Nikolas Badminton keynote speaker

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’ book was 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’.