WINNING THE NEXT ERA
Helping Leaders Understand AI, Competition, and What Comes Next
The next decade will belong to those who can build systems of strength—technology, capital, talent, production, energy, and trusted partnerships—and scale them faster than rivals.
That is the Systems Race.
It is already underway: digital flywheels are concentrating power, China is moving toward dominance in one essential manufacturing ecosystem after another, and alliances built for the last era must be recalibrated for AI, industrial capacity, and strategic trust.
Through keynotes, executive briefings, roundtables, and writing, Mark Kennedy helps leaders understand the Systems Race and build what comes next.
Former Member of Congress • President of Two Public Flagship Universities • Director of NYU's Wahba Initiative for Strategic Competition
Seen On
NewsNation TV
Invited By
Goldman Sachs • Harvard/Boston Global Forum • Sciences Po • Pacific Forum • WTO
Featured In
Wall Street Journal • Washington Post • Financial Times • Bloomberg • CNN • BBC • NPR • Politico
WHY THIS DECADE MATTERS
Competition has intensified. Technology is accelerating. Public trust is harder to earn. Expectations are rising.
Businesses face geopolitical risk. Universities face disruption. Governments face strategic rivalry. Institutions everywhere are under pressure to perform.
Leaders everywhere are being asked to make decisions in environments changing faster than institutions were built to handle.
The central challenge is no longer simply who has the best ideas.
It is who can align innovation, production, talent, capital, alliances, and trust fast enough to lead.
WHY LEADERS TURN TO MARK
Strategic Clarity
Clear, actionable insight on AI, China, global competition, leadership, and institutional performance.
Proven Leadership
Real experience leading in business, Congress, higher education, and international affairs.
Practical Frameworks
Audiences leave with tools for decision-making, not recycled clichés or abstract futurism.
High-Level Delivery
Serious ideas delivered with warmth, credibility, humor, and global perspective.
Technology Leadership
With former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, discussing innovation, AI, and strategic competition.
Leadership Under Pressure
Leading institutions through disruption, uncertainty, and change.
Global Alliances
Greeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following his joint session address to Congress.
MOST REQUESTED KEYNOTES
The Systems Race
What leaders must understand about winning through scale, capacity, and trust.
What Comes Next
How AI, rivalry, and economic fragmentation are reshaping decisions now.
Thriving in the Age of AI
What organizations must do to adapt and compete.
Leadership Under Pressure
How to lead when trust weakens and change accelerates.
RECENT GLOBAL STAGES
Recent keynote and forum appearances:
CURRENT WORK
As Founding Director or NYU’s Wahba Initiative for Strategic Competition, Mark Kennedy leads work on AI, strategic infrastructure, productive capacity, and how free societies build strength in a more contested world.
IN THE GLOBAL CONVERSATION
Mark Kennedy is a recurring public voice on the forces reshaping power, prosperity, and security.
Recent appearances include:
WHAT MAKES MARK DIFFERENT
Few speakers combine leadership experience with real-time relevance.
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Fortune 100 business
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United States Congress
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Two major public research universities
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Global strategic forums
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National television commentary
That uncommon breadth allows Kennedy to connect policy, markets, leadership, and institutional performance in ways few speakers can.
BOOK A KEYNOTE THAT HELPS YOUR AUDIENCE BUILD WHAT COMES NEXT
Mark Kennedy speaks to business leaders, universities, policymakers, investors, and international audiences on the forces reshaping power, prosperity, and leadership.
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Based in Washington, DC and New York City | Engaging Globally