Mike Walsh is a leading global authority on how artificial intelligence and digital labor are transforming the way organizations are designed, led, and scaled. He is a global nomad, regular columnist for the Harvard Business Review, and bestselling author who advises Fortune 50 companies, boards, and executive teams worldwide on how to redesign their organizations for the optimal partnership between human and machine intelligence. Mike’s work focuses on AI and decision-making, AI and competitive strategy, leadership in machine-driven markets, and organizational adaptation when technology is changing faster than culture. His upcoming book, "Abundant Intelligence" (Harvard Business Review Press), co-authored with Deloitte’s Global head of AI, Nitin Mittal, is the most comprehensive set of case studies of digital labor and AI agents written to date.

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Abundant Intelligence: How Digital Labor Will Rewrite the Rules of Business

The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

The Future is Elsewhere

Transform Your Organization for the Age of AI

Mike Walsh

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Digital Transformation

Disruption

Leadership

Strategy

Leadership Mindset

Future of Work

A Roadmap For Enterprise ReinventionArtificial intelligence is not just another wave of technology. It is the foundation of a new era. Drawing on global trends and real-world examples, Mike reveals the biggest AI breakthroughs and shifts providing leaders with practical guidance on how work and strategy are changing…and what leaders need to do next to be ready for AI’s impact on industries, workforce, and the global economy.

The AI-Powered Decade Ahead

How Digital Labor Will Rewrite the Rules of BusinessIn this provocative keynote, Mike Walsh argues that the real opportunity of AI isn’t simply automation, but a fundamental reconfiguration of the enterprise around human and AI intelligence. He offers a clear framework for understanding the age of abundant intelligence and practical ideas for preparing for the age of digital labor.&nbsp;

Leading With Abundant Intelligence

Human Leadership 2.0Artificial intelligence is not just changing industries. It’s redefining how professionals create value. Mike Walsh explores how leaders, consultants, agents, and advisors can redesign their roles, amplify their impact, and leverage new ways of working and leading by combining human judgment with machine intelligence.

The Future Favors The Bold

“Very insightful and full of powerful content. I really found your “next actions” a very useful tool for turning ideas into a concrete follow up to drive change.”

David Velazquez, VP Operations China of Mercedes Benz Financial Services

“Mike is a very engaging speaker and brings to life the future with stories and visuals in a way that is accessible to both people with a strong understanding of the future as well as those who don’t have the same level of understanding. He has a unique ability to open the eyes of the audience in a positive way. Mike tailors his speech to his audience and is excellent in delivery. He is not someone that you need to micro manage because he lives and breathes his field and has a strong focus on helping organisations achieve the outcomes they need.”

Peter Williams, Partner of Deloitte Australia

“Mike was outstanding. Positive reviews all around."
“A lot of incredible takeaways!"
"Members of our board, who attended GLC in Singapore were unanimously impressed with Mike’s session. A lot of incredible takeaways! Mike’s session was a hit with the crowd!"

Manager of Learning, Entrepreneurs' Organization

Karen Harris

ARTIST

AI should change what we do, not just how we do it. Over the next decade, we have a unique opportunity to fundamentally reimagine customer experiences, redesign how organizations work, and rethink how to solve problems more effectively. This is a defining moment for leaders, and our biggest risk is not machines taking over, but rather lacking ambition when it comes to the future. Many are already focused on deploying new tools and applications, rather than embracing a more radical vision for what might be possible. 

Futurist Mike Walsh offers a compelling roadmap to 2035, exploring how AI, algorithms and automation will fuel a Fifth Industrial Revolution. Technology is only part of the story; real transformation requires a new cultural operating system. The next decade will not simply be about smarter workplaces or more efficient industries. It will be a decade of reinvention, where the foundations of the modern world are reengineered through next-generation AI infrastructure and new ways of getting things done.

The AI-Powered Decade Ahead | Mike Walsh

Artificial intelligence is not a tool we are deploying. It is a force reshaping work, economics, and power itself. In this keynote, futurist Mike Walsh argues that we are repeating the same mistake we made 70 years ago when we assumed AI was something that could be neatly solved. Today, we are making a different but equally dangerous assumption that its impact can be managed with policy tweaks and incremental change.

As AI agents begin to act, decide, and operate across enterprise systems, the real issue is no longer adoption but control. From chips and compute to models, data pipelines, energy, and digital labor, intelligence now has a supply chain. Those who do not own or govern that chain will find themselves dependent, exposed, and strategically constrained.

This talk introduces the idea of enterprise sovereignty and asks leaders a harder question than which tools to deploy. How much control do you really have over your intelligence, your unit cost of cognition, and your future operations? The next decade will not be defined by smarter software, but by who controls intelligence itself.

Enterprise Sovereignty Is the Real AI Battleground | Mike Walsh

"And I think this is worth remembering because in this moment now, we are all excited and exhilarated and terrified by the promise of artificial intelligence. But we need to remember the future favors the bold. There is nothing inevitable about the future. There's no predetermination here. The future we end up in is the future that we choose to build.


We have a high degree of agency, but that means that all of us, whether we're musicians or retailers or manufacturers or visionaries, we need to make bold choices. Now, that's going to shape really the next ten years ahead of us. So with that framing in mind, that's very human centered. I want to go on a little journey with you this morning to really think about what's possible."

The Future Favors the Bold | Mike Walsh

"This is probably the world's most advanced lab. It's terrifying. But you're seeing the future of autonomy being played out here in real time. And in the next few years, I think you will see companies in your industry, in related industries, who might, from the outside, look the same. The products and services appear the same, but when you look beneath the hood, you'll realize that the people they have are operating with incredible leverage.

So this is the real price. And as you start to think through this as a next action, what I advise you to do is get serious about digital labor. This is not science fiction anymore. This is not basic automation. This is not software assistance. Whether this is customer experience or CRM or back office or even your core engineering work."

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