Morris Misel

Topics

Agriculture & Food

Immediate Futures™: Cultivating the Tomorrow’s of Agriculture and Food

The Agriculture and Food sector has long been the backbone of global stability, but for decades, it was written off as an outdated industry facing inevitable decline. Corporate farming, environmental issues, and generational farms disappearing all contributed to its struggles. But Morris saw something different. Morris saw resilience. He championed this industry not just as a necessity, but as a powerhouse of innovation that many had underestimated.

Morris Misel bridges these complexities, drawing from over three decades of working alongside global agribusinesses, food producers, distributors, and industry innovators. Morris’s foresight has informed transformative strategies for agricultural powerhouses and emerging innovators alike, turning pressing challenges into clear competitive advantages. Through this keynote he empowers industry leaders with actionable, visionary insights to preempt shifts and seize emerging opportunities, and foster resilient, future-proofed organisations.

Associations

Immediate Futures™: Why Associations Will Matter More or Disappear

Associations used to define the pace. They set the standards, curated the knowledge, and gave their industries a unified voice. But today, that role is under pressure. Members are asking for more. Technology is rewriting trust. And relevance is no longer a legacy right it’s a leadership decision.

This keynote creates shared clarity for both association leaders and the members they represent. It’s not just for the boardroom. It’s for every practitioner, business owner, and professional navigating fast change, rising expectations, and shrinking margins for error.

Morris doesn’t bring a template. He brings a mirror. Together, you’ll name what’s shifting, what’s signal, and what needs to move—across AI, advocacy, identity, and trust.

You already know your people. Morris brings the foresight structure that reveals what’s next and how to make it usable. This session doesn’t just reframe the association’s value. It gives your members the insight and confidence to lead from wherever they stand. Because every decision nudges the future forward and it’s better to move with intention than to be pushed by momentum.

Choose Forward

Choose Forward: Reframe Human Decision Making

We make around 35,000 decisions a day. Most of them we don’t even notice. That’s a problem. Because decision-making is the foundation of culture, strategy, leadership, wellbeing. And whether any change actually sticks. This keynote isn’t about fixing people. It’s about surfacing the unconscious systems they use to move through the world and giving them better ways to navigate them.

Choose Forward introduces practical tools like PTFA™, Decision Trust Zones™, and the reframe of “mistakes” into mischoices so people can see where they’re drifting, reset, and start choosing again with clarity.

This session is powerful because it’s universal. It works across roles, industries, and backgrounds. And it creates something most events never do: alignment. Not because everyone agrees but because they’ve paused long enough to ask what really matters next.

Construction & Real Estate

Immediate Futures™: Building for Life — Not Just Living

Morris’ foresight-driven approach looks beyond technology alone—focusing on people, their needs, and how they live, love, and work within these spaces. From predictive materials that self-heal to AI-driven city planning that maps urban growth before it’s even broken ground, the industry is moving from static structures to living, adaptive ecosystems. This isn’t just about constructing buildings; it’s about engineering environments that respond to climate, community, and commerce in real time. Autonomous construction sites, self-regenerating materials, and AI-powered supply chains are pushing the industry towards a model of anticipatory design. This is not the future of building—this is the beginning of intelligent environments.

In this keynote, Morris Misel distills three decades of foresight and global insight into a clear path forward for developers, architects, and urban planners. With a legacy of strategic foresight in projects with Built, Strata Community Association (SCA), JLL, Architectus, Civium, MBCM, Caesarstone, Integrity New Homes, Lendlease, Metricon, amongst many others, Morris maps out how to not only adapt but lead in an era where real estate is anticipatory, sustainable, and driven by intelligence.

Education & Training

Immediate Futures™: Educating for a World That Doesn’t Yet Exist

The education and training sectors are on the brink of profound transformation. As technology reshapes industries, the true nature of learning is evolving—not as a replacement for human connection, but as a powerful amplifier of it. For over three decades, Morris Misel has been a pioneering voice in foresight for education, challenging the conventional norms of classroom-based instruction and outdated curriculum models. His work explores how technology—when used intentionally—can free educators from rote and repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on what they do best: inspiring, guiding, and nurturing learners.

In this keynote, Morris Misel distills three decades of global insight into a clear vision for the future of education and training. This isn’t just about preparing students for existing jobs—it’s about equipping them to thrive in industries that have yet to be imagined. From digital apprenticeships that enrich hands-on learning to immersive XR classrooms that bring concepts to life, Morris demonstrates how technology can serve as the scaffolding for deeper human connection and transformative learning experiences. His vision repositions educators as learning architects, empowered by technology to design experiences that are more engaging, adaptive, and impactful than ever before.

