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Guest Speaker Dion Chang will make you think differently. He is a professional cage rattler, a strategic thinker, a keynote speaker, and a walking ideas bank.
He is one of South Africa’s most respected trend analysts and founder of Flux Trends which takes the unique view of “trends as business strategy”. Flux Trends specialises in identifying unexpected business opportunities within shifting trends, and specifically the impact of disruptive technologies across all industries, ensuring that global trends have relevance when translated for African, and South African businesses.
Dion is passionate about assisting companies to embrace change and embedding a culture of innovation into corporate operating systems. Businesses facing change and struggling to adapt to a new world order turn to him to help them navigate the complex terrain.
These qualities serve him well in the new role he has added to his portfolio, that of ‘an end-of-life companion doula’. As such he will provide the terminally ill and their families with support, guidance and companionship. This new role aligns with his business practice – after all end-of-life is not necessarily about physical death but the death of old ideas and the birth of new ones. For businesses struggling to re-invent themselves, Dion will help identify the blind spots and ask the difficult and uncomfortable questions that growth requires.
He lectures and has conducted Foresight and Innovation Implementation modules for executives and senior management at various business schools, including GIBS, UCT’s Graduate School of Business and Duke CE. He has devised and hosted three trend conferences, published three trend books and continues to sit on the advisory board of the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment at WITS.
Apart from being an information source for cross-industry trends for many journalists, he also writes columns for City Press and Acumen (a C-suite business quarterly for GIBS).
His 20-year experience in the media industry, as a journalist and media spokesperson, enables him to provide insights into the ever-changing relationship between brands, consumers and the communication channels that bind them.
He has a deep passion for youth trends and subcultures, as well as for solution-based innovation for the greater good. The Gen Z Immersion Experience reflects this as it is a culmination of nine years of tracking local and global Gen Zers, those digital natives who became game-changers.
He is an intrepid traveller, global citizen and proud South African.
He is one of South Africa’s most respected trend analysts and founder of Flux Trends which takes the unique view of “trends as business strategy”. Flux Trends specialises in identifying unexpected business opportunities within shifting trends, and specifically the impact of disruptive technologies across all industries, ensuring that global trends have relevance when translated for African, and South African businesses.
Dion is passionate about assisting companies to embrace change and embedding a culture of innovation into corporate operating systems. Businesses facing change and struggling to adapt to a new world order turn to him to help them navigate the complex terrain.
These qualities serve him well in the new role he has added to his portfolio, that of ‘an end-of-life companion doula’. As such he will provide the terminally ill and their families with support, guidance and companionship. This new role aligns with his business practice – after all end-of-life is not necessarily about physical death but the death of old ideas and the birth of new ones. For businesses struggling to re-invent themselves, Dion will help identify the blind spots and ask the difficult and uncomfortable questions that growth requires.
He lectures and has conducted Foresight and Innovation Implementation modules for executives and senior management at various business schools, including GIBS, UCT’s Graduate School of Business and Duke CE. He has devised and hosted three trend conferences, published three trend books and continues to sit on the advisory board of the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment at WITS.
Apart from being an information source for cross-industry trends for many journalists, he also writes columns for City Press and Acumen (a C-suite business quarterly for GIBS).
His 20-year experience in the media industry, as a journalist and media spokesperson, enables him to provide insights into the ever-changing relationship between brands, consumers and the communication channels that bind them.
He has a deep passion for youth trends and subcultures, as well as for solution-based innovation for the greater good. The Gen Z Immersion Experience reflects this as it is a culmination of nine years of tracking local and global Gen Zers, those digital natives who became game-changers.
He is an intrepid traveller, global citizen and proud South African.
Guest Speaker Dion Chang will make you think differently. He is a professional cage rattler, a strategic thinker, a keynote speaker, and a walking ideas bank.
He is one of South Africa’s most respected trend analysts and founder of Flux Trends which takes the unique view of “trends as business strategy”. Flux Trends specialises in identifying unexpected business opportunities within shifting trends, and specifically the impact of disruptive technologies acr
He is one of South Africa’s most respected trend analysts and founder of Flux Trends which takes the unique view of “trends as business strategy”. Flux Trends specialises in identifying unexpected business opportunities within shifting trends, and specifically the impact of disruptive technologies acr
Synopsis:
PRESENTATIONS by Dion Chang
Built on a legacy of past keynotes, Dion now focuses on two signature talks:
1. State We’re In 2025
The annual Flux Trend briefing – The State We’re In – is an executive summary of where the world is and where it’s heading. Using the acronym T.R.E.N.D.S. – representing six trend pillars shaping how we will live, work and interact in the coming year – the trend briefing identifies trends that businesses need to watch and tracks the ripple effects of previous game-changing trends we’ve identified.
