Most organisations were designed for more innocent times
Today, strategy decks and planning cycles cannot keep pace with disruption. That leaves organisations exposed to an increasingly unknowable future.
Ade McCormack helps organisations prepare for an unknowable future in ways that are more adaptive, intelligent and profoundly human.
About Ade McCormack
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Over four decades of professional experience.
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Trained in astrophysics.
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Former technologist.
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Financial Times columnist for a decade on leadership.
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Advisor to leaders across both public and private sectors.
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Worked in over forty countries.
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Worked in many different sectors with some of the world’s most prominent brands.
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Written six books on strategic matters, including Biz 4.0: An anthropological blueprint for business in the digital age.
Keynoting
In an increasingly unknowable world, organisations need new ways of thinking about leadership, adaptiveness, intelligence, and disruption.
Ade McCormack delivers thought-provoking keynotes that challenge assumptions, connect emerging realities to organisational action, and leave audiences better prepared for what comes next.
Themes include: Disruption, society, intelligent organisations, cognition (AI and human), leadership, organisational adaptiveness, the future and innovation.
Advisory
In a world of accelerating disruption, many organisations find themselves operating with models, assumptions, and leadership approaches designed for a more predictable age.
Ade McCormack works with leaders and organisations to rethink strategy, organisational intelligence, adaptiveness, and the human dimensions of change — helping them prepare for an increasingly unknowable future.
Thinking
Ade's research focuses on how to create organisations that are optimised for uncertainty, ie intelligent organisations. His stimulating and pragmatic perspectives draw on a number of overlapping disciplines, including:
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Living systems
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Computer science
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Evolutionary biology
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Neuroscience
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Cybernetics
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Human performance
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Complexity science.
This unique perspective enables leaders to see their organisations through a different lens, revealing opportunities and challenges that might otherwise remain hidden.