Nancy Giordano

Nancy Giordano

• Futurist, global enterprise strategist, and sought-after speaker
• Has the unique ability to explain what is changing and how we can get there
• Bestselling author in business ethics and organisational strategy
• Co-founder of Femme Futurists Society

A strategic futurist and bestselling author, Nancy Giordano helps enterprise organisations and visionary leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead. As one of the world’s top female futurists, her career has seen her build, shape, and evolve a of portfolio upwards of $60+ billion worth of global brands.

Nancy Giordano has an uncanny ability to predict major future shifts. This makes her keynotes a favourite with large business corporations and leaders. Her expertise and experience range from AI to the frozen foods industry, and even reinventing the internet. Her projects all have one thing in common – transitioning away from outdated operating systems and ways of thinking and creating something of a more sustainable, inclusive, and dynamic nature. In other words, finding solutions that will meet future demands.

Nancy Giordano is uniquely situated to advise top companies due to her earlier career at three top global advertising agencies and her experiences at the strategic inspiration company Play Big Inc. She helped shape an AI startup in 2015 and went on to build a leadership summit to encourage C-suite executives to explore various disruptive emergent technologies for business. She has also served on the board of GMDC, the retail trade association, and is currently a member of the advisory council of Retail Tomorrow, Future Frontiers, and Dollar Donation Club.

Amongst her other achievements, Nancy Giordano counts her partnership with Kungfu AI, the Austin-based AI services company, and her work with Riane Eisler to create a movement around Partnerism. This socio-economic system is based on partnerships and not the domination models associated with capitalism or socialism.

The world’s first TEDx licensee, Nancy Giordano has spent ten years as a curator for the organisation. She is also a Singularity University guest lecturer, a frequent panellist at South by Southwest, co-founder of the Femme Futurist Society, and the creator of the first Career Fair for the Future event for both college and high school students.

A bestselling author, Nancy Giordano saw her first book, “Leadering: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger” rank #1 on Amazon. Her book focuses on business ethics and organisation strategy.

Nancy Giordano – Speaker

Her speaking career has seen Nancy Giordano give over 100 global keynote talks. Due to her excellent predictions of what will shift, business executives value her unique abilities in navigating the way forward. She lives in the USA and presents in English.

Speaker Topics

• Just One Percent In Preparing for the “First Productivity Revolution”. When you speak with the visionaries, technologists, and entrepreneurs building the solutions of tomorrow—from on-demand retail to remote surgery—and ask how far into this new era we are, almost universally the reply is: “Only one percent”. For many that is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming.
• 2030+ | The Beyond Economy + How We Can All Build a Better Next: We are standing at the front end of an astronomical shift in how the world will work. And change will happen fast, with some predicting more than fourteen internet-size revolutions in the next decade. As we pull out of a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, both technological advances and mounting societal breakdowns are reshaping what comes next. Can you imagine where we’ll be ten years from now? How about 50?
• The New Org “Chart”. Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning) is about to hit the long-anticipated exponential curve, radically shifting organizations. The next three years are critical to either becoming an AI-led organization—or risk being taken over as a subsidiary of one—which is why we must prepare now to make the most of the huge productivity leap coming towards us.
• The Necessary Shift from Leadership to Leadering. Adjusting to a post-COVID world as we advance into a transformative new era can be challenging, especially as structures and tactics put in place to reduce risk in the 20th Century, are now often the very things creating vulnerability in the 21st Century. This moment demands that we shift from thinking of leadership as static, hierarchical, and focused on short-term growth, to embracing it as a dynamic, inclusive, and constantly learning practice, to build long-term value.
• Creating The Future You Want to See: (aka Inspiring Generations to Come). Witnessing glaring climate crises, environmental degradation, rising inequality and violence, and ongoing tech disruption, unprepared youth are experiencing unprecedented levels of depression and anxiety, horrifying rates of suicide, and the growing obesity epidemic. Instead of being fearful, how can we prepare and empower them for such a fast-moving + continuously unfolding future? How do we inspire a more positive narrative and instil a sense of agency to act, shape, and build what’s coming to ensure a safe and thriving future for all?
• The Forces Shaping the Enterprise of The Future. It’s not easy to let go of the playbook we’re all used to, but the future demands we let go of outdated “best practices” and instead learn to sense and respond in real time. Why? Simply put, there are several very big shifts happening simultaneously that are reshaping business and society – that will require equally big shifts in how we respond – especially if we intend to remain relevant in the years ahead.
• The Future of Work and Working. Culturally we’ve come to define work as a job we are paid to do. However, it is becoming clear that this is a very limiting definition that distorts our view of what the future needs and expects. As we imagine a world heavily influenced by exponential technologies, how will our experiences and roles shift? What are the issues and opportunities this will bring?