Futurist Keynote Speaker - Future Trends by Patrick Dixon
By Dr Patrick Dixon - For his MAIN site ( articles / free books / presentations / videos) see link on left to www.globalchange.com (10 million unique visitors)
Patrick Dixon - watch conference keynote presentations on trends, strategy and growth: "You can select from more than 300 recent conference presentations and keynote speeches by Dr Patrick Dixon for multinational companies. You can also watch over 300 videos. This page is for clients and for those interested in booking lectures. No static slides or videos can do justice to large-scale multimedia 2D or 3D events, which have more in common with the experience of theatre - interactive, dynamic, provocative and entertaining as well as profoundly challenging and often disturbing. Dr Dixon is often described in the world's media as Europe's leading Futurist and has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers50 2005 survey).
Style and content of presentations varies hugely with size of audience, nationalities present, audience interests, corporate in-house seminar, client event or business school classroom. Each multimedia package is created in a unique process, in close consultation with event organisers. Before looking at individual sets of powerpoint slides further down this page, you may find it helpful to select from one or two of the following where you will find an integrated, industry-focus with relevant videos, slides and text."
Over 4 million video views. Search more than 300 videos by topic. Patrick Dixon is a conference keynote speaker at many international corporate events each year, speaking to up to 4,500 people at a time. These videos are extracts from conference keynote presentations, or entire keynotes, plus video comment on global trends. Many videos are embedded into industry trend articles - for example:
Change Management - How to Drive Growth Rapid Innovation - How to grow your business Future of Aviation Industry - Radical Change Future of New Brands and Branding Future of Packaging Industry Future of the Food Industry Future of the Automotive Industry (Auto Trends) Manufacturing - Future Trends Clouds and Crowds: Seize your Digital Future Leadership in Crisis - How to profit from chaos Future of Banking - Safe Strategy for Banks Future of Insurance - insurance industry trends"
Patrick Dixon: Futurist conference keynote speaker: "KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr Dixon has spoken to audiences in over 50 nations and is one of the world's most sought after keynote speakers at corporate events. His customised multimedia presentations are experienced by up to 4,500 people a time, in up to four countries a week. Challenging, visionary, hard-hitting, strategic, provocative, dynamic, passionate and practical as well as entertaining - motivating people to seize growth opportunities and to change.
GLOBAL CLIENTS: His clients are from every industry and include Google, Microsoft, IBM, KLM / Air France, BP, ExxonMobil, World Bank, Siemens, Ford, Sara Lee, Prudential, Aviva, Barclays, UBS, Credit Suisse, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewlett Packard, Gillette, GSK, Roche, BASF, Credit Suisse, Forbes, Fortune, Royal Bank of Scotland, Zurich Financial Services, Tetrapak, Unisys, BT, BBC, Fedex and DHL. He has also taught on executive / MBA programmes at seven Business Schools."
Secret of Business Success: most important value in world: "The message of this video will change your life and strengthen your business. Building a Better Business by building a better world. Show how you make a difference in the lives of your customers, clients, consumers. Biggest ethical test for every culture and every nation: creating a better world, improving life for people. This core value drives every political debate, underwrites all laws, and is the basis of all team leadership. It is impossible to lead effectively for long without using this principle: will the world be a better place as a result of this activity or not? It is the key to all effective management, marketing and motivation. The Better World principle applies to every industry including banking, retail, communication, technology, manufacturing, health care, construction, energy, transport and aviation."
Keynote Speakers - Secrets of Great Keynote Speakers and How Keynote Speakers can Make or Break Your Career
Watch video about high impact keynotes at conferences and events. How to select a great keynote speaker. How to make your conference one of the most successful and significant that anyone can remember.
Keynote Speakers Can Make or Break Your Career
Keynote speakers can make or break your corporate event, workshop or seminar. Get the best corporate lecturer around and your reputation as a conference organiser will shine like the sun.
Make a mistake with a keynote presentation in your conference programme and it's the end of your career. Great keynote speakers enable you to relax, knowing you will have a world-class keynote which will set up the entire conference for all that follows.
