Threat or opportunity.
It’s your choice.
What We Do
We are interested in radical change. How to manage, create and avoid it. Our goal is to improve change capability and leadership performance in all domains our species touches.
Change Identification
In our world of radical change, you can’t avoid disruption. The challenges leaders face daily will only accelerate and grow. We must cause, lean into and work with the forces that surround us. Without more transformational leaders, businesses and governments will be thrown off their game.
There are no common, proven methods and practices on how to lead and manage others and organizations through this severe turbulence — while delivering outsized performance.
Change Instigation
We are the global resource for harnessing radical change to maximize business and government performance.
We have Centers in 5 key regions of the world that create research, apply best practices, and leverage our global network of Radical Change Agents on significant projects involving systemic social, economic and technological change to unlock the breakthroughs our species needs to thrive.
Change Leadership
Grow your options and potential, no matter what happens. We help you to create the connections, build the competencies and the action plans your organization needs to build your best possible future.
How We Serve
Alliance for Tomorrow
Strategic Advisory
Change Skills
Through our global networking event series, we facilitate a global community for change agents, leaders, researchers, and practitioners with the goal of identifying and disseminating best practices and linking people and teams on projects that matter.
We also elevate and publish important voices in our community.
Our radical change agents work with leaders in times of transformation in one-on-one or small group engagements to better manage risk taking and risk management in your organization.
The Center researches and disseminates best practices in transformational leadership.
We provide coaching and mentoring to maximize your longterm outcomes.
We also provide training and speaking to scale the transformations you must make.
What’s your disruption strategy?
We invite you to join our global effort and cause.
Our Radical Change Agents
Our leadership bring over sixty years of thought leadership, executive leadership, training and client projects experience both inside and external to organizations.
JONATHAN BRILL,
Founder & Executive Chairman
Jonathan Brill speaks, writes, and advises on how to create, manage and turn radical change to your advantage. Brill is an expert on strategic foresight and technology innovation. His warm style, compelling stories, and intellectual rigor inspire visionaries and open even the most hard-boiled executives to new ways of thinking and doing.
Harvard Business Review recently called Brill, “The world’s leading transformation architect.” His visionary, yet pragmatic approach to the future is based on years as the Global Futurist at HP where he directed long-term strategy and planning. He is the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute and Board Advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms, with offices in 46 countries.
He is the author of Rogue Waves, Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill), the #2 selling economics book in China. The Economist called it, “A very important book for managers.” and Adam Grant called it, “An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.” He has taught the techniques in it to over 27,000 executives, ranging from startups to the Fortune 500 to the United States Secret Service.
Inc. magazine called Brill “A Silicon Valley legend.” because his innovation consultancies developed over 350 products and generated over $27B USD for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the US government. These projects have ranged from AI, search engines, and metaverse technologies to theme park rides and design of the US Pavilion at the 2015 World's Fair (Expo Milano) to Taco Bell’s Gordita.
He is a frequent thought leader, speaker and contributor to HBR, TED, Global Peter Drucker Forum, SCMP, SXSW, J.P. Morgan, Singularity, Forbes, Korn Ferry, The Economist Global Business Report, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, Fast Company, The Project Management Institute, Brightline and Thinkers50. He has educated corporate leaders at Harvard and Stanford Universities.
He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab and in management training at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
NIKI SKENE,
Global Change Agent
Niki’s home is the whole world. As former TEDx Global Ambassador, he has been involved in over 100 TEDx events on every continent and was the curator of TEDx San Francisco. He travels 300 days a year with Conference on Wheels. His unique global connectivity has enabled him to lead innovation and strategy fieldwork on every inhabited continent.
Niki is a serial entrepreneur, he is the founder of our strategic partner Conference on Wheels. He has started eight companies, ranging from advertising to sustainability, from public speaker training to a global community of technologists. Most are still operating today.
He is passionate about being meaningful and relevant in other people’s lives. “If after we have met, nothing has changed, then I have wasted your time.”