and create topline growth.
Topics Chris will cover in this area include;
o ‘Old World’ businesses that are growing through ‘New World’ thinking
o What behaving like an ‘entrepreneur’ means in 2018 the key traits
o The new skills and behaviors businesses need today and tomorrow
o Organizational structure, decision making and being an inspiring leader
o Embracing exponential change and the power of speed
o The new normal is now creating and not following trends
GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION
We have quickly moved into an era now of using technology to lead longer and better lives. The healthcare sector is seeing rapid growth through the adoption of wearable devices. We are literally swimming in data and have more insights into our lives than ever before in history.
The democratizing of resources, assets, and energy ahead mean that the way we consume everything is changing rapidly. Deep, real-time learning to create adaptive experiences and the building of solutions for specific problems, not general ones will set businesses ahead.
Being able to ‘pull levers’ and embrace ‘liquid data’ is now how we will see the power balance between large businesses and small ones changed forever.
Topics Chris will cover in this area include;
o ‘Old World’ businesses that are growing through ‘New World’ thinking
o What being an ‘entrepreneur’ means in 2018 and why it works
o Key job growth areas ahead
o The power of speed and velocity is the new disruptor
o Real-time A/B Testing on customers is now a new normal
ALTERED REALITIES AND TRUST
We’ve seen some interesting recent examples of where AI has proved it is, in fact, more intelligent than humans, with chess grandmasters and gaming. The ‘device’ as we know it will disappear almost entirely, and this will dramatically influence how we see our world, and the definition of what relationships mean.
Blockchain technology is the biggest revolution since the internet first started, and it is changing how we trust, and who we trust. It is set to transform not only the financial services industry but every organization that has a customer interface.
Augmented Reality showed us in mid-2017 the possibilities of what a blended lifestyle can do, yet the Poke?mon Go craze was just a taste of what is around the corner.
Technology is a democratizing force, empowering people through information, and we are set for a revolution like no other over the next 5 years.
Topics Chris will cover in this area include;
o How AI is transforming the meaning of ‘personalization’ on mass
o Blockchain technology is now transforming how and who we trust
o Automation & Robotics is breaking down barriers of borders and time
o What role humans have after tomorrow, and how to get ready today
o Machine Learning is allowing business to ‘self-learn’ and grow
o Businesses will be ‘superpowers’ with combined AI and Automation
o Artificial Intelligence will alter the power balance between large and small business
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Testimonials
4 people have recommended this speaker
“A big thank you to Chris for a very engaging and interesting keynote presentation on technology and what the future has install. The studio set up Chris and his team have put together is very professional and looked great on our live virtual event. Well done on coming up with this innovative idea during a challenging time in the events scene.”
“CHRIS WAS PHENOMENAL. PART COMEDIAN, PART FUTURIST, PART TECHNOLOGIST, PART STORYTELLER!”
“HE WAS ABLE TO PORTEND, WITH REMARKABLE CLARITY, DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO TAKE PLACE”
“UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED FUTURIST SPEAKERS OUT THERE… HE LEFT A LASTING IMPRESSION IN THE MINDS OF ALL INVOLVED”
“A big thank you to Chris for a very engaging and interesting keynote presentation on technology and what the future has install. The studio set up Chris and his team have put together is very professional and looked great on our live virtual event. Well done on coming up with this innovative idea during a challenging time in the events scene.”