The Global AI Readiness Index | Ian Khan
The Global AI
Readiness Index
An annual view of how leadership teams are approaching AI: where confidence gathers, where alignment breaks, and what the evidence asks organizations to confront next.
Evidence before assumptions.
The Global AI Readiness Index is a published benchmark built from Future Readiness Score assessment deployments and executive interviews. It is designed for leaders who need a clearer picture of organizational readiness before making consequential AI decisions.
The Index looks beyond a technology inventory. It makes room for the leadership conditions that shape execution: shared priorities, organizational confidence, and the practical ability to move from interest to action.
Its purpose is not to issue a verdict on any one organization. It is to create a credible point of reference for executive conversations about where readiness stands today.
A view shaped by deployment and dialogue.
Assessment data provides the comparative foundation. Executive interviews add the context that a score alone cannot supply: the questions leaders are weighing, the operational constraints they identify, and the choices that remain unresolved.
Ian Khan’s research program, The 500, records conversations with senior leaders including scientists, operators, founders, regulators, and investors. Those conversations inform the wider picture alongside assessment evidence.
Every Keynote, Delivered as an Unforgettable Intelligence Event
You can never go where you need to be without first knowing where you are. This is the mindset I bring to every keynote, at every stage, worldwide.
Executive Leadership · Strategy
Decision Velocity: How the Fastest-Deciding Organizations Win the AI Decade
The speed and quality of your decisions is now your real competitive edge. Ian shows leaders how to measure their organization’s decision velocity, expose the bottlenecks slowing them down, and build the systems that let teams decide faster without deciding worse.
Transformation · Leadership
Future-Ready: Building the Wall Against Disruption
Disruption is not the risk; being unready for it is. Using the Future Readiness Score, Ian turns transformation from a vague ambition into a measurable, benchmarked state, giving leaders a clear roadmap to make their organization resilient to whatever comes next.
AI Strategy · Operations
The Year of ROI: Turning AI Pilots Into Payoff
Everyone ran the pilots; almost no one is getting the return. Ian moves audiences past experimentation to an honest, audit-grade view of what actually blocks AI value, and the concrete moves that convert AI investment into measurable business results.
Future of Work · Operating Model
The Agentic Enterprise: Leading a Workforce of Humans and AI Agents
AI agents are joining the org chart. Ian shows leaders how work, roles, and decision-making change when autonomous agents operate alongside people, and how the organizations that redesign first will define the next decade of their industry.
Bestseller Keynote · Fortune 500
Undisrupted: The Seven Pillars of Companies That Refuse to Be Left Behind
Drawn from Ian’s USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller, this keynote lays out the seven-pillar framework that Fortune 500 teams use to stay ahead of change, giving every leader in the room a practical system to future-proof their people, culture, and strategy.
Designed for Your Audience
Custom Keynote Experience
A bespoke keynote tailored to your industry, audience, and strategic priorities, supported by pre-event stakeholder interviews and content customization.
For the conversation
after the headline.
Sector context
Compare patterns emerging across industries without treating any sector as a substitute for your organization’s own conditions.
Distribution, not theatre
Readiness is rarely a single number inside a leadership team. Variation is often the beginning of the most useful discussion.
Cross-industry perspective
Use a wider reference point to challenge inherited assumptions about pace, capability, and organizational focus.
Executive application
Bring the evidence into an offsite, board retreat, or strategy session where decisions need ownership, not merely attention.
Know where the leadership team stands.
Ian Khan’s keynote and workshop engagements can include a customized Future Readiness Score assessment, a live results reveal, and a written intelligence report for strategic planning.