The trouble is that the best global authorities, writers and accademics can be the worst performers and keynote speakers when giving conference lectures in front of a live audience. Been there, heard that. It's hard to wow a sophisticated conference audience of senior executives or board members in a one keynote hour speech.
Capturing executive attention
Here is a highly adapted keynote for Globe Forum - 700 green tech entrepreneurs, investors and multinationals. Great keynote speakers are able to capture instant attention, with sharply relevant insights, just right for that audience, that conference, that part of the programme, backed by high-impact images or video on a big screen.
A poor keynote speaker is obvious immediately. There is no spark, no passion, no fire. No chemistry. You can feel the wave of disappointment. Energy levels fall. The keynote delivery is flat, pace is slow and the content difficult to follow or irrelevant.
Worst of all is a keynote speaker who reads from a script, or is constantly referring to detailed written notes on printed slides. Such a keynote speaker is high risk. Unable to really focus on the audience, so robbed of the most important insight of all - which is the ability to read the inner thoughts and feelings of hundreds of people simultaneously.
Sense the audience - mind reading - intuition
All great keynote speakers can sense the mood of an audience. They can see when an audience is engaged, amused, puzzled, worried, confused, bored, stimulated, entertained. They play an audience with the same skill as a world-class stage actor or comedian. They know when to linger on a point and when to move on.
World class keynote speakers have total mastery of their material, needing few prompts or reminders, able to move around freely without getting lost in their flow of thought. So they can spend all their intellectual effort in adapting their messages in real time as the presentation unfolds. World class speakers blend very familiar content (to them) with fresh and new material which has been developed for that audience alone.
Avoid lazy keynote speakers
Here is an example of a conference keynote which is totally customised for the audience (international journalists at Ricoh media event).
Sadly, some conference speakers are lazy and arrogant: they rely on identical sets of slides from one event to the next. For them, customisation means only changing the cover slide. They rarely bother to attend dinner the night before or to engage in meaningful conversations with participants before they go on stage.
Lazy conference speakers are anti-social: they spend little time talking with the event organiser, CEO and others before arrival. They fail to listen to the sessions before, or to adapt their material to respond to what has been said previously. They fail to understand the story-line or "red thread" running through the event, and their place within it. They often arrive late and leave as soon as they possibly can after walking off the platform.
Of course, all in-demand conference speakers have numbers of days each year when their schedules are so tight, that the only way they can sqeeze in your event is by spending less time at your conference than they would usually like. But the real issue is heart attitude: does this conference speaker really get what you are wanting to achieve? Are they really interested serving you, or are you serving them?
Serving you in your success
The best keynote speakers see their role as servants not prima-donnas. They may be very well-known celebrities on the conference speaker circuit, but they are always willing to do what they can to ensure the whole event is an outstanding success. They are helpful, courteous, friendly, considerate of support teams and technicians, and take good care of the most important people to the client.
Event organisers should demand:
* World class keynote presentation content
* Conference lectures that make people think in radical ways
* Immediate practical take-home messages from every presentation
* Total focus on the interests of the audience in every conference speech
* Lecturer fits keynote material into whole theme of conference
* Interesting, entertaining, dynamic
* Kind of corporate keynote presentation where conference audiences want more
* Outstanding visuals - innovative use of images / video and other elements, adapted to stretch the full capability of all the technology / screens available
Future Trends, Growth Strategy, Change Management
"Take hold of your future - or the future will take hold of you"
One of the greatest risks to any business is institutional blindness - too much time with people who have a similar world view. See video above for Nokia.
Patrick Dixon is one of the world's leading keynote speakers and has advised many of the world's largest corporations on a wide range of strategic issues and trends. A well-recognised authority on growth strategy, trends and change management, he is often described as Europe's leading Futurist. As a corporate keynote lecturer at large global events, Dr Dixon aims to help conference participants touch and feel the future with multimedia keynote presentations on every aspect of what tomorrow's management challenges may be like.
