AI keynotes built around the decision your audience faces
Speaking topics
AI keynotes built around the decision your audience faces
Choose a starting theme, then shape the session through a pre-event call, audience survey and, where appropriate, the Future Readiness Score.
AI readiness
A session for organizations that need to understand whether ambition is matched by the capabilities required to act. The Future Readiness Score can reveal the audience's collective view live and focus attention on specific readiness gaps.
Leadership alignment
A keynote for senior audiences whose functions or business units are moving at different speeds. It creates a common evidence base and helps leaders identify the decisions on which alignment matters most.
Organizational transformation
Ian's UNDISRUPTED framework covers engagement, learning, people, collaboration, innovation, execution and culture. The topic connects technological change to the organizational conditions required to respond.
From inspiration to implementation
The session moves beyond a catalogue of future trends by connecting evidence to action. Assessment-led engagements conclude with ranked priorities, a written intelligence report and a ninety-day plan.
Frequently asked questions
Questions and answers
How much does it cost to hire an AI keynote speaker?
Fees for established AI keynote speakers typically range from $15,000 to $50,000 depending on format, location and rights. Send your date, industry and budget range for a direct answer within one business day.
How far in advance should we book?
Booking early gives the selected topic time to be shaped around the event purpose, audience survey and relevant research. Send the date as soon as it is available.
What is the difference between a keynote and a workshop?
Keynotes frame one central argument for the audience and event. Workshops use facilitated discussion and readiness evidence to help a smaller group rank priorities and create a plan.
Will the speaker tailor content to our industry?
Yes. The topic is a starting point, not a fixed script. The pre-event call, survey, sector research and customized assessment determine the examples and emphasis.
What does the audience receive afterwards?
Outputs are confirmed by format. When the Future Readiness Score is included, the audience's collective result informs a written intelligence report and ninety-day plan.
Does the speaker present virtually?
Virtual keynotes and working sessions can be discussed. Share the format, audience, platform and content-rights requirements when enquiring.
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.
The process
What goes into every session
Step 1
500+ on-camera executive interviews each year feeding the research base
Step 2
A pre-event call and audience survey before content is built
Step 3
A live scored Future Readiness Score assessment, so content responds to the room
Step 4
A ninety-day plan the audience leaves holding
Choose the question, then build the session
Share your audience, industry and the decision the event must advance.
