Keynote speaker helping leadership teams
think clearly about the next five years
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Matt O'Neill is a keynote speaker and futurist. He helps mixed leadership teams think clearly about where the next five years is taking them and what it asks of them as leaders and as people. Audiences leave with a clear and practical picture of what leading well actually looks like from here.
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Built to Thrive gives leadership teams a practical framework for 2030 across four domains: work, mind, connection and meaning. It's an honest look at what the next five years requires of people in senior roles, and what they need to hold onto in themselves and their teams to lead well through it.
Audiences leave with MattOS, a personal blueprint for the five capacities that make humans irreplaceable as AI takes more off their plate.
I've been a professional futurist since 2017 and an entrepreneur since 2001. In that time I've delivered keynotes across financial services, technology, healthcare, manufacturing and professional services, to audiences ranging from 50 to 2,500.
Most of my work is for mixed leadership rooms - away days, management conferences, strategy events - where the brief is to make people think differently about where they're heading without leaving them overwhelmed or unconvinced.
I'm not an AI expert who discovered speaking. I'm a futurist whose current work happens to be focused on the most significant shift most of us will see in our working lives. That's a different thing and audiences feel the difference. I bring stories, playfulness and lots of audience interaction to every stage.
"We left the strategy day with everyone excited about the future, the direction we are taking and the tools available to help us succeed. In the following days I have had countless conversations with my colleagues on how motivated they feel."
Steve Jones
Chief Executive, Wyboston Lakes
"I thoroughly enjoyed your session and haven't stopped talking about it to anyone who will listen and even those who don't."
Cyndi Hunter
Director of Sales, United Airlines
"One of our best-ever speakers. Professional, polished and provocative. What more could you want from a futurist?"
Executive Vice President
Team Lewis (Global Communications Firm)
"Matt has a wealth of knowledge in the area of AI and is able to impart this in a way that is understood by all levels of experience. He is high energy and thought provoking."
Sarah Draycott
L&D Lead, Warburtons
A practical guide to thinking clearly about where the world is heading and what to do about it. Written for leaders who want to move beyond the noise and develop their own view of the future.
"Matt's creativity and courage shines through. With his rich experience in the practical world of business, he sees things both as they are and as they might become."
David W. Wood, Chair of London Futurists
