Geopolitics Without Panic
Where is consensus exaggerating danger—and what is it missing?
A clear-eyed assessment of risk, counterforces, adaptation and the opportunities that appear when fear stops doing the analysis.
Speaking
Signature talks for moments that reward clear judgement.
Keynotes and briefings on geopolitics, AI and power—designed to separate structural signal from headline noise and connect change to the decisions leaders actually face.
The signature talks
Four ways to challenge the default interpretation.
The Doom Trap
From risk culture to strategic advantage.
How fear-driven decision-making suppresses initiative, innovation and confidence in the future—and how leaders can restore agency.
The Geopolitics of the AI Revolution
Power, risk and the new competitive map.
What AI changes about state power, capital, security and organisational advantage beyond the daily race narrative.
Glocal Leadership
Why national strength still begins locally.
How local capability, institutions and leadership shape resilience and competitive power in an interconnected world.
Tailored strategy session
The Consensus Trap
What if everyone around the table—and your competitors—are making the same mistakes?
A working session applying Mark Brolin’s six signal-detection questions to the organisation’s own assumptions, scenarios and live decisions.
The aim is practical: identify where institutional incentives, inherited assumptions and headline pressure may be distorting risk, opportunity and timing before consensus errors reach strategy, investment or capital allocation.
Discuss a tailored sessionFormats
Built around the room, the question and the decision.
Signature keynotes
High-impact talks tailored to the audience’s industry, strategic context and priorities.
Executive briefings
Focused 60–90 minute sessions connecting geopolitical and technological change to live organisational decisions.
Tailored strategy sessions
Interactive work examining assumptions, scenarios, risk, opportunity and timing.
Tailored geopolitical briefings
Country, regional and thematic outlooks matched to the decisions in front of you.
Regional subjects remain available as tailored briefings, shaped around the organisation’s exposure, assumptions and strategic priorities.
Russia and European security
Capacity, escalation risk, alliance dynamics and implications for energy, commodities and security exposure.
The Middle East, energy and capital
Structural shifts beyond episodic crisis headlines, including energy security, capital flows and regional power.
US reinvention and political volatility
Separating political spectacle from American resilience, innovation capacity and long-term strategic power.
Europe’s growth and competitiveness challenge
Regulation, risk aversion, fragmented capital markets and the possibility of institutional reinvention.
Populism and political recalibration
Institutional constraints, policy persistence and the implications for regulation, leadership and long-term positioning.
AI, power and the global competitive map
Adoption speed, capability, regulation and the strategic choices that sit behind the headlines.
Bookings
Start with the context, not a catalogue.
Share the event or organisational context, preferred date and format where known. The briefing can then be shaped around the question that matters most.
Discuss a booking