Speaker

Mickey McManus is a serial entrepreneur, Senior Advisor, executive coach, and BCG-U faculty member at BCG (Boston Consulting Group) and a research fellow emeritus at Autodesk’s Office of the CTO.  He is a pioneer in design futures, augmented collective intelligence (ACI), and high performance human/AI teaming and culture building. At BCGU he helped build an executive development workshop for Google's AI offering for their customers and teaches an 8-week Harvard business school style executive education course co-developed by Karim Lahkani at HBS and BCG.  Mickey holds 12 patents in the area of connected products, environments, vehicles and services and co-authored the Carnegie Science Award winning book, Trillions – Thriving in the Information Ecology. In Trillions he and his co-authors posit that in a deeply interconnected world unbounded malignant complexity will be one of the most significant challenges. Taming complexity will be a super power for individuals and organizations. His design innovation & digital transformation lab/startup studio, MAYA, was sold to BCG in 2017 and became a foundational part of their global design and build offering called BCG X. The educational institute he co-founded and helped build, LUMA Institute, has taught design thinking and co-creating with people to over 100,000 people globally and is now a core part of Mural's co-creation operating system.