Volatility makes you stronger.
If you build for it.

Most organizations answer volatility with more strategy and tighter controls. That’s the reflex that breaks them.

We’ve spent 25+ years – running parts of eBay, Mozilla, and Google, then working with hundreds of companies from startups to the Fortune 100 – learning what separates the ones that break from the ones that get stronger. We build that into your team. Keynotes, workshops, and advisory for people who actually have to do something on Tuesday.

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What We Do.

Keynotes
Keynotes & Workshops.

Keynotes for audiences who’ve already heard the standard innovation talk. Frameworks the room hasn’t seen, real stories from inside the companies you’d recognize, and concrete next steps for the people who actually have to do something on Tuesday.

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Organizational Training
Organizational Training.

Multi-day programs for leadership teams that want to do more than nod along. Structural principles, operational practices, real cases from your industry. Stop playing defense. Start building muscle.

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Books.

Two operating systems for organizations under pressure.

OUTLEARN

OUTLEARN

A practical operating system for organizations that get stronger under stress. Five frameworks. No filler.

Disrupt Disruption

Disrupt Disruption

How to decode the future, disrupt your industry, and transform your business. The eBook is now free, PDF and ePub.

radical Insights.

Headlines from the Future, as we spot them.

    You’ve seen the headlines. The Briefing has the rest.

    Every Friday, the week’s headlines plus footnotes from the future, what we’re reading and something fun to end the week on. Every other Tuesday, an essay. All of it in your inbox.

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    Trust.

    Companies we’ve worked with. Press we’ve shown up in.

    Microsoft
    Google (Alphabet Inc.)
    Amazon Web Services (Part of Amazon)
    Meta (formerly Facebook)
    Adobe
    ORACLE
    SAP
    Cisco
    VISA
    MasterCard
    NASA
    Nike
    Walmart
    PepsiCo
    Procter & Gamble
    Toyota
    Mercedes-Benz (Part of Daimler AG)
    Volkswagen
    Johnson & Johnson
    Roche
    Deloitte
    Accenture
    PWC
    KPMG
    Citi
    HSBC
    UBS
    Morgan Stanley
    Unilever
    Nestle
    Intuit
    3M
    Bosch
    UPS
    John Deere
    Bayer
    Deutsche Telekom
    Vodafone / Vodacom
    Telefonica
    Orange
    EDF
    E.ON
    L'Oreal
    Estée Lauder
    McKesson
    Novo Nordisk
    DELTA Airlines
    European Commission
    Stanford Business School
    Berkeley Haas School of Business
    London Business School
    IMD Business School
    Cambridge University
    Capgemini
    AB InBev
    Henkel
    Pearson
    Carrefour
    Forbes
    UEFA

    Wall Street Journal
    CNN
    Bloomberg
    Forbes
    Financial Times
    BBC
    NPR
    Fast Company
    Inc. Magazine
    Quartz
    Techcrunch
    Global Finance
    ARD - Das Erste
    ZDF
    WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk
    1LIVE Radio
    Le Monde
    Le Temps
    Negocios
    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
    Handelsblatt
    Wirtschaftswoche
    FOCUS
    Die Zeit
    Sueddeutsche Zeitung
    Welt
    deutschland.de
    Schweizer Monat
    PAGE
    Business Punk
    Heise
    Globo.com
    ECOA
    Mixergy
    Horizont
    La Vanguardia
    Koelner Stadt Anzeiger
    Rheinische Post
    Accounting Today