Tameka Vasquez is a social futurist, foresight strategist, educator, and keynote speaker.
Tameka Vasquez’s Speech Topics:
How to Think About the Future (Without Crippling Anxiety)
The future feels overwhelming, as anything full of wonder and endless pathways would. The common trope is that we live in unprecedented times. We don’t. We’ve been here many times throughout human history. Complex change happens at the most molecular level of the human experience, every day. What makes now feel different? What makes us feel lost? Why aren’t we as engaged with our work? We’ve become obsessed with weighing probabilities and predicting what tomorrow may bring. It’s time to focus on possibilities.
This talk will explore the basic principles of futurism as a means of bringing new meaning to our work every day. Futurist thinking creates a canvas for imagination and enables us to create a fundamentally uplifting shift in how we view our world.
Key Takeways:
• How human societies have mobilized through radical shifts of norms by being rooted in the present and future simultaneously
• Ways embracing complexity creates an adaptive, future-forward culture that individuals and organizations alike can rally around
• A leadership philosophy of work inherently rooted in multidisciplinary talent in service of collective fulfillment
What Strategic Foresight Enables Leaders to Do
Thinking about the future more intentionally is a form of resilience. Leverage the principles of foresight.
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Bio:
Tameka Vasquez is a social futurist, foresight strategist, educator, and keynote speaker. She is the Founder & Principal of The Future Quo, an advisory aimed at democratizing futures thinking in the private sector. The Future Quo provides methodologies to create narratives of the future that can shift perspective and yield movement in the preferred direction.
Tameka led brand and growth programs for global technology startups and enterprises for over a decade. Prior to launching The Future Quo, Tameka served as the first head of marketing for Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation and sustainability unit at Google. Tameka is also currently Associate Faculty for the Future of Work course at Columbia University. Previously, she taught at the Stevens Institute of Technology and St. John’s University.
Tameka has been a keynote speaker at events hosted by Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, Step Dubai, Inman, Hospitality Design Magazine, and others. Her insights have been featured by Smart Design, Udemy for Business, IBM Think Leaders, Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute, and others.
Tameka holds a B.A. from the City University of New York, an M.S. from Columbia University, and is certified in strategic foresight.
