KPMG Didn’t Hire a Speaker. They Hired a Provocation.

When KPMG wanted to shake its own consultants out of legacy thinking, they didn’t just bring in Morris for a keynote. They commissioned him to design and lead an Innovation Safari—a full-day, high-impact strategic foresight experience tailored for over 200 senior staff.

Held at the MCG, the event was immersive by design. Morris scripted every element: keynote provocation, wild card scenarios, pitch labs, inflatable adult-sized problem-solving tools, and rapid-fire co-creation sprints. It wasn’t theatre. It was method.

The core provocation? What if a Royal Commission banned audit and consulting under the same roof—and you had to build GMPK, a 2025-ready challenger firm, from scratch?

The result was a catalytic rethink of how advisory services might evolve in a world of AI, automation, and rising client expectation. It helped KPMG’s own people rethink where their true value lies — and how to deliver it before disruption arrives.

Shift: From legacy frameworks to innovation fluency — embedding strategic foresight into the consulting mindset.

The result?: A signature internal experience that became a reference point for future KPMG programs. Morris helped rewire not just how consultants think — but how they see their role in shaping what comes next.

Strategic Foresight for the People Who Lead the Room

Morris has presented to nearly every TEC group in Australia, all of Vistage New Zealand, and select groups in the UK becoming a trusted voice in the room for CEOs, MDs, Chairs, and facilitators alike.

These weren’t one-offs. They were the start of something deeper: decade-long relationships, repeat invitations, boardroom follow-ups, strategy workshops, and leadership keynotes that led to advisory engagements, private clients, new product launches, and lifelong allies.

It began with early provocations on why LinkedIn, social platforms, and digital presence would reshape how leaders lead. It’s continued with sessions on trust infrastructure, AI-enabled decision-making, workplace culture shifts, and how to know what to pay attention to before your competitors do.

Every session is real-time, interactive, and specific to the group. Every outcome is tailored to what’s changing for them. And every facilitator who brings Morris in knows they’re not just booking a talk they’re giving their leaders a foresight injection that will ripple forward into eternity.

Shift: From tactical conversations to future-shaping clarity and momentum.

The result?: Ongoing bookings across three countries, long-tail projects, keynote and advisory follow-ons and a reputation inside TEC/Vistage as the person who helps leaders lead before the rest catch up.

Challenging the Consultants Who Are Meant to Have the Answers

Morris didn’t just keynote once for the Institute of Management Consultants. He was invited back across a decade to challenge, provoke, and rewire how Australia’s top management consultants think about their own future.

His first session, Futurevation: The Tomorrow and Beyond of Business, reframed social media, mobile platforms, and crowdsourcing not as tech fads but as deep shifts in how value, trust, and expertise are earned. His follow-up keynote, Consulting Reimagined for a Post-COVID Era, hit harder: what happens to the profession when AI can already advise, adjust, and hold clients accountable?

Morris didn’t just speak. He ran the breakout groups, designed the provocations, and led delegates through a full-funnel interrogation of their relevance — exploring the future role of human consultants across four core pillars: Information, Expertise, Insight, Execution.

These weren’t comfortable sessions. They were catalytic.

As one organiser later said:
“You challenged our delegates, gave them new language for what’s ahead, and helped them see what their road forward might look like. You’ve become a benchmark we continue to reference.”

Shift: From trusted expert to adaptive strategist reframing the role of consulting in a machine-enhanced world.

The result?: Delegates stayed all day fully engaged. Morris became the go-to foresight voice for advisors rethinking their own value, and his frameworks still echo in IMC circles today.

SEEK Didn’t Want a Talk About Jobs. They Wanted to Rethink Their Role in the World of Work.

SEEK brought Morris in to work directly with their senior team on a deeper question than features, funnels, or KPIs:
How does a market leader shape what work feels like not just how it’s found?

This wasn’t about recruitment tech. It was about responsibility.
In a world where algorithms mediate first impressions, bias is coded into defaults, and career paths are shaped by invisible filters, SEEK wanted to understand its deeper role not just as a job-matching platform, but as a force in how work is understood and experienced.

Morris led a session that forced reflection on platform stewardship, employment identity, and what it means to design with dignity, not just efficiency.

He asked:
“What kind of worldview does your algorithm reinforce? What future of work are you co-creating and are you proud of it?”

It wasn’t an easy session. It was a real one.
And it reframed SEEK’s internal conversations around trust, leadership, and what it means to be accountable to both sides of the marketplace employers and humans.

Shift: From talent tech to workforce influence understanding their role as shapers of modern work.

