I recently had the opportunity to partner with my colleague Jon Suarez-Davis on a fireside conversation for the CMO Club. What an incredible experience to hear from so many CMOs leading through change in these uncharted times. Jessica Denny summarized the conversation at CMO Perspectives and it’s well worth your time. Please take a moment to read (and share!) Thank you. The pandemic transformed us into a digital-first society, and now digital-first customers are driving total market transformation. World-renowned digital…
BizTech Magazine: Small Business IT Influencers to Follow in 2021
via @Keara Dowd, BizTech These are the leading voices on the hottest trends affecting small businesses today. After a year full of disruptions and an explosion of new trends, small businesses are settling into a new working routine. This includes a remote workforce that will need to collaborate with onsite employees, a human resources department tech savvy enough to build company culture remotely and a growing emphasis on data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. What’s more, small businesses…
Salesforce Canada Explores the Future CMO with Seth Godin and Brian Solis
The Future CMO: Driving the Seamless Customer Experience, June 16 2021 – LINK The role of CMOs globally has been on a continuous path of transformation. The digital era has created new ways for businesses to connect with audiences on a deeper level, and in turn deliver more seamless, personalized customer experiences at scale. Today’s CMO is uniting brand, sales, commerce, service, and loyalty to own the end-to-end customer journey. Join Seth Godin, Brian Solis, and Canadian business leaders as they…
Principles for Thriving in a Post-Pandemic Economy
What is the Novel Economy and Generation-N and why is it important in a post-pandemic economy? Tune in for this Global Masterclass featuring Brian Solis, a world-renowned digital anthropologist and futurist who serves as Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Brian is an 8x best-selling author and international keynote speaker. Over the past 20 years, he has dedicated his work to understanding innovation and digital transformation. Following the disruption brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, global businesses are squinting their eyes through…
Conga Connect Keynote: The Importance of Digital Empathy in a Digital-First World
Brian Solis will keynote Conga Connect Live 2021 along side Serena Williams and Frank Blake, Chairman of Delta Air Lines. Wow! While working digitally, it’s easy to forget we’re all human and that what we see on the screen doesn’t always reveal what people are really feeling. Brian will present on “The Importance of Digital Empathy in a Digital-First World.” Join Brian Solis, Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, 8-times best-selling author, and digital anthropologist, for a discussion on how we…
WTF: What’s the Future Podcast – The One Thing You MUST Do to Drive Your Disruption Strategy with Charlene Li
In episode 3 of WTF: What’s the Future, I spent time with someone who has had a profound impact on my life, Charlene Li. For those who don’t know, Charlene was my partner and mentor at Altimeter Group for nine years. Together, we helped pioneer research for traditional and also startup businesses to thrive in an era of digital Darwinism. Long before we were partners, she was a big inspiration in her work at Forrester and with her book, co-authored with…
Digitaal antropoloog Brian Solis: “Bedrijven moeten zich nú klaarstomen voor Generation N” [Video in English]
By Magali De Reu, Bloovi Brian Solis is naast bestseller-auteur misschien wel dé autoriteit op vlak van marketing en sociale media. Als ‘digitaal antropoloog’ houdt de Amerikaan voortdurend de vinger aan de pols over de maatschappelijke verschuivingen die op ons afkomen. In een nieuwe Techmag episode geeft hij een blik op de toekomstige trends in het digitale landschap, en hoe bedrijven zich kunnen voorbereiden op het nieuwe normaal. Business as (un)usual zonder leiderschap Wanneer ik Brian Solis – in het…
Introducing WTF, What’s the Future, a Podcast that Explores the Future of…
In 2019 and early 2020, I worked on plans to launch a new podcast based on the title of my book, What’s the Future of Business (WTF for short). I pre-recorded an entire series and planned on dropping the first season Netflix style. The idea was to surprise everyone with a lineup of shows with amazing guests to binge at will. With LifeSCALE in full swing plus big life changes I was working on at the time, oh yeah, and then…
Culture 2.0: Why a Digital Culture is a Competitive Advantage
Ah, the days when we could travel for to conferences. I’d like to share one fond memory with you because this topic is only more relevant in a post-pandemic world. I was invited to give a keynote presentation at Social Business Forum X in Milan. The theme of the presentation was the importance of building a digital culture to compete in an era of “digital Darwinism.” At the center of it, is not technology, it’s a renewed human-centered approach to employee…
Forbes: In the Rush to Go All-Digital, Prioritize Employee Experiences
Forbes featured an in-depth piece by Brian Solis about the importance of prioritizing the employee experience for the all-digital, success-from-anywhere world. Companies everywhere are accelerating digital investments in customer experience (CX) – but designing for employee experience (EX) is the next competitive advantage. Engaged and productive employees are instrumental to the success of delivering exceptional customer experiences and driving organizational success. By The Numbers: 93% of executives prioritizing EX report that their teams have the tools and technology to do their…