Services
Transformation, innovation and future proofing
Training, Workshops and webinars
Develop the future-ready mindset of your team
We run bespoke workshops and webinars online and offline including:
- Generative AI business basics
- Harnessing Generative AI
- Adaptive Leadership for the Digital Age
- Innovation and change
- Design Thinking
- Behavioural Economics and Design
- Design Fiction/Useful Fiction
- Agile Scenario Planning
- Building a Culture for the Digital Age
- Storytelling in the Digital Age
- How to Plan for an Uncertain Future
Please ask if you have particular requirements.
Keynotes
Inspiring, challenging and energising audiences.
Keynotes can be delivered on online platforms or at events and topics include: emerging technologies, future thinking, digital and physical world balance and can be industry-specific.
Recent keynotes include events with Air New Zealand, Zendesk, Vodafone, Shell, Sainsbury's, Google, Harvey Nash, Zurich Financial, Content Marketing Association, Econsultancy, isportconnect, Platforum and Marketing Week Live.
Tech Safaris
Meet the companies and people at the leading edge
Meet innovative companies anywhere in the world to gain answers, inspiration and partnerships.
We organise tech safaris to meet companies at the leading edge of technology across the world. These can be run online allowing you to travel the world from your office or face-to-face.
Most recent: Air New Zealand meeting insight tech companies in London. Find out more here.
Innovation consultancy and prototyping
Consultancy for the digital age involves moving fast and building things
We provide consultancy on a range of different issues related to transformation, innovation and change in a digital age. This includes such timely topics as the implementation of generative AI from a technological, governance and data perspective.
We believe in a practical approach to digital, so as well as talking about digital strategy and culture, we can build prototypes and help you adopt agile and lean methodologies so you can transform your business and culture fast.
Executive coaching
Helping leaders make sense of the uncertain future
We work with seniorexecutives to help them make sense of the uncertain future of exponential
change and, in that context, lead their teams effectively.
Advisory
Helping you realise your remarkable potential.
We are the founder's friend. Working with entrepreneurs, leaders and their teams to help them realise their remarkable potential. Includes advice for launch, growth and exit. Current clients include Deliberate PR and Liveminds.
Clients
Helping some of the world's biggest and best to innovate in a digital world: from large companies, to disruptive entrepreneurs, to forward thinking organisations.
BDO
Generative AI
Helping BDO innovate and change through Generative AI, including leading workshops with partners and staff to drive responsible adoption.
Astra Zeneca
Design Thinking and Design Fiction
Helping teams innovate now and for the future through workshops introducing structured frameworks to get purposeful and powerful ideas in motion.
Air New Zealand
Leading technology safaris to introduce Air New Zealand to companies at the leading edge of emerging technologies.
Vodafone
Keynote
"The future is exciting. Ready?" Martin Talks spoke at the new global brand launch in Budapest, Hungary.
Santander
Leadership workshops
Leading a series of workshops exploring what leadership means in an increasingly digital world both from company and individual points of view.
Zendesk
Keynote
'Emotional Intelligence in a time of Artificial Intelligence'. Keynote at Zendesk's Relate Live event in New York.
GE
Culture Workshop
Digital transformation is about people rather than technology. You do need the right technology and processes, but the right mindset is the key to unlocking digital's potential.
TGI Fridays
Future proofing
We helped TGI Friday's plan what technology it wishes to introduce to its restaurants in the next few years. What is right for one company, is not right for another. It requires alignment to the company's Purpose. So we created a technology manifesto to help filter current and future technologies.
Student.com
Virtual reality
We enabled students and their parents, whilst still being in China, to walk around Student.com's accommodation in London. We did this through the power of virtual reality and gave away branded 10x Spex VR viewers at student fairs in China to make this happen. The results were very exciting with multiple activations of the VR app per VR viewer.
Mundipharma
Digital transformation in healthcare
Mundipharma is interested in healthcare beyond the pill. We looked at the use of wearable technology in key sectors of interest and explored the future of healthcare. We then participated in a company event in Milan where the findings were presented to the Board and discussed.
ACCA
Digital governance
It's great when an organisation is enthusiastic about digital transformation. But sometimes this can lead to chaos as individual units all initiate their own projects. We advised on creating a digital governance structure to bring order to the multiple digital projects being run in a complex organisation.