The result?: A reframe that still informs SEEK’s leadership, ethics, and product development frameworks and a reminder that the future of work begins in the systems that present it.

Rethinking the Future of Consulting — From the Inside Out

MNP is one of Canada’s largest and most respected advisory firms and for over a decade, Morris has been embedded inside their world, not just advising clients but helping MNP consultants themselves reimagine what it means to lead.

In addition to strategic foresight work with MNP clients across Canada, Morris was invited to deliver a flagship internal workshop to the firm’s Strategy and People Practice focused on helping their senior consultants evolve their own role in a world increasingly shaped by AI, shifting work models, and future-ready strategy.

The session didn’t sugar-coat it. It tackled head-on what others won’t:

What if consulting, as we know it, is obsolete?

What replaces it in an AI-first model?

Why “strategy” needs to become iterative, immersive, and human-augmented?

Across a 75-minute masterclass, Morris led a series of dynamic fireside conversations and provocations with MNP’s practice leaders, including:

The AI-first consultant — how to thrive when software can already advise

From workforce to taskforce — the death of roles and rise of “done”

PolyPossibility Strategy — navigating uncertainty without losing direction

Cognification, augmentation, wisdom-first decision-making

This wasn’t theory. It was a live upgrade to how some of Canada’s top consultants think, advise, and lead both for their clients and themselves.

Shift: From legacy consulting models to foresight-fuelled, human–machine collaboration frameworks

The result?: A reinforced decade-long advisory relationship and a consultant-wide strategic rethink now influencing MNP’s AI, HR, and client advisory posture nationwide.

Helping Boards See What Today’s CEOs Weren’t Hired to Handle

The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) brought Morris in not once, but twice first for a closed-door leadership foresight workshop in Sydney, and later as a keynote panellist for their Not-for-Profit leadership series in Melbourne.

At the workshop, Morris worked with senior AICD members on strategic scenarios shaping the future of directorship itself — using frameworks from “The Future Revisited” and his own foresight methodologies to help boards imagine how governance, regulation, stakeholder accountability, and emerging tech would transform their role.

Years later, they invited him back to help boards rethink the CEO of the future. What skills? What worldview? What ethical resilience? Morris brought the provocation: “Are you hiring people who can lead, or people who can administrate complexity that’s already obsolete?”

From AI fluency to cross-sector leadership design, Morris gave directors new lenses to evaluate what their organisations and their people need next.

Shift: From traditional succession planning to strategic talent foresight helping directors prepare for challenges no CEO was hired to face.

The result?: Enduring influence on AICD’s leadership development conversations, with Morris’s provocations echoed in board education, event strategy, and policy foresight ever since.

Where the Visionaries Went to Talk About What Really Matters

In 2019, Morris was invited to join the Genius 100 Global Visionary Network a group of leaders curated around Einstein’s legacy, designed to shape the long view of humanity, purpose, and progress.

Held at the exclusive Esperanza Resort in Los Cabos, Mexico, the private summit brought together Nobel laureates, NASA leaders, architects of the TED movement, and pioneers from education, space, media, and medicine. Morris was there not as a spectator, but as a peer — part of a select group tasked with exploring the systems, ethics, and possibilities shaping the decades ahead

Across three days of intimate, unscripted conversational forums, the group tackled themes like:

The rise of non-human entities in governance and industry

Leadership in a world of declining trust

Philanthropy as a vector for systemic change

The tension between personalised education and collective wisdom

Morris contributed to working sessions, vision-building activities, and post-summit collaborations — an association that continues today as part of his ongoing role helping shape global foresight narratives, ethical innovation initiatives, and leadership development at planetary scale.

Shift: From corporate futurism to legacy-calibre futures thinking bringing leadership foresight to the front lines of global possibility.

The result?: An enduring seat within one of the world’s most exclusive foresight communities with insights that continue to inform Morris’s keynote, consulting, and advisory work across continents.

Where the Builders of Work Got a Reality Check

The CWS Summit isn’t for recruiters. It’s for the people who build, fund, and scale the platforms that shape modern employment. Morris was invited to speak to this global audience of workforce strategists, platform leaders, and procurement decision-makers not to celebrate innovation, but to interrogate it.

His keynote didn’t start with predictions. It started with a provocation:
“Are you designing systems that work or just systems that move faster?”

Morris mapped the trajectory of task-based employment, AI-accelerated platforms, and where trust breaks down when no human’s left to make the call. He showed delegates what comes next when algorithmic systems start shaping careers, not just gigs and asked:
Who’s responsible for the ripple effects?

