Jack Uldrich

A renowned global futurist and the best-selling author of 12 books

Expert on

  • Future
  • Change
  • eCommerce
  • Global Economics
  • Leadership
  • Business Trends

Fee Range

$20,000–$25,000

Travels from

MN, US

Biography

Global Futurist, Speaker, Author

No one can predict the future, but Jack Uldrich can help you prepare for it. Jack is a global futurist, speaker, and author of 12 books, including award-winning best sellers, who helps organizations gain the crucial foresight they need to create a successful future. His talks land at the intersection of advancements in technology, change management and leadership and are styled to educate, inspire and entertain.

Jack speaks over 50 times a year especially on the transformation of banking, finance, health care, agriculture, education, energy, retail and manufacturing. He argues that creativity and action are more powerful and versatile than knowledge. He professes the transformational principles of unlearning, or freeing yourself from obsolete knowledge and assumptions, as a strategy to survive and thrive in an era of unparalleled change.

Jack is a former naval intelligence officer, Defense Department strategic planning official and served as the director of the Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning under Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.

Jack is inspired by the role he is meant to play to help businesses pivot toward a new future. The publishing arm of Fast Company (Greenleaf Book Group) has secured him to write two books in 2020 about the impact of the pandemic: Business as Unusual and The Great Reset. Jack’s remarks are always customized for your industry and speak to your audience’s particular issues and concerns.

Speaker Videos

BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL: HOW TO TURN YOUR BUSINESS IN TRANSFORMATIONAL TIMES

The pandemic has catapulted the world into a future of deep change. In this engaging, provocative, and insightful keynote session acclaimed global futurist and best-selling author Jack Uldrich will not only discuss how Coronavirus is transforming the world of tomorrow, he explains why it is accelerating many of the trends that were already at work prior to the epidemic. History reminds us that great crises produce great change-as well as great opportunities. To take advantage of these extraordinary opportunities, businesses must position themselves now to operate in a world where “business as unusual” is the new “usual.” This session will help leaders at every level of an organization leverage ten “unconventional” techniques to succeed in today’s-and tomorrow’s-transformational times.

THE GREAT RESET: THE EMERGING AGE OF REIMAGINATION, RECONNECTION AND RENEWAL AND GENERATION RE

A great reset is now upon us. Less obvious is the reality that the world was quietly being reset prior to the pandemic. The rules of business were being rewritten by an extraordinary cadre of individuals, enterprises, and organizations willing to rethink long-held assumptions, reinvent products and processes; and reestablish new and innovative ways to re-engage with both their employees and the wider world. These leaders are at the vanguard Generation RE–an ageless cohort of change agents working to recreate the world anew. 

In this refreshing, entertaining, and insightful keynote presentation, global futurist and best-selling author Jack Uldrich, together with Camille Kolles PhD, a leading transformational leadership consultant and the founder of the Center for Inspired Futures, share key insights of their forthcoming book, “The Great Reset: The Emerging Age of Reimagination, Reconnection, and Renewal” (Greenleaf Book Group, 2021). They also explain how leaders can embrace and leverage the principles of “Generation RE” in order to reframe problems into opportunities, restore communities and our natural world, reconnect with employees and customers at a deeper, more meaningful level, and reimagine a better, bolder and more beautiful future.

THE BIG AHA: HOW TO FUTURE-PROOF YOUR BUSINESS AGAINST TOMORROW'S TRENDS TODAY

In the near future, the greatest change will be the accelerating rate of change itself. In this enlightening, entertaining and educational session, Jack shares insights from his book, Business as Unusual: How to Future-Proof Yourself Against Tomorrow’s Transformational Trends, Today. He outlines the ten trends that will transform the world of tomorrow. Jack also identifies concrete actions businesses can take today to future-proof themselves against “the tides of tomorrow.”

FORESIGHT 20/20 TEN TRENDS TRANSFORMING TOMORROW

The next decade is less than a handful of years away. What might the world of 2020 like look like? How will you and your business have changed? More importantly, how will you and your organization need to change? The answer, in two short words, is: a lot!

Consider this: Seven years ago Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Smartphones and cloud computing were all still in their infancy, and Uber, “The Internet of Things,” and the “sharing economy” didn’t yet exist. Now, fast forward a few years into the future and try to comprehend how accelerating advances in cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, mobile web video communications, virtual and augmented reality, social media, robotics, gaming dynamics, renewable energies, “Big Data”, cyber-security advances and, quite possibly, quantum computing will continue to drive seismic change and deliver paradigm-shattering transformation to nearly every facet of society. It’s not easy.

In this engaging and entertaining keynote presentation based on his book (Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow), globally renowned futurist and best-selling author Jack Uldrich takes the guess-work out of understanding the near future by providing an in-depth exploration of how 10 technological trends will transform the world of 2020.