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Dion Chang will make you think differently.
He is a strategic thinker, keynote speaker, a walking ideas bank and professional cage rattler. He is one of South Africa’s most respected trend analysts and founder of Flux Trends, which takes the unique view of “trends as business strategy”.
For two decades Flux Trends has helped companies identify disruptive trends that inevitably forces change on their business model – anything from disruptive technologies to shifting consumer temperament to generational conflict within a workforce.
Dion is passionate about assisting companies embrace change and embedding a culture of innovation into corporate operating systems. As a result, he is used as a management consultant for businesses facing change and struggling to adapt to a new world order. He will identify your blind spots and is not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions about the unintended consequences of your innovation trajectory.
His module – The Business of Innovation – is crafted for business managers and executives at UCT’s Graduate School of Business. He has also lectured at GIBS and Duke CE. He has devised and hosted numerous immersion tours and trend conferences, published six books and sits on the advisory board of the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment at WITS.
Apart from being an information source for cross-industry trends for many journalists, he also writes columns for City Press and trend features for Acumen (a business quarterly for GIBS).
As a seasoned career shifter, his has embarked on another new trajectory. As a certified end-of-life doula he is dovetailing his new vocation with 20 years of experience in “the death of old ideas and the birth of the new” and is now guiding people through life’s pivotal moments as a transition guide.
As an end-of-life doula, his area of specialisation is pet bereavement and disenfranchised grief. His new book – A Pawfect Life – tracks not only the trends in the booming global pet economy but also introduces the concept of a pet doula to the world.
Dion is an intrepid traveller, global citizen and proud South African.
Why the future belongs to those who know what to let go of.
In a world obsessed with innovation, disruption and reinvention, the greatest challenge is often not adopting the new — it is releasing the old.
Drawing on decades of trend analysis and his work as an End-of-Life Companion Doula, Dion Chang offers a unique perspective on transition, transformation and renewal. Whether supporting families through life’s final chapter or helping organisations confront obsolete business models and outdated thinking, the lesson remains the same: meaningful change begins with letting go.
This keynote explores how leaders, teams and organisations can identify what no longer serves them, navigate uncertainty with confidence, and create the conditions for meaningful growth and reinvention.
Key Takeaways
Dion’s acclaimed annual trend briefing decodes the social, cultural, technological and economic forces shaping South Africa and the world. For more than two decades it has helped organisations make sense of complexity, anticipate change and identify opportunities hidden within disruption.
