Chris Kutarna helps audiences provoke the future — together
A New Geo keynote isn’t a forecast or a framework. It’s an experience of the present from many vantages — held side by side, until eyes widen in the room.
Why Book Chris
What he speaks about
Each of Chris’s keynotes is built with the convening team, tuned to the audience and the moment they’re in. Requests he receives gather around a few territories:
The moment we’re all in
The big-picture keynotes. AI’s velocity, geopolitical realignment, the ecological reckoning, the philosophical questions a transforming world keeps surfacing — held in deliberate juxtaposition, not flattened into a single forecast. Audiences leave with the same facts they came in with, arranged differently, so that better questions become clear.
Leadership in complexity
Keynotes built for leadership-development contexts: offsites, executive retreats, partner gatherings, board convenings. Less about what’s coming and more about what’s being asked of us now — including the difference between performing leadership and reckoning honestly with it.
Discovery at scale
Keynotes drawing on Age of Discovery, Chris’s bestselling book on the parallels between today and the original Renaissance. Designed for innovation, R&D, and strategy audiences who need range — across history, across disciplines, across the long arc of how civilizations move through inflection points.
Custom commissions
The deepest engagements are bespoke. Chris has worked closely with convening teams to develop a keynote, fireside, or arc of sessions tailored to the room — its industry, its inflection point, the conversation it needs to have. Bring the brief; the work begins together.
“I challenge people to get outside their own heads and see the future through multiple, often conflicting lenses: through the eyes of tech futurists, of policymakers, of economists and environmentalists, of philosophers. Each lens draws our attention differently — and exposes more of our own blind spots.”
Formats
The voice is consistent; the format adapts to the room.
Keynote
Conferences, large gatherings, plenary sessions where one talk needs to anchor or punctuate the day.
Fireside / emcee
Leadership offsites, dinners, board convenings — settings where range matters more than rehearsal, and where the room benefits from a real exchange.
Workshop
Small groups ready to do the work themselves. Combines provocation with structured peer reckoning.
Multi-session arc
For organizations using a keynote as the opening of a sustained engagement — paired with Compass, Advisory, or other New Geo work.
Recent appearances
Recent and ongoing engagements range across: keynotes for boards and executive committees of FTSE-100 and Fortune-500 companies; opening and closing addresses at international conferences; private convenings of public-sector leaders; and faculty-led sessions at Oxford Saïd Business School, where Chris is a mainstay on the flagship executive-education programmes.
TED Talk
The Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media — Chris’s 2019 TED Talk on what to do when the information landscape stops sorting fact from fiction. The argument has aged smartly: we can’t fact-check our way out of the collapse of common knowledge. We have to build stronger truths — together.
Age of Discovery
Age Of Discovery: Navigating The Storms Of Our Second Renaissance is Chris's international best-selling guide to the 21st century.
Now is humanity’s best moment. And our most fragile. The same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others. And they tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable.
In the face of all our crises, we can flourish. Age of Discovery shows us how.
How to Basecamp: Your Power to Convene
How to Basecamp is Chris's guidebook for unlocking the collective intelligence of your team, company, or community. It distills lessons from thousands of people across hundreds of endeavours into a practical, proven set of practices.
You have the power to convene. Now's the time to bring it forth—boldly, and wisely.
How to Book
Fees scale with format, context, and preparation depth. Most engagements involve a planning conversation with the convening team to ensure the keynote is built to fit the room.
To inquire about availability, formats, or fees — or to start a conversation about a custom commission — reach out below.