Sample Speech Topics and Descriptions of Their Contents:
Sector: Behavioral Economics / Consumer Insights
Title: Penguin Huddles, Black Suns, and Buyer Behavior
Description: From penguins clustering for warmth to starlings creating vast aerial patterns, nature reveals the power of collective movement. Buyers behave in strikingly similar ways. Doug demonstrates how recognizing these hidden patterns in customer behavior provides businesses with a decisive edge in pricing, positioning, and anticipating demand.
Sector: Business Strategy / Market Economics
Title: From Chocolate Bars to Business Jets: Rethinking Market Equilibrium
Description: Textbooks teach that markets “settle” at one price point—but real markets don’t. Chocolate bars and business jets demonstrate that buyers establish multiple price-quantity relationships. Doug uncovers how to read these real-world dynamics and turn them into profit-enhancing strategies for any industry.
Sector: Risk Management / Corporate Strategy
Title: Beyond the Breaking Point: Why Big Bets Fail
Description: From the DeLorean to the Airbus A380, billion-dollar projects have collapsed by overshooting unseen limits. Doug reveals how companies can detect market boundaries before crossing them—avoiding costly failures and positioning for sustainable success.
Sector: Advanced Analytics / Data Science
Title: The Fourth Dimension of Markets
Description: We live in three physical dimensions, but markets operate in at least four. Doug explains how adding unseen dimensions to analysis uncovers profitable opportunities, reveals hidden risks, and redefines the way leaders measure and capture value.
Sector: Market Forecasting / Strategic Planning
Title: What It Means to Miss the Market
Description: Falling short of sales targets isn’t just disappointing—it’s structurally different across markets. Doug demonstrates how to forecast the impact of “missing” data and how organizations can recalibrate their strategy to minimize downside and recover more quickly.
Sector: Data Analytics / Future of Business Intelligence
Title: Market Analysis in Eight Dimensions: The Next Frontier
Description: With Hypernomics, analysis can be mapped and portrayed across eight or more dimensions, including time and adjoining markets. Doug demonstrates how this richer lens reveals insights others miss, empowering executives to make confident, data-backed decisions in uncertain environments.
Sector: Business Intelligence Industry
Title: How 4D Thinking Unlocks Hidden Business Opportunities
Description: Reveals how most BI tools only answer the questions organizations already know to ask—leaving critical blind spots. Demonstrates how 4D analytics uncovers untapped markets, hidden risks, and unseen growth opportunities. Equips companies to optimize pricing, product positioning, and resource allocation before costly mistakes occur. Delivers a powerful framework for making high-confidence strategic decisions in complex, competitive markets.
Sector: Aerospace / Defense
Title: Winning in Complex Markets: Hypernomics for Aerospace & Defense Leaders
Description: Shows how to map buyer behavior across government and commercial buyers using 4D analytics. Demonstrates how to optimize program value, reduce bid risk, and improve profit margins. Ideal for executives responsible for capture strategy, pricing, and program development. Learn how to win more contracts with smarter pricing, stronger positioning, and sharper bid strategy.
Sector: Financial Services
Title: Seeing What Others Miss: How Financial Leaders Can Out-think the Market
Description: In an increasingly competitive and fast-moving market, financial services professionals need more than traditional analysis—they need the tools to see opportunities that others overlook. This session explores how multidimensional analytics can help financial institutions uncover hidden patterns, optimize portfolios, and predict market shifts. Drawing from my best-selling book and award-winning research, I offer actionable strategies that enable financial leaders to make more innovative investments, manage risk effectively, and drive exponential growth. This talk empowers decision-makers to lead with confidence in an unpredictable financial landscape.
