About Gihan Perera
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Key Messages:
- See real-world case studies showcasing AI in use
- Understand some of the ethical considerations and challenges
- Develop a well-rounded perspective on AI that balances its potential and limitations
- Explore the potential benefits and opportunities of AI for your organisation
- Learn how to identify and engage ‘AI champions’ in your team
- The global megatrends shaping business and society
- Influence and power in the Age of Access
- Change is the new normal
- Take more control of your own future
- Understand how COVID-19 changed employee priorities, expectations, and power
- Discover how smart, savvy leaders are thriving through crisis, recovery, and growth
- Learn how to leverage individual skills and talents to create a more agile, resilient, and ‘antifragile’ organisation
- Know the five things the best employees want from their workplace
- Adopt a mindset of an active learner and possibility thinker
- Understand the key external factors that could affect your short-term, medium-term, and long-term plans
- Broaden your thinking to have an external perspective
- Engage the diversity and different perspectives of the entire team
- Adopt the mindset of an active learner and possibility thinker
- Stay relevant, flexible, and resilient in your planning
- Know the key shifts reshaping customer expectations in an AI-powered world
- Understand how AI is changing the customer journey – and how to use it to your advantage
- Build stronger emotional and digital connections using AI-powered personalisation
- Learn how AI can co-create smarter, faster, more relevant solutions with your customers
- Combine diverse human perspectives and machine insights to meet evolving customer needs
- Understand the five key mindsets for future success
- Learn what leaders often say that block change and innovation (you’ve probably said them yourself!)
- Boost trust, judgement, and independence in hybrid teams
- Encourage a learning and growth mindset
- Make innovation and change an everyday habit, not an optional extra
- Take more control of your own future
Gihan Perera categories:
Gihan Perera is a futurist, conference speaker, online presenter, and author who shows you how to be fit for the future in a fast-changing world.
Has disruption – from employee burnout, hybrid work, AI, global uncertainty, and more – shaken up your world? Are your people looking for clear leadership in this time of massive change? Do you want to be more confident in chaos and uncertainty?
Gihan Perera is a business futurist, conference speaker, AI researcher, and author who shows you how to be fit for the future in a fast-changing world.
For more than 25 years, he has worked with organisations and leaders throughout Australia and the world, helping them to lead in uncertainty, act with clarity and confidence, and thrive in a fast-changing world.
He is the author of Disrupted, Disruption By Design, The Future of Leadership, and ten other books.
Through his keynote presentations, interactive masterclasses, and in-depth leadership programs, he shares future trends and thought-provoking insights – delivered with interaction, engagement, and humour – that leave people feeling positive, empowered, and optimistic about their future.
Forbes magazine rated Gihan Perera the #5 social media influencer in the world (and #1 in Australia) in his area of expertise.
He has always taken the lead in embracing emerging technologies and trends, from his university thesis in AI more than 30 years ago, to leading a software development team building the infrastructure for the early Internet, founding one of Australia’s first Web development companies in 1996, teaching thought leaders how to create e-learning platforms, and helping business leaders with scenario planning to lead their teams into the future.
Gihan Perera is one of Australia’s leading online presenters, and has been delivering online presentations since 2009. Citrix (the company behind GoToWebinar) engaged him to teach their clients around the world how to run better online presentations. Garr Reynolds, author of the world-renowned bestseller Presentation Zen, asked him to write the online presentations section for the book.
He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), the only internationally recognised designation for professional speakers, and was awarded 2024 Educator Of The Year from Professional Speakers Australia.
His formal background is in science and AI, with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Australia. But Gihan Perera has always been interested in people and the way they communicate – and how to become fit for the future, so they embrace change, act on opportunities, and live happier lives.
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