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E62 How to Reinvent Yourself for the Future of Work, With Dr. Selina Neri
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In Conversation with Dr. Selina Neri | Rich & Super Rich
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How Do We Become Future-Ready? w/ Dr. Selina Neri
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Dr. Selina Neri Live on Dubai Media: Future Readiness in the UAE
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Women Leaders with Tech - Dr. Selina Neri
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Women Leaders with Tech 3 Days
Learn More About Selina Neri
The world of work is undergoing its most profound transformation in a generation. Most organizations are still operating from an outdated playbook. Change today is no longer linear or predictable.
We now live in the NAVI world: nonlinear, accelerated, volatile, and interconnected. AI is advancing at unprecedented speed. Shifting trade policies and geopolitical instability are creating new volatility. And disruptions in one corner of the global economy now trigger cascading effects across industries almost instantly.
In this environment, the professionals who thrive are not those who resolve uncertainty the fastest. They are those who have built the deeper capacity to stay in it — to keep growing through it, and to carry their organizations forward with them.
Selina Neri, Ph.D. has spent her career defining, measuring, and teaching that capacity. She calls it Future Readiness.
A multidisciplinary “corporate-academic,” Neri brings more than 30 years of C-suite and board-level experience across Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies, high-growth startups, and leading academic institutions in the US, Europe, and Asia. As CEO, Dean, and Co-Founder of the Future Readiness Academy, she built the definitive framework for developing individuals and cultures that can perform and transform at the same time.
“Future Readiness is the learned ability to thrive in this context,” Neri explains. “Thriving means experiencing vitality, learning, high performance, and transformation. In today’s world, that means delivering results today while building the organization that will win tomorrow — simultaneously.”
Her forthcoming book, Future Readiness: Thriving in the New World of Work (APG Publishing / Thinkers50, Q4 2026), brings the complete playbook to a global audience.
A Professor of Leadership and Corporate Governance at Hult Ashridge Executive Education, Neri is also a member of the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2025 and a former Dean of Hult International Business School. Global media outlets from Arabian Business to Higher Education Digest have featured her work. The Financial Times named her among their 100 Women to Watch for her contributions to corporate governance.
Warm, engaging, and relentlessly practical, Neri does not just help audiences understand change. She gives them the system to grow through it.
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Selina Neri, Ph.D. is a multidisciplinary forward-thinking, global, dynamic, multicultural corporate-academic with over 30 years of diverse, C-level and board experience in Fortune 500, Global 500 and startups in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Recognized for being an inspirational, authentic and well-respected global leader, Neri is CEO, Dean & Co-Founder of the Future Readiness Academy (UAE), a capacity builder in Future Readiness dedicated to making generations future-ready through relevant educational programs and research.
Neri and the Future Readiness Academy have been featured in Emirates News (Dubai One TV), Gulf News, Arabian Business, Khaleej Times, The Agenda Podcast Dubai Eye, Zawya and more. She has been named by the Financial Times among the 100 Women to Watch and was named Professor of the Year at Hult International Business School in 2019 and 2020, as well as Global Faculty of the Year in 2021. Neri was also featured in Higher Education Digest 2023 for her contribution to leadership impact and development.
Selina Neri is available to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting meetings, interactive workshops and customized keynotes through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers & Advisors, a division of Stern Strategy Group®.
“Build to Thrive” With Timely Future Readiness Strategies
Technology, geopolitics, longevity and the human search for meaning are changing the employment landscape at a speed never seen before. According to Selina Neri, Ph.D., CEO, Dean and Co-founder of the Future Readiness Academy, the urgency to be prepared for the future of work is greater than ever. In this revealing presentation, she challenges traditional paradigms about talent development and future skills. Neri provides audiences with practical, holistic ideas and tools for creating fluid models of talent and building lifelong learning cultures. Empowered to “build to thrive,” attendees leave with a freshly bolstered sense of agency to be relevant in the future of work while navigating what lies ahead with confidence.
Future Readiness: Humanity’s Leap into the Future
While the future of work is far from clear, with many organizations emphasizing skills in recruiting and developing talent, and professionals investing in building skills to boost employability, we are on the wrong path if people cannot thrive as individuals and professionals. If we want people to propel themselves and their organizations forward, they need to thrive, not just remain employed or employable. To do so, we need to go beyond skills and nurture Future Readiness, the DNA of people built to thrive in the future of work. It enables them to propel themselves and their organizations forward. The Future Readiness Framework offers a systematic way to understand and build this System. In this interactive session, future readiness expert and leadership professor Selina Neri, Ph.D., reveals what it takes for talent to propel themselves and their organizations forward. Participants will explore what Future Readiness is, why it is important and how to kick off and stay on the Future Readiness journey.
Good Governance as the Operating System of a Business
For a company to succeed, many things have to go right. But when something goes wrong and businesses fail, Selina Neri, Ph.D. explains that it’s crucial to understand why and what behaviors may have led up to it. A senior fellow of the Center for Governance of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Neri accessibly outlines what corporate governance is and why good governance is vital to success. Through advisory and learning & development work aimed at founders, C-level executives and boards as much as employees and investors, she shows why everyone must have a foundational understanding of governance that enables people to “see” governance around them in everyday business life and behavior. Neri empowers audiences with a clear grasp of corporate governance as “the operating system of a business,” emphasizing the important human behavior aspect. With this new outlook, attendees will be able to activate themselves as “actors of governance” and their companies as “machines that can create value” well into the future.
Lead Into the Future With Integrity, Empathy and an Engaged Workforce
For companies to attract and retain the best talent while boldly building for the future, it all starts with leadership that embraces Future Readiness for themselves and the people they have the privilege to lead. According to Selina Neri, Ph.D., Professor of Leadership & Governance at Hult Ashridge, the best leaders infuse hope, trust and stability throughout an organization. In this inspiring presentation, she shows that empathetic leaders who focus on their teams over themselves are best equipped to help employees feel a true connection to their workplace. Neri reveals changes needed to the traditional leadership toolkit that will mobilize value across an organization. Empowering the leaders of today and fueling agency in those of tomorrow, she ensures audiences that we all have leadership abilities, it’s just up to us as individuals whether we nurture them or not and how we put them to use.
Future Readiness: Luxury’s Leap into Tomorrow
Future Readiness is the DNA of people built to thrive in the Future of Life and Work. It rests on the lifelong ability and willingness to learn, unlearn and relearn a set of characteristics so that people can propel themselves and their organizations forward. These include competences, experiences, drivers, preferences, influence and potential. How Future Readiness expresses itself depends on its DNA’s “plasticity”, the ability to find ways of responding to new environments and thrive in new circumstances, so that people can adapt and grow into challenging new responsibilities and problems to solve.
Luxury brands are rethinking their luxury equations in the age society’s search for meaning and purpose, geopolitical and economic volatility, and augmented Intelligence. The industry can use this new chapter as an opportunity to reflect and recalibrate. Questions luxury brands need to answer include: what does our Future Readiness DNA look like? and how can our human capital build and live this DNA?
With wit, data-driven insight and deep experience advising global organizations, future readiness expert and leadership professor Selina Neri, Ph.D., reveals what it takes for luxury talent to propel themselves and their organizations forward in the era of economic uncertainly. Leaders will explore what Future Readiness is, why it is important in a luxury market that remains under pressure, and what game-changing, counter-intuitive practices can help kick off and stay on the Future Readiness journey. Audiences exit equipped to understand how future-ready talent and leadership help tackle the luxury strategic imperatives of our time.
