Speaking · keynotes · podcasts

Make the invisible part of the decision visible.

Ian uses stories, operating experience, and practical ideas that audiences can put to work immediately.

Ian Brake speaking at a table in Manchester

Signature conversations

Visibility Before Consequences

Why the most expensive decisions rarely look expensive while they are being made.

Technology Multiplies Judgment

What AI changes—and why human value is moving upstream into framing, interpretation and judgment.

The Decision Tax

How unresolved choices quietly consume Time, Opportunity, Execution and Direction.

Decision Ecology

How environments shape judgment and how today’s decisions become tomorrow’s conditions.

Leadership Without Consumption

Building organizations that perform without consuming the people doing the leading.

The Future Is Already Being Rehearsed

How small decisions, attention and repeated patterns become life and organizational trajectories.

Useful for rooms where decisions matter.

Executive events, leadership programs, company off-sites, founder communities, universities, industry conferences, and thoughtful podcasts.

Every engagement is shaped around the audience and the decisions already in the room. Ian can deliver a keynote, run an applied Decision Lab workshop, join a panel, or explore the ideas as a podcast guest.

Workshops can include a private Experience Record. Participants capture what they decided, what happened next, and what they learned—so the event creates something useful after the room has emptied.

Speaking and media inquiries

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