Terence Mauri
Disruption Thinker & Expert on the Future of Leadership, Partner and Entrepreneur Mentor at MIT Solve, Founder of Hack Future Lab, Best-selling author
why book terence?
- Terence Mauri’s disruptive ideas have been published in The Economist, Forbes, Reuters, Huffington Post and Wired
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He co-authored the book Building Resilient Organisations with Thinkers50, offering tools to scale courage and adaptability
- Terence has delivered keynotes for global brands including Visa, Facebook, HSBC, and Volkswagen, inspiring leaders to embrace disruption
“Insightful wisdom for leaders distilled into practical, actionable advice.”
Doug Conant, Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute
Biography
Terence Mauri is a globally recognised keynote speaker who inspires audiences to think differently and act boldly.
His disruptive ideas have appeared in The Economist, Forbes, Reuters, HuffPost, and Wired. He has delivered powerful keynotes for leading brands like Visa, Kellogg’s Europe, Facebook, VMware, Volkswagen, and HSBC.
Thinkers50 describes him as an “influential and outspoken expert on the future of leadership.” But Terence’s mission goes further.
He wants everyone to discover their leadership purpose—in both business and life. With purpose, people can outpace disruption and drive transformation in any environment.
According to Terence, the world stands at a major turning point. Forces like AI, climate change, and systemic threats demand new thinking. In response, he champions a shift from “value extraction” to “value creation.”
Traditional ROI must evolve, he argues. We should measure Return on Imagination, Ideas, Integrity, and Intelligence instead.
Terence’s journey took a dramatic turn when a car crashed into a store while he was shopping. He was hospitalised with serious injuries. At the time, he was a successful director at Saatchi & Saatchi. During recovery, he began to reflect deeply on his purpose.
That moment changed his path. He decided to help others unlock their human potential. Today, he’s the founder of Hack Future Lab, a global think tank on leadership, disruption, and future-readiness.
In addition to speaking, Terence mentors entrepreneurs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), London School of Economics, and London Business School.
He guides leaders on how to thrive in uncertainty by building resilience, adaptability, and clarity of purpose.
Nike called him “the most wisdom per word of any keynote speaker.” That charisma and clarity define every stage appearance.
He urges leaders to harness disruption—not avoid it. Instead of fearing change, they must compete using learning, imagination, digital ecosystems, and resilience.
As automation increases, Terence says the opportunity to be more human also grows. He believes adaptability depends on human qualities like empathy, imagination, and courage.
This human-centric philosophy is what he calls HumanScale—a model for thriving in complex environments.
In 2022, Terence co-authored Building Resilient Organisations with Thinkers50. The book shares tools, strategies, and real-world stories for scaling resilience and courage in leadership.
Topics
Building Resilient Organisations
Understanding and achieving resilience have never been more important in our tumultuous times. Some organisations have resilience in their DNA. They possess the agility of mind, culture, and organisation to survive and thrive no matter what is put in their way. Building Resilient Organisations is focused on identifying what sets these enterprises apart, exploring the nature of resilience for organisations. Along the way, we discover some inspiring global examples of resilient projects in practice and some novel thinking for leaders to consider about what it takes to be resilient over the long haul. With contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners from throughout the world including Hack Future Lab founder Terence Mauri, Building Resilient Organisations will enable you and your organisation to further develop resilience as a muscle in your organisation
Future Trends & Disruption Future of Work
Hack the Future
1/3 people believe their jobs will be automated in the next few years. How do you turn disruption into advantage and reinvent today whilst creating tomorrow?
The Future of Trust
58% of people think that business models today are broken. It’s time to rethink the future of trust. How do you unlock the trust advantage in your organisation?
Beyond Disruption
The global pandemic turned our working world upside down. How do you thrive through uncertainty and take your leadership to the next dimension?
Leadership
Terence encourages and helps leaders to think better, be creative and be bold in their strategies. He discusses his experience and observations working with the most transformational leaders around the world.
