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Future of Work Speakers
Most future of work keynotes are prediction, and prediction is close to the least useful thing you can hand an audience. Nobody knows what 2030 looks like. The people who confidently told conferences in 2019 what the next decade held were wrong within four months, and the ones doing it now about AI are working from the same evidence base, which is to say very little.
What organizations actually need is not a forecast. It is the capacity to change without breaking. That is a different subject, it is teachable, and it is far more valuable than a slide of trend lines.
There is also a conversation happening in your organization that most leaders are avoiding. Employees want to know whether their job is safe. Most executives will not say, either because they do not know or because saying it out loud feels like a commitment. So the question goes underground and people answer it themselves, usually pessimistically, and you get quiet disengagement that shows up in your numbers two quarters later.
A good speaker on this subject names that directly instead of talking around it. Eric Termuende wrote Rethink Work. Jay Kiew wrote Change Fluency and was named a PMI Future50 honouree for AI fluency. Neither of them is selling a crystal ball.
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Matching the Speaker to the Event
Executive offsites and strategy sessions. Leadership teams trying to decide what to actually do rather than what to think. Jay Kiew has delivered over two billion dollars in transformation impact and works on change fluency as a capability rather than a mindset. Simon Luthi ran strategy at Fortune 100 scale and brings the neuroscience of decision-making under uncertainty.
All-staff meetings where AI anxiety is the real subject. The room has a question and it is not about productivity tooling. Pick someone who will address job security honestly and give people something to do about their own adaptability. Eric Termuende and Jay Abbasi both work at that level, and Abbasi's background inside Tesla and coaching at Google, Amazon and TikTok gives him credibility with sceptical technical audiences.
Technical and data audiences. If the room includes engineers and analysts, a generalist will be picked apart in the Q and A. Jon Krohn and Jared Lander are practitioners, and Lander teaches at Columbia Business School. See also our AI keynote speakers.
HR and workforce planning conferences. The practical end: how work gets designed, who you can hire, and how you keep people through constant change. Valeriya Hjertenaes holds a PhD and works on designing work around how people actually think rather than how org charts assume they do, which is a more immediate future-of-work question than most predictions.
The session almost nobody books
Displacement, handled honestly. Every organization talks about reskilling and almost none of them programme anything about what it is like to be the person whose role goes away. Jamie Getgood led a workforce through a large-scale closure and transition, which is the real version of this subject rather than the conference version. If your organization is heading into genuine change, that is a more useful and more respected session than another talk about embracing the future.
How to brief a future of work speaker
Tell them what has already been decided and what has not. The single most common failure here is a speaker talking about openness to change to a room that has already been told a restructure is coming, or worse, a room that has heard rumours and not been told anything. Alignment between the message on stage and the message from leadership matters more in this category than any other.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is a future of work speaker?
A speaker who addresses how work itself is changing, covering AI and automation, changing employee expectations, workforce design, skills and adaptability. The useful ones focus on building the capacity to change rather than predicting what the change will be.
Is this the same as booking an AI speaker?
No, though they overlap. An AI speaker addresses the technology and its application. A future of work speaker addresses what it means for people, roles and organizational design. If your audience needs the technical picture, see our AI speakers. If they need to know what it means for them, this is the right page.
Will a speaker address job security directly?
The ones on this page will, if you want them to. Tell us in the brief. Employees are already asking the question privately, and a session that acknowledges it is far better received than one that talks around it.
What if we are actually going through a restructure?
Say so when you enquire. It changes the recommendation completely and it changes the brief. Jamie Getgood has led a workforce through closure and transition, which is a different and more credible conversation than general change content.
Do you have speakers for technical audiences?
Yes. Jon Krohn and Jared Lander are practitioners rather than commentators, which matters when the room includes engineers and data scientists who will test the claims in Q and A.
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Strategy offsite, all-staff or technical audience?
Tell us what has already been decided and what has not. That shapes the brief more than the theme does.