Patrick Dixon

Patrick Dixon is often described in the media as Europe's leading futurist. He is a dynamic, provocative and entertaining speaker who advises many of the world's largest corporations on key trends, managing uncertainty, identifying risk and developing opportunities. He digs deep into the strategy of each organization, and creates a unique presentation for each event. He has successfully identified hundreds of future business innovations.

Dr. Dixon's new book with coauthor Johan Gorecki is titled "SustainAgility: How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies will Protect Our Future."

"SustainAgility" is a down-to-earth, step by step guide to hundreds of the most important ways in which business will help save the world. It's about a new wave of lower cost, green innovation. It's about harnessing the inventive talent and agility in every nation, office, factory and home.

Almost all books about sustainability are at core a warning of doom, with calls for action on a scale that global leaders are very unlikely to accept. In contrast, "SustainAgility" is a practical guide to a better future, which can be turned by business and government into action right now, at low or zero cost in many cases.

He was ranked as one of the world's 20 most influential business thinkers alive by Thinkers 50 (2005). He is a successful entrepreneur and physician by first training and author of 15 books in 27 languages including "Futurewise and Building A Better Business." His websites have had 13.5 million unique visitors and over 4 million have watched his videos.

His approach is highly energetic, informal and interactive, and engages full attention of large and small audiences from the first moment. He raises profound and sometimes disturbing issues, with warmth, passion and humour as he walks the stage and amongst participants. He brings a reality check to multi-year business plans, with sharp consumer insights and amusing stories about life and how it will change.

Every multimedia presentation is unique, created in close consultation with event organizers, adapted to audience, language, culture, theme, program and strategic priorities of the sponsor. He is often involved at an early stage in event planning and pays close attention to detail. He is also a gifted event chairman and group moderator. He is a very experienced broadcaster and totally committed to working with event organizers to secure maximum media coverage, working in every way to make the event a world-class success.

This extraordinary 3D audience experience is created using a transparent screen 3m to 100m wide and up to 20m high (Musion system). Participants do not need special glasses. Solid-looking objects, stage scenery, video and images appear in front or behind Patrick Dixon, manipulated by him as part of an unfolding story about tomorrow's world and the impact on your own corporation. Multiple elements twist and float mid-air, towards or away from the audience. The system also allows speakers at remote sites to walk onstage as life-size "real" people and to interact with others.

Around half of Patrick Dixon's presentations are in-house events for senior leaders, and include detailed research into company priorities, strategy and wider environment. He delivers vitally important insights, specific to each corporation. Patrick Dixon has worked with hundreds of multinationals in over 50 nations, across every industry.

Dixon is inspirational and creates urgency as well as energy in those who listen, spurring them on to embrace change, make a difference and "go for it". His presentations reflect his own passion for life, and compassion for people.

As a hospice physician by first training, Dr Dixons approach is always holistic, seeing business in the wider context of what we feel is important in our personal lives. His presentations are a refreshing antidote to formal speeches, analyst reports, business unit summaries and excel spreadsheets.

Dixon is the author of 15 books, including "Futurewise: The Six Faces of Global Chang," which just released in its fourth edition, and "Building a Better Business: The Key To Future Marketing, Management And Motivation." His latest book is on Global Warming and business responses to climate change.

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