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WINNING THE NEXT ERA

Helping Leaders Understand AI, Competition, and What Comes Next

The next decade will belong to those who can build and scale systems of strength at scale—technology, capital, talent, production, and trusted partnerships.
That is the Systems Race.
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, NYU Development Research Institute
Seen On & Invited By: NewsNation • Goldman Sachs • Harvard/Boston Global Forum • Sciences Po • Pacific Forum • WTO

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

At NYU’s Development Research Institute, Mark Kennedy leads work on AI, productive capacity, strategic competition, 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.
  • Fortune 100 business
  • United States Congress
  • Two major public research universities
  • Global strategic forums
  • 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.