Christopher Bishop | Chief Reinvention Officer
Improvising Careers

Christopher Bishop is a TEDx speaker, ex-IBMer, former NYC studio cat, touring rock musician, future workplace consultant, and a firm believer in the power of bleeding-edge technologies to drive exciting and innovative careers. He is the author of the groundbreaking new book Improvising Careers: Succeed at Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet, the career roadmap for the 21st century. Based on his own nonlinear, multimodal career path, he has developed a workshop called “How to succeed at jobs that don’t exist yet” designed to excite and empower today's learners to successfully navigate the global borderless workplace. Chris has delivered Future Career lectures at leading academic institutions in the US, including NYU Stern, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke, Texas A&M, as well as in the UK at the London School of Economics, King’s College, Royal Holloway, London Business School, Bayes Business School, The Institute of Physics and St Cross College at Oxford. Chris’s sessions provide audiences with a socio-historical perspective on jobs and skills as well as insight into the business and career implications of bleeding-edge technologies, including quantum information science, artificial intelligence, cryptoassets, blockchain, fintech, augmented/virtual reality, genomic editing, and robotics. In addition, Chris has performed the role of Master of Ceremonies and panel moderator for numerous Economist events, including Commercialising Quantum, the AI and Business Innovation Summit, and the Metaverse Summit. Chris is also an active member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) and serves on the Workforce Technical Advisory Committee. He has been the emcee and led panels at numerous quantum technology conferences in Dubai, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New York, Paris, Singapore, and San Francisco. He also hosts the Quantum Tech Pod and has interviewed over seventy-six C-suite executives at leading quantum companies. The sessions are available on Apple Music and Spotify.