Jan 13 2025
Nikolas Badminton is a global futurist who works with organizations to create more connected, curious, and creative teams that embrace change, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.
Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist speaker, award-winning author, and executive advisor. His keynotes inspire audiences to create powerful visions of the future, question how we work today, and explore the need for resilient and thriving industries that power next-level human ability. He is well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. Nikolas Badminton is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Nikolas Badminton’s fees.
Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at 215-510-6607 to book Nikolas Badminton for corporate or private events, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, motivational speaking, or virtual appearances. Our agency will work directly with your organization and our keynote speakers to create an unforgettable event.
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Nikolas Badminton has spent 30+ years working with leadership at some of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, ignite imagination, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and supercharge strategic planning. In short, he helps organizations become more prepared for what’s coming in their industries by teaching audiences a transformative mindset shift. Think of him as your own personal McKinsey!
Currently, Nikolas is the Chief Futurist and Hope Engineer of the Futurist Think Tank. His research has been featured in the BBC, The Atlantic, Fast Company, VICE, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph, and many others. He was also a key advisor to the Age of A.I. series with Robert Downey Jr and appears in the Franklin Institute’s The Road to 2050. In addition, his new book Facing Our Futures has received international acclaim becoming the #1 Amazon Bestseller in Business Research & Development, JP Morgan’s “Next Gen Pick” for their 2023 Summer Reading List, and one of Next Big Idea Club’s Top-50 Business Books of 2023.
Nikolas has headlined annual meetings, advised boards, coached world-leading CEOs, run futures conferences, and spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at over 450 companies in the past 10 years alone. Even more impressive though, is the number of companies that hire Nikolas to speak with them a second and third time.
Despite the monumental demand for his talks, Nikolas still customizes every single keynote he delivers. His speeches are carefully crafted for your industry with incredible optimism and energy. Nikolas will share stories of cultural shifts, insights into new disruptive technologies, and transform how you establish winning strategies in your organization by implementing foresight.
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Nikolas is renowned for his level of engagement, focus, and customization of keynotes for each and every client:
What if we can ignite imaginations, build anticipation, and deepen empathy to create bold visions of our futures?
Nikolas will deliver an energetic and inspiring keynote that helps you explore and see opportunities in the future of your industry, and the exponential technologies shaping our world. Learn to think like a futurist and shift your mindset from“what is” to “what if.”
Explore the trends that will transform your industry – digital transformation, data growth, artificial intelligence and automation, spatial computing, water-energy-food resiliency, sustainable agriculture and food supply, construction, transportation and logistics, healthcare, banking and fintech, smart cities, privacy and cybersecurity, and more.
What if we can look beyond the hype to see the practical and impactful opportunities to supercharge our workforces using A.I.?
Artificial Intelligence promises employee augmentation, automation, increased productivity, and unlocked opportunities for growth. In harnessing its ability, we hope to positively affect the world and create incredible futures to build businesses that delight customers and solve some of the greatest challenges of our times.
If only it was so easy.
Nikolas will show you A.I.’s role in shaping our futures, how our world and industries are being revolutionized, what practical abilities and skill sets are needed, and how to integrate A.I. capabilities across your organization.
What if we create a company-wide culture of innovation that uncovers new opportunities, and drives incredible growth?
Innovation is often seen as a new tech or process opportunity. However, it’s really a shift in how we obsess over problems and look at the incredible futures ahead of us.
Nikolas will show you what steps to take when building a culture of innovation and the inspirational stories of those doing it. He will also explain how to fuel new ideas in your organization and apply futures thinking to de-risk the innovation process and create incredible roadmaps for change. Get ready to supercharge your thinking, drive increased revenues, and experience explosive growth.
What if we can gain foresight to master renewable energy opportunities?
Global and domestic markets are seeing economic shifts, growth, and changing market dynamics through the transformation of how we generate, distribute, and consume energy. Our renewable energy economy is being acceleratedby policy, competition, innovation, and research ecosystems powered by data, AI, and automated systems that present new opportunities for efficiency and growth.
Nikolas will show you how progressive leaders embrace futures exploration and take action to plan for what comes next in energy independence, electrification of infrastructure and transportation, and global sustainability.
“Nik really knows how to immediately engage and inspire an audience. His insight, foresight, and expertise is invitational in nature, and inspires the audience in a way that energizes the growth mindset and punctuates a ‘WHAT IF’ mentality. We emphatically loved his work.” – Disney
“Nik is not just an incredible presenter. Once he grabs the audience’s attention, he 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.” – Intel
“Nik brought a provocative point of view on how AI and the new large compute areas shift the way we approach future product framing – we highly recommend Nik!” – Verizon
“I can’t thank you enough for your participation and impact! Your perspective was a call to action and your observations were specifically referenced numerous times by many team members throughout the course of the week. Thank you for contributing to a better future for healthcare – we are all grateful.” – Mayo Clinic
A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.
Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.
In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy.
Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
