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A 12-minute address on why world events now land directly on leadership agendas - and what it costs when they don't.
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A keynote address covering the strategic realignment triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's global positioning and the implications for European security and financial markets.
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The Insights That Give Your
Audience An Edge
Are We Heading Towards WWIII?
The four powers rebuilding their empires at all costs leading us to the edge, the flashpoints that connect them, and the probability against every scenario.The question every audience is asking and most speakers will not answer directly. Olivier maps the full picture, every condition, every flashpoint, every realistic scenario including the ones that have not yet reached mainstream coverage.
Each is assigned a probability. Each is paired with what it means for the people in the room.
- The clearest, most honest picture available of where global conflict is heading
- Why being prepared for it is now a leadership requirement
How to Mitigate Geopolitics
in Your Business
What it covers
Where geopolitical exposure actually sits inside a business, and the legal duty that now comes with ignoring it.
No one has the luxury today of ignoring geopolitics. If you do, it's at your own risk, and the consequences could be devastating. Your competition could leave you behind even if you offer a better product or service. World events no longer stay in their lane. What happens in Brussels, Beijing or Beirut lands on boardroom agendas within days.
Multinational companies have been sued for ignoring geopolitical risk and putting their people in harm's way. Some countries are even making it compulsory for large corporations to include geopolitics in their risk assessment of markets where they are present.
This speech will allow you to garner the tools needed to stay ahead of the curve, choose international markets and likely avoid lawsuits. This will also address why geopolitical literacy has become a leadership essential, and what it costs when it is treated as someone else's concern.
- A clear-eyed view of where the exposure actually sits
- The confidence to make the call instead of second-guessing it
How to Use Geopolitics
in Financial Markets
What it covers
How to build geopolitical risk into an investment matrix, and position before the repricing rather than after.
Built for finance and investment audiences, this session maps the developments most likely to affect confidence, exposure and strategic positioning, and what to do before they arrive. Political decisions move markets. Elections reshape trade. Conflicts reprice risk.
This speech will focus on how you can incorporate geopolitical risk in your investment matrix. Stop being surprised by unexpected events that will shape financial markets in the short and medium term. What would you have done if you had known that Russia was going to invade Ukraine in 2022? And what about two Middle East wars in less than 9 months?
Olivier will show you how to be more in control when it comes to geopolitics, knowing which way to lean before the position is already crowded, not after, so the edge shows up as a decision made a week before the headline, not a week after.
- The next move in markets is being shaped by a decision somewhere in the world right now
- How to read it before the headline does
the Outlook only
Governments usually get
What it covers
A whirlwind pass across every region: new hotspots, safe countries turning unsafe, and where the superpowers collide next.
In a whirlwind presentation, Olivier will span the whole globe when it comes to where we are going. New hotspots you never thought of; safe countries becoming unsafe; unsafe countries coming out of a negative outlook; conflicts between superpowers on many continents.
You will learn how everything is interconnected and how nations never act in a vacuum, especially the superpowers. In this speech, you will get the signals, the flashpoints and the slow-moving developments that most commentary has not yet connected, before they become the crisis nobody saw coming.
His analysis comes from the same rooms that brief ministers and chiefs of staff, not from open-source commentary repeated a week after the fact.
- A working map of where the next 12 to 24 months are headed
- Not just a list of things to worry about
Do you want the map
nobody else has?
What it covers
Every plausible outcome named and assigned a probability, each paired with a mitigation plan.
What makes this speech essential? Most briefings give you one or two scenarios when it comes to international political events.
Here, Olivier maps every plausible outcome, including the ones nobody else has named, assigns each a probability and pairs it with a mitigation plan.
That is the same approach that, in October 2023, days after the Hamas attack, produced five separate scenarios for how the region would respond. Four have since been confirmed, the fifth came close.
This speech is built for organisations that cannot afford to be caught off guard.
- No more failure of imagination inside your organisation
- The ability to act rather than react, because nothing catches you by surprise
Your audience will walk away with
Which developments are most likely to affect their sector in the next 12 to 24 months, and why most of what they are reading is noise.
Which developments matter and which do not, and why most organisations consistently miss the early ones.
Not just new information, but a better framework for asking the right questions inside their organisation.
How geopolitical developments translate into business conditions, market movements and strategic decisions. No academic detours.
Olivier delivered a fantastic whirlwind speech that helped set the stage for the coming years of geopolitical tension. All the investors present commented how it helped them reset their thinking.
Andrew Stimpson
Head of Research, Keefe, Bruyette and Woods
Where Olivier
Speaks
Leadership conferences, industry events, annual summits and association conferences where audiences expect substance over spectacle.
Investor conferences, market outlook events, private wealth forums and banking events where geopolitical context needs to be commercially grounded.
Executive offsites, board strategy days, leadership retreats and client events where senior audiences need external perspective on the forces shaping their decisions.
Policy leadership events, international affairs forums and institutional gatherings requiring depth, rigour and discretion.
Clarity under pressure.
Insight that holds.
Olivier has spoken at conferences, parliamentary briefings and investor forums across Europe, the Middle East and North America. His sessions are built for audiences who need clarity on complex global developments, not simplified takes or generic frameworks.
Book Olivier to Speak →Olivier is an excellent analyst on geopolitical international events, with a keen eye for issues and the ability to deliver timely and in-depth demarches on matters of deep importance but not really covered. He is, in short, a great resource for western policy-makers.
Jane Corbin
Senior Reporter, BBC Panorama
Olivier is an astute and perceptive analyst of global geopolitical trends, who sees and relates the granular with the big picture to have an informed forward-looking view.
Bob McNally
President, Rapidan Energy Group; former Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council
Bring the World
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