Energy & Utilities Estate

Immediate Futures™: Powering the Future of Energy & Utilities

For years, Morris has championed this sector as not just an industry of necessity but one of boundless opportunity, where foresight and innovation can redefine how we generate, distribute, and consume energy.

While others focused on short-term fixes, Morris saw resilience and untapped potential. He spoke to leaders who were already experimenting with microgrids, blockchain for energy trading, and AI-driven demand response long before these technologies were mainstream. This renaissance in energy is not just about sustainability; it’s about profitability, resilience, and future-readiness. Morris has shared these insights across global stages, media, and in private sessions, positioning energy as the next frontier of technological and sustainable transformation.

Morris bridges these complexities, drawing from over three decades of working alongside global energy providers, utility companies, regulators, and technology innovators. His foresight has informed transformative strategies for energy leaders and innovators alike, turning pressing challenges into clear competitive advantages. Through this keynote, he empowers energy and utility leaders with actionable, visionary insights to pre-empt shifts, seize emerging opportunities, and build resilient, future-proofed energy ecosystems.

Finance & Insurance

Immediate Futures™: When Money Thinks for Itself

The financial and insurance sectors are built on stability, but they now operate at the bleeding edge of uncertainty. From embedded finance to autonomous transactions, from regulatory shifts to real-time AI decision making, the traditional models of value, risk, and trust are being redrawn. This keynote equips leaders to stop reacting and start recalibrating—with clarity, calm, and confidence.

In Immediate Futures: When Money Thinks for Itself, Morris challenges outdated assumptions and arms decision-makers with practical foresight. Expect provocative questions, scenario shifts, and decision frameworks for navigating AI, regulation, decentralisation, and generational expectation gaps. This isn’t just a speech, it’s a strategy session for the future you’re about to lead.

Future Of Work & Leadership

Immediate Futures™: The End of Jobs, The Rise of Work

The way we think about jobs is broken. It’s why strategy stalls, engagement slides, and top talent quietly disconnect even in high-performing teams. We inherited a world built for predictability: job titles, hierarchy, certainty. But work isn’t linear anymore. It’s fluid a shifting mix of tasks, decisions, and interactions powered by humans, machines, and AI. This keynote is a jolt to the system.

It reframes everything:

• Why your workforce is already untethered even if your systems aren’t
• Why productivity is no longer the goal adaptability is
• Why AI isn’t taking jobs it’s removing the need for fixed roles Why leadership now means designing clarity, not just delegating authority

This isn’t a talk about remote work or four-day weeks. It’s a bold redefinition of what work is, what humans are uniquely wired for, and how to future proof the very people and systems at your core.

Government & Policy

Immediate Futures™: Mastering the Future of Governance: Anticipate, Adapt, Achieve

Governance today is at a crossroads. Traditional models—bound by election cycles, bureaucratic inertia, and reactive policies—are increasingly unfit for a world defined by rapid urbanisation, climate adaptation, and technological disruption. To truly serve communities, governance must evolve to be proactive, resilient, and deeply human-focused. For over three decades, Morris Misel has been a leading voice in foresight-driven governance, working alongside local councils, state governments, and national policymakers to shift strategy from reactive to anticipatory.

Morris’s work is about more than just policy; it’s about building future ready communities. Through targeted keynotes, workshops, and strategic foresight, he has redefined how cities plan, how governments engage, and how communities thrive in uncertainty. From the economic corridors of Dandenong to the strategic initiatives of Canberra’s Department of Innovation, his insights have paved the way for policy that is not just reactive, but regenerative.

This keynote challenges leaders to move beyond political cycles and think in decades, building systems that are predictive, adaptive, and deeply human-centric.

Healthcare & Biotech

Immediate Futures™: The Human-First Revolution in Health

The health, wellness, and biotech sectors are on the brink of a seismic shift not merely advancing, but fundamentally reimagining the very nature of health itself. For too long, medicine has been reactive, focused on treating illness after it takes hold. But what if we could anticipate, prevent, and personalise health before the symptoms even begin? This is not science f iction; it’s the human-first revolution, where health is designed, not diagnosed.

Morris Misel brings three decades of foresight and global insight to map out the next frontier of healthcare. His visionary approach illustrates how digital twins will model patient health in real-time, CRISPR will eradicate inherited diseases, and health will evolve from symptomatic treatment to anticipatory care. It’s about leveraging foresight to create a proactive, decentralised model where individuals hold sovereignty over their health data, and where personalised medicine is the standard—not the exception.

Built for healthcare providers, wellness platforms, biotech innovators, hospital administrators, insurance groups, pharmacists, research institutes, and strategic policy leaders, this keynote isn’t just about adapting to change; it’s about leading it. It’s the new benchmark in health foresight—a reimagined blueprint for a truly human-first health system.

