Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist keynote speaker, Hope Engineer™ and Artificial Intelligence expert that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to explore desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.
He has spent 30+ years working with leadership to build hope of a better future at over 500 impactful organizations – including NASA, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, WM, JP Morgan CHASE, Rabobank, VISA, TD Bank, American Express, Gowling, Crunchyroll, AtkinsRéalis, Thales Group, Procore, EATON, Dynatrace, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, Scripps, US Department of State, UK Home Office, United Nations, and many more.
Nikolas is the Chief Futurist of Futurist.com, author of the #1 Best Selling book – Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth – selected as JP Morgan’s ‘Next Gen Pick’ in their Summer Reading List – and a renowned futurist keynote speaker, researcher, and media producer.
He has worked with over 500 companies ignite curiosity, shift their mindset from “what is” to “WHAT IF…” The result is empowered employees, new innovative products and incredible growth that leads to more revenues and a more resilient future.
Nikolas speaks from audiences ranging from board retreats and executive workshops to impactful government agencies and 37,000+ all-hand company meetings. The result is ignited imaginations, a futurist mindset and new pathways forward for a more hopeful future.
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2026 Futurist Keynotes
Nikolas always works clients to deliver custom keynotes that inspire audiences to embrace a futurist mindset and see the trends shaping our world. He is offering template keynotes for hopeful futures exploration, supercharging innovation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI, Geopolitics and Renewable Energy Transition – see more about them here.
Each one builds off of Nikolas extensive multi-decade experience and the needs he is seeing in the clients that he speaks to.
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Go deeper with the Future of… Keynotes
In addition to these 3 essential keynotes, Nikolas Badminton has tapped into his 35+ years of experience and over 300 futurist keynotes to develop specific research and insights into a number of key industries.
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World-class Futurist Keynotes
Nikolas Badminton previews his 2026 offering – a full service keynote, panel, executive forum, expo floor holograms and podcast recordings.
This footage from the Procore Groundbreak where 8000+ people were inspired to step towards hopeful futures. Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned global futurist speaker and Hope Engineer™ that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to create bold visions of hopeful futures, that supercharge strategic planning and fuel transformation.
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence
The world is buzzing with the developments in Artificial Intelligence and we are trying to work out our place with that. We can tap into futures work and hope for a better world guided by wisdom – our deeply human resource – to forge our way forward and ensure that we lead technology towards useful applications vs. being led by the technology towards mediocrity.
The Future of Work
World-renowned Futurist Keynote Speaker Nikolas Badminton joined the trusted customers and executive team at SIRVA to takes us through how to consider the future of work, the evolution of organizational culture and the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Future of Technology & Artificial Intelligence
Futurist Speaker Nikolas Badminton traveled to Zagreb, Croatia to speak at the Future Tense conference. Watch this keynote and learn about how we scan for signals, build trends, explore scenarios and tell stories of our futures so we feel how it is for us. See the tech that I think will disrupt. Understand the structural challenges and megatrends that deserve our attention, time and effort.
The Future of Data, Artificial Intelligence & Infrastructure
20 years ago few people could have imagined that data would be the world’s biggest resource and tech companies would take the place of big retail, oil and banks as the most valuable companies. With that, we know that connectedness is no longer optional. Our world is contingent on the infrastructure of the Internet, connected devices, machine learning and new ways of connecting humanity for the good of the world. Today, opportunities are abundant and the ability to anticipate what is coming is becoming of utmost importance. Nikolas will show you how to shift your mindset from what is to what if… and see the cultural shifts, signals and innovative thinking that will change our technological world over the next 10, and 20+ years.
Nikolas Badminton on the importance of Futures Design
Nikolas Badminton shares his thoughts on the importance of embedding Futures Design into your organization or government when he joined the Elevate Festival in Toronto, Canada as a lead futurist keynote speaker.
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Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth – JP Morgan’s ‘Next Gen Pick’
In Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth, 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.
This best selling book 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.
Facing Our Futures is a multi category Amazon best seller and was selected as the ‘Next Gen Pick’ in JP Morgan’s Summer Reading List and as The Next Big Idea Club’s Top-50 Business Books.
We can arrange for you to host book signings and bulk book orders for your organization and event so do contact us to discuss this with us.
You can order at Amazon, Bloomsbury, Barnes and Noble and other fine purveyors of books. We’s also love it if you considered pre-ordering from your local, independent book store as well.