Speaking
A keynote that leaves your people seeing more, differently.
Some futures can only be seen together.
Chris Kutarna is an Oxford fellow, bestselling author of Age of Discovery, keynote speaker and founder of New Geo.
I partner with leaders to make sense of this moment we’re in.
I teach at Oxford, speak at TED and around the world, and work with senior leaders and boards to figure out what this new world requires of us.
Ways to work with Chris
Foresight
Reckon with the futures your plans aren’t built for.
Thought partnership
Longer-term work alongside you and your team: taking on the questions that won’t sit still — and growing the confidence to lead through them.
Conversations
Small circles, live questions: the conversation you can’t have in your usual rooms.
New thinking
Essays from Uncertain by Design, the book I’m writing in the open.
How we built a truth machine – and broke it
Mass media made a shared reality; the attention economy shatters it. What does that shift mean for leadership?
From verifiable to viral and the end of common sense
Social feeds now reward reach over proof; “truth” spreads by uptake, not evidence. In an increasingly performative world, how can you make rooms that think?
FIELD GUIDE
How to Basecamp
Gather people around a question none of them can answer alone. Drawn from hundreds of Basecamps held around the world.
About the guide
The most useful book I’ve read on getting people to do the impossible—really listen to each other.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Age of Discovery
Written with Ian Goldin
The same forces that birthed da Vinci brewed chaos. Widen your expectations for this moment: humanity’s Second Renaissance.
About the book
Dares to ask and answer essential big questions.
A rich portrait. Insights for every emerging da Vinci.
A powerful journey. This book will help the world.
Everyone should read it.
In practice
Where new thinking, together, changed what happened next.
Selected organisations New Geo has worked with.
And current engagements with leadership teams at a global luxury house, a hyperscaler, and a national resources ministry.
Chris tells us the things we’ve never heard before.
We’ve received numerous requests from across the Ministry for Chris to help other groups make the same journey he took us on.
Board members still quote his insights, because he made the future feel urgent—and full of possibility.
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ABOUT NEW GEO
Things look different, depending where you stand.
The only way to see the whole of it is together. New Geo is a young society built on an old conviction: honest thinking happens between people who’ve earned each other’s trust.
I convene it, with a circle of people from different worlds. Where I grew up, in Saskatchewan, the motto is Multis e gentibus vires: from many peoples, strength. Same idea. Come and show us how things look from where you stand.
About New Geo
Reckoning is what we do when the map runs out.
If your map has run out too, I’d like to hear about it.