Hari Abburi
Author | Speaker | Educator
I am an author, speaker & educator on disruptive agility at the intersections of strategy, business, technology, organization and leadership. I partner with CEOs & Top Teams Be At The Speed Of The Customer®
Leading Voice On Agility, Digital & Strategy
CEO, Future Skills Curator & Faculty, The Fast Future Executive
Creator Caltech Future Skills Academy & Instructor on Agility & Design Thinking
Co-Founder MyLearningNFT
Member, Forbes Business Council
Former Fast Company Executive Board
Former L.A. Business Journals Leadership Trust Member
Advisory Board Member, Resolve AI
Hari Abburi is an author, speaker & educator on disruptive agility at the intersections of strategy, business, technology, organization and leadership. He defines agility as being at the speed of the customer. He brings a rich, unique multi-industry and multi-domain understanding of disruption to help leaders be ahead of their industry curve.
He is the CEO of The Fast Future Executive, a global consortium of thought leaders bringing world-class, future-centric, multi-disciplinary executive education to leaders, companies worldwide.
Hari’s new book, ‘Ideas Don’t Die, Companies Do’, focusses on how ideas create future agility and economic value. “Ideas create more value than customers”, says Abburi, ‘but we do rarely see a concerted focus to build ideas-centric enterprises”.
In Ideas don’t die, Companies Do, he lays out key frameworks to help leaders create new-age ideas-centric enterprises.
He also recently co-authored ’Thinking Like An AI Native’ in the recently published book, The Fast Future Blur, laying out the five key dimensions of companies that will be born in future where AI as a technology is native to everything they do.
Hari’s ideas and talks are thought provoking and compelling for business leaders to rethink how agility can help reimagine their businesses. He is known for his highly visual style of content, illustrations and explainers that are interactive and engaging to audiences. He is frequent speaker at major global conferences in North America, Europe, Middle east and Asia.
Abburi has over 30 years of industry experience across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. His industry experience that spans 55+ countries is focused on M&As, Integrations, Start-Ups and Transformations includes executive roles with Hoerbiger AG, Aon, Walmart JV, Baxter, Coca-Cola, GE and Arthur Andersen. He has lived in Switzerland, Malaysia, Singapore and India.
He is a member of the Fast Co. Executive Board, Forbes HR Council, Los Angeles and Business Journals Leadership Trust. He is an instructor for Caltech Future Skills Academy.
