Exponential Strategist, Business Futurist, Global Keynote Speaker
Nancy Giordano
Speaker Fee
D. $30,000 to $50,000
Travels From Dallas, TEXAS
Nancy Giordano At A Glance:
Described as endlessly optimistic, Nancy is a strategic futurist, corporate strategist, and bestselling author who has consulted on a portfolio of $60+ billion well-known brands and given more than 100+ global keynotes. With a drive to help enterprise organizations and visionary leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead, she is recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, and founder of the Femme Futurists Society.
Her expertise and experiences range from A.I., to frozen foods, to reinventing the internet, and all of her projects have a key common denominator: transitioning away from the extractive operating systems and outdated business thinking that no longer holds up... to create the more sustainable, inclusive and dynamic solutions the future demands.
Author of the Amazon bestselling book Leadering: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger, Nancy is a frequent panelist at South by Southwest, global keynote speaker, Singularity University guest lecture, and world’s first TEDx licensee. She advises leaders on the organizational structures and new mindsets necessary to effectively harness the significant technology innovations heading our way and ensure a safe and thriving future for us all.
Described as endlessly optimistic, Nancy is an enterprise strategist, business futurist and bestselling author with a drive to help enterprise organizations and visionary leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead. Recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and evolving a portfolio of $60+ billion worth of major global brands. Invited to give over 100 global keynote talks, and with growing conviction of what will (and needs to) shift, executives value her unique abilities to sense and synthesize the terrain ahead.
Her expertise and experiences range from A.I., to frozen foods, to reinventing the internet. All of her projects have a key common denominator: transitioning away from the extractive operating systems and outdated business thinking that no longer holds up, to creating the more sustainable, inclusive and dynamic solutions the future demands.
ADVISOR: With an early career at three of the top global advertising agencies and as founder of her own strategic inspiration company, Play Big Inc, Nancy has a rich history of advising and learning with some of the top companies in the world. In 2015 she helped shape an artificial intelligence start-up and later went on to build a leadership summit designed to encourage c-suite executives to explore seven of the most disruptive emergent technologies for business. Nancy has served on the board of retail trade association GMDC and is currently on the advisory council for Retail Tomorrow, Future Frontiers + Dollar Donation Club.
STRATEGIST: Two years ago, Nancy partnered with Austin-based artificial intelligence services company, Kungfu.AI. She is also working Riane Eisler to create a movement around Partnerism, a socio-economic system that is built on partnership versus the domination models of Capitalism and Socialism. And is helping advance two post-blockchain solutions poised to weave a more human internet : Holochain + Holo hosting.
GATHERER: A 10-year TEDx curator (and world’s first licensee), Nancy is a Singularity University guest lecturer, frequent panelist at South by Southwest (SXSW), creator of the first Career Fair For the Future event for college + high school students, co-Founder of the Femme Futurists Society (a collection of interviews with leading futurists around the world).
AUTHOR: Ranked #1 on Amazon for both Business Ethics and Organization Strategy, her first book, titled Leadering: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger, defines and makes visible the dynamic, inclusive and audacious mindset leaders must cultivate in order to stay relevant, help build a better next and shape the First Productivity Revolution (!PR)
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The Playbook is Dead: How Visionary Leaders Play Bigger
How can I better lead and prepare myself and my teams for success? What opportunities will this
create? How will this be measured?
It has been forecast that we are sitting on the brink of as many as fourteen
internet-sized revolutions, enabling an unprecedented ability to solve complex
problems and build more relevant structures, but these advances can sound
overwhelming when our thinking and incentive structures haven’t kept up with
the exponential pace of change.
Everyday it’s becoming clear that we need to quickly ditch outdated industrial era processes, metrics and beliefs focused on efficiency, growth and scale and instead cultivate a set of dynamic practices, systemic yardsticks and deep alignment in order to empower much faster and more humane decision-making. What is the mindset we need to create the future we want?
• How transitioning from 20th Century LeaderSHIP to 21st Century LeaderING
generates more sustainable, continuous value.
• From IQ to EQ to AQ... the importance of developing your adaptability
quotient.
• The enterprise and societal scaffolding needed to make the most of the huge
productivity leap ahead.
