Daniel Burrus’ Sample Keynote Topics
Daniel Burrus has over three decades of being right about where things are going, which is evidenced by his long and diverse list of repeat clients. Daniel has worked with leaders from Fortune 500 companies, the Pentagon, and heads of State-delivering powerful insights and actionable strategies.
Daniel Burrus is a master at tailoring his presentations to the specific needs of your audience. As an innovative and impactful keynote speaker, Daniel will bring this expertise to your audience, blending timely and provocative knowledge with just the right amount of humor and motivation for presentations filled with information you can take away and use immediately to gain a competitive advantage.
*Keynote topics can also be adapted for virtual audiences.

Anticipatory Leadership: Use Hard Trends To Accelerate Innovation and Growth
As digital transformation continues to accelerate, reacting and responding to change, no matter how agile you are, is no longer good enough. Anticipatory Leaders use Hard Trends to identify and act on disruptions before they disrupt. They pre-solve problems before they occur and anticipate customer needs before their competition. As a result, disruptive change becomes a major competitive advantage.

Positive Disruption: Accelerate Sustainable Growth with Digital Transformation
Going forward, you will either be the disruptor or the disrupted! Unfortunately, most of us see disruption as negative because when an industry, organization, or career is disrupted, you’re forced to react, crisis-manage, put out fires, and make dramatic changes in an effort to keep up and offset the damage caused by the disrupting technology, company, or event.

Accelerating Growth: Leading With Strategic Foresight
There has never been more opportunity to accelerate profitable growth than there is today! In 2020, everyone was forced to use digital solutions in new ways, which dramatically accelerated the exponential pace of technology-driven change. Agility and adaptability are no longer enough! Accurately anticipating technological changes as well as customers’ changing needs provides the biggest advantage.

The Anticipatory Organization®: Elevate Planning, Accelerate Innovation, and Transform Results
Every business, regardless of its size, has a plan, just as most individuals have a plan of some kind. But having a plan does not guarantee success! Let’s face it, throughout history every business that either failed or experienced a dramatic decline had a plan!

Disruptive Innovation: The Megatrends That Are Changing Everything
The exponential pace of technology-driven change has been accelerated by as much as 10 years over the last eighteen months, advancing several Megatrends that are already in the process of changing every industry and business model we know. These Megatrends will continue to accelerate creating more opportunity, as well as potential disruptions, than any other time in history.

Ripe for Disruption: What the Future Holds for Business in 2023 and Beyond
Every business and every industry is like a deer looking into the headlights of a new rapid level of technology-driven disruption. Unlike the recent past, the speed and depth of this rapidly approaching disruption is moving far faster and will be far more profound. Reacting as quickly as you can, no matter how agile you are, will no longer be good enough.