Ross Dawson
PROFILE
Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author.
Strong demand for Ross’s expertise has seen him deliver keynote speeches and executive workshops in over 30 countries across six continents and consult to leading organizations worldwide such as American Express, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Dubai Ministry of Finance, EY, Gartner, Google, Macquarie Bank, News Limited, Procter & Gamble, PwC, Star Alliance, Visa and many other leading organizations.
He is Founding Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies Group of companies, which includes professional services and publishing units, futures consultancy Future Exploration Network, and Bondi Innovation Alliance.
He is author of five books, including most recently Thriving on Overload and the acclaimed Living Networks, which The New York Times credits with predicting the social networking revolution.
Ross’s frequent media appearances include CNN, Bloomberg TV, SkyNews, European Business Network, Channel News Asia, ABC TV, Today and Sunrise shows, New York Times, The Guardian and many others. Ross has been named as one of the most influential people in the world on topics including the future of work, fintech, crowdfunding, and Enterprise 2.0.
Ross has run executive education programs and lectured at numerous academic institutions around the world, including the University of Virginia, Australian Graduate School of Management, Singapore Institute of Management, Institute of Banking and Finance, Institute of Company Directors Malaysia and Singularity University in Silicon Valley, and is faculty for the innovation programs of Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Previously Ross worked in senior positions in London, Tokyo and Sydney with organizations including Merrill Lynch, NCR and most recently Thomson Financial as Global Director – Capital Markets. He has extensive international business experience and speaks five languages.
SPEAKING TOPICS
AI and the Future of Work
The present and the future of work and organizations must be centered on how humans and machines can together vastly exceed the capabilities of either alone. Dawson brings his incisive thinking and engaging style to share useful frameworks, guiding principles, and action plans to tap the potential of Humans + AI. Individuals need to learn the skills that will allow them to dramatically amplify their unique capabilities. Leaders and organizations must design new structures, workflows, and enabling cultures that seamlessly integrate humans and technology to generate unprecedented value.
Thriving on Overload
Massive information overload is the defining feature of our age. The incessant deluge threatens to drown us, yet within its excess lies almost everything of value today. The capacity to thrive on limitless information is now the single most important capability for success, yielding not just powerful insight, world-leading expertise, and better decisions, but also improved wellbeing.
Author of the acclaimed new book Thriving on Overload, world-leading management thinker and futurist Ross Dawson shares powerful, actionable prescriptions on how to flourish in an accelerating world, showing individuals and organizations how to achieve superior outcomes in their ventures, careers, investments, and lives.
Success in a World of Accelerating Change
The world is accelerating, driven by compounding knowledge, social shifts, and exponential technologies. We must – and we can – thrive in this extraordinary world by learning to amplify our capabilities. This is about mindset, but it is also about understanding the competences we need to develop, and the practices that will keep us ahead as we move into an amazing future.
Creating the Future of Work and Organizations
The world of work is changing at an extraordinary pace, driven by the rise of automation, connectivity, and data analytics, deep social and demographic shifts, acclerated by the powerful impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we hurtle into a dramatically different future of work, there remain deep uncertainties on key issues including the shape of the workplace post-pandemic, how swiftly machine capabilities will progress, social and regulatory responses to change, and the ability of organizations to adapt fast enough. An increasing divide will inevitably emerge between those companies flexible enough to tap the potential of an exceptionally fluid and dynamic workforce, and those stuck in old ways of working. Dawson offers guiding principles for leaders to forge a path forward for their organizations to prosper as the landscape of work is transformed.
The Next 25 Years
Peek into the future with a rollicking ride through the manifold possibilities and opportunities ahead during the most rapid shifts in human history. Building on the exponential progress of technology over the last decades, new possibilities such as quantum computing, DNA storage, smart dust, deep learning, immersive experience, cognitive augmentation, organic batteries, gene editing and additive manufacturing will transform work, society and indeed humanity. Extraordinary change is a given. It is up to us to focus on the immense positive opportunities ahead for us all, while acknowledging and addressing the challenges of disruptive change. The future is ours to create.
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