WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?
Leadership is many things. It’s hard. And, in today’s world it’s getting exponentially harder. It’s demanding. It’s service. It’s about taking care of those in your charge, and creating an environment where inspiration, safety, and trust flourish. But, above all else, and despite what many people might think, above all else it’s a choice.
ARE LEADERS BORN OR FORGED?
For decades people have theorised about whether great leaders are born or whether they’re raised. I, however, having led multiple multi-billion dollar business units for organisations such as IBM, Dell-EMC, and Atos, as well as my own companies, am more of the opinion that great leaders are forged. And there are a number of reasons why I use this word.
While we can debate the origin of an individuals leadership the one thing we all agree on is that leadership, even at the best of times is a challenge, and just like everyone else on this planet leaders aren’t perfect. They make mistakes, they doubt themselves, and they often wrestle with insecurities. Despite this though, just like the finest Japanese Samurai swords, like the Honjō Masamune, fundamentally the best leaders are made from the right mettel – mettel that includes courage, perseverance, and resilience, and they have a burning desire to empower and inspire people and selflessly raise them up. And, as any expert Swordsmith will tell you, any sword that isn’t made from quality materials, even those crafted by the finest Swordsmiths, will shatter under pressure in battle – and great leaders never shatter under pressure, even the omnipresent pressures that we’re witnessing today.
So, while we can debate whether they are born or raised, there is no doubting that great leaders only emerge when someone is made from the right mettel which is then forged by experience and pressure into influential leaders who inspire transformational change and deliver breakthrough performances.
WHY LEADERSHIP TODAY IS DIFFERENT
Step back in time, a year ago, a decade ago, and leaders seemed to be everywhere. Today though, on the Geopolitical stage at least, we now seem to live in a Leaderless World, characterised by the fact that we increasingly live in an era where no one power or group of powers is both willing and able to drive a global agenda and maintain international order. Furthermore, when we turn our attention to the corporate world, the leaders that many of us looked to for guidance and inspiration seem to have moral compasses that whipsaw every time a new government or administration comes into power, with prime examples being the rapid unwinding of DEI, ESG, and Net Zero pledges, as well as the walking back of pledges to fight disinformation and the weaponisation of AI, protect consumer rights, and uphold transparency.
Leadership, it seems, is more scarce than it used to be, and moral leadership seems even scarcer.
Some say that this moral whipsawing shows those leaders true colours, as wolves in sheeps clothing if you will, and that everything else was just an act for the markets and their shareholders. But, it also highlights just how scarce true leadership seems to be in our day and age, and while this vacuum gives others the opportunity to step up its not an exaggeration to say that a world without true leadership is poorer for it.
LEADERS BRACE FOR CHANGE
THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP
THE FUTURE OF DECISION MAKING
THE FUTURE OF DISRUPTION
ARE ALL LEADERSHIP SPEAKERS THE SAME?
Just as every person is unique every leadership speaker is unique and brings their own distinctive value to your event along with their own individual experiences, perspectives, and relationships. While there is value in diversity time is precious, especially when all those experiences and perspectives have to be compressed into a sixty minute window. Or less. And, ultimately, audiences and leadership teams alike crave insights that will help them build high performance organisations and drive results.
And that’s what Matthew Griffin, one of the world’s most in demand Leadership advisors and speakers does on a daily basis.
MATTHEW GRIFFIN LEADERSHIP SPEAKER
LEADERSHIP ADVISOR . AUTHOR . COACH . FOUNDER . MENTOR .
A multi-award winning leadership speaker with over 30 years of international experience building multi-billion dollar global business units and turning around failing businesses for Dell-EMC, IBM, and Atos, today Matthew is highly sought after by companies such as Accenture, Huawei, PepsiCo, and Samsung, and others, to help them develop and run their global leadership development programs and coach their Executive Leadership Teams (ELT).
