Morris Misel live: free session and keynotes

The next free session · online

Thursday 19 November, 11 to 11.45 am AEDT

About once a month I run a free 45-minute session online, and anyone can come. This one's the last before the year turns.

We'll look back at what 2026 set off, then ahead to what 2027 is asking of you. Bring something you're mulling over, or just listen.

Reserve your placeFree, online, 45 minutes

Not sure what time that is where you are? Work it out for your city. Every session I run online is on one page.

Or bring me live to your event

Keynotes, MC for the day, panels and workshops, in person anywhere or live online on your platform, each one built on your brief.

Before I write a word, we have a chat

How I build a keynote for your room

When the session ends, I'd like your people talking about their own work on the way to the coffee, with the speaker already forgotten.

So every keynote starts with your brief. Before I write a word, we have a chat about who's in the room, the industries they come from and the calls they're facing, and then I go away and research what's coming their way, so that what they hear on the day comes from their own world and from the industries next to it that are about to change it.

What the room walks out with:

A picture of what's coming in their industry, before it's trending
The ripples: what that change is likely to set off first, second and third, because what changes a business is usually what the first thing sets off two steps later
Who, or what, is best to do each job: people, machines or AI
Their immediate futures, the first steps they can take straight away
A page of their own, reached by a QR code on the last slide, with the slides and worksheets to take home

Signature keynotes · tap any one to open it

Five keynotes, each built on your brief

Each of these is a starting shape. Once I know who's in the room, I build it around their industry, their year and the calls they're facing.

Choose Forward

For conference openers, member events and company kick-offs

My whole method in one keynote. We start with the future your people would be proud to live in, name what's quietly been holding them back, look at what's coming and what it's likely to set off, work out who or what is best to do each job, and finish on what they'll do first.

The room walks out with shared words for what's coming, and their first moves, each one small enough to start straight away.

It's never about the technology

For any industry working out what AI means for its people and customers

AI is as ordinary as electricity now, so this keynote is about what it sets off: how your customers compare and buy, who does the work, what it costs to run the place and where trust now has to be earned.

I take your industry's actual work and sort which parts belong with people, which with machines and which with AI. I call that HUMAND, and the room leaves with a first map of their own work.

Maybe we're looking at the future of your industry all wrong

For an industry conference, built for one industry, yours

I look at what's forming in your industry and in the industries next to it that are about to affect it, then follow the ripples out, first, second and third, to your costs, your workforce, your customers and your rules.

Recent rooms include civil contractors, financial advisers, insurers, tourism operators and funeral directors, each one built from scratch.

Humans are for questions

For HR, learning and member-education programs, and anyone planning their workforce

Technology is for answers, and humans are for questions. As machines take on more of the answers, the value moves to the people who notice, ask better questions, use their judgement and look after each other.

We look at what's changing in jobs, skills and careers, and what that sets off for how you hire, train and keep good people.

Before the Year Turns

For a conference or kick-off between September and February

What will next year look like for us, and what can we start doing now to make the most of it? We look at what's coming, what it's likely to set off, and the first steps, each with a name and a date.

It pairs with the half-day Before the Year Turns workshop, run straight after the keynote, so the room turns what it heard into a plan.

Formats

Open the day, close it, or host it all

Keynote

Opening or closing the day, usually about 45 minutes with a few minutes of questions. In person anywhere, or online on your platform.

MC for the day

I host the program, bring each speaker on, keep the day to time and pull the threads together at the close, so the day feels like one argument.

Moderated panel

I chat with each panellist beforehand and give everyone a one-page call sheet, so the panel sounds prepared in the right way and the audience gets straight answers.

Keynote, then a workshop

A keynote for the whole room, then a workshop straight after, so people turn what they heard into first steps for their own business. See the workshop.

Said early, and dated

Said on ABC radio in 2017, five years before ChatGPT

On 14 August 2017, on ABC WA Drive, I said we'd soon talk to our technology in plain language and it would answer us using a human persona. ChatGPT was released on 30 November 2022, five years later.

I've been on air every week on Hong Kong's Radio 3 for 20 years, so there's a long public record of what I've said was coming, and when.

See me on stage

Here's my TEDxMelbourne talk, Unlearn the Future, from 3 December 2013.

Short clips from the stage

Two minutes in the room

A few short pieces from the stage, so you can hear how I talk to a room before you book.

