Speeches by Dr. Pero Micic

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DR. PERO MIĆIĆ

Take your guests on a journey into the future,

excite them with scenarios of future markets and

qualify them to manage their personal and corporate future

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IMPRESSIONS

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EVENTS AND FORMATS

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Future Radar 2025

How powerful trends and amazing technologies change

our lives

What wil l you l ive on tomorrow?

Recognize and benefit from your opportunities in future

markets

Glamour or demise?

How a futures expert sees

your business

The short-term trap

How we mess up our future every day

and how we can do better

We are al l future managers!

How you get more from the future

Success factor future management

How to make your company really future competent

The myth of vis ion

How to become a far-sighted leader

Your Five Futures Glasses

How to better understand and manage the future

Panta Rhei

Lessons from 3000 years of future thinking

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TOPICS

MANAGING THE FUTURE

TRENDS AND FUTURE MARKETS

PERSONAL FUTURE

LEADING INTO THE FUTURE

Y O U R T O P I C ?

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MANAGING THE FUTURE

SINCE THE EARLY CULTURES, people have strived to better see, understand, and

benefit from the future. Apparently, we cannot help ourselves. But we are not

particularly good at it, because we never learned how to look toward the future.

Future researchers do not offer precise forecasts. Instead, they generate non-committal

scenarios and analyze trends. But this is not enough, because people are longing for

guidance, security, and confidence.

How can you better deal with the future in everyday life? This speech will provide you

with the mental building blocks and a simple step-by-step method for looking at the

future. The "five futures glasses" make it easy for you to critically evaluate statements

about the future, discuss options more systematically, recognize future opportunities,

and develop a personal or corporate vision and strategy for shaping your future.

What is the practical value of trend and future research?

What kinds of future are there?

What are people’s motives and desires for the future?

Why is it so difficult for people to think the future?

How can the "five futures glasses" help to better understand and manage the

future in everyday life?

You have the great gift, to explain complex things in a simple and comprehensive way. (Ulrich Wickert, ARD)

Dr. Mićić is a very charismatic speaker and knows how to captivate

his audience. (Diehl)

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HOW TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND MANAGE THE FUTURE

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MANAGING THE FUTURE

THE PHILOSOPHERS OF THE ANTIQUITY already had essential insights into the

beneficial principles of change and thinking forward to the future. To this we can learn a

lot from the Roman Seneca, the Greek Heraclitus and the Chinese Confucius for our

daily decisions. Many of the supposedly new methods and insights presented by today's

future researchers are factually several thousand years old.

Join Pero Mićić on a journey to the great philosophers and their insights into the future.

Experience stories from 3000 years of history. Enjoy the enlightening and instructive

effect of words of wisdom.

Learn from the past for your present and your future.

How much did the ancient philosophers know about how change evolves

and how the future unfolds?

How did they come to their conclusions and insights?

How is this ancient knowledge significant for your life and

your decisions in the here and now?

He has touched a nerve and reached the souls of our guests. This has been confirmed

repeatedly. Dr. Mićić has been the highlight of the event! (Dieter Klenk, Getränke-Impuls-Tage)

He does not only offer theoretical and methodical explanations but provides practical

tips for successful future projects. (Die Welt)

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Panta rhei2

LESSONS FROM 3000 YEARS OF FUTURES THINKING

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C O N T E N T

THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF FORECASTS and future scenarios. The problem is not that

we know too little about the future. The challenges lie in learning how to apply and

benefit from our knowledge. The question "what is relevant?" falls too short. What might

become relevant and how? What can we make relevant for us? These are the questions

we need to ask if we want to identify the dangers and opportunities that lie ahead.

Let’s take a far and visionary look at the essential developments of the next ten and

more years. You will live in this future. It will be here faster than you expect. What will

we be working on and how? How will we spend our leisure time? What will we be

learning and how? Will new and as-of-yet unknown technologies empower us to do new

things and old things better?

How can you prepare yourself to be more successful and happier despite, or perhaps

because of big changes?

