John has spent over40 years in Silicon Valley and has experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, speaker and author. He is driven by a desire to help individuals and institutions around the world to increase their impact in a rapidly changing world. After recently retiring as a partner from Deloitte, McGraw Hill will be publishing in May John’s new book, The Journey Beyond Fear, which addresses the psychology of change and he is developing a series of programs to help people navigate through change at many levels. John has founded a new company, Beyond Our Edge, LLC, that works with companies and people who are seeking to anticipate the future and achieve much greater impact.

‍

While at Deloitte, John was the founder and leader of the global Center for the Edge with the mission of identifying emerging business opportunities that should be on the agenda of CEO’s, but are not, and doing the research to persuade them to put them on their agenda. He has also worked with McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group. He also served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups. He currently is on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts leading edge research on complex adaptive systems. He also serves on the faculty of Singularity University. He has also led a number of initiatives regarding business transformation with the World Economic Forum. In addition to his new book, John is the author of 7 books, including The Power of Pull, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box and The Only Sustainable Edge.

‍

He is widely published and quoted in major business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as general media like the New York Times, NBC and BBC. He has won two awards from Harvard Business Review for best articles in that publication and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by a variety of publications and institutions, including the World Economic Forum and Business Week. John has spoken at a wide variety of leading conferences including the Davos Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum and the TED conference. He also speaks at many leadership gatherings of major corporations and other institutions. His personal blog for15 years was Edge Perspectives but now his more recent personal blog posts can be found on this website. He is active in social media and can be followed on Twitter and LinkedIn. John holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil. rom Oxford University and a JD and MBA from Harvard University. 2020 – present Founder of Beyond Our Edge, LLC that helps companies and individuals to anticipate and address opportunities for exponential growth.

‍

2007 –2020 Founder and co-chairman of Deloitte LLP‘s Center for the Edge, a research center based in Silicon Valley with branches in Amsterdam, Melbourne, and Singapore. In addition to leading the research into emerging business opportunities that are not yet on the CEO’s agenda he also worked with clients to help them get more impact as they pursue these opportunities 2001 – 2007 Independent management consultant working with companies around the world on business strategy and opportunities to improve performance. 2000 – 2001 12 Entrepreneuring, Inc. –Chief Strategy Officer San Francisco-based operating company focused on building businesses in the Web services technology arena. Led a team responsible for: evaluating new investment opportunities, providing strategic counsel to 12 Entrepreneuring’s partner companies and synthesizing perspectives on the likely evolution of Web services technology and the implications for business value creation. Helped to launch and build two promising Web services providers, Grand Central and NorthStar.

‍

1984 – 2000 McKinsey & Company –Principal Global Leader of McKinsey’s Electronic Commerce Practice (which he founded and led from 1993-2000) as well as a leader in McKinsey’s Strategy Practice. Served a broad range of clients across the world, focusing on strategic management and operational performance improvement. 1982-1984 Atari, Inc. – Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning Helped lead successful turn around of Atari’s Home Computer Division; helped to build profitable application software business 1980-1982 Sequoia Group, Inc. – Founder and CEO Founded and led value added reseller providing turnkey computer systems to physicians. Built start-up to $5 million in revenue, becoming the largest provider in its vertical market. Sold the company to MetPath, the largest clinical lab company in the U.S. 1978-1984 Boston Consulting Group – Consultant Served senior management of a broad range of large enterprises on business strategy issues Academic Background MBA – Harvard Business School – 1978 JD –Harvard Law School – 1978 B.Phil. – Oxford University – 1974 BA – Wesleyan University – 1972 Awards and Honors Accenture