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Hello Tomorrow: The Optimist's Guide To Navigating Crisis

PERFECT IF YOU NEED:
Future Visioning • Strategic Planning • Change Leadership • Innovation Mindset • Resilience • Cultural Transformation • Bold Leadership
Most of us are exhausted trying to fix systems that were destined to break. We’re working harder than ever, yet nothing seems to improve. Burnout is epidemic. Trust is collapsing. The old playbooks aren’t working… and deep down, we know it. Here’s what nobody’s telling you: the system isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do. We’re in a predictable 80-year cycle of crisis and renewal that happens like clockwork throughout history. And just like the generations before us who lived through the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II, we’re in the “winter” phase. The good news? Winter always creates space for the spring that comes next. In this bold and inspiring keynote, optimistic futurist Josh Allan Dykstra uses demographic patterns and historical data to show you exactly where we are in the cycle, so you can stop optimizing what needs to die and start designing what comes next. You’ll walk away knowing what to invest in, what to let go of, and how to lead with the bold optimism that sees rebirth within the crisis.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE KNOWING HOW TO:
  • Understand the Cycle — Learn why systems are breaking (hint: they’re destined to), where we are in the cycle, and why this crisis is actually predictable, necessary, and temporary. This perspective shift alone will reduce anxiety and unlock strategic clarity.
  • Release What’s Dying — Discover how to identify what’s worth saving versus what’s dragging you down, and get permission to stop exhausting yourself trying to fix systems that need to collapse. You’ll learn the art of strategic letting go.
  • Build What’s Next — Master the mindset of Future Design™ and learn how to position yourself as an architect of tomorrow instead of a victim of today. You’ll leave with practical tools to invest your energy where the future is actually heading and knowing how to lead with confidence and optimism.
WHY THIS MATTERS TO ME

The story behind this keynote...

Everywhere I look, I see people feeling tortured by this moment in time. Leaders are exhausted, teams are demoralized, and everyone is asking: Why does everything feel so broken?

We seem to keep hearing the same answer: we’re failing. If we just tried harder, optimized better, fixed one more thing, maybe it would finally work. But that’s a lie. And it’s killing us. The truth is simpler: the system isn’t broken. It’s destined to break.

We’re living inside a predictable 80-year cycle of crisis and renewal. Our grandparents lived through one (World War II). Their grandparents lived through one (the Civil War). And here’s what most people miss: the destruction is necessary. Unless things seriously break, there will never be enough collective willpower to build something new. We’ll just keep patching the old system and exhausting ourselves in the process.

This keynote exists because I’m tired of watching good people torture themselves trying to fix what needs to die. You’re not failing. You’re living through the “decay” season of a very normal cycle. Once you understand the pattern, everything changes. You can stop wasting energy on what’s collapsing and start investing in what’s emerging.

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