- Human-led, tech-enabled
- Intentionally diverse
- Purpose-driven
- Operationally nimble
- Built for Speed
Motivation
Be HUMAN (Anti-fragility, HumanScale, Unlearning, Mindset, Authenticity, the ‘No’ strategy)
Failure is part of being human; it is not a badge of shame. Successes are just smart failures. In this talk inviting us to be ‘failure pioneers,’ Terence unpicks the idea of failure and flips our perspective on it so we can embrace it fully as part of a very human process which sees us grow stronger from the shock waves of business and workforce disruption.
Terence Mauri
Masterclasses
You may want to go deeper with your audience. Masterclasses can be tailored and developed to suit your audience needs, be it a 90-minute Masterclass, a half-day or full-day workshop or a full online or face-to-face programme. Please contact one of our expert team to discuss.
How to Win in the Age of Disruption
We have collaborated with Terence Mauri, author of the global bestseller, The Leader’s Mindset: How To Win In The Age of Disruption, described as a “game changer” by Harvard Business School, to create this Masterclass.
Resources
Videos
Books
“Terence’s keynote is like a double espresso! His keynote was inspiring, engaging, and provoking session about the future of leadership”
Unilever
testimonials
“Terence’s keynote is like a double espresso! His keynote was inspiring, engaging, and provoking session about the future of leadership”
Unilever
“It’s been a pleasure to work with you, Terence! Great job on the keynote … and I really mean that. Your energy and material was right on!”
Gartner Leadership Team
“Terence’s generous contribution and thoughtful intervention added a great value to the fascinating discussions and deliberations brought to the table by a collection of global consumer protection enforcers and international experts from all over the world.”
Competitive Bureau Canada
“I had the pleasure to attend a very inspirational talk delivered by Terence Mauri, “The huge power of thinking like a kid”. I was impressed by his enthusiasm and ability to communicate as a speaker. He was able to spark some very powerful thoughts and insights in the audience and me. Thanks very much for coming to Visa Terence!
Visa University
“Terence was incredibly impactful, delivering the closing keynote at our Ctrl + Alt + Del: Re-invent Finance Roundtable event. He not only understands the challenges faced by the most senior leaders at large, global organisations, but also provides actionable ways to change mindsets and turn challenge into opportunity. His keynote was pitch perfect; with the ideal mix of humour, research, insights and storytelling to capture the attention and minds of the audience. Thoroughly enjoyable and insightful!”
Elizabeth van den Berg, Vice President // Insight Partners
“Terence Mauri is an influential and outspoken expert on the future of leadership.”
Thinkers50
“Great speech. Very inspiring.”
CEO, Nestle EMEA
“Thanks again, Terence for joining our Global leadership offsite and really blowing the cobwebs away.”
VMware
“Terence Mauri came to Dublin as one of our guest speakers. His talk on the theme of “Disruption” was of great interest to our members and was very well received. The session was both interactive and engaging.”
Mari O’Leary , President EO Ireland
“Terence thank you for an inspiring talk and sharing with us a peep into the future. Great keynote and thanks for helping us launch Facebook”
Hack The Future
“Terence Mauri is a great speaker because he’s a great listener. From the moment we engaged him, Terence went out of his way to understand our event, our audiences, the core messages we wanted to get across, and the cultural context in which they would be delivered. From there he was able to craft a unique keynote that engaged, inspired and entertained our audience (several hundred of Hong Kong’s top business leaders). Terence was a joy to work with and we would not hesitate to recommend him for any corporate speaking engagements in future.”
RacePoint Global (Hong Kong Business Awards)
“Terence Mauri illustrates how to stay nimble, yet decisive in our rapidly changing world. A fine speaker looking for anyone to take their mindset to the next level.”
MIT
“Thank you for an inspiring talk and sharing with us a peek into the future. Great keynote.”
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