Martin Chmelař
Founder of RainFellows | Strategic Coach & Navigator
Martin is an outstanding coach and strategic thinker who can inspire people to find their own solutions. As a navigator with sharp insight, he offers companies and leaders a timeless perspective on challenges, helping to build a culture of collaboration, autonomy, and adaptability. Since 2006, he has been working as a consultant, coach, and mentor, bringing his unique abilities in strategic thinking, innovation, and continuous learning. He is an entrepreneur who co-founded RainFellows, an organization that promotes effective Lean & Agile transformations in the Czech Republic.
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How Not to Drown in a Lake of Black Swans
What should you do when your role, skills, and entire business model are changing faster than you can react?
In this talk, we build on the keynote and go deeper — sharing real-life stories of individuals and companies who faced disruption and found a new path forward.
We will show you practical techniques for developing adaptability on three levels:
Individual – for example, a project manager who must ask: “Where will my value lie when AI takes over planning, coordination, and decision-making?”
Team – how to redefine leadership and deliver value in the context of hybrid teams with AI agents?
Organizational – like a theatre that was forced by a VAT change to completely redesign its business model.
Handling complex and disruptive change requires more than just a new tool. We will guide you through the full cycle — from questioning the status quo, to “sensing the future emerging from the fog,” crystallizing a new vision, and moving into concrete experiments and actions.
You will leave with specific tools, methods, and real-world examples that will help you not only survive, but grow — even when the water around you starts to rise quickly.
How to Survive in a World of Accelerating Change
The world in which we learned to plan and manage is changing faster than ever, and uncertainty is becoming the new standard. With the rise of artificial intelligence, ever-shorter innovation cycles, and exponentially growing complexity, traditional corporate roles are losing their relevance. What future awaits managers, for example, if AI can plan, coordinate, and make decisions better than humans?
This keynote offers an urgent look into a future that has already begun in some companies. We will show you the difference between exponential winners and exponential losers and explain why, due to the “Red Queen effect,” adapting only once is not enough. Through concrete examples — from project managers reconsidering their careers to the story of a comedy theatre that changed its business model to “paid laughter” — we deliver a wake-up call for everyone in business who wants to remain relevant tomorrow.
Want to know how to keep a meaningful role in a world of accelerating change, where black swans arrive in flocks? Join our follow-up talk — we will offer specific strategies on how to do just that.
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