Todd Hirsch

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Bracing for Turbulence: Economic Trends and Challenges in 2023

  As the global economy hurls towards recession in 2023, industries and companies around the world are bracing for turbulent times. Geopolitics has replaced the pandemic as the biggest threat to the economy, and spiking interest rates, crushing inflation, and sagging real estate markets are weighing down consumer and business sentiments.

  Todd Hirsch helps audiences navigate this new turbulent environment. He’ll share his forecasts for what’s likely to happen and, most importantly, what businesses, industries, and leaders can do to prepare for it.

  Audiences will walk away with:

  • A clear understanding of forces at play in the global and national economies.
  • New ways to think about government and economic policies, and a challenge to reconsider our expectations.
  • A list of issues that must be addressed if we are to rebuild, reimagine, and evolve our economy.

  This presentation can be customized to include any or all of the following sub-topics:

  • The future of work and our changing relationships with our jobs.
  • Adapting to sudden changes in the economy.
  • Current and near-term economic conditions and forecast for major economic indicators.

• The Morphing Nature of Work

  This presentation will help audiences learn how to thrive in their relationships with work, income, and life.

  The nature of work and employment was changing long before COVID, but the pandemic has accelerated the trends.

  Audiences will gain:

  • A clearer understanding of how the nature of jobs, tasks, work, and careers is morphing.
  • Factors that are influencing the work world, particularly our emotions and personal connections with it.
  • New ways to better prepare themselves — and their employees — for the changes ahead.

• Adapting to Sudden, Unwanted Change

  With the challenges bearing down on us, adapting to new realities seems daunting. But what if adapting is easier than we think? Drawing on lesson shared in his book Spiders in Space, Todd Hirsch will share with audiences:

  • Inspiring stories about adaptability and resilience, both in humans and in nature.
  • A better understanding of how sudden, unwanted change is both inevitable, but also manageable when we prepare.
  • A list of traits to develop that will prepare them for inevitable unwanted change in the future.