Every great leader spends time considering the future: vision and strategy must be based on deep understanding of what the world is today and what it could become tomorrow. All successful business leaders are experts on consumer and competitor trends and have an intuitive feel for where those trends may change most significantly.
Every keynote speaker should bring change to an organisation. It's not enough for a futurist to make informed guesses or detached, philosophical comments on public platforms, or as part of workshops, seminars, think tanks or client events. A successful futurist has to be able to see, feel and taste the future and communicate different scenarios in ways that are relevant, realistic, down to earth and life-changing.
No conference keynote speaker on the future can predict specific events such as the exact moment to buy or sell a stock, but (despite many uncertainties) underlying mega-trends are vital for every corporation. The key for a successful corporate lecturer is not only being able to interpret the outworking of those trends and to be as accurate as possible about timescale, but also to be an interesting, entertaining and mind-stretching speaker.
Designing a great corporate event is an art, and great executive conferences are rare. The secret of success is a great opening visionary lecture that sets the scene, and creates the whole atmosphere, energy and drive for the conference. A great speaker brings an electricity into the conference auditorium almost before they begin to speak, instantly grabbing attention and carrying conference participants along on the crest of a wave to a wonderful climax.
Great presentations are hard work, physically, mentally and emotionally - for the speaker of course - but should also be stimulating, enervating, exciting and engaging for senior executives.
YouTube videos of conference keynote presentations on various issues:
Economics, Finance & Financial Services Banking - many of Patrick's clients are global banks, investment funds Economics issues - Patrick creates a big picture of global trends Insurance - Patrick has worked with many of the world's largest insurers
Marketing Advertising - why traditional approaches are dead in an online world Customers - how customer demands are changing and why Customer focus - why many corporations need a reality check, to succeed in future Marketing - future of marketing and brand development
Travel, Tourism, Energy, Resources and Environment Travel - future of aviation, road, rail, shipping - for business and leisure Biofuels - food for fuel? Next generation biofuels. Commodities - impact of emerging markets Energy industry - future energy from oil, gas, coal, nuclear, renewables Petrochemical industry - how the industry will change and why Climate change - why the future is about emotion, not just the science Sustainability - what does it mean for your business?
Other Topics and Types of Audience Real estate - key trends in commercial and residential real estate industries Retailing - developing the customer experience
Looking for other topics? Search on Patrick Dixon's YouTube Futurist channel.
Dr Patrick Dixon chairing conferences and running panel interviews
Nokia, AT&T, Vodafone, O2, Belgacom, BT, AIC Carriers World, Mobilcom, MTN, Amdocs, Carlton TV, Etisalat Telecom (UAE), Idea Cellular, i-Comverse, Loral (satellites), Telenor, Times of India, Qualcomm, SABC (S Africa), TDC
Banking
HSBC, UBS, Credit Suisse, RBS, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds TSB, Skandia Bank, ABSA bank, Bank of Ireland, Britania Building Society, Clariden Bank, ABN AMRO, CUES, Fortis, Friends First Bank, Macquarie Bank, Minsheng Bank, Morgan Stanley Investment Bank, North Island Credit Union, PrivatBank (Ukraine), RMB, Saga, SEB, Skandia, Sumitomo Bank, Bank Vontobel,
Insurance and other Financial Services
Allianz, Aviva, Prudential, Munich Re, Swiss Re, Zurich Financial Services, Swiss Stock Exchange, 3i, AA (UK), AIG, Roularta, ICBI - fund managers, Asset Management Advisors, Income (Singapore), Birla financial services group, International Mutual Funds Institute, Kazakstan Investment Forum, Lombard, Morley Fund, Saga, Acromas, Winterthur Insurance, Family Office, Kiln Group