Which trends and technologies will substantially change our life?

What should you think of future research, forecasts, and scenarios?

How can you differentiate relevant from irrelevant factors for survival?

What are the dangers and opportunities in the future?

How can we learn from the future for our present, so that we do the right

thing today?

High score! I'd give 10.0 points for expression and authenticity — he just had that

certain something or that exceptional charisma you are looking for in a speaker. The

energy in the room was focused yet relaxed. The speech resonated with the audience.

(Participant of the Baltic Sea congress)



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Future Radar 2025 3

HOW POWERFUL TRENDS AND AMAZING

TECHNOLOGIES CHANGE OUR LIVES

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IN THE FUTURE, the markets will change significantly. Some will shrink or implode,

others will grow significantly or emerge. We can seize opportunities in future markets

today if we recognize, analyze, and take advantage of the opportunities. What will you

live on tomorrow? Will your market and your job still exist? Will your skills still be in

demand? To hold your ground in the future, which skills do you need to learn and which

ones can you forget?

We all have to ensure that we work in sustainable markets and professions. At the same

time, we must resist the temptation to get sidetracked.

Future markets are not necessarily about growth. To sustain what you have today, you

need to recognize, analyze, and seize opportunities in future markets.

What are future markets?

How much of your attention is required?

What are the key questions you should ask and answer?

How do you recognize opportunities in future markets early?

How do you know what suits you and what doesn't?

A virtuoso speaker, he was the intellectual highlight of the convention. (Cursor)

Well-known among top managers and chief strategists, Pero Mićić is one of the most

important contemporary experts of future management. (Merck)



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RECOGNIZE AND BENEFIT FROM

YOUR OPPORTUNITIES IN FUTURE MARKETS

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DOES YOUR BUSINESS have a future? What kind of future? You have often read and

heard what industry experts think. But what does a future expert see when he

methodically looks at your business from the outside?

Pero Mićić will confront you with critical, provocative, and encouraging assessments. He

holds up the mirror of the future. Are you underestimating any dangers? Neglecting any

opportunities?

Take a look at your business from a different perspective and open up to new vistas and

exceptional ideas.

How sustainable is your industry and your business?

Which trends and technologies hold risks and dangers?

What future markets could emerge?

How could your business be rethought?

Mićić predicts which companies and managers will be ahead in ten years from now.(Handelsblatt)

The speech was in our employees's minds for a long time. (O2)



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HOW A FUTURES EXPERT SEES YOUR BUSINESS

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PERSONAL FUTURE

THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS IN POLITICS, ECONOMY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT can be

traced back to short-sighted decisions, strategies, and actions. The same is true in our

personal lives. What makes us happy often harms us later. We are not willing to forego

instant rewards, and therefore often miss great opportunities for our future.

We sacrifice health and wealth in the future for a comfortable life in the here and now.

We go for the profit and the bonus, even at the customer’s or company’s expense. We’d

rather make the popular decision, although the unpopular choice may prove crucial for

our survival.

People are more successful, healthier, and happier, if they make decisions that take

their entire lives into consideration. Organizations are significantly more successful,

when managed by far-sighted leaders pursuing not short-term profits but long-term

wellbeing.

What are the typical situations in life, business, and politics that make people

act short-sightedly?

Why is sustainable action so difficult?

Is it possible to change our short-term orientation?

Are there any positive examples?

How can you achieve far-sightedness, make better decisions, and follow

through with them?

Really impressive and extremely exciting. Very fascinating with regards to content and

presentation. (European Business School)

Really brilliant. That's future competence with brain and heart. (Universität Hannover)



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HOW WE MESS UP OUR FUTURE EVERY DAY

AND HOW WE CAN DO BETTER

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PERSONAL FUTURE

WHAT LIES AHEAD? WHAT REMAINS? WHAT DISAPPEARS? The future is fascinating and

frightening at the same time. We are all longing for guidance, security, innovation,

meaning, and confidence. In the end, we all know that we should care more about our

personal and professional future.

