Nikolas Badminton, Chief Futurist / Futurist Speaker

Nikolas Badminton: Futurist

Nikolas is a global futurist that mentors leaders to create more connected, curious and creative teams that embrace futures design to imagine desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning. 
 
He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 300 leading organizations at the frontline of foresight, strategy and disruption - including NASA, United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, WM, United Way, Bayer, Bank of Canada, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, IDEO, UK Home Office and many more. 
 
In his new book ‘Facing Our Futures’ - released internationally on Bloomsbury Business in 2023 - showcases foresight methods and thinking that shift organizational mindsets from what is to what if… and aims to increase organizational vigilance, profitability and market capitalization.
 
Nikolas’ essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others.  He appears on SIRIUSXM and CTV regularly, was a key advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downley Jr, and narrates the Franklin Institute's series ‘2050’.

Chief Futurist, Futurist Speaker, and Hope Engineer

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

J.P. Morgan's "Next Gen Pick" for their 2023 Summer Reading List
2023 Top-50 Business Book for The Next Big Idea Club
#1 Amazon Best Seller in Business Research & Development
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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.

Futurist Author of 'Facing Our Futures' - #1 Best Seller

UNFCCC

Resilience Frontiers is an interagency effort undertaken by the UNFCCC secretariat in collaboration with Canada’s International Development Research Centre, EIT Climate-KIC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Global Water Partnership, the Green Climate Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. The event furthers the exploration of frontier issues launched by the United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination. It marks the start of a collective intelligence process on how best to respond to the deep societal transformations driven by emerging technologies and new sustainability trends, and maximize our resilience to climate change beyond 2030. 

It will bring together 100 visionary thinkers and thought leaders for five days of collective thinking and brainstorming inspired by the Futures Literacy Laboratory framework developed by UNESCO and futur/io’s Moonshot approach.

Futurist for Resilience Frontiers

The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce (The RSA) has been at the forefront of significant social impact for over 260 years. Our proven change process, rigorous research, innovative ideas platforms and diverse global community of over 30,000 problem-solvers, deliver solutions for lasting change.

Notable past fellows include Charles Dickens, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Hawking, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Nelson Mandela, David Attenborough, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker, and Tim Berners-Lee. Today, the RSA has fellows elected from 80 countries worldwide.

The RSA members are innovative contributors to human knowledge, as shown by the Oxford English Dictionary, which records the first use of the term "sustainability" in an environmental sense of the word in the RSA Journal in 1980.

Fellow

Chatham House

Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute headquartered in London. Its mission is to provide authoritative commentary on world events and offer solutions to global challenges. It is the originator of the Chatham House Rule.

Chatham House is membership-based, with a range of membership options for corporations, academic institutions, NGOs, and individuals, including students and under-30s. In addition to corporate members consisting of government departments, large corporations, academic institutions, investment banks, NGOs, energy companies and other organisations, Chatham House's individual members currently include international leaders from business, diplomacy, science, politics and media.

Member

StartWell

Nikolas is pleased to announce that he is now the Resident Futurist at StartWell in Toronto (working with Qasim Virjee and his team). 

If you're in the foresight community and traveling thru then come by and spend some time here. Also, Dark Futures and Future Camp are coming back in 2021.

See more of Nikolas' work at www.nikolasbadminton.com

Resident Futurist

CTV News

Nikolas works with the team at CTV Your Morning to produce the Futures Fridays segment to get Canadians thinking about the future.

Guest Futurist

SiriusXM

Nikolas provides insights to Jeff Sammut's Canada NOW program several times a month.

Global News

Nikolas provides insights into the future for Global News and The Morning Show

Canada Futurists

Vancouver and Toronto Chapters now running.

Canadian and British Futurist Nikolas Badminton guides monthly conversations, and produces events, on the future of work, the sharing economy, biohacking, cyborg anthropology, how social networking is changing, BIG data, the dark web, urban planning, systems thinking, design thinking, creativity in the modern world, pluralism, nootropics, psychedelics (research in set and setting), futurology, and everything else that makes us wonder why does it/does it not exist and how the world is changing.

Founder and Curator

Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist speaker that mentors executives and leaders to ignite curiosity and motivate teams to imagine desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning. 
 
He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 300 leading organizations at the frontline of foresight, strategy and disruption - including NASA, United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, WM, United Way, Bayer, Bank of Canada, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, IDEO, UK Home Office and many more. 
 
In his #1 best selling book - Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth - he showcases foresight methods and thinking that shift organizational mindsets from what is to what if… and aims to increase organizational vigilance, profitability and market capitalization.
 
Nikolas’ essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others.  He appears on SIRIUSXM and CTV regularly, was a key advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downey Jr, and narrates the Franklin Institute's series ‘2050’.

Connect :: https://linktr.ee/nikolasfuturist

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