James Taylor

Topics: Trends, Leadership, Future of Work, Sustainability, Environment, Ethics, Diversity

Perfect for: Global Conferences, Client-Facing Events, Corporate Meetings, Women Leadership Events

How we do business is evolving as we face a climate and sustainability crisis. Meanwhile workplaces are transforming through diversity and inclusion. Industries are being disrupted by artificial intelligence and robotics. The future depends on what we do in the present but it depends on making the right choices.

The Ethical Futurists™ is a unique pairing of two of today’s leading thinkers; Alison Burns and James Taylor. In their inspiring, entertaining and highly visual co-keynote they will take you on a journey to discover how the world’s most ethical companies are transforming their industries and achieving sustainable growth.

Alison Burns is an award-winning performer, keynote speaker and expert in business ethics, sustainability and ethical leadership. For over 30 years, she has been a trailblazer in the fields of engineering, entertainment, technology and the law. Today as an Ethical Futurist™ she helps organisations and individuals think and act more ethically through her entertaining and inspiring keynote speeches on sustainability, environment, future trends, diversity, inclusion and the ethical implications of technology. James Taylor – who started his career managing high profile rock stars – is now an in-demand keynote speaker and internationally recognized leader in business creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence. For over 20 years, he has been advising CEO’s, entrepreneurs, educators, governments, leaders, writers and rockstars on how to design innovative organizations, unlock creative potential and build a sustainable future.

Whether you’re striving to develop an inclusive culture based on diversity and collaboration, or searching for insights from the world’s most ethical and sustainable organisations, The Ethical Futurists™ can help you on that transformation. Today consumers want to buy from brands which align with their values. Talent wants to work for organisations that do the right thing. Purpose-driven companies want to do well but also do good. The success of your organisation relies on you being an ethical leader. Inspiring and motivating your people on how we can all do well by doing good.

Your audience will learn:

• The link between sustainability, business ethics, company culture, and trust.
• How exponential technologies can help organisations achieve their sustainability goals.
• How to develop and implement technologies like AI in an ethical way.
• Why ethics are increasingly important from the boardroom to the customer.
• How to develop your own Ethical Purpose Statement™ to make a positive impact in the world.

Topic: Creativity, Innovation, Change, Artificial Intelligence

Perfect for: Global Conferences, Client-Facing Events, Corporate Meetings, Associations

Business is changing at the speed of light. Exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics are creating new disruptive business models almost overnight. In this new world, one where McKinsey & Co predict that 45 percent of jobs will be automated over the next 20 years, there is one distinctly human competitive advantage you and your people must leverage – your creativity. In this tailored, entertaining and highly visual one-of-a-kind keynote, James Taylor takes the audience on a journey to discover the backstage secrets of the world’s most creative individuals and innovative organizations.

Topic: Collaboration, Innovation, , Leadership, Change, Artificial Intelligence, Future Trends

Perfect for: Global Conferences, Client-Facing Events, Corporate Meetings, Associations

Today’s business landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins and robotics. They are transforming industries ranging from finance, retail and healthcare to engineering, construction and logistics. In this dynamic, entertaining and interactive keynote, James Taylor will guide you through a captivating exploration of how leaders and organisations are adapting to technological change. You will discover that, in this new world, your most valuable competitive advantage as a leader lies in your ability to foster creative collaboration between humans AND machines. This tailored and entertaining presentation is designed to inspire and equip you with the insights and strategies needed to be future-ready.

As we recover from a global pandemic, too many countries and companies remain locked in a cycle of low or flat productivity growth. The old methods for increasing productivity just don’t work in our hyper-connected world.

In SuperProductivity™, award-winning creativity and innovation keynote speaker James Taylor shares how any organisation can improve productivity by 20-25% through maximising collaboration. Only when our people are aligned and connected around a shared vision and mission can they achieve higher levels of productivity and unlock their full creative potential. In SuperProductivity™ James shows how to:

Learning Outcomes

• Boost your productivity by 10% while 6x employee engagement levels
• Build a more innovative, productive and creative organisational culture
• Discover why your top talent is up to eight times more productive than average employees.
• Develop new skills and mindsets to adapt to change, overcome challenges, lead effectively, and build trust amongst your team and stakeholders.

Topic: Creativity, Collaboration, Innovation

Perfect for: Internal Conferences, Offsite Retreats, Team Events

James Taylor’s immersive in-person or virtual workshops will help your team unlock creative potential, accelerate innovation, increase productivity and adapt to change. If your people have these challenges then James is perfect for your next corporate workshop:

• My team doesn’t collaborate well
• Our people need to be better creative problem-solvers
• We have good ideas but can’t make them happen
• Our business needs new ideas to grow sales
• We need to identify new opportunities

Workshop Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the five step process for developing your creativity
• Discover techniques for generating and developing innovative ideas
• Learn creative thinking skills to better evaluate new ideas
• Lead your team to unlock their creative potential
• Build a more innovative and creative culture at work

Why not invite top emcees, hosts and panel moderators Alison Burns & James Taylor (AKA The Ethical Futurists™) to co-host your next conference, meeting or event . Alison Burns has hosted for broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4, as well as acting as MC and host for both live in-person and virtual events. Meanwhile James Taylor has acted as virtual emcee for global clients including Cisco, Globant, Fractal Analytics, Micro Focus and multiple event production companies. Together they have hosted intimate events for 30 people all the way through to large multi-speaker virtual and hybrid conferences for tens of thousands. The experienced choice for:

• Conferences and Summits Emcees and Hosts
• Fireside Chats
• Panel Moderation