But how are we supposed to do that if our daily routine is overwhelming already, leaving

no time and leisure for foresight? How, if the world has become so complex that we barely

know anything with certainty? Unfortunately, no one can manage our future for us. We’ll

have to tackle that ourselves.

Find out about a simple yet effective way to shape your personal and professional future.

Align your vision and your goals with the big trends and changes. Enjoy your future. We

are all future managers.

How can you reconcile enjoyment of life and future orientation?

How can you become a visionary thinker with simple methods?

How can you stay abreast of future developments, and have fun doing so?

How can you recognize dangers and opportunities early?

How can you develop your vision and strategy in alignment with big trends?

Excellent! A class of its own! (SVIT-Forum)

Never before have we been so inspired by a speech. (VDR)



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HOW TO GET MORE OUT OF THE FUTURE

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THE MOST WELL-MANAGED COMPANIES have identified foresight and future

management as a key factor for success. They manage their future systematically and

professionally, making sure that their strategy is effective and pragmatic. Those

companies see, understand, and benefit more from future markets than their

competitors.

Master strategists and exceptional leaders turn their employees into sensors for future

market changes. They recognize opportunities when they are still great, and dangers

when they are still small. They quickly notice when their assumptions about the future

are no longer valid and when strategies have to be reassessed. The trends and

technologies from future labs from all over the world feed into their research and their

policies. And they lead with a vision and a strategy that can be realized.

Pero Mićić shares his experiences from more than two decades and hundreds of projects

with leading enterprises. He gives precise instructions for effective foresight and

leadership.

How can you fill the minds and hearts of your team with more foresight?

What is an effective future management system?

What does a professional future strategy look like?

How do you integrate the future into your daily business operations?

How does future management influence your profitability?

His dynamic charisma and his analytic and visionary personality

made the opening speech a great pleasure. (Sven Lehmann)



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VISION – a notion highly praised and often mocked. There is probably no other term

that has so many different meanings and can so easily be misunderstood. Some

recommend that you see a doctor if you have visions. Others caution that without a

vision, leadership is impossible.

Your vision is a concrete idea of the fascinating and feasible future that your company

and your team strive for together. Your vision provides a framework that gives every

team member’s work meaning, and a template that makes the complex puzzle of daily

work operations manageable.

How can you use a strategic vision as a leadership tool in reality? Where are the limits?

How do strategic vision, motivation, efficiency, and profit relate to one another? Lead

with a clear, robust, motivating, and realistic vision. You and your employees will enjoy

it.

What exactly is "vision"? How does it relate to mission, guidelines, and

strategies?

What are the effects of a good strategic vision?

What are the mistakes leaders keep repeating?

How do you develop and use a fascinating, unifying, robust, and achievable

vision?

How do you implement your vision in daily operations?

Everyone was deeply impressed by your captivating speech. You provided valuable

insights that will enrich the work of the entrepreneurs in the future.(Dr. Rainer Beyer, MEKOM)



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HOW TO BECOME A FAR SIGHTED LEADER

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YOUR TOPIC

DISCUSS YOUR IDEAS for a specific topic with Pero Mićić. Consulting a comprehensive

database of knowledge about the future, he and his team at FutureManagementGroup

AG will design a specific presentation about virtually any topic, major trend, or future

market relevant to you.

2067: A Preliminary Review of the Year

TV News on October 14, 2025: What we Might Experience on a Perfectly

Normal Day

Decline of the West 3.0? Future Scenarios of Europe’s Chances in the Asian

Century

Megatrend Urbanization: What Your Agenda Needs to Include

The Future of Highly-Gifted Children

The Future of Health: Enhanced and Immortal?

What Your Customers (May) Want in the Future

The Potential and Limitations of Strategic Foresight

Future-Oriented Demands of German Voters



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SPEECH, TALKSHOP, FACILITATION?

SPEECH OR KEYNOTE

All content is based on scientific evidence, inspiring and entertaining stories, images, and scenarios, all developed

specifically for your event and audience. Suitable for expert meetings as well as for customer events, employee

meetings, and special events.

