Jack Uldrich: Innovation Futurist
Jack Uldrich delivers future-focused keynotes that help leaders unlearn outdated assumptions, embrace exponential technologies, and thrive amid rapid disruption.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Internationally recognized futurist and best-selling author
- Former naval intelligence officer, government planner, and policy advisor
- Delivers 100-plus presentations annually to Fortune 500 companies and top global organizations
- Expert in AI, robotics, nanotechnology, and exponential technological trends
- Creator of signature keynotes including The Big AHA, The RE Generation, and The Future Requires Unlearning
- Formats: Keynote, Board Briefings, Workshops, Virtual.
- Audiences: Executive teams, boards, innovation leaders, government agencies, and organizations preparing for rapid technological disruption.
- Outcomes:
- A clear understanding of how exponential technologies are reshaping industries and decision-making.
- A practical framework for unlearning outdated assumptions and adopting future-ready strategies.
- Renewed confidence and creativity for leading teams through volatile, fast-changing environments.
- Travels from: Minneapolis, MN
- **Fee range: On Request
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Keynote Topics:
Thriving Today and Tomorrow
How to Think About the Trends Transforming Society
In this fast-paced, energetic keynote, global futurist and best-selling author Jack Uldrich will deliver a tailor-made presentation designed to entice people to think more broadly about the trends transforming their world.
Uldrich will then provide tangible tools and techniques to help leaders leverage the transformation and turn it to their advantage.
The RE Generation
The Coming Age of Reimagination, Reconnection, and Regeneration
The “RE Generation” is a generation not defined by age but rather by ethos and action.
There exists a growing cadre of individuals, business, corporations, organizations, and not-for-profits that are reimagining the world of tomorrow, reconnectioning to the things that matter most in life, and are fashioning a truly regenerative future.
In this engaging, optimistic, and heart-lifting keynote presentation, global futurist and best-selling author Jack Uldrich will not only explain how the “RE Generation” is remaking the world and what this means for you and your organization, Uldrich will explain how you can (and should) become part of the RE Generation.
The Big AHA
How to Future-Proof Your Business Against Tomorrow’s Transformational Trends, Today
In the near future, the greatest change will be the accelerating rate of change itself. In this enlightening, entertaining and educational session, Jack shares insights from his book, Business as Unusual: How to Future-Proof Yourself Against Tomorrow’s Transformational Trends, Today.
He outlines the ten trends that will transform the world of tomorrow. Jack also identifies concrete actions businesses can take today to future-proof themselves against “the tides of tomorrow.”
Other Topics
- Business as Unusual: How to Future-Proof Your Business in
- Transformational Times
- A More Beautiful Future: Why it Matters and How to Create It
- Foresight 20/20: Ten Trends Transforming Tomorrow
- The Future Requires Unlearning
- How the Internet of Things Will Open Up a Future of Opportunity
- Vuja De: Strolling Backwards into the Future
- Question the Future!
- How to Think Like a Futurist
- The “Un-Economist”
Talent Short Bio
Jack Uldrich is an award-winning futurist, scholar, and best-selling author with over a decade of experience empowering leaders to anticipate and master unprecedented change. Drawing from his time as a naval intelligence officer, government planner, and policy advisor, he has become known globally as the “Chief Unlearning Officer.” Uldrich specializes in helping organizations embrace transformation through bold, creative thinking.
Uldrich speaks more than 100 times a year before Fortune 500 boards, governments, and innovative organizations, translating exponential technologies such as AI, nanotech, and robotics into tangible strategies. He challenges leaders to let go of outdated assumptions, leap curves, and craft businesses that flourish amid volatility.
His signature keynotes like The Big AHA, The RE Generation, and The Future Requires Unlearning blend storytelling, energy, and practical takeaways. Uldrich’s style is both inspiring and grounded: he urges you to unlearn strategies that no longer serve you, while arming you with concrete steps to reimagine leadership in our accelerating future.
Read Full Bio
Jack Uldrich is a well recognized global futurist, speaker, and author of eleven books, including a number of award winning best sellers.
He is a frequent speaker on technology, change management and leadership and has addressed hundreds of corporations, associations and not-for-profit organizations on five continents.
He regularly makes television appearances on the Science Channel’s “FutureScape” program and the Discovery Channel show “Inside Out,” and is a frequent guest on major media outlets, including CNN, CNBC and National Public Radio.
Jack is also an ongoing contributor on emerging technologies and future trends for a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired Magazine and BusinessWeek.
Uldrich is a popular keynote speaker who delivers thought-provoking presentations on topics such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, virtual reality, nanotechnology, and other disruptive innovations.
As a futurist, Jack Uldrich helps organizations and individuals understand the profound changes that lie ahead and develop strategies to adapt and thrive in an increasingly complex and uncertain world.
He emphasizes the importance of embracing change, unlearning outdated beliefs and assumptions, and adopting a forward-thinking mindset.Jack is a former naval intelligence officer and Defense Department official. He previously served as the director of the Minnesota Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning.
His most recent book is Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow and his forthcoming book is Business as Unusual: How to Future Proof Yourself Against Tomorrow’s Transformational Trends, Today.
Jack Uldrich paints vivid pictures of what the world may look like in just a few short years.
He provides an in-depth exploration of how the “Internet of Things,” ‘Big Data,” social media, robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, renewable energy and “collaborative consumption” will change everyday life for all of us in the very near future.
And he follows through with upbeat, practical and actionable insights on future trends, emerging technologies, innovation, change management and leadership.
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