Nikolas Badminton | Speaker Profile
Nikolas is a world-renowned futurist with over 30 years at the frontline of technology, technology transformation, and futures 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 a futurist, and create anticipatory organizational capabilities that drive incredible profit and growth.
Featured keynote topic
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.
Testimonials
“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 – to expose our partners to something new is the highest value we can provide to our partners. Nik brought that value.”
Emile Perez, Client Computing Group, INTEL
“I found Nik’s comprehensive and multifaceted approach to visioning the future and its associated trends quite inspiring and insightful.”
Youssef Nassef, Climate Adaptation Director – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Speaker background
Nikolas the author of the internationally renowned book – Facing Our Futures: How Foresight, Futures Design, and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth – Read more here.
Furthermore, Nikolas will tap into his 35+ years of experience and over 300 futurist keynotes to 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.
Click through to look at his featured Future of… keynotes:
- Future of Innovation and Disruption
- Future of Work
- Future of Water, Energy, and Food
- Future of Waste
- Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Future of Aerospace, Engineering, and Manufacturing
- Future of Logistics and Transportation
- Future of Agriculture and Agribusiness
- Future of Finance and Insurance
- Future of Urban Planning
- Future of Metaverse and Web3 / Digital Engagement
- Future of Privacy and Security
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Organizations and event organizers can confidently hire this speaker to conduct keynotes and workshops about future trends across a diverse range of topics and in the following formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Advisory calls | Discussion with your executives to answer specific questions on a topic, project or subject of choice. |
| Executive coaching | One-to-one coaching and mentoring session between an executive and the selected speaker. Topics are mutually agreed upon. |
| Topic presentation (Internal) | A presentation for your internal team based on a mutually agreed topic with content supplied by the speaker. This format is designed specifically for internal team meetings. Maximum 25 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (Internal) | Webinar presentation for your team members on a mutually agreed topic, including question time. Internal replay rights included. Maximum 100 participants. |
| Webinar presentation (External) | Webinar presentation for your team and external attendees on a mutually agreed topic. Question time and external replay rights included. Maximum 500 participants. |
| Event keynote presentation | Keynote or speaking engagement for your corporate event. Topic and content can be customized to event themes. Includes one-on-one question time and participation in other event sessions if required. |
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Contact us to inquire about booking this speaker for a keynote, panel, or workshop, or contact Kaelah Shimonov at kaelah.s@quantumrun.com
