Nikolas Badminton is a global futurist who mentors leaders and works with organizations to create more connected, curious, and creative teams that embrace futures design to imagine desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.
Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist with over 30 years at the frontline of technology, technology transformation, and future exploration. He’s advised AGMs and Boards, coached world-leading CEOs, run futures conferences, and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at over 300 companies in the past 10 years alone. He teaches people how to think like futurists and create anticipatory organizational capabilities that drive incredible profit and growth.
Nikolas will deliver a customized keynote for your industry with incredible optimism and energy that aims to inspire, ignite curiosity, and teaches you how to think like a futurist through curiosity and asking, ‘what if…’. He will share stories of cultural shifts, insights into new disruptive technologies, and rethink how you establish winning strategies in your organization by deploying foresight.
He’s also the author of the internationally renowned book — Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futures Design and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth.
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Facing Our Futures – Looking to 2030 and Beyond
Nikolas will deliver an energetic and inspiring keynote that ignites curiosity, shifts your mindset from what is to what if, and teaches you how to think like a futurist. He will share stories of cultural shifts, insights into new disruptive technologies, and rethink how you establish winning strategies in your organization by deploying foresight.
As always, the keynote is built in collaboration with clients to create incredible impact and help attendees:
Understand the value of foresight
Understand global megatrends shaping geopolitical dynamics – economic power, population growth, water-energy-food, waste, climate change and energy.
Know the trends that will change your industry – Future of Work, Artificial Intelligence and automation, Smart Cities and Urban Planning, Metaverse and Web3, Privacy and Security, Agriculture, Aerospace, Engineering and Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics, Finance, and Insurance.
Unlock a sustainability mindset – ESG, Sustainability, and the values of a circular economy
Learn how to explore futures and operationalize foresight – how we can write scenarios and tell stories of our futures