Jacob is a professionally trained futurist, keynote speaker, and the international best-selling author of 6 books which focus on leadership, the future of work, and employee experience. His passion and mission is to create future-ready leaders, employees, and organizations. Jacob is also the founder of Future of Work Leaders, a... Read more
Jacob is a professionally trained futurist, keynote speaker, and the international best-selling author of 6 books which focus on leadership, the future of work, and employee experience. His passion and mission is to create future-ready leaders, employees, and organizations. Jacob is also the founder of Future of Work Leaders, a global CHRO community of the world’s top people leaders.
In addition, he hosts the popular Future-Ready Leadership Podcast which is one of the most popular management and leadership podcasts. His work has been endorsed by the CEOs of: Unilever, Cisco, Mastercard, Nestle, Best Buy, SAP, KPMG, T-Mobile, Audi, Kaiser Permanente, and many others.
Jacob lives in Los Angeles, California with his amazing wife Blake, their two kids, and their two Yorkie rescue dogs. He’s an avid chess and pickleball player and health and fitness enthusiast.
How do you lead when everything is changing—from AI to employee expectations—and the old playbook no longer applies? Discover the four mindsets and five skills today’s leaders need to thrive in a world being reshaped in real time.
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Vulnerability isn’t weakness—it’s a leadership superpower. This keynote reveals how combining vulnerability with competence builds trust, deepens connection, and drives real results.
In this powerful keynote, Jacob shares breakthrough insights from interviews with 100+ CEOs and data from 14,000 employees that reveal what it really means to lead with vulnerability—and...
The future of your organization hinges on one thing: the experience you create for your people.
In this transformative keynote, Jacob unveils the 8 Laws of Employee Experience—a bold, futurist-driven framework for designing organizations that attract top talent, unlock potential, and accelerate business success. Drawing on research from over 100...
AI is reshaping work—fast. This keynote shows how leaders can harness AI while doubling down on human strengths to build future-ready organizations.
In this provocative keynote, Jacob takes audiences on a journey into the evolving world of work, where algorithms make decisions, machines learn, and automation accelerates everything. But while...