Choose Forward: clarity for uncertain times.
Morris Misel doesn’t predict the future. He prepares you for it.
With more than 30 years on stage and in advisory roles, Morris has delivered over 2,800 keynotes and workshops across five continents and worked with organisations in more than 160 industries. His ideas are heard by millions each year through major conferences, media appearances, and live events, and he is trusted when the stakes are high and the path ahead is unclear.
What sets Morris apart is judgement. Having lived through every major technology, economic, and social shift since the early days of personal computing, he brings deep pattern recognition, perspective, and calm authority to moments of uncertainty. He makes sense of complex change and translates it into clarity, confidence, and practical direction that audiences can actually use.
The son of war refugees, Morris was raised to believe that a better tomorrow is possible, but only if people choose it deliberately. That belief underpins his human-first approach to foresight. From community settings to boardrooms and packed arenas, he has spent decades helping audiences recognise what’s changing, why it matters, and how to move forward with intent.
Morris works at the intersection of technology, human behaviour, business reality, and geopolitics. AI is part of the conversation, but never the whole story. His most-booked keynote, Choose Forward, reframes decision-making as a critical future capability and gives people the language, confidence, and structure to act when certainty is no longer available.
Through his Immediate Futures™ approach and proprietary frameworks, Morris equips audiences with decision-ready insight, shared language, and a renewed sense of momentum. Event organisers value his preparation, professionalism, and ability to read a room, while audiences lean in, stay engaged, and leave saying, “That was exactly what we needed.”
Talking Points
Immediate Futures™ – Making Sense of What’s Next
Most audiences arrive knowing something has shifted, but not yet having the language for it. There’s more information than ever, more opinions, more urgency, yet less shared clarity about what actually matters now. The real challenge isn’t keeping up. It’s deciding where to focus, what to ignore, and what deserves attention next.Immediate Futures™ – Making Sense of What’s Next
This keynote slows the noise long enough to see what’s really changing. Not in theory, but in the lived reality of your organisation, your industry, and the people in the room. Together, we make sense of the signals already shaping decisions, behaviours, and expectations, so the future stops feeling abstract and starts feeling navigable.
The conversation is paced, story-driven, and often lightly humorous, drawing people in quickly and keeping them leaning forward as the bigger picture comes into focus.
Rather than predictions or trend lists, Immediate Futures™ gives audiences a grounded way to understand what’s emerging, why it matters, and how to respond with confidence rather than reaction. The focus is not on more information, but on making better decisions with the information already in the room.
Audiences leave with:
• A clearer view of what’s genuinely changing versus what’s simply loud or distracting
• Shared language to talk about uncertainty, priorities, and next steps without fear or overwhelm
• Greater confidence about where to focus attention, energy, and decisions immediately
Every Immediate Futures™ session is shaped to the audience in the room, ensuring the conversation feels relevant, grounded, and immediately useful.
Choose Forward – Clarity and Decision-Making in Uncertain Times
Uncertainty doesn’t usually stop people from acting. It makes them second-guess. Decisions get delayed, revisited, or quietly avoided, not because people don’t care, but because the cost of getting it wrong suddenly feels higher than the cost of doing nothing.Choose Forward – Clarity and Decision-Making in Uncertain Times
This keynote explores what really sits underneath hesitation, fatigue, and over-analysis when certainty is no longer available. It looks at how people and organisations make decisions when the future feels unclear, and why waiting for perfect information is often the biggest risk of all.
Choose Forward reframes decision-making as a practical capability rather than a personality trait. Instead of pushing audiences to be bolder or faster, it gives them a calmer way to recognise what matters now, what can wait, and what no longer deserves their energy. The result is not urgency for its own sake, but confidence rooted in clarity.
The room shifts as people recognise their own experience in the stories and examples, sparking reflection, conversation, and renewed momentum.