What do you go home screaming about?Video · 1:21

The $250 jeansVideo · 1:33

Mrs Ruben and the calculatorVideo · 1:11

A person, a machine or AI?Video · 0:38

Goodbye is the middleVideo · 1:04

Innovation has to become ordinaryVideo · 1:09

From the people who booked me

What people say

Tiffany English, owner of Access Offshoring, on what she took away from my session (captioned)

“Morris is brilliant. But if you're reading this, chances are you already know that.”
Anton Barnett-Harris, CEO, Australian Physiotherapy Council

“A thought provoking and practical session that gave our industry a useful framework for considering not only what is changing, but what those changes may trigger next.”
Leanne Weier, Manager Client Services, Civil Contractors Federation Queensland, 2026 State Conference

“Morris spent a morning with our peer group. His approach was interactive and conversational which best suits this set of busy business owners.”
David Simpson FAICD, Chairman, Edge Group, October 2026

“Morris Misel time-travelled back from the future to the year 2024 just to give a keynote at our Symposium, and it was a hit!”
Sam Osborne, Education Coordinator, Strata Community Association (Vic), 2024

“The feedback from the room has been overwhelmingly positive. Honestly, the operators wanted more.”
Dezree Samuelu Kirby, Bendigo Tourism, May 2026

“Morris is the futurist's futurist.”
Sheryl Connelly, Head of Global Trends and Futuring, Ford

Questions organisers ask

When is Morris's next online session?

Thursday 19 November, from 11 to 11.45 am Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT), so 45 minutes. It's free and online: we look back at what 2026 set off, then ahead to what 2027 is asking of you. Reserve your place and I'll send you the way in, and here's the time where you are.

Can we book Morris live for our own event, in person or online?

Yes. I open and close conferences, MC the day, moderate panels and run workshops, in person anywhere or live online on your platform. Tell me the event, the date and who's in the room, and you'll get back how I'd shape it for your people, and one figure.

What does it cost?

It depends on the format, the date and the travel. Tell me who's in the room, when and where, and you'll get one figure back.

Is this a talk you've given a hundred times?

No. There's a way of looking at things that runs through all of my work, but each keynote is built from your brief, which is why we have a chat first and I research your industry before I write a word.

Can you speak about AI for our industry?

Yes, it's what most organisers ask for at the moment. I take your industry's actual work, sort which parts belong with people, machines and AI, and show what it sets off for your customers, your costs and your people.

Are you going to tell us what the future holds?

I'll show you what's coming before it's trending, what it's likely to set off, and where the calls sit for you, so your people can prepare for it.

Where are you based, and do you travel?

I'm based in Australia, and I've presented in 25 countries. I travel to you, or present live online on your platform.

How long is a keynote?

Usually about 45 minutes with a few minutes of questions. It can be shorter or longer to suit the program, and it can be followed by a workshop the same day.

What happens after the keynote?

Your delegates get a page of their own, reached by a QR code on the last slide, with the slides and worksheets to take home.

What do you need from us?

A date, a rough idea of who's in the room, and half an hour for a briefing chat. If you have a conference theme or a strategy paper, send it and I'll read it first.

Six ways in, from free to the full day

Ways to work with me

Start free and see if it suits you, then go as far as it's useful.

Free
The Tuesday email
One thing that's changing and what it could mean for you, every Tuesday, in a few minutes' reading.
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You’re here
Free
A free session online
I run one about once a month: 45 minutes on what's coming and what it could mean for your work. The next one's on Thursday 19 November at 11 am AEDT.
Reserve your place
First chat free
Choose Forward
Bring a decision you're sitting on and think it through with Mo, the AI companion I've built from my own way of looking ahead. Twenty founding seats at A$60 a month close on Friday 27 November.
Ask Mo
A$39
Before the Year Turns
My year-end guide, thirteen worksheets in all. The hour version uses five of them, and next year fits on one page. It's an instant download, and in paperback on Amazon too.
Get the guide
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A planning day for your team
Half a day to two days with me, working out what next year looks like for you and what to start now.
See the workshop
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A keynote
Opening or closing your conference, built on your brief, in person anywhere or live online.
Book me to speak

Is your date still free?

Tell me the event, the date, roughly who's in the room and whether it's in person or online.

I'll come back to you with how I'd shape the session for your people, and one figure.

Email morris@morrisfuturist.com or ring 0427 445 550.

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Watch, listen, read

Find me everywhere else

Listen

Then and Now with Morris MiselThe podcast: twenty years of the future, one year at a time

On Apple Podcasts

Watch

YouTubeClips, keynotes and every podcast episode
Unlearn the FutureMy TEDxMelbourne talk

Read

Before the Year TurnsPaperback, A$39
A Letter to Your GrandchildPaperback
What Do I Do After High School?A$19.95, instant download
My blogNew pieces most weeks

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