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Let’s Decode The Future Together

I spend a lot of time on stages speak to organizations about today… and tomorrow.

From packed arenas to hotel ballrooms to intimate leadership retreats and boardrooms – my goal has always been the same: to provoke thought, spark action, and leave your team understanding a better path forward.
But here’s the thing: a keynote isn’t just about giving people answers.

It’s about giving them better questions.

Questions that help them rethink the way they lead, communicate, innovate, and show up in a world that’s changing faster than most organizations can adapt.
Below is a window into the types of conversations I believe we need to be having at our business events.

It’s about the Intimacy Economy – the shift from mass attention to deep connection.

It’s about how AI isn’t coming for your job, but your thinking.
It’s about why sameness is a threat, and how brands can still be original in a world drowning in derivative content.
It’s about the new rules of engagement for businesses who want to stay relevant when the algorithms keep changing.

My new keynote speaking reel just gives you a taste.

If it resonates, great (please let me know).
If not, no worries – I’m still going to keep showing up, writing, podcasting, and speaking, because I believe the right ideas, in the right hands, can change everything.
And maybe – just maybe – your team or event needs a little provocation like this.

Take a look… and let me know…

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.