Dr Davis presents truly visionary thinking through a powerful futurist lens that is ideal for the “Mind Opener” plenary slot at your next event.
All of Danny’s keynote addresses advance participants’ understanding and capacity for shaping their own future – exploring the implications of increasing volatility and complexity (implications of tech, AI, demographics, geopolitical and internal sector trends) and breakthrough insight into high performance future making organisations. It is new thinking designed to empower people and organisations to optimise achievement their own potential in a world where anything is possible, but you can’t do everything.
Every booking includes an online briefing call(s) to alignment to your specific event objectives. Dr Davis will customise for audience skill levels, event format, what is most valuable to you – to give you the best possible result.
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The ideal “Mind Opener” for your event’s opening or closing plenary address. Danny provides a wild ride of history, future, thinking, reflection, emotion, challenge, research, opportunity and real-world example – shaking people loose from their entrenched thinking – and giving them comfort that there are paths through and better days ahead. His unique perspective helps people find their own strengths, their motivation, their positivity, and their focus in a world of volatile and complex change.
“Future Making: Make sense of the future to act more effectively within it”. The story of better ways of working together to out-perform and be volatility ready in companies, governments, and national economies, and how you can make your future better. Discover secrets that allowed some of the world’s largest organisations to activate their strengths to become highly effective, innovative, strategically agile future-makers.
Learn how you can become a more effective future maker in an increasingly complex and volatile world – where anything is possible, but you can’t do everything.
We upgrade our phones. We upgrade our computers. Can we learn to upgrade ourselves and our organisations? The pace of global technological and market change keeps getting faster, and faster, and faster. It’s bewildering. Personal effectiveness alone is insufficient where, as Stephen Covey states in The Eight Habit, “The challenges and complexity we face today are of a different order of magnitude”.
We can’t just keep on struggling to keep up with the change, we need to learn to become the ones who benefit from it. Learn hidden practices that enable us to be more effective – not just at coping with change – but in consistently turning volatile change into value – together.
“There is no more important structural problem in our economy than productivity”, said one Federal Treasurer, whilst another observed “95% of productivity gains are coming from 5% of companies”. But advanced economies averaged only 1% productivity growth over the last 25 years.
Dr Davis brings unique insight and perspective to this global question. His Future Maker insight explains how we harness human ingenuity to create human value – more effectively aligning collective action for today’s knowledge, services and wellbeing economy. Is it a breakthrough pathway for low-cost economic stimulation? And what are the implications for boards, policy setters, economies and nations. “Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything” Paul Krugman
Leading teams and organisations through volatile, unknown and unpredictable times requires an upgraded set of leadership skills and techniques. Learn the executive and boardroom secrets of global out-performers, including enhanced evidence based decision making and leadership practices for a new era.
Danny explores stories from the best performers that show how leaders can unlock the unlimited contribution of ingenuity and creativity of team members. How to enable staff to bring their A-game to work, contribute more, and find increased fulfilment and career development in return.
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Danny brings an unprecedented capacity to open minds and stimulate futurist curiosity at the forefront of specialist thinking.
He holds a PhD in Governance of the creation of future value in large-scale organisations. His multi-disciplinary insight is situated at the integrated culmination of the leading edge of professional discipline research and practice. He works globally with Fortune200 Chairs, Governments and thousands of executive and discipline leaders across all sectors in workshops, advisory roles and in-depth academic research. See his extended bio here.
Danny knows where specialist-discipline thinking is headed, and how it can integrate with the needs, interests, insights and momentum in other disciplines to create future value.
Global thought leader and professional discipline polymath, Dr Danny Davis brings insight from these ground-breaking new models, and his extensive interactions with leading academics, expert practitioners and senior leaders. Danny is uniquely informed to explore the futurist implications of this new thinking – as it applies to the future of specific professional disciplines and specific sectors of the economy – for high level expert or general staff member audiences.
A masterclass view of “the future – and how to lead it” through the lens of enhanced Governance of Sustained Value Creation – and how board directors can appropriately and effectively lead their organisations on the transition to high performance.
Boards play a crucial role in the high-performance operation of the highly effective value creation organisations of the future. Understand the potential of that role, and what you can do today to steward your organisation towards better futures. Visionary insight into the past, current, future, and future better of Corporate Governance.
There are a few normal-looking organisations that have massively outperformed the rest. That’s not a secret. Just normal organisations – that keep on growing their success year on year on year. $500m to $15Bn over 15 years. $15Bn to $140Bn over 10 years. Steady, consistent future-making over-achievement.
Yes. There is a secret to how they operate. Danny’s research across hundreds of organisations has identified the secret, and explains it in terms we can understand, learn from… and if we choose, copy in our own normal looking companies.
“The ONLY way to get large organisations, sectors or even nations to change, is to get them to change themselves”.
We’ve all seen major organisations struggle to make meaningful change – despite awareness, commitment, great skills and huge resources.
Danny brings unique insight and perspective to expose the “hidden infrastructure” that makes complex living-systems organisations and sectors tick – with stories of unlocking staff’s capacity to contribute their creative and productive value. New perspectives for enhanced transformation towards high-performance future-making practice.
Leaders at all levels are unsustainably overloaded. They cannot continue at this pitch. They cannot do more. It is not enough. It is not working. Being a highly effective professional is no longer sufficient.
We need new integrated future-making management practices: Engineering, not heroics. Danny brings a futurist look at organisations and how they work based on the latest observations and research – to give us new insights into our daily lives at work – creating organisations with improved capacity to achieve their best potential.
The biggest trend in companies and economies over the last 50 years has driven $Tns in global stock market valuations is the transition to a knowledge and intangible value economy. The AI boom is just the latest sliver to emerge. But we are still using thinking, planning and innovation techniques from the old-economy physical world.
Danny takes a futurist look at client value in virtual – exploring innovative highly value added digital services and our value creation capacity to deliver it. He explores new insight to build product and service strategies (growth and defensive), future market positioning, and sustainable company value.
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Make It Real. Danny has the qualifications to support all of your teams’ capability building and implementation interests, and the flexibility to engage in a form that works best for you.
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