PWC
Mindfulness in business
Effective leadership in a digital age is not about working longer, faster, harder. Mindfulness training was provided to a senior team at PWC in order to build resilience and effectiveness in the context of busy work lives in the distracting digital age.
Yesss Electrical
Leadership in a digital world
We ran a two-day workshop with the senior management team to get everyone excited about digital transformation, fluent in digital terminology and equipped with short, medium and long term plans to generate revenue and save costs.
Camelot
Regulatory change
Helping Camelot and the Gambling Commission work together to tackle regulatory challenges caused by rapid changes of customer expectation in an increasingly digital world.
Deliberate PR
Growth
Helping a fast growing and exciting PR company focused on technology companies, to manage its growth, inspire its staff and maintain its momentum.
Google
Training
Digital trends expert for Google's learning programme, Squared. We also lead webinars on the new Customer Journey, Innovation and the impact of digital.
Generative AI
Generative AI is taking the business world by storm. It can improve efficiency, profitablity and save costs as well as be used to create new products, services and processes.
What are you doing during the AI revolution?
Up to speed
Generative AI is moving fast, so getting up to speed, encouraging adoption and keeping up to date is a challenge. We are here to help. We run workshops at all levels in an organisation and provide executive coaching specifically on generative AI covering:
- why it is important;
- how it can be harnessed it to improve performance, output, products and services; and
- hands-on experience of generative AI tools including Matomico's Prompt Framework.
Strategy, governance, ethics
Generative AI can help you deliver on your overall strategy, but opportunities and risks need to be considered and managed as various routes can be taken.
- Assessments of AI maturity of your organisation including people, processes and technology;
- Strategic guidance and AI transformation planning;
- Governance structures and policies, including in relation to data;
- Ethical guidance; and
- Future thinking
Implementation
Generative AI can help your organsation and teams be more productive, efficient and creative. But what are you going to do right now? We can help:
- Leading Design Thinking sessions enhanced by Generative AI to develop new products, services and processes that will meet customer needs;
- Incorporating generative AI into workflows through user journy mapping, service blueprinting and design sprints; and
- Prioritising and planning.
The Team
Meet the Matomico Team
Martin
Innovation and change are Martin's specialities, applying learnings from his own entrepreneurial experiences, global consultancy work and science fiction writing. Learn more about the Matomico founder here.
Matt
One of the best designers in the business of interaction. A specialist in working with technology to deliver more creative outputs and better business outcomes.
Izzy
Dr Izzy PhD is a lecturer, researcher and consultant at Oxford University. We are delighted to have access to her expertise in AI ethics, values and justice as well as knowledge of innovative research and policy projects.
Rufus
Content and prompt engineer. Generative AI is taking the world by storm, and is already revolutionising disciplines from content generation to UX to SEO. Learning to work with this technology involves understanding that questions are more important than answers.
Alphie
Data specialist and in particular passionate advocate of leveraging data within businesses and wider ecosytems by making it FAIR; Finadable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
Sarah
Life admin and creative support, Sarah keeps the Matomico time machine in working order.
Bea
Rumoured to be the silent genius behind Matomico with an unerring nose for the latest trends, technologies and tasty treats. Your competitors will fear her bark and her bite.
Cobot
Technology is a vital co-worker at Matomico. Cobot is brilliant at data processing, content generation, playing poker and much more. Doesn't make much tea though yet ...
Gallery
Picturing how Matomico works with clients
Meet the founder
Martin Talks
The only way is up!
A future-ready leader, Martin Talks provides inspiration and consultancy to help companies and their people be future proofed and thrive in a fast-changing world. He is a regular keynote speaker at global events, in webinars and on television (BBC, Sky, Channel 5). He provides advice to a range of companies and organisations around the world. His background is as an entrepreneur who listed an online shares company on the London Stock Exchange and founded and sold a global digital marketing agency. He is author of the science fiction novel Blinky's Law.
"To thrive in the future, you need to change your view of reality, change your mindset, and liberate yourselves from the ordinary." Martin Talks
He'd love to meet you, so do get in contact.
Find out more at www.martintalks.com
