Morris Misel (Miselowski) is a global business futurist,
keynote speaker, trusted media voice, and strategic
advisor who has shaped the thinking of the world’s
biggest organisations and brands to understand
what tomorrow might look like – long before they
experience it. Morris is known for making the future
feel clear, actionable, and, most importantly, human.
He has helped clients including IBM, Microsoft, Visa,
Make-A-Wish, Caltex, Apex Petroleum, and BP become
future-proof.
With more than 30 years of experience spanning
160+ industries and 2800+ keynotes globally, Morris
has earned a worldwide reputation for his ability to
decode the complexities of the future and translate
them into tangible strategies that everyone in an
organisation can understand and implement. He’s
regularly called on by journalists, broadcasters, and
editors, including ABC, Mashable, CBS, Times of India,
SBS, The Australian, Times Inc., The Sydney Morning
Herald, The Age, Sky News Business TV, The Herald
Sun, and The Daily Telegraph, to explain what’s next
and what to do about it.
Talking Points
Immediate Futures™: Cultivating the Tomorrow’s of Agriculture and Food
The Agriculture and Food sector has long been the backbone of global stability, but for decades, it was written off as an outdated industry facing inevitable decline. Corporate farming, environmental issues, and generational farms disappearing all contributed to its struggles. But Morris saw something different. Morris saw resilience. He championed this industry not just as a necessity, but as a powerhouse of innovation that many had underestimated.Immediate Futures™: Cultivating the Tomorrow’s of Agriculture and Food
Morris Misel bridges these complexities, drawing from over three decades
of working alongside global agribusinesses, food producers, distributors, and industry innovators. Morris’s foresight has informed transformative strategies for agricultural powerhouses and emerging innovators alike, turning pressing challenges into clear competitive advantages. Through this keynote he empowers industry leaders with actionable, visionary insights to pre-empt shifts and seize emerging opportunities, and foster resilient, future-proofed organisations.
Immediate Futures™: Why Associations Will Matter More or Disappear
Associations used to define the pace. They set the standards, curated the knowledge, and gave their industries a unified voice. But today, that role is under pressure. Members are asking for more. Technology is rewriting trust. And relevance is no longer a legacy right it’s a leadership decision. This keynote creates shared clarity for both association leaders and the members they represent. It’s not just for the boardroom. It’s for everyImmediate Futures™: Why Associations Will Matter More or Disappear
practitioner, business owner, and professional navigating fast change, rising
expectations, and shrinking margins for error. Morris doesn’t bring a template. He's bring a mirror. Together, you’ll name
what’s shifting, what’s signal, and what needs to move—across AI, advocacy,
identity, and trust. You already know your people. Morris brings the foresight structure that reveals what’s next and how to make it usable. This session doesn’t just reframe the association’s value. It gives your members the insight and confidence to lead from wherever they stand. Because every decision nudges the future forward and it’s better to move with intention than to be pushed by momentum.
Choose Forward: Reframe Human Decision Making
We make around 35,000 decisions a day. Most of them we don’t even notice. That’s a problem. Because decision-making is the foundation of culture, strategy, leadership, wellbeing. And whether any change actually sticks. This keynote isn’t about fixing people. It’s about surfacing the unconscious systems they use to move through the world and giving them better ways to navigate them. Choose Forward introduces practical tools like PTFA™, Decision Trust Zones™, and the reframe of “mistakes” into mischoices so people can see where they’re drifting, reset, and start choosing again with clarity. This session is powerful because it’s universal. It works across roles, industries, and backgrounds. And it creates something most events never do: alignment. Not because everyone agrees but because they’ve paused long enough to ask what really matters next.
Choose Forward: Reframe Human Decision Making
Immediate Futures™: Building for Life — Not Just Living
Morris’ foresight-driven approach looks beyond technology alone—focusing on people, their needs, and how they live, love, and work within these spaces. From predictive materials that self-heal to AI-driven city planning that maps urban growth before it’s even broken ground, the industry is moving from static structures to living, adaptive ecosystems. This isn’t just aboutImmediate Futures™: Building for Life — Not Just Living
constructing buildings; it’s about engineering environments that respond to climate, community, and commerce in real time. Autonomous construction sites, self-regenerating materials, and AI-powered supply chains are pushing the industry towards a model of anticipatory design. This is not the future of building—this is the beginning of intelligent environments. In this keynote, Morris Misel distills three decades of foresight and global insight into a clear path forward for developers, architects, and urban planners. With a legacy of strategic foresight in projects with Built, Strata Community Association (SCA), JLL, Architectus, Civium, MBCM, Caesarstone, Integrity New Homes, Lendlease, Metricon, amongst many others, Morris maps out how to not only adapt but lead in an era where real estate is anticipatory, sustainable, and driven by intelligence.
