Image
Futurist Speaker, Nikolas Badminton - 2024 Showreel
Nikolas Badminton
Chief Futurist and Think Tank Leader at futurist.com
- Expert futurist advisor to top organizations including Google, the United Nations, and Proctor & Gamble
- Advised Robert Downey Jr.’s team for the Age of A.I. documentary series
- Uses insights, stories, and exercises to empower attendees to look at their industry's future with creativity, optimism, resiliency, and hope
- Nikolas teaches you how to think like a futurist, finds signals of change that indicate how your industry is changing, and uses 'The Futures Game' to create audience participation and interaction
Play Video
View Fees
Nikolas Badminton is a global futurist speaker and Chief Futurist that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to explore desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.
He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 400 leading organizations at the frontline of futures, strategy and disruption - including NASA, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, WM, JP Morgan CHASE, VISA, TD Bank, American Express, AtkinsRéalis, Thales Group, BISCI, ISACA, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, US Department of State, UK Home Office, United Nations, and many more.
Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth - is Nikolas’ number one best selling book, has been selected as JP Morgan’s ‘Next Gen Pick’ for their 2023 Summer Reading List to guide new leaders to ignite curiosity and embrace futures thinking. It has also been named as the Next Big Ideas Club Top-50 Business Books of 2023, and shortlisted for The Business Book Awards 2024.
Nikolas’ essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others. He appears on SIRIUSXM and CTV regularly, was a key advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downey Jr, and appears in the Franklin Institute's series ‘2050’.
Speaker Video
Futurist Speaker, Nikolas Badminton - 2024 Megatrends (AI and Data, Climate, and more)
Futurist Speaker, Nikolas Badminton - 2024 Four Ways to Ignite Futures Thinking
The POWER OF INSIGHTS - Keynote at TBM Conference 2019
Facing Our Futures at Elevate Festival 2022
Our Brave New World - United Way CLIC
Facing Our Futures
FACING OUR FUTURES - looking to 2030 and beyond
Nikolas will deliver an entertaining, energetic and motivational 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 the most impact possible and help you…
- Understand the value of foresight - foresight is the missing link between strategic planning, disruption and our futures. See how it supercharges your organization by exploring positive and challenging futures.
- See 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 - see how progressive ESG policy, United Nations SDGs, and circular economic principles will transform your organization.
- Operationalize foresight - how we can build anticipatory capabilities in your organization to drive more revenues and market capitalization.