WORKSHOP

If there's a little more time, Pero Mićić works with your audience and provides answers to crucial questions about the future and offers tips for implementing a future strategy. An interactive and hands-on experience.

FACILITATION

No matter whether it is a big event or an exclusive meeting, Pero Mićić is a superior and entertaining facilitator and moderator.

TALKSHOP

After a short stimulating presentation, Pero Mićić takes a seat in the "hot chair" and answers critical and provoking

questions from the audience. He illustrates his responses with spontaneous drawings on a flipchart or uses pictures

and slides from his database. A Talkshop promises an impressive experience for your audience.

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«WHAT WILL WE LIVE ON IN THE FUTURE?» – This

question has been driving Pero Mićić for almost 25 years.

He is not after vague predictions and scenarios, not after

generic mega trends and definitely not after naïve

extrapolation of micro trends. His core issue is: What will

an actual company and its specific combined skill set live

on in the future? What will an individual employee live on,

whose market is about to change drastically? What will

drive prosperity?

There are many futurists, trend researchers and lateral

thinkers. To Pero Mićić, the future manager, their ideas

and scenarios are just raw material. Future knowledge

needs to be applied to real life challenges and thus made

effective. Only then we will benefit.

As a student, Pero Mićić was fascinated by what

entrepreneurs can do for customers, employees, and

society. When he first read about strategic foresight and

early warning systems, an idea was born he’d never let go:

While you cannot predict the future, you can see,

understand, and benefit more from the future than others!

But future research seemed too far removed from the

realities of the business world. That is why Pero Mićić

became a pioneer of future management, building bridges

from the theory of future research to the practice of

business management and leadership.

In 1991 he founded the first private company for future

management in the German-speaking world, today called

FutureManagementGroup AG. Since that time, Pero Micic

and his team have successfully completed hundreds of

projects with the world’s leading and innovative

companies, but also with public organizations such as the

Bundeskriminalamt (German Federal Police). New

products, new businesses and industries, new solutions

and sustainable strategies — these are the answers to the

pivotal question: "What will we live on in the future?"

Pero Mićić is a founding member of the Association of

Professional Futurists, headquartered in the USA, and a

member of the advisory council to the master’s course in

futures research at the University of Houston in Texas. He

was President of the Advisory Board for the European

Futurists Conference, head of the Conference for

International Trend- and Future Management, and

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of a big educational

enterprise. In 2012, he was honored with the Strategy

Prize.

Pero has delivered more than 1000 speeches and keynotes

in 25 different countries, from Washington to Moscow to

Singapore. He shared the stage with the German

chancellor, prime ministers, and a US secretary of state.

He lectures in German and English and, on special request,

in French and Serbian/Croatian.

Pero's practical and analytical future sensibility permeates

his speeches today. He is a visionary and analytic thinker

and practician at the same time. His focus on vital

leadership goals offers a healthy dose of real practical

experience, directly from the heart of business, mitigated

and inspired by fascinating and surprising insights into the

future.

At the podium, Pero Mićić is serene, powerful, and

inspiring; his voice is forceful, the sparkle in his eyes

infectious. Both feet planted in the practical world of

business, he supports his points with scientific evidence.

He provokes and entertains — always with respect. Pero

Mićić will inspire you and your audience for the future —

for your own future!

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ARTICLE

Read articles about the topics, Pero Mićić is speaking and writing about. Columns

like "Future already today"; "Understand the future today"; or "What are we going

to live on tomorrow?" will inspire and guide you to see, understand and benefit

more from the future.

VIDEOS

Experience Pero Mićić almost as good as live. Watch videos with interviews and

scenes of presentations.

BOOKS, CREATIONS AND ENTERPRISES

You'll find descriptions and trials of books, videos and audios as well as links to

more creations, web sites and enterprises of Pero Mićić.

MATERIALS FOR YOUR EVENT

As soon as you have ordered Pero Mićić for an appearance, open the event-

organizer link to find pictures for your invitation cards, organization and technical

checklists and other useful information.

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