MORE THAN A FUTURIST
STRATEGIC FORESIGHT GROUNDED IN 30 YEARS OF GLOBAL EXECUTION.
James Lisica is a world-leading supply chain futurist and keynote speaker helping organisations navigate AI, automation, digital transformation, resilience, sustainability, and the future of supply chains. His work equips leaders to understand the forces reshaping global trade, logistics networks, and supply chain strategy.
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Unlike many voices in this space, James is neither a vendor selling a solution nor an academic speaking from a distance. He combines futurist insight with real operational credibility and commercial understanding.
James works with global corporations, government bodies, universities and international conferences across Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Middle East.​
A formally trained futurist with 30+ years of global supply chain experience, James bridges the gap between tomorrow’s trends and today’s commercial reality. He empowers organizations to move beyond theory, helping them anticipate disruption and build practical capabilities to stay ahead of the curve.
FUTURIST
A pioneer in supply chain strategy, James creates the frameworks the world’s leading organizations use to navigate disruption. He moves beyond theory to convert complex trends into executable strategy, helping businesses transform big-picture thinking into a practical roadmap for the future.
STRATEGIST
James is a world-renowned keynote speaker who challenges thinking and energizes audiences of all sizes. By blending powerful storytelling with operational credibility, he creates lasting "aha" moments, leaving audiences with the clarity and confidence to tackle the future and take decisive action.
SPEAKER
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WHY JAMES IS DIFFERENT
PRACTICAL ADVANTAGE
What sets James apart is that his perspective is not built on theory alone. It is shaped by more than 30 years working across operational and strategic environments within some of the world’s most complex organisations. This depth of frontline experience allows him to connect big-picture change with the realities of execution, from the boardroom to operations.
30+
Years
Operational
Experience
300+
Keynote
Presentations
Delivered
1000+
Executive
Strategy
Sessions
25+
Countries
Europe - Asia
USA - Middle East
PRACTITIONER vs. ACADEMIC
PROVEN PEDIGREE
CORE EXPERTISE
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Practical Frameworks: Actionable models for navigating disruption.
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Sharper Thinking: A clearer sense of how to respond to 2030 forces.
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Complexity to Clarity: Trends translated into business outcomes.​​​
​Unlike many speakers in this space, he combines futurist insight with real operator credibility, strategic depth, and commercial understanding. His audiences gain more than inspiration, they leave with:
​​James advises on a range of critical forces defining the next decade:
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The Future of Work & Human-Machine Collaboration
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Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Operations
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Resilient Supply Chains & Digital Ecosystems
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Sustainability & ESG Leadership
​James offers content that is credible, memorable, and immediately relevant. He makes the future feel practical for attendees, ensuring they leave with a stronger sense of what comes next and how to respond.
WHAT LEADERS SAY
TRUSTED BY LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD
Feedback from global corporations, conferences and leadership forums where James has delivered keynote presentations, executive briefings and strategic workshops.
"As a supply chain leader for 24 years, I have seen many speakers. A great presenter must have credibility, an ability to keep it simple and a passion that makes you believe. James has this ability! I have used him as a sounding board for many ideas over the years. Thanks for inspiring me to think differently and push for more."
Rob Coyle, Kuehne + Nagel
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Senior Vice President, Pharma &
Healthcare Strategy
"James commands both large auditoriums and small workshop environments and participants hang on every word. His topics are so relevant to supply chain leaders which is why he is in such demand. He has a unique ability to contextualise his insights, helping audiences build a clear action plan to address their challenges."
Nigel Bowels, NCC Group
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Head Of
Professional Services & Legal
During our many years together at Gartner, I witnessed James’ core strengths. He develops unique perspectives on supply chain challenges, can analyze situations in ways that uncover creative solutions, and communicate concepts to audiences in an impactful way. Quite simply, you come away smarter after spending time with him.
Stephen Meyer, Accenture
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Principle Director,
Supply Chain Research
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JAMES LISICA CAREER OVERVIEW
MORE THAN YOUR TYPICAL FUTURIST,
A TRUE INDUSTRY PRACTITIONER.
With more than 30 years of experience spanning frontline operations, senior leadership, global strategy, and advisory work, James brings a perspective that is rare in the market: he has not only studied transformation, he has lived it from the ground up.
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He began his career in the supply chain industry in the 1990s, building deep operational expertise before moving into senior leadership roles with global organisations including Agility, OOCL, and Maersk. This early grounding in execution gave him something many futurists and strategists lack, a genuine understanding of how complex organisations actually work, where change succeeds, where it stalls, and what it really takes to turn vision into measurable outcomes.
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In 2012, James joined Gartner, where he spent over a decade helping shape and elevate its global supply chain research and advisory capability. During his time there, he played a foundational role in building out Gartner’s supply chain offering and led the development of maturity models and strategic frameworks that have since been used by organisations across the world to assess capability, guide transformation, and accelerate performance.
He became widely recognised not only for the depth of his insight, but for his ability to make complex ideas practical, commercially relevant, and immediately actionable. Clients consistently rated him among Gartner’s leading supply chain speakers, and his conference sessions became known for combining strategic foresight with real-world credibility.
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Today, James is the Founder and CEO of Supply Chain On-Demand, a future-focused think tank and advisory platform dedicated to helping organisations navigate disruption and unlock new value at the intersection of supply chain, AI, digital transformation, sustainability, and the future of work. Through keynote presentations, executive workshops, advisory engagements, and thought leadership, he works with multinational corporations, governments, universities, industry associations, and technology providers to help leaders rethink what comes next and how to prepare for it.
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His work sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, helping organisations move beyond theory to build more intelligent, adaptive, autonomous, and sustainable operating models. Whether speaking on digital twins, decision intelligence, ecosystem orchestration, agentic automation, resilience, or profitable sustainability, James is known for connecting bold future thinking with practical steps leaders can act on now.
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Over the course of his career, he has advised hundreds of organisations around the world and earned a reputation for challenging conventional thinking, cutting through noise, and helping executives see around corners. More than a futurist, James is a strategic partner to leaders who want to understand not just where the future is heading, but what it will take to win in it.