• The shifting metrics of success. -
On Becoming AI Led
What does it take to build an AI-led organization, career or outlook? How radically will things really change? How do you jump in?
We can now see how advancing AI-enabled tools and applications will help us drive huge gains and restructure everything from medicine to education, from food to finance, and to a deeper understanding of ourselves. Those led by curiosity and a deep sense of caring will increasingly see that as technology advances, we can actually become more human. More whole. More impactful than ever. So how do you jump in? How do you build AI-first strategies and determine which applications drive productivity for you? What are the new business models and societal structures needed to support this exponential expansion of potential? And how can you personally level up?
• The stages of AI-readiness.
• What it means to be AI-led as an enterprise and as a human.
• How to build and scale these innovations safely and ethically.
• What it takes to support organization adoption.
• What this means for the future of work and reskilling-inside and out of your
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Beyond The Industrial Era: Shaping a Regenerative Future
What’s coming next? As new tools give us new powers, the question is to what end? What is the role of business in building a safe, thriving and equitable future?
We are moving out of the Industrial Revolution and entering an entirely new “Exponential Productivity Transformation” (XPT). In this moment of technological transformation, we are simultaneously being granted a massive opportunity to redesign and rebuild structures that empower much faster and more humane decision-making. For that to be possible we must cultivate networked intelligence focused on economical, ecological and sociological systems that generate sustainable, regenerative value for mutual benefit.
As the world becomes more technologically advanced and enhanced, are we open to the emerging socio-economic frameworks that offer more than they extract to provide a safe, just and thriving future for us all?
•How Web3 and other distributed systems are reshaping models of productivity and
economic structures.
•How living systems and biological intelligence will reshape our organizations.
•The new yardsticks and measurements needed to track and incentivize societal
wellbeing and true wealth.
•What this all means for the future of Work and Working.
•The economic benefits of caring vs winning at all costs.
Playbig Inc. says they ‘help leaders...play bigger’. But really, they actually help their clients THINK bigger, think better, think differently and help navigate the future in well considered and intelligently informed ways.— Seth Foster, Vice President - Project Administration, ITE
Nancy has a unique ability to highlight the most innovative applications of technology on the market, while making them relevant to the audience and somehow making the true story about people.— Alex Saric, CMO, Invalua
I was looking to you to inspire our attendees to think differently and you definitely delivered on that. You were a fabulous addition to our event.— David Kelly - EVP & Executive Director, The eLearning Guild
Thank you for taking the time to speak to our team about the important work that you do. It was eye-opening and inspiring.— Kristen Schwarz, Vice President, HBOMax
A wonderful job of articulating how the business world is changing. Nancy's advice and guidance is practical and actionable.— Christina Furtado - Head of Corporate Affairs for Dell Technologies
Thank you for making the summit so magical! The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. It was obvious how much the Caruso team enjoyed the 3 days of presentations and workshops.— Kathleen Vu, SVP Human Resources, Caruso
I’ve read your book Leadering and I hope it becomes every leader’s manifesto. I was hugely impressed; the concepts and the related future impact, so profound.— Minoka Radhakrishnan - Head of Corporate Finance at Quilter
Nancy was a huge success and I would have her speak with my teams again. She is an awesome human being and inspiration.— Giovanna Morley, CEO Worldwide Clinical Trials
Ms. Giordano was probably one of the best speakers I've had the privilege to watch. It really got me thinking and excited for our future.— Kristin M., Eternal Ink LLC
Nancy has a unique ability to highlight the most innovative applications of technology on the market, while making them relevant to the audience and somehow making the true story about people.— Alex Saric, CMO, Invalua
You gave a great WebEx yesterday on the future or work and working. It was like drinking from a firehouse. But I loved it! Thank you.— Marsha McVicker, Founder + CEO at Errand Solutions
Nancy, just a quick note to say thanks for your participation in our most recent EmpowerU event. Your insight, energy, passion and humor are things that our employees continue to rave about a week later. Thanks so much again and I look forward to connecting in the future.— Doyle Beneby, CEO, CPS Energy
Nancy has the unique ability to turn a room full of strangers into friends... The event was such a success that PBS has decided to make this one-time workshop an annual gathering... There is no one I trust more.— Shane Guiter, PBS