For the last two decades, Dr. Amy Zalman has worked with leaders and organizations to accelerate vanguard thinking and accelerated approaches to future change. She is the founder and CEO of Prescient, a strategic foresight firm and a professor of Strategic Foresight at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Huffington Post called her one of the world’s seven top futurists in 2015, and she was cited in Forbes as one of the world’s 50 leading female futurists in 2020.
Amy Zalman’s Topics:
Change the Story, Transform the Future
Transformative change takes place when people start telling new stories about who they believe they are and where they are headed next. Learn how to jump start organizational transformation using Amy’s proprietary method of generating a new strategic narrative.
Takeaways:
- Empowerment: Everyone understands what a story is; understanding transformation as a story in motion makes it approachable by anyone
- Skills: Learn straightforward framework for initiating transformation at any level of an organization
- Knowledge: Develop an understanding of why organizations today must grapple with potential transformation if they hope to survive emerging disruptions
The Age of Convergence Is Here
A generation ago, we all learned that everything is “connected” as globalization and networks emerged as dominant business paradigms. Today, everything is converging, creating vast new vistas of possibility and daunting new challenges. This keynote explains the convergences happening at the intersections of science and technology, the public and private sector, and the institutional and the individual, and opens a conversation about how to work in this emerging paradigm.
Takeaways:
- Insight: Gain a new mental model for framing and making sense of emerging changes
- Knowledge: Learn about wide ranging developments across verticals
- Creativity: Provoke new ways of thinking about what is changing and how to manage changing paradigms
Critical Global Trends Shaping Your Future – Customized for your industry/ requirements
Pivotal changes in the environment, culture, and technology put many organizations at decisive crossroads. In this customizable keynote, Amy will present a futurist’s framework for thinking about uncertainty as an opportunity, rather than something to fear, and a set of emerging areas of change and uncertainty facing the audience, based on pre-discussion with meeting/ conference organizers.
Takeaways:
- Inspiration: Transform anxiety around uncertainty into confidence that it is possible to anticipate and prepare for change, as well as to use uncertainty as a form of advantage
- Knowledge: Generate improved insight into macro-trends and emerging change in relevant areas
- Skills: Produce a greater appreciation of how uncertain environments can produce unexpected consequences, and an awareness that it is possible to prepare for potential ‘wild cards.’
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Dr. Amy Zalman’s Bio:
For the last two decades, Dr. Amy Zalman has worked with leaders and organizations to accelerate vanguard thinking and accelerated approaches to future change. She is the founder and CEO of Prescient, a strategic foresight firm and a professor of Strategic Foresight at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Huffington Post called her one of the world’s seven top futurists in 2015, and she was cited in Forbes as one of the world’s 50 leading female futurists in 2020.
Amy is the former Chief Executive Officer and President of the World Future Society, the world’s first and largest membership organization for futurists, and advocacy on behalf of future-critical issues. She was the first Department of Defense appointed Chair of Information Integration at the U.S. National War College in Washington DC.
Amy has provided keynotes and briefings to corporate, government and military leaders on five continents, on topics including the future of government and industry in a world of accelerating change; leadership and organizational transformation; how to think like a futurist to anticipate and create change; and how to use uncertainty as the key to competitive advantage.
Amy has also developed a proprietary approach to organizational transformation using a narrative framework, and has worked with diverse organizations to help them generate new narratives that model and invite new stakeholder behavior. Her book, Strategic Narrative: A Framework for Accelerating Innovation, offers practical guidance for leaders seeking to reinvent their organizations.
She has provided testimony to U.S. Congress and regularly advises senior military and intelligence leaders on issues related to the long term future environment. Her expertise has been featured in media such as Axios, Atlantic Magazine, the Guardian, The Hustle, BBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Voice of America, and many other publications.
She holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from New York University, and additional degrees in literature and fine arts from Cornell and Columbia Universities. She is a former Fulbright scholar in Jordan, and a former fellow at the EastWest Institute in New York, and has served on the faculties of New York University, Cornell University, and the New School University. She also holds an honorary masters degree in national security studies from the U.S. National War College.
