Neil Jacobsohn
Powerful speaker and facilitator on the future
Latest Review · All Reviews (9)
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Neil gave a high energy, inspirational talk about Lessons from the Future to a group of top executives. He mixed facts and insights with emotionally-poignant images and video clips to effectively drive home his message. Highly recommended.
February 23, 2011, Rotterdam
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Bio
Joint CEO of FutureWorld South Africa, journalist, entrepreneur, marketer and innovator
Neil Jacobsohn, is a life-long communicator with a passion for the future. He has been an award-winning journalist, a digital entrepreneur, a company director and professional marketer. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Neil has:
- reported news from around the world for a wide range of newspapers and magazines
- edited newspapers
- managed operations for a broad-based media group
- been group marketing director of a listed media company
- run a US$40-million AIDS campaign for a national government
- launched more than 14 businesses.
Unusually, he combined entrepreneurship with corporate success. He has served as chairman, executive and non-executive director on a number of listed and unlisted company Boards.
He is a founding member of the FutureWorld Network, an energetic and entertaining speaker, strategist and facilitator, who works extensively on FutureWorld keynotes, workshops and strategic breakthrough projects for corporate clients and learning institutions around the world, among them Oxford's SAID Business School and Duke Corporate Education.
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$10,000-$20,000,
Africa,
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Gauteng,
Johannesburg,
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Visions of the Future
Reviews (9)
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Neil gave a high energy, inspirational talk about Lessons from the Future to a group of top executives. He mixed facts and insights with emotionally-poignant images and video clips to effectively drive home his message. Highly recommended.
February 23, 2011, Rotterdam
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The presentation was entertaining and get the audience engaged. The content was future orientated and extremely thought provoking. This talk resulted in us inviting Neil to facilitate a day of our strategic planning process - that day helped us break our shackles of mediocrity and allowed us to really dream about the future.
November 2009 at a Kimberly-Clark senior managers meeting
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We invited Neil to contribute on our bi-annual manager weekend with more than 250 participants . The input of Neil was an enormous contribution for our strategy Deloitte Austria 2015 and for the process that all our managers have a mental and emotional buy-in. Neil is an exceptional speaker and we recommend from our hearts his experience, passion, knowledge and the enormous experience Neil represents.
Christian Havranek, Deloitte
September 24, 2010 - Austria
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Neil is one of the best speakers available today. His energy and enthusiasm for the subject rip through you and make you question the assumptions you make about the world we live in. The result is that you never think the same again. Truly impactful, memorable and life changing.
January, 2011. Rotterdam
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Neil has an incredible energy and his talk is punchy and engaging. He delves into aspects of the future not even contemplated!If you are not factoring this into your business model you are likely to remain a Dinosaur.
18 June 2009 at the Hyatt
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Neil has an incredible energy and his talk is punchy and engaging. He delves into aspects of the future not even contemplated!If you are not factoring this into your business model you are likely to remain a Dinosaur.
18 June 2009 at the Hyatt
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Neil was a breath of fresh air and thoroughly enjoyed his futuristic view of what may affect your life and your company's. It make one contemplate and re-think the way forward. Definetly an eye opener,inspirational and makes you think outside the box. Natasha Drotsky, Bidvest Namibia
Namibia, 25 November 2010
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An inspirational speaker who can relate real live experience to his and FutureWorld's vision for the future. He makes you think about where you or your company wants to be 5 or more years from today. In some cases mind bogging but nevertheless intrigueing.
Rotterdam February 23th, 2011
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Neil speaks with authority about how the future manifests itself today. He is in a league of his own as far as his ability to create a paradigm shift in the mind of his audience is concerned.
Neil has consistently been one of the top ranking guest speakers at our company's annual Knowledge Week
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