KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Keynote speaker, author and organizational consultant
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WHY MIKE
Mike Evans helps leaders prepare their organizations for AI-accelerated disruption through practical frameworks for change, accountability and workforce readiness. Drawing on 27 years of work with 34 Fortune 50 companies, he translates large-scale shifts into actions executives, managers and professionals can apply at work.
KEYNOTE TOPICS
Evans places AI within seven converging forces reshaping work, including software, robotics, globalization and digital disruption. He helps leaders move beyond prediction and identify practical capabilities their people and organizations can strengthen now.
Drawing on long-term work in organizational change, Evans addresses how leaders can recognize new realities, reduce decision delays and translate strategy into action. The emphasis is on preparing teams to respond while disruption is still unfolding.
Evans reframes accountability as ownership of outcomes rather than a punitive performance-management exercise. His approach guides people through recognizing reality, accepting ownership, developing solutions and following through with consistent action.
This topic explores how organizations can distribute appropriate decision-making and initiative instead of relying entirely on top-down direction. Evans connects leadership at all levels with faster execution, stronger accountability and greater adaptability.
Evans examines the capabilities that help organizations remain prepared amid simultaneous technological and competitive pressures. His frameworks focus attention on ideas, speed, talent, distinction and leadership as an integrated response to change.
Mike Evans is a keynote speaker, author and organizational consultant focused on AI disruption, the future of work and organizational change. Over 27 years, he has worked with 34 Fortune 50 companies, including Intel, Apple, Caterpillar and PepsiCo. His career includes executive roles at Kotter International, FranklinCovey and Tom Peters Company, where he worked with John Kotter, Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner on change, execution and leadership initiatives.
Evans approaches AI as an accelerant of a much broader transformation already reshaping organizations. His 7-Sided Pincer Movement examines AI alongside software, robotics, globalization, outsourcing, digital disruption and disruptive competition. His complementary 5-Ingredient Kryptonite Defense organizes the response around ideas, speed, talent, distinction and leadership at all levels. The result is a leadership and workforce-readiness perspective rather than a technical presentation about AI systems.
Accountability is another central strand of his work. Evans is the author of Achieve with Accountability, published by Wiley, and Distinct or Extinct: Future-Proofing People and Organizations in the Age of AI. His accountability material emphasizes recognizing reality, owning outcomes, creating solutions and acting consistently. In one engagement for 135 senior leaders across several business units, he combined advance interviews, a custom keynote, an immersive workshop and virtual follow-up. Five months later, survey responses showed leaders continuing to use the frameworks, while one leader connected the work to 55 change-capture decisions representing approximately $4.6 million in captured change.
Evans builds engagements around the audience’s desired outcomes, obstacles and required behavior shifts. Workbooks, application planning, diagnostic tools and follow-up video are designed to help audiences carry the ideas into daily decisions. For event buyers seeking more than predictions about disruption, he offers a structured way to move from uncertainty toward preparedness, ownership and action.
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