Nikolas Badminton | Chief Futurist at Futurist.com

Nikolas Badminton

Chief Futurist at Futurist.com

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Nikolas Badminton
Biography

Nikolas Badminton mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to explore desirable futures, anticipate opportunities, and strengthen strategic planning.

He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 500 leading organizations to ignite imagination, build anticipation and supercharge strategic planning - including NASA, Disney, United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, WM, JP Morgan CHASE, VISA, TD Bank, American Express, McDonalds, Mondelez International, Procter & Gamble, US Department of State, BISCI, ISACA, Rolls Royce, UK Home Office, and many more.

Nikolas’ essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others. He was a key advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downey Jr, and appears in the Franklin Institute's series ‘2050’.

Nikolas Badminton
Featured Videos

Current: Futurist Keynote Speaker & Hope Engineer 2026 Preview

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Nikolas Badminton
Featured Keynote Programs

The AI Leader
Create Incredible Productivity, Profit & Growth

What if we can look beyond the hype with wisdom and hope to supercharge our organization with deeply integrated AI?

Nikolas Badminton presents the definitive AI keynote for strategic executives that want to plan for the long term. Understanding how we can harness AI’s capabilities drives hope to positively affect the world and create incredible futures that solve some of the greatest challenges of our times.

You will learn AI's role in shaping our futures, the upgraded organization and how our world and industries are being revolutionized. He will also show what practical abilities and skill sets are needed and how organizations can integrate A.I. capabilities for real results.

Client takeaways

Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset - Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how AI will transform companies and industries.

Explore A.I. signals, trends & scenarios - See how AI is evolving how industries work.
See how your workforce will supercharge their capabilities using AI, spatial computing and other technologies.

See high-hope leadership in action - Learn the stories of how world-leading companies are applying AI and futures thinking to supercharging our strategic thinking.
 

Hopeful Futures
Looking to 2035 and Beyond

What if we can explore incredible futures, channel organizational wisdom and build hope as an energy for change?

Nikolas Badminton will show you how to think like a futurist and imagine hopeful futures by exploring signals and trends transforming your industry, and shifting your mindset from what is to what if….

This next-level futurist keynote will help you navigate global megatrends that are changing power dynamics, and explore the trends that will transform your industry – Artificial Intelligence and automation, digital transformation, data growth, 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.

Client takeaways

Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset - Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries.
 
Explore signals, trends & scenarios - See case studies and shifts showing us how your industry will change in the next 5, 10, and 20+ years. Identify opportunities, challenges and risks ahead of your competition.

See high-hope leadership in action - Learn the stories of how world-leading companies, are applying futures thinking to supercharging our strategic thinking.
 

Supercharge Innovation
Rising above your competition

What if we create a company-wide culture of innovation that uncovers new opportunities, and drives incredible growth?

Organizations have been getting innovation wrong. It lives in every employee, every meeting and at the foundations of the organization. The innovative mind is a shift in how we obsess over wicked problems and look at the incredible futures ahead of us.

You will learn how to take bold steps to take in building a culture of innovation, and the inspirational stories of those doing it. You will learn how to fuel new ideas in your organization and apply futures thinking to de-risk the innovation process and create incredible roadmaps for change. He will show you how that supercharges thinking that drive increased revenues and explosive growth.

Client takeaways

Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset - Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries.
 
Learn innovation methods - New methods and industry dynamics will be explored together that indicate how your workforce will level up their thinking and consideration of exponential technologies.
 
See high-hope leadership in action - Learn the stories of how world-leading companies are disrupting themselves and innovating using futures thinking.
 

Energy Transitions
Explore Renewable Energy Futures

What if we can gain foresight to master diverse and renewable energy ecosystem opportunities?

The energy industry is at an impasse. Global and domestic markets are seeing economic shifts, growth and changing market dynamics through transformation of how we generate, distribute and consume energy. Our renewable energy economy is being accelerated by policy, competition, new innovation and research ecosystems powered by data, AI, and automated systems that present new opportunities for efficiency and growth.

You will learn 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.

Client takeaways

Learn the Hope Engineer™ mindset - Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries.
 
Learn about future energy ecosystems - See how solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, nuclear and storage solutions combine to create new energy industry dynamics and business models.
 

Nikolas Badminton
Featured Book

Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growthby Nikolas Badminton

Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth

by Nikolas Badminton

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.

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