Brian Solis

Speech Topics

• Experience is the Brand: The New Playbook for CX Innovation in an Era of Digital Customers and AI Expectations

  In today’s AI + Attention Economy, customers have more power, more options, and more tools to evaluate brands instantly. Expectations are being reset by the best experiences in every category, meaning your real competition is the last great experience your customer had anywhere. Customers now research, compare, and decide with AI copilots before they ever visit your site, store, or contact center. Attention spans are shorter, patience is thinner, movements faster, but intentional. Brian frames the modern customer as the “accidental narcissist”: not selfish, but self-directed...empowered by technology, and expecting every interaction to be personal, immediate, and validating. Brian wrote one of the world's "best customer experience" books of all time. He will introduce a modern formula for competing through experience: BX + CX + UX = X, where X is your Experience Advantage. He reveals how to earn attention and trust, deliver "wow" through “ignite moments,” and create emotional connection at scale.

• The Innovation Game: How Leaders Can Build a Culture of Innovation to Turn Uncertainty into Opportunity

  What can we learn from some of the colossal mistakes we have seen from some of the biggest companies in the world? How can you prevent your company from making the same mistakes? Digital and AI Darwinism is reshaping markets and behaviors, and it's only accelerating. Most companies don’t lack ideas, they lack vision, leadership, and culture that can create belief, clarity, and courage. And in this model, AI, humanoids, quantum, and other important trends, can distract from what truly matters. This keynote is for executives navigating constant disruption, internal politics, and innovation theater. Brian has published several award-winning research studies that explore successful corporate and culture innovation initiatives, and has advised companies on their innovation strategies. This session maps how leaders take a step back, assess real threats and unseen opportunities, to set a new vision, build cultures that bring that vision to life, and drive change that puts technology to work, for people...supported by bold vision, modern metrics, and an operating system that turns curiosity into execution.

• The Leadership Mindshift: The Six-Stage Mindset Shift to Transform How You Lead, Innovate, and Reshape the Future

  Most transformations don’t succeed because they’re trying to build tomorrow with yesterday’s assumptions, metrics, and mindsets. When the world changes faster than the organization can adapt, even the best strategies stall in the same place: “We’ve always done it this way." In this energizing keynote, Brian Solis introduces the six-stage Mindshift cycle: 1) Receive, 2) Perceive, 3) Weave, 4) Conceive, 5) Believe, and 6) Achieve. The Mindshift framework empowers leaders can use to reframe disruption into possibility, convert uncertainty into strategy, and move from reactive change to intentional reinvention. Audiences learn how to spot signals early, connect dots others miss, and create the belief and momentum required to lead people through uncertainty, while helping them see the role they play in transformation. It’s equal parts inspiration and a usable blueprint...helping leaders define a future worth building and then rally their teams to make it real.

• The Leadership Mindshift: The Six-Stage Mindset Shift to Transform How You Lead, Innovate, and Reshape the Future

  You compete with AI. Read that again. AI isn’t here to replace you. It’s here to help you augment…to more effectively compete with AI. The winners in 2026 won’t just be the people who “use AI.” They’ll be the people who know how to think and collaborate with it…to do what what’s possible without AI and what AI couldn’t do without you. That’s the AI mindshift. It helps people unlock “WWAID” to use AI to work beyond efficiency and productivity. This keynote is designed to reduce fear, build fluency, and empower employees with AI…to embrace AI with confidence and enthusiasm. Grounded in Brian’s #WWAID framework and his HBR work on training the brain to collaborate creatively with GenAI, this session shows audiences how to move from basic prompting to context prompting and augmented prompting. The result is better decisions, better creativity, better outcomes…work that’s genuinely impossible without AI, and certainly impossible without those who attend this session.

• AI is Eating the World: How to Lead in an AI-First World

  Generative AI rewired the rules of competition. We’ve moved beyond digital transformation into a new era where automation is table stakes, intelligence is abundant, and “business as usual” is a liability. In this rousing keynote, Brian shows leaders how to stop treating AI like a tool or use case and start leading it like a CTRL-ALT-DEL moment, resetting vision, operating models, decision-making, and culture. The point isn’t to do the same work faster or cheaper. The point is to do better work and impossible and unimaginable work...the work you couldn’t do without AI, and that AI can’t do without you. Using his #WWAID lens (“What Would AI Do?”), Brian helps audiences reframe strategy, redesign workflows, and create a future-motivating state people actually want to build.

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