Daniel Burrus Speaker Biography
Technology Futurist, Business Strategist and Disruptive Innovation Expert
Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurist Speakers 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.
Established Industry Expert
He 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. He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight, as well as the international best-seller Technotrends. His latest book, The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage, is an Amazon #1 Hot New Release for Business.
Technology Futurist, Innovation and Business Strategist
Daniel Burrus’ accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s where he became the first and only technology futurist to accurately identify the 20 Technologies that would become the driving forces of business and economic change for decades to come. Since then he has established a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technology driven change and its direct impact on the business world. As a business strategist, he has helped hundreds of clients profit from new opportunities and develop successful competitive business strategies based on the creative application of leading-edge technologies. Daniel is a thought leader and contributing writer on the topics of innovation, change and the future for Harvard Business Review, Linkedin, Huffington Post, Wired Magazine and Examiner.com to name a few.
Futurist Keynote Speaker
An award winning keynote speaker, Daniel has delivered over 3,000 keynote speeches to corporations, associations, and professional organizations worldwide. In his presentations, he blends timely and provocative insights with just the right amount of humor and motivation to enable his audiences to take positive action. He is a master at customizing his presentations to his audiences as he identifies game-changing trends that will have a direct impact on his audience members and offers powerful, practical guidance for turning rapid change into a competitive advantage.
Global Innovation and Technology Trends Researcher
His passion for research became apparent in his third year of college, when Burrus became one of the first undergraduates in the nation to direct a federal research grant. He went on to found and manage six businesses, four of which were national leaders in their first year. As a highly successful entrepreneur, he knows how to translate research findings into practical competitive advantages.
Digital Keynotes
Daniel’s Digital Keynote offering is designed to be: an interactive experience and is customized to your audience and industry. The goal is to exceed your meeting goal expectations, and provide your audience with access to a thought-provoking and dynamic keynote presentation from Daniel Burrus.
Webinars
Daniel Burrus is a master at customizing his webinar offerings to fit each client’s unique needs. He identifies game-changing trends that will have a direct impact on attendees and offers powerful, practical guidance for turning rapid change and disruption into a competitive advantage.
Today, as founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements and innovation in technology driven trends, Daniel helps clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous untapped opportunities.
Daniel Burrus Speaking Topics
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.
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.
Daniel Burrus Books
AI Strategy Report: Cutting-Edge AI Tool Recommendations to Boost Your Productivity and Efficiency
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The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage
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Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible
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Technotrends
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Daniel Burrus Speaker Testimonials
A ‘must-hear’ presentation.
- Steven A. Ballmer | CEO, Microsoft
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
By applying Daniel Burrus’ principles 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
“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
