Jake’s keynotes go beyond trends and predictions—delivering strategic insight leaders can act on immediately.
An intelligence-style geopolitical briefing on the deeper forces reshaping global power—great-power competition, shifting alliances, and what they mean for markets, supply chains, and strategy.
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Learn MoreGeopolitics keynote drawn from Jake's bestselling book on how ideas, identity, and nationalism returned to the center of global politics—and why conventional analysis keeps missing it.
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Learn MoreThe Forces That Will Reshape the Next Decade
What will actually matter over the next ten years? Jake takes audiences beyond the immediate news cycle to examine the geopolitical, technological, demographic, economic, security, and ideological forces most likely to shape the world through 2035.
From AI and automation to demographic divergence, resource competition, shifting centers of global power, energy transformation, and changing patterns of conflict, Jake explores not one prediction of the future but several plausible futures that leaders should be considering today.
What Leaders Need to Watch Now — and What May Come Next
Some audiences don’t want a timeless keynote. They want to understand what is happening right now. Designed as a highly current strategic briefing, the Global Risk Outlook examines the geopolitical developments, emerging technologies, economic-security issues, conflicts, and strategic disruptions most likely to affect organizations over the next 12–24 months.
Jake separates signal from noise, identifies potential inflection points, and explores how developments that appear unrelated may interact to create second- and third-order consequences. The presentation is continually updated and customized around the audience’s industry and geographic exposure. Think of it as an intelligence briefing for executives.
Technology, Energy, Supply Chains, and the Geopolitics of Business
The distinction between economics and national security is disappearing. Semiconductors, critical minerals, energy, trade, logistics networks, sanctions, industrial policy, tariffs, and access to technology have become instruments of geopolitical competition.
Jake explores how this new environment is changing the assumptions businesses once made about globalization, efficiency, market access, investment, supply-chain design, and political risk. For corporate leaders, the strategic question is no longer simply where can we grow? It is increasingly where are we exposed—and where could geopolitical disruption create unexpected advantage?
This keynote can be tailored for technology, manufacturing, finance, energy, aerospace, transportation, professional services, and other globally exposed industries.
Global Risk, Strategic Foresight, and the Decisions Facing Corporate Leaders
Geopolitical risk can no longer be delegated solely to government affairs or international teams. Wars, sanctions, technological competition, political instability, trade restrictions, cyber threats, regulatory fragmentation, and supply-chain disruption increasingly affect capital allocation, market access, corporate reputation, investment strategy, and long-term growth.
Designed for boards, CEOs, and senior leadership teams, this session translates complex geopolitical developments into the questions decision-makers actually need answered: Where are we exposed? Which assumptions could fail? What developments warrant leadership attention? And where might disruption create strategic opportunity?
How Great Leaders Decide When the Playbook Breaks
The most consequential leadership decisions rarely arrive with complete information. Drawing on more than two decades in intelligence, military operations, strategy, foresight, and executive advisory work, Jake explores how leaders can think and act when information is incomplete, conditions are changing rapidly, and the consequences of getting it wrong are significant.
The keynote examines assumptions, cognitive bias, competing interpretations, scenario thinking, strategic patience, adaptability, and the difference between managing risk and confronting genuine uncertainty.
Turning Uncertainty Into Action
The future rarely arrives without warning. Its earliest signals, however, are often weak, fragmented, contradictory, or easy to dismiss. Jake introduces audiences to practical techniques drawn from horizon scanning, intelligence analysis, strategic foresight, scenario development, and alternative futures to show how organizations can detect emerging change earlier.
But identifying change isn’t enough. The real challenge is converting foresight into decisions. What does this signal mean for us? Which assumptions should we reconsider? What would we do differently if this future began to emerge? This session can also be expanded into a workshop in which participants apply the methods directly to their organization or industry.
AI, Autonomy, Deterrence, and the Changing Character of Conflict
Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, space, cyber capabilities, information operations, and increasingly sophisticated sensor and weapons networks are transforming national security. But technology alone does not determine strategic outcomes.
Jake explores how emerging technology is interacting with geopolitics, ideology, organizational culture, deterrence, and human decision-making to change the character of competition and conflict. Designed for defense, aerospace, government, technology, and national-security audiences, the keynote asks not simply what the next generation of technology can do—but how it may change strategy itself.
What Global Change Means for Your Business
Every industry experiences geopolitical disruption differently. A financial institution faces different vulnerabilities than an aerospace company. A manufacturer has different exposures than a healthcare system, technology company, energy producer, or transportation network.
This highly customized keynote begins with the client rather than with a predetermined presentation. Jake examines the geopolitical, technological, regulatory, demographic, economic-security, and strategic forces most relevant to the organization and builds a tailored outlook around its industry, markets, competitors, and strategic concerns.
The objective isn’t simply to explain what is happening in the world. It is to answer the question leadership teams actually care about: what does all of this mean for us?