Financial Services Keynotes

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Jay Kiew is one of the top change management keynote speakers in the world for the financial services, banking, and insurance industry.

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The financial services sector is entering an era of unprecedented opportunity. AI is opening new ways to make smarter decisions, improve risk mitigation and build more personalized client experiences. In an industry built on precision and trust, leaders now have the chance to accelerate change, innovate boldly, and shape the future of finance.

Jay Kiew is the leading expert on Change Fluency™—the ability to adapt and lead through uncertainty with clarity, confidence, and connection.

With over $2B in transformation impact across more than 400 executives, Jay equips financial institutions with practical strategies to modernize operations, embrace emerging tech, and build a culture that’s change-ready and AI-aware.

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KEYNOTE TOPICS FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES

NAVIGATE

Leading teams through digital disruption

    • Understand how to navigate disruption with confidence and connection, leveraging key research-backed insights and case studies about market leaders that have flourished in disruption.

    • Change Fluency, the proven three-step change management playbook for leaders to create adaptive organizations.

      • How to use personal and professional challenges as catalysts to cultivate growth and resilience.

    • Leaders who are looking to drive transformation that sticks and stands out

    • Leaders wrestling with digital transformations & human capital disruptions

Navigating this era of digital disruption can often feel like we're journeying into uncharted territory, where change rockets ahead at supersonic speed. While we strive to drive meaningful and innovative transformations, we grapple with overcoming change fatigue, fueling team engagement, and supercharging our skillsets.

As leaders, the challenge we now face is figuring out how to lead our teams confidently through the turbulence of disruption. In this 60-minute keynote, disruption strategist Jay Kiew will share research-backed case studies and playbooks of trailblazing organizations and individuals that have successfully navigated change. He will unpack Change Fluency™, the leading change navigation playbook that will equip your teams with the tools and strategies needed to skillfully navigate the future of work.

EVOLVE

Driving disruption in the age of AI

    • Understand how the AI ecosystem is shifting the future of work, pinpointing the areas of greatest impact and opportunity.

    • Develop the Change Fluency™ necessary to integrate innovation at work come Monday.

    • Learn how to create capacity with a digital workforce in supply chain management

    • Learners curious about how work is being reimagined in 2025

    • Leaders who want to overcome barriers to AI adoption and enable their teams to integrate AI meaningfully within their organizations

    • Executives looking to understand where market leaders are applying generative and agentic AI

In this age of artificial intelligence, how is work evolving beyond ChatGPT?

As the world adopts AI, organizations will struggle to find their competitive edge. After all, using the same groundbreaking platforms will result in the same groundbreaking results – ultimately leading to a lack of differentiation between competitors. Individuals and industries must learn to differentiate themselves or be disrupted.

In this 60-min keynote, innovation strategist Jay Kiew will share how trailblazing organizations are driving innovation and integrating AI meaningfully. He will also unpack Change Fluency™, a leading change navigation playbook that equips audiences with strategies needed to skillfully navigate the evolution of work.

FLOURISH

Transforming resilience into joy through turbulent times

    • Strategies for resilience and positivity amidst upheaval

    • The surprisingly transformative power of community support in overcoming challenges

    • Case studies of the importance of organizational connections in enhancing collaboration

    • People leaders figuring out how to shift culture and bring joy back into their teams

    • People leaders wanting to introduce futures thinking to their organizations

When disruption hits our lives, how do we flourish in the face of adversity?

In this 60-minute keynote, change navigation strategist Jay Kiew, half-blind cancer survivor and change navigation strategist, dives into the dynamics of transforming resilience into joy — even through our toughest times — while exploring the impact of community and connection.

He brings audiences on an unexpected journey of how our deepest struggles can unveil unexpected opportunities for joy and growth, inspiring audiences to reimagine their futures.

Watch Jay in Action

Change Fluency applied to Financial Services

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