Audiences leave with:
• A clearer understanding of why decision-making feels harder right now, and why that’s not a personal failing
• Practical ways to move forward without needing perfect information or complete certainty
• Greater confidence to make deliberate choices that align with what matters most
Each Choose Forward session is shaped around the real decisions facing the audience in the room, not generic leadership theory.
AI Without the Noise – Where It Fits, Where It Doesn’t
Many audiences arrive curious, pressured, and increasingly fatigued by AI. They’re told it will change everything, replace jobs, and redefine their industry, often all at once. What’s missing is not information, but perspective.AI Without the Noise – Where It Fits, Where It Doesn’t
This keynote puts AI back in context. Not dismissing it and not exaggerating it, but understanding where it genuinely creates value, where it doesn’t, and where human judgement still matters most.
Rather than focusing on tools or technical detail, the conversation centres on how AI actually shows up inside organisations, workflows, and decisions. What it changes quickly. What it changes slowly. And what it doesn’t change at all.
Audiences leave with:
• A clearer understanding of where AI meaningfully fits into their work and where it is being overstated
• Greater confidence to talk about AI without fear, jargon, or hype-driven pressure
• A more grounded way to make decisions about adoption, risk, and readiness
Each session reflects how AI is likely to play out in the audience’s real context, not idealised scenarios.
HUMAND™ – Rethinking Work in an AI-Shaped World
For many organisations, the conversation about work has become tangled. Roles feel outdated, workloads feel heavier, and technology promises efficiency while often creating more complexity. People sense that work itself is changing, but aren’t always sure how to talk about it, let alone redesign it.HUMAND™ – Rethinking Work in an AI-Shaped World
This keynote introduces a calmer way to think about the future of work. HUMAND™ is not about replacing people with technology or forcing humans to compete with machines. It’s about understanding how work is breaking into tasks, decisions, and moments, and then deciding what should be done by humans, what can be supported by machines, and where AI genuinely adds value.
The focus is on how work actually feels on the ground. Where friction builds. Where energy drains. And where redesign can create better outcomes for both people and organisations.
Audiences leave with:
• A clearer understanding of how work is evolving beyond traditional job descriptions
• Practical ways to think about human, machine, and AI contributions without fear or oversimplification
• Greater confidence to redesign work in more sustainable, humane, and effective ways
Each HUMAND™ session is shaped around the realities of the audience’s environment.
Ripple Effects – What Changes Next When Everything Changes
When change hits an organisation or industry, it rarely arrives neatly. A technology shift, policy change, or market pressure triggers visible impact, but the deeper consequences often emerge elsewhere.Ripple Effects – What Changes Next When Everything Changes
This keynote focuses on seeing beyond the obvious. It explores how first-order change creates second- and third-order ripple effects across behaviour, risk, culture, and decision-making.
By connecting the dots between technology, people, customers, regulation, and organisational dynamics, audiences gain a clearer picture of what’s likely to break, what will adapt, and where unintended consequences are already forming.
Audiences leave with:
• A clearer view of how change in one area creates pressure and opportunity elsewhere
• Better awareness of second- and third-order effects often missed in planning
• Greater confidence to respond with foresight rather than reaction
Each session reflects the audience’s real-world context, not abstract systems theory.
Futures Thinking as a Capability – Learning to Read What’s Next
Most people don’t struggle with the future because they lack intelligence or experience. They struggle because they were never taught how to read weak signals, question assumptions, or make sense of emerging possibilities early.Futures Thinking as a Capability – Learning to Read What’s Next
This keynote positions futures thinking as a practical, human capability. Not about becoming a futurist, but about becoming more fluent in uncertainty.
The focus is on strengthening judgement, curiosity, and pattern recognition, so people can engage with what’s coming next without overreacting or waiting too long to act.
Audiences leave with:
• A clearer understanding of how futures thinking differs from prediction or trend-watching
• Greater confidence to notice and interpret early signals
• Practical ways to think more deliberately about emerging possibilities
This session can stand alone or extend naturally into workshops and advisory work.
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Morris Misel - Speaker Show Reel
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.