Immediate Futures™: Educating for a World That Doesn’t Yet Exist
The education and training sectors are on the brink of profound transformation. As technology reshapes industries, the true nature of learning is evolving—not as a replacement for human connection, but as a powerful amplifier of it. For over three decades, Morris Misel has been a pioneering voice in foresight for education, challenging the conventional norms of classroom-based instruction and outdated curriculum models. His work explores how technology—when used intentionally—can free educators from rote and repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on what they do best: inspiring, guiding, and nurturing learners. In this keynote, Morris Misel distills three decades of global insight into a clear vision for the future of education and training. This isn’t just about preparing students for existing jobs—it’s about equipping them to thrive inImmediate Futures™: Educating for a World That Doesn’t Yet Exist
industries that have yet to be imagined. From digital apprenticeships that enrich hands-on learning to immersive XR classrooms that bring concepts to life, Morris demonstrates how technology can serve as the scaffolding for deeper human connection and transformative learning experiences. His vision repositions educators as learning architects, empowered by technology to design experiences that are more engaging, adaptive, and impactful than ever before.
Immediate Futures™: Powering the Future of Energy & Utilities
For years, Morris has championed this sector as not just an industry of necessity but one of boundless opportunity, where foresight and innovation can redefine how we generate, distribute, and consume energy. While others focused on short-term fixes, Morris saw resilience and untapped potential. He spoke to leaders who were already experimenting with microgrids, blockchain for energy trading, and AI-driven demand response long before these technologies were mainstream. This renaissance in energy is not just about sustainability; it’s about profitability, resilience, and future-readiness. Morris has shared these insights across global stages, media, and in private sessions, positioning energy as the next frontier of technological and sustainable transformation. Morris bridges these complexities, drawing from over three decades of working alongside global energy providers, utility companies, regulators, and technology innovators. His foresight has informed transformative strategies for energy leaders and innovators alike, turning pressing challenges into clear competitive advantages. Through this keynote, he empowers energy and utility leaders with actionable, visionary insights to pre-empt shifts, seize emerging opportunities, and build resilient, future-proofed energy ecosystems.
Immediate Futures™: Powering the Future of Energy & Utilities
Immediate Futures™: When Money Thinks for Itself
The financial and insurance sectors are built on stability, but they now operate at the bleeding edge of uncertainty. From embedded finance to autonomous transactions, from regulatory shifts to real time AI decisionmaking, the traditional models of value, risk, and trust are being redrawn. This keynote equips leaders to stop reacting and start recalibrating—with clarity,Immediate Futures™: When Money Thinks for Itself
calm, and confidence. In Immediate Futures: When Money Thinks for Itself, Morris challenges outdated assumptions and arms decision-makers with practical foresight. Expect provocative questions, scenario shifts, and decision frameworks for navigating AI, regulation, decentralisation, and generational expectation gaps. This isn’t just a speech, it’s a strategy session for the future you’re about to lead.
Immediate Futures™: The End of Jobs, The Rise of Work
The way we think about jobs is broken. It’s why strategy stalls, engagement slides, and top talent quietly disconnect even in high-performing teams. We inherited a world built for predictability: job titles, hierarchy, certainty. But work isn’t linear anymore. It’s fluid a shifting mix of tasks, decisions, and interactions powered by humans, machines, and AI. This keynote is a jolt to the system.Immediate Futures™: The End of Jobs, The Rise of Work
It reframes everything:
- Why your workforce is already untethered even if your systems aren’t
- Why productivity is no longer the goal adaptability is
- Why AI isn’t taking jobs it’s removing the need for fixed roles
- Why leadership now means designing clarity, not just delegating authority
This isn’t a talk about remote work or four-day weeks. It’s a bold redefinition of what work is, what humans are uniquely wired for, and how to futureproof the very people and systems at your core.
Immediate Futures™: Mastering the Future of Governance: Anticipate, Adapt, Achieve
Governance today is at a crossroads. Traditional models—bound by election cycles, bureaucratic inertia, and reactive policies—are increasingly unfit for a world defined by rapid urbanisation, climate adaptation, and technological disruption. To truly serve communities, governance must evolve to be proactive, resilient, and deeply human-focused. For over three decades, Morris Misel has been a leading voice in foresight-driven governance, working alongside local councils, state governments, and national policymakers to shift strategy from reactive to anticipatory.Immediate Futures™: Mastering the Future of Governance: Anticipate, Adapt, Achieve
Morris’s work is about more than just policy; it’s about building futureready communities. Through targeted keynotes, workshops, and strategic foresight, he has redefined how cities plan, how governments engage, and how communities thrive in uncertainty. From the economic corridors of Dandenong to the strategic initiatives of Canberra’s Department of Innovation, his insights have paved the way for policy that is not just reactive, but regenerative. This keynote challenges leaders to move beyond political cycles and think in decades, building systems that are predictive, adaptive, and deeply human-centric.