Last year’s SWI title was “Aftershocks”, describing the recalibration process businesses were experiencing post-pandemic. COVID lockdown seems like a distant memory, but we are only really beginning to understand the gears of change that were set in motion when the world stopped. In many ways, it was the calm in the eye of the storm.
“Polycrisis” was the word of the year in 2022. Since then, it feels like we’ve been on a treadmill of polycrises. Flux takes a different view. There are messages in the madness.
Transformational events taken in isolation seem catastrophic. It’s only when you step back that you can see patterns emerging. We track trends over long periods and see, not just patterns, but seismic change afoot. Whether they are positive or negative depends on how you view and react to them.
In this trend briefing, Dion will highlight the Flux mantra, “To change the world, you first need to understand it” by allowing and encouraging us to step into the void, also known as the necessary place of initiatory transformation. It requires moving with confidence into uncertainty.
Here are some key trends that you will encounter once you step into the void:
T (technology): Generative AI and Interactive AI are integrated into society and used as weapons for good or evil. What seemed to be a small and distant change in technology has become a great and rapid transformation of the industry. Further blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
R (retail): In a turn of fate, retail is transitioning from mega-fulfilment centres to family warehouses (mini-fulfilment centres). Add to this a new trend of middle-class shoplifting created by the cost-of-living crisis, and you have an uncertain and disruption-filled 2025 for the retail sector.
E (economy): In 2025, geopolitical dynamics will become even more complex because of the increased threat of conflict zones around the world and the impact of the second Trump administration.
N (natural world): We unpack how businesses and governments respond to the global natural water shortage and the conflicts that could arise from the tensions precipitated by this shortage. While also looking at how communities are responding to the realities of climate change, eco-anxiety and climate grief.
D (diplomacy): 2024 was the largest election year in history. The aftermath of this global political shift will unfold in 2025. Couple this with the growing number of countries preparing themselves in the physical and digital space for war, and you have a diplomatic cocktail that requires calm and skilful diplomacy.
S (socio-cultural): There is a seismic shift in social contracts propelled by multiple trends including gender politics, declining birth rates and an ongoing cost-of-living crisis. This brings into focus the growing 4B Movement, the child-free movement and burgeoning alternative versions to the standard nuclear family, showing how society is slowly changing to respond to these uncertain and complex times.
We will unpack these themes and much, much more in this trend briefing.
This trend briefing will help you to look and step into the void of uncertainty and complexity with confidence. It will help you to see change, however disruptive as an opportunity for growth and transformation.
Book this trend briefing to see what the void has in store for you in this era of uncertainty and complexity.
2. Why Your Business Needs A Doula Right Now?
A Flux Trends briefing by Dion Chang
Death, be it of a dream, a career or a business, is one of the most traumatic things we face as a species. They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes.
Irrespective of your background, social or economic status – you will, at some point, face death. But even before that final goodbye, we will also inevitably all face “the end of life as you know it”, in one form or another.
This trend briefing will delve deeper into “the end of life as you know it” from a business perspective.
-The death of old ideas and the birth of new ideas
-When you business shows signs of “terminal agitation”
-Rewirement, not retirement
-Reframing resilience: recharging, not enduring.
-The great internal reset
And much more.
If you are a business owner you should be asking:
-Are you adequately prepared for uncertainty?
-What will you do if your career or business “dies”?
-Do you have the necessary tools and resources to build something out of the ashes of the end of a chapter?
This trend briefing works best with our strategic foresight workshop/ world building workshop. Do not let uncertainty catch you unaware. Contact us to help your business now!
Legacy Talks
- Post-Pandemic Workplace
- New Urban Tribes
- The Boomer Economy: Marketing to the Amortalists
- Innovation: Why Companies struggle to scale and implement
- The New Rules of Retail
And many, many more…
Built on a legacy of past keynotes, Dion now focuses on two signature talks:
1. State We’re In 2025
The annual Flux Trend briefing – The State We’re In – is an executive summary of where the world is and where it’s heading. Using the acronym T.R.E.N.D.S. – representing six trend pillars shaping how we will live, work and interact in the coming year – the trend briefing identifies trends that businesses need to watch and tracks the ripple effects of previous game-changing trends we’ve identified.
