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In a world quickly spinning out of control, Dr. Chris Kutarna is a lone point of balance and clarity. He rips up the outdated mental maps that have served us so poorly in recent years\u2014maps that led us to think that for example Brexit was impossible, that Trump was unelectable, that globalization was irreversible, that China\u2019s democratization was inevitable, that facts were incontrovertible.<\/p>\n

Chris Kutarna draws a fresh map\u2014one that describes the new world we\u2019re in now\u2014so that you, your organization, your profession or industry or country, can captain humanity\u2019s voyage to a second Renaissance.<\/p>\n

Chris Kutarna is the co-author of “Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance,” a best-selling, internationally acclaimed book published by Bloomsbury and St Martin\u2019s Press in eight languages. Among other predictions, Dr. Chris Kutarna accurately predicted Brexit and the election of Donald Trump points out that \u201chistory rhymes,\u201d where historical patterns of human behavior can be applied to present-day movements. He uses maps as a metaphor to explain his thinking and says that we need to renew our societal maps to shape our future by \u201clooking at the world with a lens that is updated.”<\/p>\n

Mapmaking is an ancient skill and Dr. Chris Kutarna delivers the modern master class. Drawing examples from the world\u2019s biggest trends, challenges and from your own industry, he can help audiences to: Identify hidden assumptions that need to be challenged right now, reframe problems as invitations to overturn the obsolete and soften the fear of complexities.<\/p>\n

By applying these mapmaking skills, audiences can then improve the lens through which they evaluate the landscape of opportunities and risks, boost their odds of achieving breakthrough results, shift the \u201cpermission structure\u201d of the organization to accelerate change and better connect performance with a truly transformational purpose.<\/p>\n

Transformational people and organizations cannot be map takers. They must be map makers and Dr. Kutarna can help you choose, and achieve, the latter.<\/p>\n

Dr. Christopher Kutarna has been a two-time Governor General\u2019s Medallist, a Commonwealth Scholar, and a Fel-low of the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University. He has consulted with BCG in New Zealand, Australia and China. Chris holds a doctorate in Politics (of China) from the University of Oxford, started a business in Beijing, and speaks Mandarin fluently.<\/p>\n

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