Transport - Airlines, Travel, Shipping, Hotels, Tourism and Automotive Industry
Air France, KLM, Airbus, Swiss Airline, Virgin Atlantic, Dassault Falcon, Association of Corporate Travel Executives, Automobile Recycling Netherlands (ARN), Dubai Ports Authority, EADS, Ford, Hotel Ecoliere de Lausanne, Portuguese Tourist Board, Reg Vardy - auto sales, Saga, Stagecoach, Tourism in Ireland, North West Tourism, World Economic Forum Governors of Aviation Travel and Tourism meeting (Davos)
Logistics, Distribution, Supply Chain Management, Packaging Industry
Fedex, DHL, ISS, Danish Post Office, Deutsche Poste, Swedish Poste, UK Post Office, IBS, Rexam, Tetrapak
Energy, Chemical Industry, Mining, Metals, other Commodities
BP, ExxonMobil, General Electric, BASF, Copesul (Brazil), European Petrochemical Association (EPCA), Hindalco, Houston Energy Forum, Royal Dutch Chemical Association, SHV Gas, Sulzer, Vattenfall, Veitch
Food and Drink
Carlsburg, Unilever, Kraft Jacobs Suchard, Sara Lee, Diageo, Danone, Femsa, Bord Bia - Irish Food Board, European Coffee Federation, Food Business Forum, Nutreco, RPC, Schwan's Frozen Foods, Tetrapak
Health Care, Pharmaceutical Industry, Medical Technology and Cosmetics / Lifestyle
GSK, Roche, Novartis, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Gillette, Johnson and Johnson, 3M - dentistry, Avon, Siemens Medical, Phillips Diagnostics, BUPA, Coloplast, Genentech, Henry Schein, ICPM - International Conference of Pharmaceutical Medicine, NHS, Smith and Nephew, St Joseph's Hospital Foundation Ontario, Voluntary Hospitals Association, Institute of Clinical Research
Government and UN
World Bank, UNIDO, UNAIDS, EU, US Federal Government (Pentagon), Abu Dhabi Police Authority, UK Department of Trade and Industry, Irish government, South Korea Ministry of Knowledge and Economy, Jebel Ali Free Zone (UAE), Kazakhstan government, Lithuanian government, Portuguese government, State of Connecticut, Welsh Assembly, UK Parliament, London Connect
Marketing, Advertising and Design
McCann Erikson, Belgium Marketing Federation, Danish Design Centre, Marketing Forum Turkey, Finland Marketing Federation, Malta Marketing Association, Pinnacle Communications, Portugese Marketing Association, Marketing Communication Consultants Association (MCCA), plus many presentations on marketing / brand to clients in other lists
Professional Firms - Law / Legal / Accounting
Accenture, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Charles Russell, Eversheds, Freshfields, Linklaters, Regulatory Affairs Professional Organisation
Management, Consulting, Training, Service Organisations
Forbes, Fortune, American Management Association, American Society for Training and Development, ISS, CIONet, Concours Group, CSC Consulting, European Federation of Management Development, European Federation of Facilities Management, European School of Management and Technology, European Institute for Research Management, Globe Forum, Global Future Forum, HMS, IBEC (Ireland), ICBI, Indian School of Business, Informa, Institute of Management, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, ISS, KPMG, Latitude, Leading Edge Strategy Group, Leadership Trust, Linkage, Management Centre Europe, Management Centre Turkey, MPI - Meetings Professionals International, POM+, P Richmond Events, Ruling Companies, Said Business School Oxford, ServiceMaster, Schweizerische Gesellschaft fur Organisation, Stan Am Rheim Leadership Summit, Strategos, University of Salford Management School, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Belgium, Wheaton College, ZFU
Real Estate / Construction / Engineering
Balfour Beatty, Corenet Global, Johnson Controls, Knight Frank, Siemens Group, Urban Land Institute (ULI), Anglian Circle Housing Association
Retail, Textiles, Engineering, and some other Manufacturing - note: many manufacturers classified under industries above
Oxxo, Femsa, Aditya Birla, American Apparel Manufacturers Association, C&A group, Rieter, Saks Group Inc
Non-Profit Organisations
American Association of Retired People (AARP), AIDS Care Education and Training (ACET), UK Church Commissioners, Premier Radio, Tear Fund, Transformational Business Network (TBN), Trinity Forum, Sustainability Forum, Young Presidents Organisation (YPO)