The message landed. Morris stayed on to field executive roundtable sessions, and his frameworks were later quoted in internal reviews by several major workforce design leaders.

Shift: From gig-matching tools to infrastructure that shapes the future of work.

The result?: Morris helped leaders rethink their responsibility not just to users, but to the very idea of work.

Preparing Leaders for a Future Their Customers Don’t Yet Know They Need

iSelect brought Morris in to deliver a keynote to its senior leadership team and investors but it wasn’t about competition or compliance. It was about anticipation.

The session focused on what tomorrow’s customers will expect before they ask. Morris challenged the group to reimagine digital platforms not just as facilitators of purchase, but as life-stage intelligence engines proactively helping users before the need is felt.

He explored how AI, automation, and trust shifts would remake everything from how policies are bought to how clients think about protection, identity, and work-life design.

This wasn’t a product pitch. It was a leadership rethink.

And it reframed the board’s thinking on what insurance will mean and require in a post-platform economy.

Shift: From reactive product strategy to anticipatory leadership thinking.

The result?: New strategic conversations at executive level and a mindset shift that influenced how iSelect designed both offerings and advisory pathways.

Not Just a Title A Test of Strategic Relevance

For over six years, Morris served as Resident Futurist to the Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce (WA) not in name only, but in relentless practice.

He wasn’t just brought in for keynotes (though he delivered many). He was embedded as a provocateur, strategic compass, innovation interpreter, and future translator for one of Australia’s most influential cross-sector business networks.

At boardroom briefings, business lunches, and headline events, Morris helped AICC members — including leaders from some of the country’s top 25 firms make sense of emerging global shifts in AI, technology, trade, and trust. But the real test came on the road.

Morris co-led high-level outbound trade delegations to Israel and Silicon Valley, delivering daily foresight briefings, reframing startup hype into strategy, and ensuring every international insight was turned into practical business value back home 

He didn’t sell the future. He helped decision-makers understand it, apply it, and lead through it locally and globally.

Shift: From chamber events as networking opportunities to foresight-driven leadership forums.

The result?: A long-term, trusted alliance in which Morris shaped how WA’s most influential business leaders explored, assessed, and acted on global innovation trends from boardroom to runway.

Building the Next Generation of Leaders Before It Was a Hashtag

Long before “future of work” was a keynote theme, Morris was helping shape it from the ground up.

As part of his long-standing teaching and consulting work with Holmesglen TAFE, Morris became a mentor and advisor to student teams participating in the Young Achiever Awards (YAA) — one of Australia’s most respected youth enterprise and leadership programs.

His teams didn’t just show up. They won — twice. Back-to-back.

Over two years (1998–2000), Morris coached his students weekly guiding them from raw ideas to validated business models, pitching prototypes, raising funds, and running real-world enterprises that earned profit and delivered social impact. After expenses, his team reinvested earnings into YAA charities — proving that ethics, ambition, and enterprise could co-exist.

His mentorship led to:

Holmesglen’s first-ever wins at YAA

Dozens of students mentored in startup thinking

Real ventures launched before entrepreneurship was trendy

And Morris himself receiving awards for his role in transforming the educational experience into future-building outcomes

Shift: From theoretical learning to leadership-in-action years before startup culture hit mainstream education.

The result?: An enduring legacy that helped redefine how vocational students could think, act, and lead with ripples that continue today across education and early-stage entrepreneurial ecosystems.

When the World Was Asking “What’s Next?”, Morris Asked “Who Are We Becoming?”

When Morris was invited to speak at TEDxMelbourne, he didn’t pitch a talk about technology. He pitched a talk about humanity and what it takes to stay whole when the world around you keeps rewiring. His talk, Unlearn the Future, became one of the event’s most enduring provocations.

In it, Morris didn’t just call for reinvention. He showed what it looks like, live. Drawing on his foresight work with over 2,600 clients across 160 industries and layering in his own family’s escape from war-torn Poland, he reframed identity as a living system shaped as much by story and intent as by data and work.

“What if your sense of self isn’t inherited but invented? What if we’re all becoming our future selves in real time?”

This wasn’t about tasks or tools. It was about who we are, what we carry forward, and how we design futures that honour both origin and ambition. The response was immediate: invitations to expand the message into workshops, advisory sessions, and follow-up keynotes across leadership, consulting, and education sectors.

Shift: From external forecasting to internal reframing helping leaders understand not just what’s changing, but how to hold themselves through it.

The result?: An emotional, strategic, and unforgettable TEDx moment now embedded in Morris’s broader keynote and coaching offerings on identity, change, and personal leadership.