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Mike Evans has spent more than 27 years helping organizations adapt, innovate, and lead through change. Drawing on experience with 34 Fortune 50 companies, he shares practical insights that help leaders understand the impact of AI, embrace transformation, and create organizations that thrive in times of disruption.

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Mike Evans is one of the most in-demand AI disruption keynote speakers in the country, and one of the few who gives audiences a specific defense plan rather than another round of predictions and anxiety.After 27 years working inside 34 Fortune 50 companies, including Apple, Intel, PepsiCo, and Caterpillar, alongside John Kotter, Stephen Covey, and Tom Peters, Mike built the framework that answers the question every leader is asking right now: What do I actually do?He calls it the Kryptonite Defense. Five human and organizational capabilities that no AI can replicate, automate, or replace: IDEAS, SPEED, TALENT, DISTINCTION, and LEADERSHIP AT ALL LEVELS. Every organization already has some of these. Most have dangerous gaps in one or two. The keynote identifies exactly where those gaps are — and gives audiences a specific plan for closing them.This is not a technology keynote. It is a leadership and workforce readiness keynote built for executives, managers, and professionals who are responsible for the performance of people and organizations in a period of significant disruption.Jane Magness, Vice President of Programming at HRACO: "In my tenure, I have never seen such a strong and enthusiastic reaction to a speaker. Our members are already asking when we can have him back."Bobby Watts, SVP at Ahold Delhaize USA: "Mike Evans did an outstanding job engaging our audience of senior CPG and retail leaders. His content was relevant, thought-provoking, and actionable — exactly what our group needed."Peter Comrie, Revird Capital: "In 12 years working with this group, I have never seen anyone get them engaged and focused the way you did."What your audience will walk away with:— A clear picture of the five forces converging on their organization right now— The five capabilities that determine whether they thrive or fall behind— The Kryptonite Scorecard — a measurement tool that tells them exactly where they stand— Specific next steps for each of the five ingredientsFind out where your organization stands:realmikeevans.com/scorecardBook Mike for your next event:realmikeevans.com/speakingmike@realmikeevans.com412.616.6115Read the book: Distinct or Extinct: Future-Proofing People and Organizations in the Age of AIrealmikeevans.com/distinct-or-extinct Mike Evans -Keynote Speaker Video Clips and Overview 2026

Mike Evans -Keynote Speaker Video Clips and Overview 2026

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker January 13, 2026 4:17 pm

AI. White-collar automation. Revolutionary software. Globalization. Seven forces are converging right now — and they are gunning for jobs, departments, and entire industries.Mike Evans lays out the landscape of disruption facing every organization in the age of AI — and asks the question that matters most: What will it take to thrive?This is not a warning. It is a challenge. The organizations and individuals who understand what is coming — and build the five capabilities that make them irreplaceable — are the ones who will lead what comes next.Find out where your organization stands: realmikeevans.com/scorecard Book Mike for your next event: realmikeevans.com/speaking Leading Through AI Disruption — What Is Coming and What It Will Take to Thrive

Leading Through AI Disruption — What Is Coming and What It Will Take to Thrive

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker January 6, 2026 10:28 am

What separates a leader people follow voluntarily from one they simply tolerate?In this keynote clip, Mike Evans breaks down the single most powerful tool a leader has for driving change: a crystal clear vision of the future that makes people see themselves in a better place — and choose to go above and beyond to make it real.When people can see themselves in that future, they stop waiting to be told what to do. They start bringing the discretionary performance that most organizations leave on the table every single day.Find out where your organization stands: realmikeevans.com/scorecard Book Mike for your next event: realmikeevans.com/speaking How Great Leaders Create Buy-In — The Vision That Makes People Choose to Follow

How Great Leaders Create Buy-In — The Vision That Makes People Choose to Follow

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker January 9, 2026 2:41 pm

Every leadership team has a long list of what matters. The ones that execute flawlessly have learned to narrow it down to one or two.In this keynote clip, Mike Evans walks through the tension every senior team faces: the urgent daily demands of running the operation versus the critically important work of moving forward. Strategy alone does not have enough thrust to break through organizational inertia. What does? Absolute clarity on the wildly important goals that move you forward — and the discipline to execute on them while keeping everything else running.Find out where your organization stands: realmikeevans.com/scorecard Book Mike for your next event: realmikeevans.com/speaking How to Execute Flawlessly Through AI Disruption — The One or Two Things That Move You Forward

