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Hot Topic: Your Organization Is Not Ready Yet
February 10 & 11, 2026 | Zoom Webinars
Your Organization Is Not Ready Yet: SuperShifts, Strategy Caps, and the Decisions Leaders Must Make Now
with Dr. Ja-Naé Duane, Lecturer at Brown University School of Engineering and Academic Research Fellow, MIT CISR
By 2026, the operational landscape will be reshaped by the convergence of several major SuperShifts: AI-driven decision systems, accelerated technological cycles, workforce behavioral shifts, geopolitical volatility, and rising expectations around trust, transparency, and ethical governance. Despite unprecedented investment in AI and data, most organizations remain structurally unprepared for this convergence.
This webinar will provide a blunt, evidence-based assessment of what is coming and the strategic gaps leaders must close immediately to protect competitiveness and maintain resilience. Drawing on cross-industry research and foresight models, futurist Dr. Ja-Naé Duane will reveal the strategic blind spots she is seeing across Fortune 100 companies, government, and global innovation ecosystems. Participants will learn a research-backed framework to help them prepare for the next 18 months of disruption and to identify the core capabilities leaders must build now to navigate the Age of Intelligence with clarity, confidence, and strategic advantage.
Read more about Dr. Duane's research in her most recent book (with co-author Steve Fisher), SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence, published in April 2025 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
About the presenter
For over 20 years, behavioral scientist Dr. Ja-Naé Duane dedicated herself to one mission: to make life better for one billion people. This award-winning innovator and expert on global systems focuses on helping corporations, governments, and universities understand and develop systems of the future using emerging technology such as VR/AR, AI, and blockchain. Ja-Nae guides companies forward, helping them get out of their own way to create exponential innovation and future forecasting. She has had the pleasure of working with companies such as PWC, Saudi Aramco, Yum Brands, Samsonite, Natixis, AIG, and Deloitte.
Dr. Duane is a lecturer at Brown University’s School of Engineering and the academic director of the Master’s in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (PRIME). A top-rated speaker within the Singularity University community and the author of the bestseller, The Startup Equation, Ja-Nae is passionate about helping both startups and multinational firms identify new business models and pathways for global scale. Over the years, her work has caught the attention of The Associated Press, NPR, IBM Think, and BusinessWeek. Ja-Naé holds degrees from Brown University, I.E. Business School, Northeastern University, Carnegie University, Bentley University, and Boston University. She is a member of the Loomis Council at the Stimson Center, collaborator with the National Institute of Health, and an Academic Research Fellow at MIT CISR.
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