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Elatia Abate

Futurist | Entrepreneur | Future of Work and Strategy Expert

Elatia Abate
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Elatia Abate
TEDx: Pioneering the Future of Work
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Elatia Abate
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Elatia Abate
TEDx: Pioneering the Future of Work

Named a Forbes leading female futurist, Elatia Abate is a globally recognized expert on the futures of work and strategy. She is on a mission to revolutionize leadership to empower humanity in the age of AI, helping organizations design new ways to scale and create growth — even in the face of uncertainty.

Currently the Futurist-in-Residence for Paylocity, Abate’s future-led leadership and development and content has been utilized in such leading organizations as Verizon, UniGroup, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Grupo Globo, CME Group, Arcus Power, Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) and the College of William and Mary Raymond A. Mason School of Business. She is a sought-after keynote speaker on the future of work, leadership, and resilience, with a TEDx talk titled, “Pioneering the Future of Work”.

In a former life, Abate served as the Global Director, Talent Acquisition with Anheuser-Busch InBev and Vice President of Human Resources at Dow Jones & Company. Today, through her consulting firm, The Future of Now, she works with a range of organizations — from startups to Fortune 500s — helping them manage disruption by turning strategic, future-focused solutions into manageable, executable systems.

The author of the career design book, Build a Career You Love, Abate’s insights have been featured in Fast Company, Esquire, Chief, Forbes, Exame, and La Voz, as well as in work with Trevor Noah and Tony Robbins. She was also the only woman to contribute to the Tony Robbins 2020 Business Resiliency Expert series.

Abate earned a BA and MBA from the University of Chicago. She is an instructor for LinkedIn Learning, in the Continuing Studies Department of Stanford University, and the Executive Education Department of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

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  • What is so incredible about Elatia is not only her curiosity to discover things, but her desire to do something with what she discovers. There is a pragmatist with the discoverer. …Her career and her journey has implications for all of us.

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