Terence Mauri

Why organisations work with Terence Mauri

• He gives leadership teams a defined decision framework, DARE (Data, Agility, Risk, Evolution), drawn from his Wiley and Thinkers50 book, that turns “respond to disruption” from a slogan into a working method.
• His vantage point sits across operating roles, not commentary alone: founder of Hack Future Lab, Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at MIT, visiting professor at IE Business School. Senior audiences can tell the difference.
• The content is built for the AI era without becoming a technology lecture. The argument is about how executives think, choose, and govern when technology cycles are shorter than planning cycles.
• He writes for a senior business readership through a monthly Inc.com column, “Future Proof,” which means the room hears arguments that have already been pressure-tested in print.

Biography highlights

• Founder of Hack Future Lab, a global management think tank focused on leadership, AI, and disruption.
• Author of The Upside of Disruption (Wiley, in partnership with Thinkers50, 2024), centred on his DARE framework.
• Earlier books include The Leader’s Mindset and The 3D Leader.
• Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at MIT and visiting professor at IE Business School.
• Inc.com columnist, author of the “Future Proof” column.
• Described by Thinkers50 as “an influential and outspoken thinker on the future of leadership.”

Biography

The hardest part of leading through disruption is not recognising that the environment has changed. It is changing the way a senior team decides while the business still has to deliver this quarter. That gap, between awareness and operating practice, is the question Terence Mauri has spent his work addressing.

His most recent book, The Upside of Disruption, was published by Wiley in 2024 in partnership with Thinkers50. It introduces the DARE framework, Data, Agility, Risk, Evolution, as a way of organising executive decisions when conditions will not stabilise. Earlier books, The Leader’s Mindset and The 3D Leader, traced the same thread through the language of mindset and leadership behaviour.

The institutional ground underneath the work matters. Mauri founded Hack Future Lab as a global management think tank, and holds active posts as Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at MIT and visiting professor at IE Business School. He writes the “Future Proof” column for Inc.com, which is where many of the arguments arrive in public before they appear in a keynote.

Thinkers50, the management ranking authority, has called him “an influential and outspoken thinker on the future of leadership.” For a senior team weighing whether to put a speaker in front of their own leadership, the practical question is sharper: he gives them a structured way to talk about decisions in conditions of uncertainty, drawn from a published framework rather than a slide deck.

Key speaking topics

• Leadership in the age of AI
• Decision-making under uncertainty
• Future readiness and organisational agility
• Disruption as a strategic input, not a threat
• Executive mindset and unlearning
• Innovation and growth in fast-changing markets

Ideal for

• CEOs and executive committees setting strategy in conditions where AI and market shifts have shortened planning horizons.
• CHROs and chief learning officers redesigning leadership development for senior cohorts.
• Boards and transformation leads asking how the organisation should make decisions, not just which technology to adopt.

Audience outcomes

• A working vocabulary for how senior leaders make decisions when the operating context is actively changing.
• The DARE framework as a structure for diagnosing where the leadership team is strong and where it is exposed.
• A sharper read on the difference between adopting AI and leading through the AI era.
• A set of named behaviours, around unlearning, calculated risk, and trust, that senior teams can return to after the keynote.