Retail & Consumer Goods

Immediate Futures™: The Great Retail Reboot, Reinventing the Consumer Experience

This keynote, workshop or strategic conversation reframes the future of retail through a human-first lens where experience matters more than transaction, and where innovation isn’t bolted on, but built in from the very beginning.

Morris Misel doesn’t just track trends he remaps the entire terrain. From immersive physical stores to intelligent supply chains, hyper-personalisation to sustainable loyalty, this is your blueprint for navigating the next era of retail. Fast-paced, practical, and provocative, it’s designed to spark strategic conversation long after the room clears.

Behind the keynote is a deeper story. Morris has worked with some of the world’s most recognisable retail and consumer brands to not just navigate disruption but turn it into differentiation. From fuel and fashion to groceries, hardware, furniture, food and more his work has provoked leaders to rethink everything from customer journeys and merchandising to data, delivery, loyalty, and leadership.

And here’s what matters most: no two audiences are the same and no two keynotes should be either. This session will be as unique as your business. Custom-built from imagination, insight, lived experience and real research. It’s inhabited by Morris and shaped entirely around you. Not pulled from a shelf. Not repurposed from another industry. But purpose-built to move your audience and your strategy forward.

Strategy & Advisory

Immediate Futures™: See Further. Lead Sharper. Act Wiser.

This keynote isn’t a download of trends. It’s a foresight experience built for those who advise, coach, lead, facilitate, or shape how others think and act. Morris gives you the same strategy tools he uses with EY, KPMG, SEEK, Thoughtworks, TEC/Vistage, IMC, and CxO teams around the world not just to stay relevant, but to lead from relevance.

He drops you into the landscape: shifting PESTLE signals, competitive ripples, platform changes, cultural pivots, AI-human-machine decision models, leadership reframes, and the real-world pressures reshaping how work, influence, and value actually move.

You’ll leave with HUMAND to reframe tasks. You’ll see how “Who Decides?” is already changing your clients’ workflows, policies, trust architecture, and advice models. And you’ll understand why the decisions you make today and the ones your clients make tomorrow because of your advice will quietly but powerfully shape everything that follows.

No slides on autopilot. No foresight theatre. This is where you come to upgrade how you think so you can elevate how others act.

Transport & Logistics

Immediate Futures™: Rewiring Transport & Logistics for AI-Empowered, Human-Led Decision Making

This keynote isn’t about trends. It’s about transformation. Morris Misel helps logistics leaders cut through the noise, unlock intelligent systems, and prepare their organisations to lead where AI and humans must collaborate in real time.

Morris has worked with industry giants across road, rail, air, energy, infrastructure, and last-mile delivery—provoking new thinking at events like Intelligent Transport Systems, guiding strategic decisions for clients including BP, AAA, Ford and BMW, and advising on everything from parking futures to predictive infrastructure design. His sessions have helped entire teams reframe the logistics conversation—from what’s moving to how, why, and what else is possible.

From autonomous freight and AI-led delivery networks to digital twins and predictive maintenance, this keynote dives deep into the operational and strategic shifts redefining how we move through the world—and what moves us in return.

And here’s the critical difference: Morris never delivers off-the-shelf talks. Every session is custom-built from lived experience, sector-native research, and deep foresight immersion. Whether you’re a freight operator, energy provider, logistics innovator, or infrastructure strategist, this keynote is shaped entirely around your context, your friction points, and your forward path—not borrowed from another industry, not retrofitted from another brief.

Tech & Startups

Immediate Futures™: Rethinking Tech & Startups for a Human-Led, AI-Smart World

In this keynote, Morris introduces HUMAND: Humans, Understanding, Machines, AI, Navigation, and Design. It is not a model. It is a mirror. A way to see how your business, product, or platform responds when the future knocks harder, faster, and more unexpectedly than you planned for.

This session is built for founders, product leaders, innovation teams, and investors who want clarity in the noise. It reframes AI as an amplifier, not the answer, and reminds tech leaders that what they ignore gets scaled just as fast as what they build. You do not need another roadmap.

You need a way to make sense of what you are building and why you are building it in the first place

Tourism & Hospitality

Immediate Futures™: The Future of Belonging, Booking and Being There

In this keynote, Morris introduces how HUMAND (Humans + Understanding + Machines + AI + Navigation + Design) is already reshaping guest expectations, workforce structures, venue operations, trust infrastructure, AI-enabled service, digital-first bookings, food journeys, and the “work–leisure–wellness” blend now embedded in every destination choice.

Whether it’s preparing for the future of short stays, dining experiences, lunar tourism, or hybrid events, Morris shows your audience how to stay relevant, responsive, and human-first no matter where or how your guest arrives.

You don’t need another look at hospitality tech trends.

You need a plan to keep designing the kinds of places people still want to be in, work in, eat in, and return to even when the world around them keeps shifting.