Nikolas Badminton keynote speaker

Nikolas Badminton educates and motivates world-leading executives, organizations, and governments on how to ignite curiosity, transformation and change to drive sustainable profit, increased market value and hypergrowth.

His keynotes inspire executives to create powerful visions of the futures, question how we work today, and explore how we need to create resilient and thriving industries power next level human ability.

Over 25+ years Nikolas Badminton, Futurist Speaker, foresight thought leader, and Chief Futurist at futurist.com that has worked with global clients in technology transformation, strategic planning and strategic foresight consulting services.

He’s worked with leading global think tanks, consultancies, advertising agencies , start-ups and high tech teams to drive transformation and action through strategic foresight, speculative futures, futurist keynotes, futures research, creative innovation programs, culture hacking, exploring exponential technologies, and foresight planning. He helped clients create incredible transformation, customer engagement, and he’s won awards in technology and advertising.

Nikolas’ passion, experience and positive activism shines through and inspires clients scan and understand signals of change, build resiliency through anticipating unforeseen risks, strengthening strategic planning, and creating bold visions of the future.

Today, Nikolas works as a futurist speaker and foresight thought leader with world-leading organizations and governments in the United States, Canada, UK, Europe, and Asia.

He has delighted more than 200,000 people at over 300 events with his insights, humour and guidance. He has also connected with millions through his work in film, news, media and radio. He is committed to keep pushing leaders to think bigger about their role in the future and to impact billions of people by providing a number of services over and above futurist speaking.

Nikolas has advised Robert Downey Jr.’s team for the ‘Age of A.I.’ documentary series, starred in ‘SMART DRUGS – a Futurist’s journey into biohacking’, and features on CTV, Global News, Sirius XM regularly. His mind-expanding research and opinion has also been featured globally on BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Techcrunch, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Forbes, Sputnik and Venturebeat.

He provides the opening chapter for the 2021 book called ‘The Future Starts Now: Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society’ for Bloomsbury.

In Fall 2022 Nikolas’ new book will be released – ‘Facing Our Futures’ provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to imagine new futures, create bolder visions, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning. Nikolas’ thinking can also be seen in the opening chapter of the ‘The Future Starts Now’. Both are published by Bloomsbury Business. Please reach out if you’d like to discuss this.

Nikolas is the Chief Futurist at the Futurist.com Think Tank – an international consultancy founded in 1993 that is focused on long-range future trends and on strategies and techniques for shaping the preferred future. Our commitment is to a greater understanding of and enthusiasm about the future and future-related subjects.

He runs this with founding futurist Glen Hiemstra and and incredible roster of notable experts – Dr. Cindy Frewen, Bronwyn Williams, Sanjay Khanna, Anne Boysen, Richard Yonck, Melissa Eshaghbeigi, Tiffany Hamilton, Ramez Naam, and Jared Nichols.

Today, Nikolas Badminton is recognized as a world-renowned Futurist Speaker, Futurist Consultant, Author and Executive Advisor that creates foresight capabilities that help shape impactful organizations, trillion-dollar companies, progressive governments, and 200+ billion dollar investment funds. Nikolas will shift your mindset from what is to ‘WHAT IF..?’ and into brighter futures.