Below are examples of past speaking engagements delivered across industries and leadership forums. If you are planning a conference, executive retreat, or board session, I would be pleased to work with you to design a keynote that reflects your audience’s strategic priorities and delivers meaningful impact. Reach out to discuss how we can tailor a session specifically for your event.
Future Ready: driving innovation in a fast-changing economy
In an era defined by interconnected crises and accelerating disruption, this keynote invites leaders across industries to step back and contextualize change before reacting to it. Together, we will decode the evolving risk landscape of a true “polycrisis,” explore the structural trends that will reshape organizations over the next decade, and confront the blindspots and biases that quietly distort strategic decisions. Participants will learn how to detect weak signals beyond the noise, challenge inherited assumptions, and rethink their business models to unlock new revenue streams and operational efficiencies. Most importantly, the session equips executives with a practical toolkit to build a shared vision with their boards and stakeholders, anchoring a culture of agility, disciplined foresight, and strategic courage in an increasingly complex world.
Weak Signals: Finding Your Canary
We are living in an age of data abundance and insight scarcity. While dashboards multiply and information flows accelerate, the real competitive advantage lies in the ability to distinguish meaningful weak signals from background noise. Subtle anomalies, fringe innovations, or shifts at the margins often foreshadow significant transformation. When overlooked or dismissed, these early indicators can evolve into strategic shocks. Through compelling case studies and practical examples, this presentation demystifies the methodology and tools required to systematically detect, interpret, and act on the signals of the future, turning uncertainty into strategic foresight rather than reactive crisis management.
Competing in the 21st Century: How to Rethink, Redefine and Revamp Your Business Model
Across industries, agile new entrants are capturing market share at speed, while established organizations with decades of success often struggle to adapt at the same pace. The difference rarely lies in resources alone, but in mindset. Thriving in this environment requires the courage to question legacy business models, redefine the boundaries of competition, and re-imagine relationships with customers, ecosystems, and strategic partners. This session challenges leaders to step outside inherited assumptions and equips them with the strategic lenses needed to reinvent how and where they compete, before the market does it for them.
Strategic Blindspots
Even the most sophisticated organizations can miss the early signs that their environment is shifting. When strategy is shaped primarily by anecdotes, executive intuition, or past successes, decisions risk being anchored in bias rather than evidence. In such contexts, promising growth avenues may be prematurely dismissed, unconventional competitors underestimated, and emerging opportunities overlooked. This session explores the hidden cognitive and organizational biases that distort strategic judgment, and offers practical tools to strengthen decision quality, broaden perspective to think “out-of-the-box”, and ensure that future opportunities are not filtered out by yesterday’s assumptions.,
The Silver Economy
As populations age across continents, organizations and governments that learn how to understand, serve, and empower older generations will unlock one of the largest untapped growth markets of our time. “Extreme age” will reshape consumption patterns, workforce structures, healthcare models, financial services, housing, mobility, and lifestyle design. This session explores the emerging products, services, and business models built around longevity and challenges leaders to rethink assumptions about aging, independence, and value creation in a world where demographic gravity is quietly redefining opportunity.
Board Oversight of Artificial Intelligence
AI is no longer a tech trend, it’s a business imperative reshaping every industry. It is already having an impact in many corners of the business, whether boards have realized it or not: streamlining supply chains, personalizing customer experiences, detecting fraud, streamlining internal controls, and reshaping workforce dynamics. In the face of this seismic shift, boards that remain passive risk being blindsided. Countless boardrooms now realize they cannot treat AI as a buzzword instead of a decision that demands strategic oversight. This keynote covers the nine conversations boards should be having, and what posture an exceptional board member should adopt.
Governance in the eye of the social media hurricane
Social media have overtaken traditional means of communication to customers, employees and shareholders, yet few Boards have the tools and processes to allow the ability to respond to emerging crisis, or to tap to the opportunity to build resilience and connect directly to stakeholders. In this energetic session, we will demystify how (PR/ audit committee/boards/internal audit) are increasingly playing a role in that context and how their role is changing.
All keynote speeches, board briefings, and panel discussions are delivered in English or French and tailored specifically to your audience. Each engagement is carefully customized to reflect your industry context, strategic challenges, and the profile of participants, ensuring a session that feels relevant, thought provoking, and directly applicable to your event objectives.