Last year’s SWI title was “Aftershocks”, describing the recalibration process businesses were experiencing post-pandemic. COVID lockdown seems like a distant memory, but we are only really beginning to understand the gears of change that were set in motion when the world stopped. In many ways, it was the calm in the eye of the storm.
“Polycrisis” was the word of the year in 2022. Since then, it feels like we’ve been on a treadmill of polycrises. Flux takes a different view. There are messages in the madness.
Transformational events taken in isolation seem catastrophic. It’s only when you step back that you can see patterns emerging. We track trends over long periods and see, not just patterns, but seismic change afoot. Whether they are positive or negative depends on how you view and react to them.
In this trend briefing, Dion will highlight the Flux mantra, “To change the world, you first need to understand it” by allowing and encouraging us to step into the void, also known as the necessary place of initiatory transformation. It requires moving with confidence into uncertainty.
Here are some key trends that you will encounter once you step into the void:
T (technology): Generative AI and Interactive AI are integrated into society and used as weapons for good or evil. What seemed to be a small and distant change in technology has become a great and rapid transformation of the industry. Further blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
R (retail): In a turn of fate, retail is transitioning from mega-fulfilment centres to family warehouses (mini-fulfilment centres). Add to this a new trend of middle-class shoplifting created by the cost-of-living crisis, and you have an uncertain and disruption-filled 2025 for the retail sector.
E (economy): In 2025, geopolitical dynamics will become even more complex because of the increased threat of conflict zones around the world and the impact of the second Trump administration.
N (natural world): We unpack how businesses and governments respond to the global natural water shortage and the conflicts that could arise from the tensions precipitated by this shortage. While also looking at how communities are responding to the realities of climate change, eco-anxiety and climate grief.
D (diplomacy): 2024 was the largest election year in history. The aftermath of this global political shift will unfold in 2025. Couple this with the growing number of countries preparing themselves in the physical and digital space for war, and you have a diplomatic cocktail that requires calm and skilful diplomacy.
S (socio-cultural): There is a seismic shift in social contracts propelled by multiple trends including gender politics, declining birth rates and an ongoing cost-of-living crisis. This brings into focus the growing 4B Movement, the child-free movement and burgeoning alternative versions to the standard nuclear family, showing how society is slowly changing to respond to these uncertain and complex times.
We will unpack these themes and much, much more in this trend briefing.
This trend briefing will help you to look and step into the void of uncertainty and complexity with confidence. It will help you to see change, however disruptive as an opportunity for growth and transformation.
Book this trend briefing to see what the void has in store for you in this era of uncertainty and complexity.
2. Why Your Business Needs A Doula Right Now?
A Flux Trends briefing by Dion Chang
Death, be it of a dream, a career or a business, is one of the most traumatic things we face as a species. They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes.
Irrespective of your background, social or economic status – you will, at some point, face death. But even before that final goodbye, we will also inevitably all face “the end of life as you know it”, in one form or another.
This trend briefing will delve deeper into “the end of life as you know it” from a business perspective.
-The death of old ideas and the birth of new ideas
-When you business shows signs of “terminal agitation”
-Rewirement, not retirement
-Reframing resilience: recharging, not enduring.
-The great internal reset
And much more.
If you are a business owner you should be asking:
-Are you adequately prepared for uncertainty?
-What will you do if your career or business “dies”?
-Do you have the necessary tools and resources to build something out of the ashes of the end of a chapter?
This trend briefing works best with our strategic foresight workshop/ world building workshop. Do not let uncertainty catch you unaware. Contact us to help your business now!
Legacy Talks
- Post-Pandemic Workplace
- New Urban Tribes
- The Boomer Economy: Marketing to the Amortalists
- Innovation: Why Companies struggle to scale and implement
- The New Rules of Retail
And many, many more…
PRESENTATIONS by Dion Chang
Built on a legacy of past keynotes, Dion now focuses on two signature talks:
1.
Built on a legacy of past keynotes, Dion now focuses on two signature talks:
1.
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