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the questions leaders aren’t asking yet
Five keynotes, one method.
Every topic below is built the same way. Name every realistic outcome, put a probability against it, and pair it with what it means for the people in the room. Olivier introduces each one himself.
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 four are Russia, China, Iran and Turkey. Each arrives as its own headline, a war in one place, a blocked shipping lane in another. Connect the dots and it is one story: all four pushing outward at once, and they happen to be allies.
The keynote works through where that ambition meets resistance: Russia in Ukraine, Iran against Israel, the United States and the Gulf states, the Strait of Hormuz where a closure moves the oil price, Taiwan, and China's widening friction with both India and the United States.
For each of them, every realistic outcome is named, including the ones that have not reached mainstream coverage, and each is paired with what it would mean for the people in the room.
It is the same method that publicly flagged a possible war involving Iran in September 2025, five months before it began, when that scenario sat outside mainstream analyst consensus.
- 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
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
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
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?
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
He was notably among the first to identify the shift toward a materially higher probability of a US operation in Iran back in February 2026, and I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for differentiated and actionable geopolitical analysis.
Jerome Viv
Senior Analyst, Hermeneutic