CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST / AUTHOR / SPEAKER

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Daniel Francis is a cultural anthropologist and author. His talks draw on two bodies of research: how people are behaviourally wired, and what modern systems are doing to human health. He also speaks on placemaking, commercial strategy, and how work is changing in the age of AI and automation.

Core Topics

Behavioural Wiring and the Four Behaviour Filters
How people process information, make decisions, respond to pressure, and direct their energy differently. Why that variation explains most workplace friction, hiring failure, and burnout. What the 4-BF framework reveals and how to use it practically.

Brand and Advertising Through a Behavioural Lens
How cognitive wiring shapes the way people respond to communication and advertising. Why attention-driven marketing is losing its grip, and how brands that understand their audience's behavioural filters build something more durable than reach.

Inflammation Overload
How modern life accumulates inflammatory load in the body. What diet, environment, stress, and pace of life are doing over time, and what a lower-load approach looks like in practice.

Placemaking and Destination Brands
How cities, developments, and hospitality districts create places people return to. What the built environment gets wrong about the people it serves, and how spatial and brand decisions can work with human behaviour rather than against it.

Work, AI and What Comes Next
How AI and automation are changing organisations, roles, and the nature of work itself. What it means for people doing the work, leaders structuring it, and businesses trying to adapt. Draws on Daniel's work in commercial strategy, placemaking, and organisational design through DHP.

Available For:

Keynotes

Guest Lectures

Podcast Conversations

Daniel's talks are built around his research. He speaks about how people are wired and why that matters for work, teams, and organisations.

About what modern life is doing to human health, and why most people feel it before they can name it. About how cities and built environments either work for people or quietly push them away. About what AI and automation are actually changing.