The Adaptability Advantage: Unlearn the Past, Rewire Your Awareness, and Elevate Your Future - Hardcover

Sanei, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1394421885 ISBN 13: 9781394421886

Publisher: Wiley, 2026

Synopsis

 A transformative framework for leaders to design and embody their desired futures through identity evolution

The Adaptability Advantage: Unlearn the Past, Rewire Your Awareness, and Elevate Your Future is not simply a book about strategy - at its heart, it is a guide to reimagining and consciously evolving your identity as a leader. Drawing on futurism, strategy, psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness, futurist John Sanei presents a methodology for simplifying complexity, elevating awareness, and, most crucially, redefining who you are and who you are becoming. This book invites you to move beyond reactive leadership and step into the role of active creator of your future, starting with the foundational question: “Who am I becoming?”

The Adaptability Advantage goes further than trend forecasting or productivity hacks. It delivers a mindset and method grounded in science and human experience, empowering you to break free from the limitations of your past programming and habitual thinking. Through practical frameworks and reflective exercises, you will learn to shift your awareness, unlock creativity, and realign your daily actions with a consciously chosen identity - enabling you to live into the future you are shaping, rather than remaining defined by the past.

You’ll also discover:

• How to question and evolve your identity as the essential lever for clarity, adaptability, and long-term success
• Techniques to simplify the future and expand your awareness, so you can make better decisions amid constant change
• Practical exercises for unlocking creativity and intentionally designing the outcomes you wish to bring into reality
• Methods to restructure behaviours and organisational practices to align with a renewed sense of purpose and identity
• A framework that merges futurism, psychology, and neuroscience for sustainable personal and professional transformation
• Strategies to move from prediction and reaction to empowerment, actively participating in shaping what comes next
  
  

Ideal for managers, C-suite executives, entrepreneurs, and HR professionals navigating leadership challenges in an age of disruption, The Adaptability Advantage offers accessible practices for anyone ready to stop reacting to change and start shaping it - by first asking, and answering, the most important question: Who are you becoming?

About this title

About the Author

JOHN SANEI is a leading voice in AI, a strategic advisor, and a human potential guide who works with organisations and governments globally to evolve thinking and expand intelligence for the future, including Google, EY, PwC, Unilever, and Mastercard. A six-time bestselling author, Sanei delivers an average of 55 keynotes a year, keeping him sharp and deeply immersed in global shifts while shaping leadership, contributing to thought leadership platforms, and hosting the two-time award-winning podcast The Expansive.

From the Back Cover

A structured framework for leaders to turn constant change into purposeful action

The Adaptability Advantage: Unlearn the Past, Rewire Your Awareness, Elevate Your Future introduces a methodology that weaves together futurism, psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness into one practical and coherent system. Rather than predicting trends or offering surface-level productivity advice, it guides leaders towards a deeper way of thinking, enabling them to simplify complexity, expand awareness, and consciously shape the futures they choose to step into.

Grounded in futurist John Sanei’s Adaptable Intelligence™ Framework, refined over two decades of working alongside organisations such as Google, EY, and Mastercard, the book brings together clear frameworks and applied exercises that shift how readers relate to time, unlock creativity, and reshape behaviours at both individual and organisational levels. Each framework extends naturally into workshops, team engagements, and leadership programmes, allowing the ideas to move beyond insight and into lasting application.

Designed for C-suite executives, managers, entrepreneurs, business owners, and HR and L&D professionals, this book offers a steady and disciplined approach to moving from anxiety to confidence and from complexity to clarity. Leaders navigating continuous change will find a grounded, repeatable system that turns uncertainty into deliberate, strategic action while opening the space for more thoughtful, expansive leadership.

From the Inside Flap

John Sanei has spent 20 years advising leaders and organisations including Microsoft, Deloitte, Coca-Cola, and Workday on navigating uncertainty and accelerating transformation. Drawing on that experience, The Adaptability Advantage brings together futurism, strategy, psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness into one integrated method. The Adaptable Intelligence™ Framework enables leaders to simplify complexity, elevate awareness, and restructure behaviours so they can actively design their desired futures rather than react to disruption after it arrives.

The central premise is clear: when you simplify complexity and expand awareness, you begin to live into the future you are creating rather than remain bound by the past. The Adaptability Advantage provides a structured methodology that moves beyond trend forecasting and productivity advice. Instead, it offers readers both a mindset and a method rooted in science and human experience, merging disciplines to help leaders participate in shaping what comes next.

Through practical frameworks and exercises, readers learn how to reframe their relationship with time, shift their awareness, unlock creativity, and align daily actions with the futures they want to build. The book is designed as both a standalone resource and a practice that extends into workshops, consulting, and leadership programmes. Each framework translates directly into team level and organisational applications, making it actionable well beyond individual reading.

Written for C-suite executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and HR and L&D professionals navigating leadership challenges in rapidly shifting environments, The Adaptability Advantage offers a structured pathway from anxiety to confidence and from complexity to clarity. Corporate professionals seeking career growth and organisational leaders responsible for guiding teams through constant change will discover a repeatable practice for turning uncertainty into purposeful momentum.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1394421885
• ISBN 13: 9781394421886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192