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The world is entering the Resilience Economy. Is your organisation ready?
I help leaders understand what climate adaptation and resilience really means for their sector, and what the smartest organisations are already doing about it.
The $4.4 trillion climate adaptation gap is not just an environmental story. It is the defining commercial and strategic challenge of the next decade. The organisations that understand this early, and act on it, will be the ones that survive and grow. Those that don't will find themselves exposed.
I am passionate about understanding the convergence of emerging trends and their implications for leaders. I spent over a decade as a digital health futurist, advising hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and governments on what was coming before it arrived. I was right about most of it. Now I'm applying that same rigour to planetary health and climate adaptation, and what I'm seeing is the largest economic transformation of our lifetimes.
My keynotes don't revolve around vague warnings or distant scenarios. They give audiences a clear framework for understanding the Resilience Economy, where the opportunities sit, and what decisions need to be made now.
Keynote Topics for 2026
The $4.4 trillion climate adaptation gap is the problem. The Resilience Economy is the opportunity.
The Resilience Economy: The Biggest Climate Adaptation Opportunity You've Never Heard Of A $4.4 trillion climate adaptation gap is quietly reshaping which businesses survive, which governments remain solvent, and which investors will define the next decade of growth. Leaders leave knowing exactly where the greatest opportunities for growth are hiding.
Climate Adaptation Is Open for Business Adaptation isn't a cost centre. It's the largest commercial opportunity of the next decade - and early movers are already staking their claims. Leaders leave with a clear picture of which sectors, markets and strategies will define the winners of the next decade.
The End of Normal: Leading Through Permanent Volatility Geopolitical instability, a heating planet, and the rapid acceleration of AI and automation have converged to make volatility the permanent backdrop against which every business decision will now be made. Leaders leave with a practical framework for making confident decisions in a world that will never fully stabilise.
Beyond Guilt: Why the Resilience Economy Beats the Shame Economy Telling people to feel bad about flying, eating meat and having children has failed. Here's the more powerful - and more commercially interesting - alternative. Leaders leave energised by a genuinely optimistic vision of what business can achieve on a heating planet.
The Jobs the Doom Narrative Forgot While headlines warn of mass unemployment from AI and automation, a quieter revolution is already underway. New research from Systemiq and the World Resources Institute shows climate adaptation alone will create 280 million jobs over the next decade - in infrastructure, finance, agriculture, health, technology and beyond. Leaders leave with a fundamentally more optimistic and accurate picture of where human work is heading.
All keynotes are tailored to your audience, sector and event objectives. Get in touch to discuss your specific requirements.
Why audiences trust this perspective
Featured on Netflix's The Future Of
Featured in NVIDIA's inaugural State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences report
Contributed a chapter on the future of health and wellbeing to a Samsung UK report on life in 50 years time
Annual guest lecture on AI in medicine at Cedars-Sinai Hospital's MSc programme since 2020
TEDx speaker - Porto, NHS, St Peter Port
Over 3 decades spanning data science, pharmaceutical R&D and futures research
WHAT EVENT ORGANISERS SAY
"Maneesh has a rare ability to see the big picture of healthcare's future as it is actively unfolding - integrating data, technology, and human insight to make sense of extraordinary complexity at exactly the moment leaders need that clarity. His talks consistently rank among the highest in our curriculum, spark sustained discussion long after the sessions end, and fundamentally reshape how clinicians, students, and health-system leaders think about the future."
Brennan Spiegel MD, MSHS
Professor of Medicine and Public Health,
Author of PULL and VRx,
Cedars-Sinai hospital
"Maneesh is an outstanding keynote speaker about the future of health and wellbeing, with clarity and depth. He spoke at two events that I organise and the audience feedback was unanimously positive. His ability to connect complex ideas into a coherent and meaningful story ensured that his contribution was not only engaging but genuinely valuable for all those in attendance."
Norberto Amaral
Organiser and Curator,
TEDx Porto
Who books me
I speak at international conferences, leadership summits, corporate away days and industry forums. My clients have included pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions, insurers, health systems and government agencies.
If you are programming an event and want your audience to leave with a genuinely different way of thinking about what's coming - inspired, energised, and excited about the role they can play in building the Resilience Economy - let's talk. Get in touch via my contact page.