Jack Uldrich
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.
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.
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Business As Unusual: How to Turn Your Business in 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...
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...
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...
The Future Requires Unlearning
Today, we live in a world where "constant change is the only constant." New advances in technology bring forth exciting discoveries every day. But often lost in this new reality is the fact that organizations must unlearn old, obsolete knowledge and old ways of doing business, before they can seize tomorrow's opportunities.
In this fascinating, informative and interactive presentation, Jack - hailed by BusinessWeek as "America's Chief Unlearning Officer"- explains...
Vuja De: A Futurist Takes a Backwards Stroll into the World of Tomorrow
The perfect keynote for any company, organization or association celebrating a major anniversary!
Winston Churchill once said, "The farther back one can look, the farther ahead one can see." He was right. And what better time for any organization to look into the future than when celebrating 25, 50 or 100 years of success?
Global futurist and best-selling author Jack Uldrich has the unique ability to use yesterday's history lessons as a prism for...
How to Think Like a Futurist
The average lifespan of a Fortune 1000 company is 15 years-and dropping. Why is this happening? Primarily, it's because companies are so focused on the present, they fail to appreciate how the world of tomorrow is changing. Smart companies hire futurists to survive. Wise companies learn how to think like a futurist and instill a "future mindset" throughout their organization.
In this interactive, engaging and educational seminar, best-selling author and renowned global futurist Jack...
The "Un-Economist"
Economists are bright, intelligent, well-intentioned individuals but there is one big thing they don't know: They don't know what they don't know.
Take a moment to consider how often professional economists miss the next big shock to the global economy because of an unknown, unforeseen, unexpected or highly unlikely event.
In 1998, the economy was on the brink of a global meltdown because of a little-understood algorithm. In 2001, an unforeseen terrorist attack rocked the...
