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Sean Pillot de Chenecey

Themes
  • Attitude & Change
  • Communication & Interaction
  • Creativity/innovation
  • Digitalisation & Technology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Environment & Responsibility
  • Growth/development
  • Host & Moderator
  • Internationalization
  • Leadership
  • Sales/marketing
  • Society/future
  • Wellbeing & Health
A highly experienced public speaker Sean Pillot de Chenecey has given keynotes in the US/EU/MENA/Asia for over a decade, speaking at venues including boardrooms, congress halls, stadiums and festivals. Sean has also been a university lecturer (on strategy / foresight / comms) for 20 years.   When he’s not giving talks, Sean is an independent foresight strategist with deep levels of multi-sector experience, delivering #NowNextWhy insights for clients ranging from corporates to agencies to NGO’s, working on national & international projects.   Sean Pillot de Chenecey is also the author of two books: ‘’The Post-Truth Business’ that went to No1 in the business-bestseller charts, whilst my second ‘Influencers & Revolutionaries’ was shortlisted for the ‘Business Book of the Year’ Awards. (Sean Pillot de Chenecey’s next book will be on applying futures-thinking for business.) His podcast #TheNewAbnormal features guests from academia to business to activism, and has over 150,000 downloads.   The content of the above, updated with the viewpoints of other thought-leaders, think-tanks and leading-edge reports etc, are often linked to his speeches. Therefore, Sean Pillot de Chenecey’s talks include a mixture of research, semiotics, applied philosophy & psychology, plus other ‘big-thinker’ references, usually based on these meta-themes:
  • Trust & Authenticity
  • Innovation & Trends
  • Hope, Foresight & Strategy
  Re: NGO’s, Sean is also an Assoc Partner with the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. CIFS are renowned for thought-leadership in areas inc scenario planning, risk analysis, innovation and strategic foresight. He collaborates with them on speculative-futures and future-proofing tasks, assisting their clients in being #FuturesReady.   Finally, he is proud to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  

His most sought after keynotes include:

“Strategic Foresight: preparing your business for the future”
This keynote, delivered by Sean Pillot de Chenecey, describes how to ‘win the future’ by utilising foresight. He illuminates the role that foresight plays in business planning and implementation, when making strategic decisions with confidence has become increasingly difficult in a context of ongoing uncertainty.  In the presentation, Sean explain how to scan emerging issues and signals of the future, by leveraging catalytic foresight and scenario planning activities that can illuminate potential opportunities and threats facing businesses. In doing so, he aligns with the approaches taken by a wide array of leading thinktanks and management consultancies, via illuminating issues such as:
  • Challenging engrained assumptions and views about an organisation and its future
  • Illuminating vital issues influencing strategic direction
  • Creating catalytic and meaningful scenarios
  • Clarifying plausible futures
  • Assisting in the development of strategy, innovation and risk management
  By establishing trust, building resilience, reducing risk and developing breakthrough, creative thinking; organisations utilising the dynamic types of futures-approaches outlined his presentation will hopefully be enabled to successfully adapt, evolve and thrive in a changing world.   Teemat: Trust | Privacy | Ethics and Innovation | Environment | Tech
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