Immediate Futures™: The Human-First Revolution in Health
The health, wellness, and biotech sectors are on the brink of a seismic shift not merely advancing, but fundamentally reimagining the very nature of health itself. For too long, medicine has been reactive, focused on treating illness after it takes hold. But what if we could anticipate, prevent, and personalise health before the symptoms even begin? This is not science fiction; it’s the human-first revolution, where health is designed, not diagnosed.Immediate Futures™: The Human-First Revolution in Health
Morris Misel brings three decades of foresight and global insight to map out the next frontier of healthcare. His visionary approach illustrates how digital twins will model patient health in real-time, CRISPR will eradicate inherited diseases, and health will evolve from symptomatic treatment to anticipatory care. It’s about leveraging foresight to create a proactive, decentralised model where individuals hold sovereignty over their health data, and where personalised medicine is the standard—not the exception.
Built for healthcare providers, wellness platforms, biotech innovators, hospital administrators, insurance groups, pharmacists, research institutes, and strategic policy leaders, this keynote isn’t just about adapting to change; it’s about leading it. It’s the new benchmark in health foresight—a reimagined blueprint for a truly human-first health system.
Immediate Futures™: See Further. Lead Sharper. Act Wiser.
This keynote isn’t a download of trends. It’s a foresight experience built for those who advise, coach, lead, facilitate, or shape how others think and act. Morris gives you the same strategy tools he uses with EY, KPMG, SEEK, Thoughtworks, TEC/Vistage, IMC, and CxO teams around the world not just to stay relevant, but to lead from relevance.Immediate Futures™: See Further. Lead Sharper. Act Wiser.
He drops you into the landscape: shifting PESTLE signals, competitive ripples, platform changes, cultural pivots, AI-human-machine decision models, leadership reframes, and the real-world pressures reshaping how work, influence, and value actually move.
You’ll leave with HUMAND to reframe tasks. You’ll see how “Who Decides?” is already changing your clients’ workflows, policies, trust architecture, and advice models. And you’ll understand why the decisions you make today and the ones your clients make tomorrow because of your advice will quietly but powerfully shape everything that follows.
No slides on autopilot. No foresight theatre. This is where you come to upgrade how you think so you can elevate how others act.
Immediate Futures™: Rewiring Transport & Logistics for AI-Empowered, Human-Led Decision Making
This keynote isn’t about trends. It’s about transformation. Morris Misel helps logistics leaders cut through the noise, unlock intelligent systems, and prepare their organisations to lead where AI and humans must collaborate in real time.Immediate Futures™: Rewiring Transport & Logistics for AI-Empowered, Human-Led Decision Making
Morris has worked with industry giants across road, rail, air, energy, infrastructure, and last-mile delivery—provoking new thinking at events like Intelligent Transport Systems, guiding strategic decisions for clients including BP, AAA, Ford and BMW, and advising on everything from parking futures to predictive infrastructure design. His sessions have helped entire teams reframe the logistics conversation—from what’s moving to how, why, and what else is possible.
From autonomous freight and AI-led delivery networks to digital twins and predictive maintenance, this keynote dives deep into the operational and strategic shifts redefining how we move through the world —and what moves us in return.
And here’s the critical difference: Morris never delivers off-the-shelf talks. Every session is custom-built from lived experience, sector-native research, and deep foresight immersion. Whether you’re a freight operator, energy provider, logistics innovator, or infrastructure strategist, this keynote is shaped entirely around your context, your friction points, and your forward path—not borrowed from another industry, not retrofitted from another brief.
Immediate Futures™: Rethinking Tech & Startups for a Human-Led, AI-Smart World
In this keynote, Morris introduces HUMAND: Humans, Understanding, Machines, AI, Navigation, and Design. It is not a model. It is a mirror. A way to see how your business, product, or platform responds when the future knocks harder, faster, and more unexpectedly than you planned for.Immediate Futures™: Rethinking Tech & Startups for a Human-Led, AI-Smart World
This session is built for founders, product leaders, innovation teams, and investors who want clarity in the noise. It reframes AI as an amplifier, not the answer, and reminds tech leaders that what they ignore gets scaled just as fast as what they build.
You do not need another roadmap. You need a way to make sense of what you are building and why you are building it in the first place.
Immediate Futures™: The Future of Belonging, Booking and Being There
In this keynote, Morris introduces how HUMAND (Humans + Understanding + Machines + AI + Navigation + Design) is already reshaping guest expectations, workforce structures, venue operations, trust infrastructure, AI-enabled service, digital first bookings, food journeys, and the “work leisure–wellness” blend now embedded in every destination choice.Immediate Futures™: The Future of Belonging, Booking and Being There
Whether it’s preparing for the future of short stays, dining experiences, lunar tourism, or hybrid events, Morris shows your audience how to stay relevant, responsive, and human-first no matter where or how your guest arrives.
