Brian Solis recently spent time with David Kirkpatrick, CoreX, exploring the new world with AI and how leaders, at every level, can rethink their way forward. Artificial intelligence represents a new era of thinking. Few people capture this shift as sharply as Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, bestselling author, and renowned digital anthropologist. With his latest book, Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Reshape the Future, Solis challenges leaders to move beyond fear and efficiency toward curiosity, creativity, and reinvention….
Here’s What Makes Change Agents and Leaders Successful
I meant to share this from InnoLead….I hope it adds value to your day. In my work with change agents over the years, one thing has become clear: leadership is a decision you make about the future you are willing to fight for. When I wrote “The Digital Change Agent’s Manifesto” back in 2019, I interviewed leaders driving transformation at brands like The Coca-Cola Company, Starbucks, Samsung Electronics, Visa, and others. They were not always in big roles. Many were…
From Siloed Experiments to AI Operating System: Architecting the Next-Gen Enterprise Right Now
I recently had the opportunity (again!) to work with Ann Culver from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Todd Pruzan at Harvard Business Review 🙌 on a special webinar and playbook. And they’re now available! (email gate). Links below! ⬇️ Why this is worth your time… We dug into a tension we’re seeing in C-Suitesand boardrooms: Most organizations are still stuck in AI “pilot purgatory” and the box of “business as usual.” Companies have PoCs, scattered experiments, and a lot of…
Brian Solis to Keynote AI Summit: Agentic Singularity
Brian Solis will serve as the opening keynote for AI Summit: Agentic Singularity on December 9th. Registration is free. We’re moving from “AI fluency and reskilling” to “Agentic operational transformation and business innovation,” a shift that demands more than new tools; it requires a total organizational mindshift. Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, argues that becoming truly AI-first means rebuilding the enterprise from the inside out…redefining leadership around imagination instead of efficiency, empowering mavericks who challenge “business as usual,”…
Brian Solis Named as a Top 50 Global Thought Leader in Sales by Thinkers 360
Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Sales 2025 The Thinkers 360 listing includes members of Thinkers360 and who have curated and shared their thought leadership content from around the web – including articles, blogs, books, keynotes, media interviews, panels, podcasts, social media, speaking events, videos, webinars and whitepapers – via the platform to build their Thinkers360 profile, portfolio and media kit. Our differentiation from the various influencer leaderboards on social media, is that we take a holistic view…
The Global Drucker Forum: Brian Solis on Mindshift, AI-Era Leadership, Value Creation, and the Power of Optimistic Innovation
Standing on the red carpet at the Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna with Franziska Graf, I was reminded why Peter Drucker’s ideas still matter… In this short conversation at the historic Hofburg Palace, we explore: 1) The importance of a “Mindshift” right now, and how rethinking our mindset is the starting point for meaningful change. 2) How AI demands a next-generation model of leadership (hint: AI doesn’t decide who loses their job, leaders do). 3) Why the true role of…
The Next Shift: From Workflows to Outcomes in the Agentic Age
When I sat down with Jaeden Schaefer on the AI Chat podcast, we didn’t talk about the latest AI trends, instead, we talked about a deeper inflection: moving from pilots that keep AI in a corner of the enterprise to agentic, end-to-end flows that actually do the work, learn from it, and elevate what people are free to do next. Join host Jaeden Schafer as he welcomes Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, to discuss the transformative power…
fastforward: Becoming an AI-first business requires a total organizational mindshift, an interview with Brian Solis
Ron Miller and Brian Solis explored what it means to be an AI-first company moving forward for fastforward, powered by boldstart… Just about every organization wants to be an AI-first company right now, but making every part of the business run on AI is easier said than done. If history’s any guide, past digital transformation efforts showed how a lack of organizational buy-in can sink even the best intentions. Brian Solis, head of global innovation at ServiceNow, and author of…
The Royale Gazette: Only 5% of corporations see profit on AI implementation
The Royal Gazette quotes Brian Solis in its article about the ROI of AI in business written by Jessie Moniz Hardy. 🙏 Ninety-five per cent of enterprises that have invested in generative artificial intelligence have yet to make any profit from it, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The report suggested that the AI revolution in most corporations is happening successfully at an individual employee level with tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, but…
AI Adoption is an Act of Self-Disruption: An Interview with Invisible Machines
Brian Solis, is a digital anthropologist and futurist who serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow and is the former Head of Global Innovation at Salesforce. Brian is a bestselling author of Mindshift, which helps leaders learn how to see emerging trends, harness disruptive forces, and use them to fuel growth. Brian joins Robb and Josh, the authors of Invisible Machines, to talk with us about the importance of self-disruption in AI adoption. With so many genAI projects…
