Stop Predicting the Future. Provoke It
Forecasters flatten the future. Chris helps you do the opposite: expand perception, upgrade judgment, and lead with range.
Trusted by BlackRock, Unilever, and Oxford University's Saïd Business School when they need to see the future from all sides.
Why Book Chris
The NewGeo LensTM
The future isn’t linear—it’s a landscape of competing truths.
Chris challenges leaders to step outside inherited mental maps and see the future through multiple, often conflicting lenses: tech futurists, philosophers, policymakers, environmentalists, and more. Each view reveals truth—and exposes blind spots.
Through vivid stories and live synthesis, Chris helps leaders surface insights that only emerge when you hold complexity long enough to make sense of it. He doesn’t just speak—through every keynote, he summons a temporary Basecamp: a space for deeper thought, shared sensemaking, and sharper decisions.
See beyond singular views; ditch the false comfort of forecasts. Act from a deeper clarity—clarity of perspective and purpose—even when the terrain remains uncertain.
Key Insights & Takeaways
See The Future From All Sides
Learn how to integrate diverse viewpoints into your holistic vision of what’s next.
See The Future Is Now
Tear up the idea that the future is a distant horizon. Chris makes plain the immediate choice in front of all of us: be map-takers or map-makers. Our beliefs and decisions today will either trap us in old paradigms or pull us into fresh possibilities.
Lead The Future Together
The ability to convene others—across perspectives, silos, and agendas—is the leadership superpower of this age. Chris shows how to build spaces where multiple truths can surface, tensions can be held, and wiser paths can be taken—together.
Why I Do This Work
Because our ability to think together is in crisis.
We face problems too complex to solve alone—but the social spaces where we make sense together are vanishing.
Common knowledge? Fractured into contested claims.
Politics? Splintered into warring tribes.
Public spaces? Shrinking or privatizing.
The gap between opportunity and precarity? Wider every day.
What’s disappearing isn’t just trust—it’s the very habitat where shared understanding can grow.
I do this work to help restore that habitat.
To create spaces—on stage, across organisations and society—where multiple perspectives can coexist, deeper truths can surface, and new meaning can be made together.
Not to predict the future.
To reweave the social fabric we need to create it.
Thought Partner to the World's Leading Companies
TED Talk
Chris's visionary TED Talk, Truth in the Age of Social Media, flipped the script on the stale debate between facts and misinformation. Delivered in 2019, Chris correctly anticipated today's media environment and set forth his solution: We can't fact-check all the lies; instead, we need to build stronger truths—together.
Age of Discovery
Age Of Discovery: Navigating The Storms Of Our Second Renaissance is Chris's international best-selling guide to the 21st century.
Now is humanity’s best moment. And our most fragile. The same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others. And they tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable.
In the face of all our crises, we can flourish. Age of Discovery shows us how.
How to Basecamp: Your Power to Convene
How to Basecamp is Chris's guidebook for unlocking the collective intelligence of your team, company, or community. It distills lessons from thousands of people across hundreds of endeavours into a practical, proven set of practices.
You have the power to convene. Now's the time to bring it forth—boldly, and wisely.
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