Keynotes on trends in the global economy
Translate complex intelligence into clear insights for executives, leadership teams, and main-stage audiences.
- Strategic keynoteMain-stage briefing on current macro shifts, what is causing them, and how to get ahead of the curve.
- Moderated debatePublic exchange pressure-testing the thesis against competing analytical views and audience scrutiny.
- Academic lectureInstitutional deep-dive built on current macroeconomic reports, designed for university faculty and researchers.
- Closed-door briefingConfidential session for executive teams to align on ground-truth evidence and operational constraints.
We brief leadership and key personnel
Boards and leadership teams
Executives who need a shared read on what is changing and why it matters.
Conferences and convenings
Main-stage audiences and curated programs interpreting structural change.
Universities and institutions
Students, faculty, and researchers examining economic and technological change.
Investors and strategy teams
Rooms pricing risk, technology exposure, and strategic opportunity.
How it works
Brendan Hart has spoken at the Milken Institute Global Conference, Aspen Security Forum, Aspen Institute, NYU Tandon, and Dartmouth.
Define the mandate
Map the audience composition, institutional context, and the specific decision environment the briefing must inform.
Construct the thesis
Translate dense macroeconomic research into a precise argument detailing mechanisms, trade-offs, and secondary effects.
Execute the briefing
Present structural assessments and evidence, leaving time for hard questions and interaction with your audience.
Featured research
The Two Energy Superpowers
China is setting the clean-power cost curve. America is setting the hydrocarbon supply curve.
Best fit for
Keynote
A clear main-stage frame for what is changing and why it matters.Moderated conversation
A public exchange that sharpens the question and models reasoning under uncertainty.Private briefing
A focused discussion of the evidence, implications, and developments leaders should monitor.Workshop
A working room that maps scenarios, tests assumptions, and develops a shared way to act.
Talks draw on our extensive research and analysis
- Why slower world growth turns competition between powers into a contest over allocation.
- China sets the cost curve for clean power; America sets the supply curve for hydrocarbons.
- What $19 trillion in passive funds means for price discovery and corporate governance.
- How climate risk reaches balance sheets through insurance before it arrives as a disaster.
- What city incentives for office-to-housing conversion buy, and who keeps the value they add.
Compute, capital, and the AI build-out
What frontier AI spending does to markets, firms and national power.
Brendan Hart
economist and entrepreneur
FounderBrendan Hart is an economist and entrepreneur who studies how economic power is created, compounded, and constrained. He has spent two decades building teams and organizations across industry and government.
As publisher of The Power Curve, Hart analyzes strategic competition, economic infrastructure, and institutional resilience for leaders who run organizations, develop policy, and allocate capital. His work combines an economist’s discipline about incentives and constraints with an operator’s experience founding ventures in defense, technology, and workforce development.
Hart served as a team leader in the U.S. Marine Corps Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team before co-founding BMNT, a defense innovation accelerator that created a commercial bridge between Silicon Valley and Washington. BMNT helped emerging technology companies win government funding, including companies later acquired by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. He also co-founded Student Veterans of America, which has served more than 750,000 members across 1,500 chapters since founding and helped secure the passage and implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
Hart participates in global forums such as the Milken Institute Global Conference and the Aspen Security Forum. He was a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and a member of the Aspen Institute’s Society of Fellows. His work has been featured by ABC News, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and U.S. News & World Report.
Hart holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Have Brendan brief your team
Send the audience, the format, the date, the location, and the question the session should clarify.