IMC, Case Study

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.