INSIGHTS FROM A TOP EDUCATION SPEAKER
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF EDUCATION?
Education – the passing on of experience, knowledge, and skills from one generation to the next – has always been at the heart of human civilisation, and while there are many ways to describe it I see its role as being two fold. Firstly, I see education as playing a crucial role in providing individuals with the skills and thinking they need to thrive – irrespective of what circumstances or realities they find themselves in. Then, secondly, to ensure the continued growth of equitable and prosperous societies where diverse voices and shared values unite to raise up every individual and help Humanity realise its greatest potential.
EDUCATION’S ENDURING LEGACY
Of all the activities humans undertake it’s easy to argue that none have the economic, health, or societal inter-generational benefits that a strong education does because not only does it lay the foundation for an individuals healthy and wealthy life, but also that of their descendants.
From an economic perspective the inter-generational benefits of education are impressive with the children of highly educated parents being five times less likely to experience poverty in adulthood, on average being more employable, and earning between 20% and 40% more throughout their lifetimes than peers whose parents only had a basic education – largely due to greater access to education, networks, and opportunities. Furthermore, when we consider health and wellness outcomes there’s a similar pattern, albeit more difficult to quantify, with these same children having up to three times fewer hospital admissions throughout their lifetimes, as well as fewer behavioural and mental health issues, and greater longevity of at least a few years.
THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE LONG LEARNING
Over the decades you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn’t talked about or heard about the importance of lifelong learning. Globally though lifelong learning for many people is still an unmet aspiration with participation rates in most countries below 25% and declining. In developed countries meanwhile this trend is being bucked with participation rates, thanks mostly to the prevalence of work based learning schemes, having held consistent over the years at between 50% and 65%.
Despite these numbers though as we move into the future lifelong learning becomes a less of a nice to have and more of a must have, especially as new technology developments impact the future of work. Take Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an example which is slated to partially or fully automate over 80% of all jobs, including Cognitive work, and which has already caused the average half life of skills to fall below 5 years. And then, moving across to the physical world of work we see the rise of General Purpose Robotics, including Humanoid robots, which are currently on track to replace almost 100% of human labour in a wide variety of industries.
Inevitably, therefore, with such huge technological advances it’s time to end the nice to have.
HOW EDUCATION IS CHANGING TODAY
The world over education is often seen as an institution. But not always in a good way. In many countries educators, entrepreneurs, and ministers describe it as an institution because it’s hard to change, with some going even further and saying that the formal education system is actually resistant to change – a point of view that all too often is difficult to argue against.
Despite this though there’s no doubt in anyone’s minds that our industrial age education system, which has changed little in the past 150 years, needs reforming in order to prevent students being left behind in tomorrow’s workplaces. However, in the vast majority of cases there is far too much emphasis on reforming the “How” students are taught rather than “What” they’re taught. And making this distinction is key. For example, using the latest AI enabled adaptive education technologies and Virtual Reality environments we can improve how students learn, accelerate their learning by at least ten fold, and improve their grades by 30% or more – which is stunning. But, with 76% of employers saying that they struggle to recruit students with the right skills there’s an evident mismatch between the skills needed in the workplace and the skills being taught in schools.
FUTURE FIT EDUCATION AND ADAPTING AT SPEED
As we continue to see the pace of global change and disruption accelerate, to the point where we have already seen how global industries can be disrupted in just a day, there is no doubt that the world of work is going to be changing faster than ever before. Where a job used to be for life, today many people have up to 12 jobs in their lifetime, and that number is only going to increase further as we continue to see the rise of job automation and the effective death of the “Linear Career” – where people enter one profession at a junior level and exit that same profession at a senior level when they retire.
However, while today we have the technology and tools to help people adapt and learn at speed, to up-skill and re-skill, unless the global education system is able to keep up with, and even stay ahead of marketplace demand for new skills then many people will be left without the skills they and the marketplace needs. And, to achieve this the education industry therefore has to reform “What” is taught much more seriously than they do today.
22 MAJOR FUTURE SOCIETAL INFLECTION POINTS
TEACHER IN SESSION : THE FUTURE OF AI
EDUCATION IN THE EXPONENTIAL ERA, GEMS
THE FUTURE OF AI AND WORK, ACCI
ARE ALL EDUCATION SPEAKERS THE SAME?
Just as every person is unique to too is every education speaker who are all the sum of their experiences and relationships. Some specialise in primary and secondary education, some in tertiary, while others have expertise in specific domains such as education leadership, operations, strategy, technology, and transformation. And those are all in addition to speakers from governments and governing bodies, as well as all manner of policy institutes. And then we have the reformers, and people who have experience of every part of the educational industry and get involved at every level.
And that’s what Matthew Griffin, one of the world’s most in demand Education, Geopolitical, and Technology speakers does on a daily basis.
MATTHEW GRIFFIN EDUCATION SPEAKER
EDUCATION ADVISOR . DEAN . FUTURIST . LECTURER . TEACHER .
An education entrepreneur and pioneer, lecturer, and teacher working with many of the world’s most renowned private school groups and universities, as well as governments and regulators, Matthew has a strong academic and university background, a passion for helping people reach their full potential, and two young children who will be entering the workforce in the 2030’s. In addition to this though, as one of the world’s leading Futurists who also has a front row seat to the future and its this combination of foresight and passion that makes him one of the world’s most unique advocates for the industry and its reform.
INTRODUCING MATTHEW GRIFFIN
THE BEST EDUCATION SPEAKER FOR CORPORATE EVENTS AND CONFERENCES
“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
ACCELERATING STUDENT LEARNING
ARE STUDENTS FUTURE READY?
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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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