Simon Anderson

Today's rapidly evolving business environment requires more than resilience to remain competitive and achieve long-term success. Simon’s transformative insights will help you and your organization become “Future Ready.” This isn't just about bouncing back from new challenges; it's about proactively using foresight tools and practices to identify and capitalize on the opportunities that change creates. Simon's three-step Future Ready Formula™ provides you with the mindset, core skills, and specific actions you can use right away to excel in our ever-changing world.

Key Take-Aways: 

• Apply Simon’s Future Ready Formula™ to move from a reactive to a proactive approach to better navigate change.
• Develop a leadership mindset equipped for success in a fast-changing future
• Learn Five Future Ready actions you can start taking right away to move beyond resilient to be successful in an uncertain future.

Where, when, and how we work is being reshaped by emerging technologies and trends. The pandemic fast-forwarded many of these changes and reset expectations for how work is defined and measured. New AI-tools like ChatGPT are further accelerating digital transformation. With so much change, the employee experience is more important than ever to attracting and retaining workers. Recognizing that what made us successful in the past may not help us continue that success into the future can help business leaders thrive during constant change.  

Key Take-Aways: 

• Learn about the technologies transforming the future of work. 
• Discover new tools and resources to improve your corporate culture and attract and retain the right people for your organization. 
• Identify specific actions you can start taking right away to adapt and thrive in our new business environment. 

Designed as a organization, corporate, or executives keynote

Join Futurist Simon Anderson as he takes an eye-opening look at the future of your industry in a fast-changing world. This customized presentation identifies key emerging trends and technologies that could impact your industry, provides insights on key industry advancements, and offers new approaches to navigating the challenges and capitalizing on the opportunities created by rapid change. Industry leaders will learn Anderson’s proven "Five Actions for the Future" that they can start taking right away to make their teams and organizations future ready.  

Key Take-Aways: 

• Learn about the specific trends and technologies transforming the future of your industry and how they could impact your business or association.
• Become equipped to recognize challenges and opportunities at the “edges” while there is still time to do something about it.
• Understand how to use foresight to stay relevant and increase your organization’s competitiveness and success. 

This keynote is customized to your industry

Take the next steps to be future ready with this engaging and highly interactive workshop. Participants learn how to apply the lessons and insights from the keynote to specific real-world situations they experience in their work. This highly customized workshop works best as a follow-up breakout session after the keynote. In this session, Simon helps business leaders thrive during constant change by teaching specific foresight tools and practices they can start using right away to identify important trends, anticipate how those trends might impact their careers and organizations, and take action to be successful regardless of the new technologies or trends that may emerge.

• Artificial Intelligence 
• Change Management
• Future of Work
• Innovation
• Staying relevant after decades of success (Corps)
• Executive Strategy 
• Board Strategy
• Future Trends
• Strategic Planning
• Leadership
• Sales Technology
• Economic Development