Mike Walsh – Big Idea Speakers

Mike has delivered close to 1,000 keynote speeches around the world to companies in almost every industry.

With a background in research and strategic consulting, Mike first leads his clients through a pre-event research process, designed to pinpoint the most relevant issues impacting their business and the strategies with the best chance of delivering meaningful change.

Once the research is complete, Mike will have everything he needs to deliver a high-energy, thought-provoking keynote that provides relevant solutions for your audience and sets the tone for your entire event.

Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike takes an anthropological approach – scanning the near horizon for emerging technologies and disruptive shifts in human behavior, and then translating these into pragmatic plans for business transformation. A prolific winter and commentator, Mike’s views have appeared in a wide range of international publications including BusinessWeek, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.

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Biography

Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing business for the 21st century. He advises leaders on how to thrive in this era of disruptive technological change. Mike’s clients include many of the global Fortune 500, and as a sought-after keynote speaker he regularly shares the stage with world leaders and business icons alike. Mike previously founded Jupiter Research in Australia, and has also held senior strategy roles at News Corporation in the Asia Pacific Region. He is currently a board member and strategic investor in the North Alliance, Scandinavia’s leading digital marketing group. Mike’s best-selling book FUTURETAINMENT, published by Phaidon was the winner of the design award by the Art Director’s Club in New York.

Speech Topics

New Rules For A New World

COVID-19 is not only changing our way of life, it will hasten the arrival of a radical new future of work. While for many of us working from home has been a new and unexpected challenge – that is just the start of a much bigger transformation set to reshape the nature of business itself.

In order to survive, every organization will have to virtualize. Whether it be serving customers through digital channels or leveraging AI, algorithms and automation to ensure business continuity – we are likely to experience in the next twelve months, a decade’s worth of change.

Not every business will make it, but those that do will never be the same again. And for leaders, now more than ever, is a time to upgrade their capabilities, embrace new technologies, and reimagine what they do.

Mike Walsh’s inspiring new keynote presentation will offer audiences an insight into the organizations and leaders that are successfully navigating this period of change, and how to create a playbook for their own transformation.

Becoming future-proof is more than just about getting through the current crisis – it is about being ready for the new world that awaits us on the other side.

Virtual Experience Options – more detail below

Digital Keynote – pre-recorded keynote (30 min) + 15 min live Q & A
Virtual Livecast – live or pre-recorded customized keynote (30-45 min) + 15 min live Q & A
Studio Broadcast – live keynote from professional production studio (30-45 min) + 15 min live Q & A

NOTE: these virtual sessions can be recorded and include a limited license to distribute internally.

Virtual Delivery Options

To replicate the energy and engagement of a live stage event, Mike and his team have assembled some unique technologies and partnerships to deliver a high impact online experience for your audience at a variety of price ranges.

Digital Keynote

For clients who want the highest possible quality for their virtual summit, Mike provides a pre-recorded keynote session 30 minutes in length, shot on multiple studio quality cameras, and professionally edited with dramatic video cutaways and a music score. After screening this video to your online audience, Mike can participate in a live Q&A session. The client will have the right to host the keynote on a password protected site for 30 days after the event. You can view the first minute of this keynote below.

30 minute pre-recorded keynote
Addresses the current crisis and opportunities
You receive a password-protected video link for one-time use
Mike participates in a 15 minute Q & A session following the screening

What Leaders Need To Know About the Metaverse

The Metaverse is more than a gold rush; it will be an alchemical transformation in the way the world works. Over the next few years, we will see a rapid convergence between the digital and real world driven by increasingly sophisticated devices, decentralized blockchain technologies and AI platforms capable of generating persistent, immersive and collaborative experiences indistinguishable from reality.

Mike Walsh’s new keynote presentation will demystify core Metaverse technologies and concepts like NFTs, DAOs, DeFi, XR, DeSO, GameFi and Web3. In addition, with a playbook style approach, he will provide insights into what it will take to pioneer Metaverse applications, experiment with new ways of working, and attract and develop the right kind of talent to help you achieve your goals.

The time for action is now. Every organization and industry will be impacted by the next iteration of the Web and its radical interfaces, infrastructure and investment models. The question for leaders is no longer what is the Metaverse, but rather – what is our plan for it?

In this keynote, attendees will learn:

Successful case studies of how both existing brands and disruptive new entrants are leveraging Web3 technologies to reinvent customer experiences, create engaged communities and unlock new value creation opportunities.
What the Metaverse means for enterprises and how we work – whether it be personal avatars in hybrid workspaces, digital twins on the factory floor, or smart contracts in the supply chain.
A Metaverse toolkit for leaders to understand and navigate emerging ethical and strategic issues like privacy, fraud, user safety, sustainability, governance and control.

Topic: Designing Your Business for the 21st Century

The companies that thrive in the near future will be the ones that not only embrace change but are the first to break the rules. If you could start with a clean sheet of paper, how would you design your company? Should your youngest staff member be making coffee or running your R&D team? Is Big Data something for your IT department to worry about, or a weapon to be wielded by your management team? Do you ban social networks or use them to collaborate more effectively?

Most companies are simply not designed to survive. They become successful on the basis of one big idea or breakthrough product. That early success then becomes a rigid code, and as customer habits and markets change, many fail to see that everything that made them successful is exactly what will destroy them later.

Based on interviews with you and your choices on the 7 strategic priorities, Mike will cover a range of thought provoking issues including:

How your future customers will think, talk and transact.
Lessons on disruptive innovation from fast growing, emerging markets.
How to leverage enterprise social networks to solve real business problems.
What it takes to recruit, retain and motivate tomorrow’s employees.
How to apply speed, agility and the new lean IT mindset to your technology teams.
Hacking your corporate culture to transform employee engagement.
Why the multicultural web of tomorrow will be different from the one we use today.
Identifying the critical data pivots in your business, the real-time numbers no leader can afford to ignore.

Mike’s talk, “Designing Your Business for the 21^st Century” will be tailored around your choices of the 7 strategic priorities outlined below.

The Seven Strategic Priorities for 21st

Smart leaders realize that the future of their company depends on business design decisions that must be made today. In his ongoing research on the world’s most innovative companies, Mike has categorized those decisions into seven strategic priorities.

When you engage Mike as your keynote speaker, he will work with you to select the strategic priorities most relevant to your future roadmap. Then, during his research phase, he will conduct in-depth interviews with your team, clients or top performers in your industry in order to identify specific case studies that will resonate with your audience.

The seven strategic priorities are as follows:

People – engaging the next generation of customers and co-workers.
Marketing – figuring out the new marketing model.
Culture – understanding ‘Network Capital’ and today’s employee engagement crisis.
Technology – re-imagining the role of IT in the enterprise.
Innovation – exploring new frameworks for disruptive thinking.
Global – building your business to world scale.
Leadership – becoming a data-driven leader.