The Adaptability Advantage: How To Lead When Intelligence Is Ubiquitous
Colin Iles in conversation with John Sanei

About this event
Thursday 3 December. 14:00 London / 16:00 Johannesburg / 09:00 New York. Sixty minutes, live on Zoom.
John Sanei is a futurist and transformation specialist. He has worked with Google, Mastercard, NASA and Singularity University. He has written or co-written 11 books, six of them bestsellers, and Global Gurus Research ranked him in the Top 5 Futurists worldwide for 2025. He created the Adaptable Intelligence Framework.
Colin Iles asks him how to lead when intelligence is everywhere.
We'll dig into:
- Why the world is changing faster than we are, and what that does to leaders
- Success trauma: why expertise becomes a prison and the most successful leaders get stuck
- Today and Tomorrow Teams, and why organisations disrupt themselves with the wrong team
- Why presence and judgement become more valuable as AI commoditises thinking
- The visibility journey: rebuilding identity in public, and how John has used his personal brand
Bring questions. The last stretch is live Q&A.
Guest
John Sanei
Futurist and Bestselling Author
John Sanei is a futurist and transformation specialist. He has worked with Google, Mastercard, NASA and Singularity University, and has written or co-written 11 books, six of them bestsellers. Global Gurus Research ranked him in the Top 5 Futurists worldwide for 2025. He created the Adaptable Intelligence Framework.
Colin Iles
Host, Colin Iles Media
20+ years in global financial services. 200+ executive roundtables. Forbes Africa columnist.
Previously in the FDC Leadership Series
- Sept 2026
The New Rules of Leadership in an AI-Powered World
Bob Skinstad, Elixirr