How to Execute Flawlessly Through AI Disruption — The One or Two Things That Move You Forward

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker January 5, 2026 11:39 am

You cannot hold people accountable to a result they cannot clearly see.In this keynote clip, Mike Evans identifies one of the most common and costly leadership failures: expecting accountability without first establishing crystal clarity on what success actually looks like. Ninety percent of the time, organizations are not clear enough on the most important results they need to achieve — and then wonder why execution stalls.Clarity is not a nice-to-have. It is the prerequisite for everything that follows.Find out where your organization stands: realmikeevans.com/scorecard Book Mike for your next event: realmikeevans.com/speaking Why Accountability Fails — And What Has to Come First

Why Accountability Fails — And What Has to Come First

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker January 9, 2026 2:34 pm

Standing still is not an option. Clinging to the status quo is a prescription for irrelevance.Mike Evans makes the case that the ability to lead change is more essential now than at any point in history — and introduces the five capabilities that determine who wins: IDEAS, SPEED, TALENT, DISTINCTION, and LEADERSHIP AT ALL LEVELS.We are in a brawl with very few rules. The fast, flexible, and agile will eat the slow, overthinking, and complacent. This clip is the opening argument for why organizations that fail to build these five capabilities will find themselves at the mercy of forces they could have prepared for.Find out where your organization stands: realmikeevans.com/scorecard Book Mike for your next event: realmikeevans.com/speaking Distinct or Extinct — Why the Five Ingredients of Change Leadership Have Never Mattered More

Distinct or Extinct — Why the Five Ingredients of Change Leadership Have Never Mattered More

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker May 6, 2025 2:27 pm

If your team believes things are fine the way they are — how likely are they to change their behavior?In this keynote clip, Mike Evans reveals one of the most underestimated obstacles to organizational change: the stories people tell themselves about reality. When a team's belief is that they are already doing well, no amount of data, strategy, or pressure will move them. The work of a change leader begins with shifting what people believe is true.Find out where your organization stands: realmikeevans.com/scorecard Book Mike for your next event: realmikeevans.com/speaking Why Your Team's Beliefs Are the Biggest Barrier to Change

Why Your Team's Beliefs Are the Biggest Barrier to Change

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker January 7, 2026 9:44 am

People will tolerate what you say. They will act on what they see you do.In this keynote clip, Mike Evans makes the case that credibility is the foundation of every change effort — and the hardest thing to rebuild once it's lost. One leader acting inconsistently with their own message can unravel months of progress.In the age of AI, when your team is watching every signal you send about what actually matters, leadership credibility is not a soft skill. It is the infrastructure of execution.Find out where your organization stands: realmikeevans.com/scorecard Book Mike for your next event: realmikeevans.com/speaking Leadership Credibility in the Age of AI — Why What You Do Matters More Than What You Say

Leadership Credibility in the Age of AI — Why What You Do Matters More Than What You Say

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker January 9, 2026 2:40 pm

Mike Evans breaks down the SPEED ingredient of the Kryptonite Defense — the five human and organizational capabilities that no AI can replicate, automate, or replace.Most organizations move too slowly to keep pace with the disruption bearing down on them. Not because they lack strategy. Because they move incrementally when the moment demands boldness. Mike walks through why incremental change fails, how to identify the 20% who will never get on board (and why you should stop trying to convince them), and how to build the urgency, alignment, and discretionary performance that actually drives results.This is one clip from a full keynote built around IDEAS, SPEED, TALENT, DISTINCTION, and LEADERSHIP AT ALL LEVELS — the five ingredients that separate organizations that thrive from those that fall behind.Find out where your organization stands: realmikeevans.com/scorecard Book Mike for your next event: realmikeevans.com/speaking The Five-Ingredient Kryptonite Defense — How to Future-Proof Your Organization in the Age of AI

The Five-Ingredient Kryptonite Defense — How to Future-Proof Your Organization in the Age of AI

Mike Evans AI Disruption Keynote Speaker May 8, 2025 6:20 pm

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“Those prepared need not fear the forces at work.”
— Mike Evans