You don’t need another look at hospitality tech trends.
You need a plan to keep designing the kinds of places people still want to be in, work in, eat in, and return to even when the world around them keeps shifting.
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Morris Miselowski is a world-renowned Business Futurist, innovation specialist, thought leader, past academic, successful business owner as well as Founder and Lead Futurist with Your Eye on the Future and a member of the Einstein Genius 100 Global Think Tank. He has spent the last three decades working alongside business owners and audiences provoking and showing them how to disrupt, change and grow. His uncanny ability to regularly turn foresight into profit, comes from 30 years of first-hand experiences of starting, selling and running businesses, all based on making common sense choices today, from the uncertainties of what's ex, next, after next and beyond next. He believes in humans before technology, has an optimistic view on what we're capable of and a pragmatic view of what we can achieve. Morris can be seen regularly at the global board tables of the fortune 500, whispering in the ears of C level executives and in the hushed back rooms of venture capitalist's plotting the next big thing. Some of the many 1,000's of corporations Morris has consulted, presented and workshopped with include Lufthansa, Westpac, ANZ, Visa, MasterCard, BP, Ford, Tourism Australia, Tourism Export New Zealand, Lendlease, Department of Industry Innovation & Science, Microsoft, SAP and Monash University. Morris also presents globally at over 100 events annually and his eerily accurate business and societal foresights reach millions around Australia, Asia and across the globe through his regular media segments and highly sought-after on-air comments.Unlearn the future: Morris Miselowski at TEDxMelbourne
Morris Miselowski urges you to unlearn the future and to discover infinite possibilities through the eyes of a business futurist. Among the world's leading futurists, he predicts that by 2020 over half of the workforce will be doing tasks that don't exist in industries that haven't been created yet and that technology is benign until you place it into the hands of a person. He translates his experiences into strategies that enable businesses to prepare for the evolution of their industries. Morris has analysed the retail sector and proposed that we're living through a transitionary phase between physical and online retail. His clients have included NAB, Mercedes Benz, RMIT, Ernst & Young, Phillips and Toshiba. Morris is the founder and chief strategist at Success through Focus.For 15 years we have worked with Morris, exposing an extensive array of clients to his magical, but highly pragmatic thinking about the futures. He takes great care to understand their conte ... keep reading MNP, North America
Morris developed a customised, interactive, virtual workshop and personalised industry video for us which definitely got our team thinking differently about the future – a great result!
The most engaging presenter I’ve seen in 9 years of insurance.
I learnt more in 90 minutes about my future, myself, my business and what I really need to do to move forward than I have in the past five years.
Morris provided industry insights that were relevant but novel and challenging but also inspiring.
It is the most profitable time we have ever spent – what a return on our investment!
Morris is the futurist’s, futurist.
Morris is always engaging and comes with actionable insights for any industry.
Whenever we begin to conceptualise a new project we always turn to Morris for inspiration. He expands our mental models of what is possible and has us re-think our ideas, He is thought provoking, provocative, and always insightful. Most importantly, he can always moves us past what we currently think is possible!
Morris is brilliant. What is perhaps even more impressive than his unquestionable intelligence is his ability to cogently and meaningfully distill what the world will look like at any given point in time beyond now.
I was blown away by Morris’ preparation, knowledge, insight, skills and ability to help us maintain focus, momentum and energy.
Our in-house strategy workshop that you facilitated was incredible. In one day we covered more ground and saw with more clarity then we have ever done before and I was blown away by your preparation, knowledge, insight, skills and ability to help us maintain focus, momentum and energy - you're a keeper.
Your disarming presentation style snuck up on me with a punch when I realised that I was learning so much about tomorrow's world and having so much fun. It's a whole new frontier and with your insights I am ready to take the world on - head first.
Wow, talk about a roller coaster ride. I learnt more in 90 minutes about my future, myself, my business and what I really need to do to move forward than I have in the past five years. I appreciate your frankness and bluntness, although it did take me a while to get to use to it and what you already knew about my industry, my competitors and what I wanted to achieve, was mighty impressive.
I knew I had done the right thing the minute you began talking. You were almost clairvoyant in your ability to understand my business and to tell me things I had never known about myself, my business, my industry and my staff - but should have - and all from the stage and in just 60 minutes. The tips and suggestions you gave me have been invaluable. I can't stop telling my friends and clients about you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Your presentation was incredible; I wish I had seen you earlier. We have made such monumental changes in such a short amount of time, and it is absolutely because we saw, and now see, our business through your eyes. It is the most profitable time we have ever spent and we look forward to working with you on going - what a return on our investment.