Working with many of the world’s most respected brands, from West to East and North to South, Matthew now helps build Centennial Companies that can see out their first Century in business. Furthermore, with a wealth of unmatched experience and perspectives Matthew is also the only person ever to have written what are now regarded as seminal books on Disruption, Foresight, and Innovation, and also Leadership Lessons from Organised Crime – the latter of which he wrote when working with the US Government and National Security industry to better understand how, despite huge multi-trillion dollar investments to disrupt and dismantle the Serious Organised Crime (SOC) groups their leaders still found ways to grow their $6 Trillion “industry” by almost 20% CAGR when most Fortune 250 leadership teams could only manage 5% or less.
INTRODUCING MATTHEW GRIFFIN
“A WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE FUTURE!”
NASA, KYLE E., SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR
Matthew Griffin, is a multi-award winning geopolitical advisor, leadership coach, and Futurist who NASA have described as a “Walking encyclopaedia of the future” and a “Futurist polymath.” One of the world’s most renowned Futurists and strategic foresight experts Matthew is the 15 times author of the best selling “Codex of the Future” series, and is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years whose mission it is to democratise access to the future for everyone, irrespective of their abilities or background. An in demand international keynote speaker, university lecturer, and mentor he is also the only Futurist to have been invited to speak alongside world leaders at both the UN COP and WEF Davos, and his two multi-award winning YouTube channels put him in the top 0.1% of YouTubers worldwide.
A rare talent in his past Matthew helped build and lead several multi-billion dollar business units for Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77+ governments, and many of the world’s most respected brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, Dow, EY, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others.
Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.
MATTHEW’S KEYNOTE REEL
LEADERSHIP AND THE FUTURE OF WORK
LEADERSHIP AND ADAPTATION
LEADERSHIP AND FORESIGHT
MATTHEW’S DAILY WORK
In the most simplistic of terms our present day happens when different events converge – whatever those events are.
Some of these events are the result of things that were set in motion many years, decades, or even Millenia ago, such as the development of intrinsic human behaviours, others happen spontaneously, and the remainder fall somewhere in between. Unsurprisingly, the theory goes that the more of these events, or Signals, that we can catch early, the better able we are to model the impacts when they converge, then the better we should be able to forecast the Preferred, Plausible, Probable, and Preposterous futures. And this has been my personal mission for the past two decades, at Dell-EMC, IBM, and now at the 311 Institute – to identify as many Signals as possible, intensively research them all, including their behaviours and the forces driving them, and then work to develop the most accurate version of the future that we can.
One of the oddest comments I hear from Futurists, even some of the most renown, is that it’s impossible to predict the future, and that we aren’t here to predict anyway. But, I dismiss that point of view, because even with limited data we can predict things such as the continuance of Electric Vehicles, the continuous development of AI, and so forth. I also believe that the more Signals we can see, and the better able we are to understand their behaviours and impact, that the breadth of futures that we can predict can be increased. And, for those occasions when we don’t have data and or are working with imperfect data I developed the Anchoring Constants Foresight Model which so far has played a pivotal role of keeping my own predictions on track. Predictions, as you can see below, such as the emergence of Generative AI and autonomous AI companies, the democratisation of skills, and many others.
However, while envisioning the near and even medium term future is difficult, the further out we go the fuzzier the future gets.
WE ARE THE FUTURE
SEE EVERYTHING AND SUCEED
MENTORING THE NEXT GENERATION
RAISING EVERYONE UP
REASONS TO BOOK MATTHEW
SEE EVERYTHING . EXPLORE EVERYTHING . SUCCEED .
The reason to book me as your next keynote speaker is simple: I can help you see EVERY FUTURE and SUCCEED.
Unlike other speakers I can show you the whole future, not just the 30% of it that others will show you. And then I can share the tools and thinking you and your audiences need to explore it, understand it, and lead it. I understand though that you may think of this as so much marketing hype, so to prove that it isn’t I encourage you to test me, and if you can find a topic that I can’t discuss at an expert level, and in greater depth than others, then I’ll DONATE $10,000 TO CHARITY.
Are you ready to take the challenge!?
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