You can’t predict tomorrow, but you can prepare for it. For over 30 years, I’ve equipped leaders, boards, and organisations worldwide to navigate disruption and shape the future with clarity and confidence.
I’ve delivered 2,800+ keynotes across 160 industries, from global icons like Visa, BP, and Call of Duty to associations, mid-sized enterprises, and emerging businesses. I’ve worked across diverse sectors: finance, health, education, energy, tourism, manufacturing, retail, and beyond. Whatever the size, stage, or industry, the challenge is always the same: how to turn uncertainty into strategy and action today.
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- Immediate Futures™ – turning signals of change into practical next steps in real time
- HUMAND™ – rethinking the future of work with human-centric leadership, change management, and AI
- Ripple Effects – mapping innovation and disruption, and the consequences you can and can’t see ahead
- PTFA (Past Trauma, Future Anxiety) – explaining what holds people back from change, and how to move forward
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TL;DR
South Australia has launched EdChat, the nation’s first safe AI chatbot for schools. It’s not just an education trial, it’s a signal for every industry.
If one of the most conservative, regulated systems on earth can open the door to AI, what’s stopping you?
Stop banning, stop fearing, start preparing.
Education: The Last Place You’d Expect
Education systems are notorious for being the laggards of change. Heavily regulated, bound by tradition, curriculum-locked.
The kind of institutions you expect to resist, not embrace, disruptive technologies.
And yet, South Australia just launched EdChat: a generative AI chatbot, co-developed with Microsoft, designed specifically for classrooms.
It’s a nation-first, built with strict safety guardrails, local data storage, and curriculum alignment.
At the exact moment most states reached for the ban button, South Australia flipped the script: If schools can tame AI, what’s your excuse?
The Reflex to Ban
Every new technology has triggered the same defensive reflex.
- PCs? Banned in classrooms.
- The internet? Blocked on school networks.
- Mobile phones? Confiscated.
- Social media? Demonised.
- Even radio and television once carried the same fear.
Each was met with moral panic and prohibition, what I call PTFA (Past Trauma, Future Anxiety).
Adults projecting yesterday’s scars onto tomorrow’s children.
But bans never last.
Technology always wins.
Students always adapt faster than institutions. The only question is whether we choose to prepare them, or leave them to figure it out alone.
Read: Fear-Based Tech Parenting
HUMAND™ in the Classroom
For more than 30 years, I’ve argued that the future of work and education is not about humans versus technology. It’s about humans, machines, and AI working together, what I call HUMAND™.
- Humans (teachers) provide wisdom, creativity, mentoring, empathy.
- Machines take on the routine, structured, and administrative.
- AI scaffolds learning, providing instant feedback, generating ideas, and tailoring support.
EdChat is HUMAND in practice. It doesn’t replace teachers. It amplifies them. It doesn’t worship AI as a god, nor fear it as a threat.
It positions AI as a tool for human growth - framed, filtered, and directed by educators.
Read: Future of Education – Balancing AI and Human Ingenuity