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Daniel Burrus is one of the world's leading futurist speakers on global trends and disruptive innovation. He is a strategic advisor to Fortune 500 executives, helping them develop game-changing strategies based on his methodologies for capitalizing on tech innovations and their future impact. Corporations book futurist speaker Daniel Burrus for his valuable insights and guidance on how to profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create untapped opportunities.
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Futurist speaker Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading futurist on global trends and disruptive innovation. New York Times called him one of the top three business gurus in highest demand as a speaker. Additionally, Burrus is a strategic advisor to Fortune 500 executives. He helps them develop game-changing strategies based on his methodologies for capitalizing on tech innovations and their future impact.
His seven books include the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller “Flash Foresight”. His latest book is “The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage”. The book is an Amazon #1 Hot New Release for Business.
Burrus’ accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s. He became the first and only technology futurist to accurately identify the 20 technologies that would become driving forces of business and economic change. Since then, he has established a worldwide reputation for his record of predicting future tech-driven change. And also, its impact on business. As a business strategist, he has helped hundreds of clients profit from new opportunities and develop competitive business strategies based on leading-edge technologies.
Daniel is a thought leader and contributing writer on innovation, change and the future. He writes for Harvard Business Review, LinkedIn, Huffington Post, Wired Magazine and Examiner.com. An award-winning futurist speaker, Daniel Burrus has given over 3,000 speeches to corporations, associations and professional organizations worldwide. In his presentations, he blends timely and provocative insights with humor and motivation to enable his audiences to take positive action. He is a master at customizing his presentations to his audiences. Above all, identifies game-changing trends that will impact audience members. He also offers practical guidance for turning rapid change into a competitive advantage.
Daniel’s passion for research became apparent in college, when he became one of the first undergrads in the nation to direct a federal research grant. He founded and managed six businesses, four of which were national leaders in their first year. As a successful entrepreneur, he knows how to translate research findings into practical competitive advantages.
Today, he is founder and CEO of Burrus Research. In short, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements and innovation in tech-driven trends. To that end, Daniel helps clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create untapped opportunities.
Digital transformation has accelerated 5 to 10 years in a matter of months, creating new exponential opportunities for growth. However, reacting and responding to change is no longer enough. Anticipatory Leaders use Hard Trends to identify and act on disruptions before they occur, pre-solving problems and anticipating customer needs before their competition. This allows disruptive change to become a competitive advantage.
Digital transformation has accelerated 5 to 10 years in a matter of months, creating new exponential opportunities for growth. Going forward, you will either be the disruptor or the disrupted. Most of us see disruption as negative, forcing us to react, crisis-manage, and make dramatic changes to keep up and offset damage caused by the disrupting technology, company, or event. Thanks to Burrus' award-winning Hard Trend methodology and proven track record of accurate technology forecasts, disruptions can be identified before they occur, giving you the opportunity to become a positive disruptor and shape the future instead of reacting to it.
There has never been more opportunity to accelerate profitable growth than there is today. In 2020, everyone was forced to use digital solutions in new ways, dramatically accelerating the exponential pace of technology-driven change. Agility and adaptability are no longer enough. Accurately anticipating technological changes and customers' changing needs provides the biggest advantage. In times of unprecedented change and uncertainty, we need to ask ourselves what we are certain about. Strategies based on uncertainty equal high levels of risk. Strategies based on certainty reduce risk and produce superior results. Strategic foresight is gained by identifying the Hard Trend future facts that will happen and the game-changing opportunities they represent to craft exponential growth strategies.
The exponential pace of technology-driven change has been accelerated by as much as 10 years over the last eighteen months, advancing several Megatrends that are already changing every industry and business model. These Megatrends will continue to accelerate, creating more opportunity and potential disruptions than any other time in history. Thanks to Daniel Burrus' award-winning Hard Trend methodology and proven track record of accurate technology forecasts, disruptions can be identified before they occur, giving you the opportunity to become a positive disruptor and shape transformational change and the future instead of reacting to it.