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Nikolas Badminton

Futurist, Author, Advisor, and Foresight Thought Leader

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Shift your mindset from “what is” to “what if” with world-renowned futurist speaker Nikolas Badminton. He has spent the past 30 years working with some of the world’s most impactful companies, helping them to enhance their strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends re-shaping their industry, and anticipate unforeseen risks and opportunities. His energetic and inspiring presentations empower audiences to embrace futures thinking and create bold visions that deliver increased revenues and explosive growth.

As the Chief Futurist at Futurist Think Tank, Badminton has mentored top executives and officials at the highest levels of government. His past clients include leading organizations at the frontline of futures, strategy, and disruption such as NASA, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, WM, JP Morgan, Verizon, VISA, TD Bank, American Express, BISCI, ISACA, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, US Department of State, UK Home Office, United Nations, and many more.

Badminton’s essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph, and many other major media outlets. He’s often a featured guest on SiriusXM and CTV and was a key advisor to the YouTube Originals series “The Age of AI”, with Robert Downey Jr. Badminton also appears in the Franklin Institute’s six-part docuseries The Road to 2050.

A bestselling author, Badminton’s book Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futures Design, and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth was one of JP Morgan’s “Next Gen Pick” for their 2023 Summer Reading List and named a “Top 50 Business Book of 2023” by The Next Big Idea Club.

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Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

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  • Nik really knows how to immediately engage and inspire an audience.  His insight, foresight, and expertise is invitational in nature, while his captivating content not only leaves his audience wanting more, but inspires them in a way that energizes the growth mindset and punctuates a “what if” mentality.  We loved his work.

  • Nik is not just an incredible presenter. He grabs the audience’s attention and doesn’t let go. So many of our partners told us they had never examined the future of their business in such a thought-provoking way.

  • Nik brought a provocative point of view on new, large compute areas (artificial intelligence, spatial computing, sensor fusion, etc.) that left the room starting to shift the way they approach future product framing.

  • Nik came in and wowed us. He surprised many of us with his foresight and predictions and gave our audience information on subjects they didn’t even realize they should be considering. The group he presented is in the business of making predictions, so for him to surprise us was inspiring.

  • Nik engaged our audience in a thought-provoking manner and challenged them to think differently about how our work impacts the future generations of our communities. Nik was collaborative throughout and invested in the success of our event and its audience members.

  • Nikolas is delightful and easy to work with. Whether it’s to motivate your audience toward change today or imagining our future, you definitely need Nikolas at your conference.

  • We found Nik’s comprehensive and multifaceted approach to visioning the future and its associated trends quite inspiring and insightful.

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