"A world's top superforecaster." – Entrepreneur
"One of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time." – Forbes
“One of the greatest digital analysts of our time.” – Antonio Lucio, CMO, HP
"Top futurist speaker." – ReadWrite
“One of the 21st century business world’s leading thinkers.” – ZDNet
"One of the Top 20 must follow thought leaders in Generative AI" – IMMR
" Top 20 digital transformation pros you need to follow" – The AI Journal
"One of the ‘top 10 people to know in Silicon Valley." – Huffpost
"The futurist we all need now." – The Conference Board
"6 Business Speakers Who Will Motivate Your Teams With Their Real-Life Experiences" – GRIT DAILY
"Top AI Leader" – Rethink Industries
Brian Solis is a world-renowned digital anthropologist and futurist who serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow. Brian is also an award-winning author and global keynote speaker.
In his role, Brian advises business and technology leaders around the world on business and digital innovation and transformation strategies.
Brian has published more than 60 research reports on the future of business, work, digital transformation and innovation across industries such as retail, healthcare, financial services, insurance, and public sector. His published works and presentations humanize disruptive trends and technologies and their impact businesses, markets, and societies. He not only helps audiences understand what’s happening and why, he explains complex subject in a way that everyone can understand. He then visualizes future opportunities and inspires people to take leading roles in defining the future they want to see.
Brian focuses on C-level advisory (earning the nickname, "The CEO Whisperer"), thought leadership, and forward-thinking research that explores mindshifting leadership, AI-first business transformation, innovation, experience design (CX), disruptive technologies, consumerism, the future of work and employee experience, and the cognitive enterprise.
He has advised leading brands, celebrities, and startups and his ideas and work are consistently featured in the press. He’s a regular contributor to leading business and industry publications including Forbes, Harvard Business Review, CMO.com, TheNextWeb, Adweek, among others. Brian is also an official LinkedIn Influencer. His work is followed by over 700,000 people across social media.
Always plugged into the future of innovation and market evolution, Brian advises executives, technology vendors, start ups and boards of directors. He also develops research at ServiceNow, hosts custom workshops, and speaks at executive, partner and employee events.
A sought-after international speaker and futurist, Solis shares his vision to inspire next-level leadership and business innovation around the world. His talks include digital and business transformation, innovation and disruption, emerging consumer trends, innovation leadership and cultures and the future of work and digital societies. In his work at ServiceNow as the Head of Global Innovation, Brian helps customers and account teams explore the art and start of the possible to stay ahead of emerging and disruptive trends.
Brian partners with brands and technology vendors on custom content and influencer strategies. His award-winning services include co-branded research and thought leadership reports, original content and media, webinars/webcasts, amplification programs for trends, products and events, and much more.
An 8x best-selling author, Brian’s books include, Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive and Happy Life, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, What’s the Future of Business (WTF), and The End of Business as Usual (a top 10 Business Book by Publisher’s Weekly)
Brian’s body of research has helped shape the evolution of current and unfolding market trends. As a pioneer of digital business, his research and work has served as a driver for innovation among some of the most lauded brands and startups. His recent areas of study include digital transformation, innovation, Generation-Connected, Culture 2.0, The Future of Work, and more. Brian leads original research directly or with partners who share common goals. This gallery was created to give you instant access to some of his more popular reports.
View AllEscape from the dark side of distractions to live a better life. Are you struggling with focus, procrastination, anxiety, self-esteem, forgetfulness, or creativity? From simple first steps to reclaiming your attention, to becoming more satisfied, inspired, and creative, this book will lead you through your own journey of lifescaling: redefining success on your own terms.
X explores why great products are no longer good enough to win with customers and why creative marketing and delightful customer service too are not enough to succeed. Brian shares why the future of business is experiential and how to create and cultivate meaningful experiences.
What’s the Future of Business explores in a fun, visual and insightful way how connected consumerism breaks down into Four Moments of Truth, the role of technology in decision-making, and how businesses need to create experiences that mean something in each stage and also spark engagement between consumers based on those experience.
The End of Business As Usual examines each layer of the complex consumer revolution that is changing the future of business, media, and culture. As consumers further connect with one another, a vast and efficient information network takes shape and begins to steer experiences, decisions, and markets. It is nothing short of disruptive.