Maggie Greyson

Toronto, Ontario

Award-Winning Designer and Futurist, Innovation Strategy, Speaker, and Writer

Maggie Greyson is an award-winning designer and an award-winning humble futurist known for helping individuals, organizations, and governments to think. Maggie Greyson facilitates a fun, hands-on virtual presentation whose outcome is a deep reflection on how you and your organization will achieve your meaningful goals.

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Leadership
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Business Technology
Future Trends

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MAGGIE GREYSON BIOGRAPHY

Maggie Greyson is a global award-winning Futurist for mastery in future thinking and design. She co-founded Futures Present to help people discover surprising opportunities and unintended consequences. Now is a unique time for us to ask tough questions, “Is this what we want, or what we don’t want?” She will teach you to use uncertainty to become more resilient and strategic. Let’s try long-term thinking, together. Maggie Greyson has also founded Noemic. We are an authentic “Thought-Leadership” incubator. Maggie is on the faculty of the leadership practice studio and will be teaching Strategic Foresight at Huron College at Western University in the fall.

Maggie Greyson gained her wisdom from a decade in the theatre as a designer in the US, UK, and Canada. She played with the past, present, and future at the International Shakespeare’s Globe, and the Stratford Theatre Festival. It has made an indelible mark, indeed added patina, to how she interacts with the world. Transferring these skills to innovation in products, programs, and services came naturally. As a result, her work with Fortune 100 companies has set templates for innovation in digital media worldwide.

Scanning for disruption is the work while enabling bold leaders is the perk. As an experienced foresight practitioner, she does workshops to help you to uncover trends and drivers of the future. She writes reports and custom content pieces for clients and the media. Her clients include governments, universities, healthcare, tech, and non-profit organizations. Maggie Greyson also speaks on emerging technology, innovation, design and foresight at conferences across Canada.

Maggie’s most important work, Making Futures Present has won global awards for helping people of all ages to empower themselves in a complex world. “The future begins… with you.” She will facilitate a fun hands-on virtual workshop for you. The outcome is a deep reflection on how you and your organization will achieve your meaningful goals.

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making futures present

Keynote Presentation
“The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.” Alvin Toffler. Learn about strategies and techniques for an individual, team, or organization to help think into a post-COVID-19 future. Design thinking, strategic foresight, and systems thinking help you to think broadly to mitigate risk. Make connections with people who need your skills now, more than ever.

Online Workshop: Science fiction writer William Gibson said, “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” In this workshop, we will use the future to remind us of our basic values, skills and abilities. Suitable for individuals or organizations.

futures are normal

Keynote Presentation
This virus is a rupture in our normal way of life. Normal is the expectation that tomorrow is much like today. We tend to believe that the distant future is blurry, menacing, and unknowable. In this presentation, you will understand why this is so. Yet, we can take advantage of our ways of understanding to create desirable futures.

Online Workshop: We are unintentionally making new habits, we must create habits with intention. We will learn a popular foresight method called backcasting customized for your event. This workshop is great for individual and group work.

scanning for partners

Keynote Presentation
We are seeing extreme efforts to flatten the curve. This is a global effort as COVID-19 knows no borders. The United Nations has outlined 17 Sustainable Development Goals that also need immediate efforts to flatten the curve. In this keynote, Maggie will help you to understand what the UN Sustainable Development Goals are, and why they will change the fundamentals of your operation.

Online Workshop: This workshop will be customized to address organizational goals that align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This is a highly collaborative brainstorm, good for groups up of 4-6 people.

unesco - futures literacy summit

Keynote Presentation
Futures Literacy is an essential competency for the 21st Century. The Futures Literacy Summit will directly address the massive disruptions that 2020 has brought to humanity’s images of the future, and provide practical solutions for overcoming today’s challenges by becoming more “futures literate”.

foresight is more than 20/20

Keynote Presentation
Leadership has never been more important than right now. The World is collectively going through an event that has tested human intelligence and resolve in a way that has revealed that as a collective species – we need to do better! “Foresight is more than 20/20”. It gives Leaders and Organizations the opportunity to spot weak signals in advance – when there is still time to proactively think about solutions. In the following presentation, Maggie Greyson will share stories that illustrate why it is important right now for Leaders to look at data differently and how new practices can transform Leaders into Authentic Thought Leaders – people that we crave and need to lead us into a more utopic future.

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Testimonials

The time leading up to the conference, during our conversations, was terrific with various turns of phrases and me delighting in your thought design. And what a result! During the session, I received private chats about how “cool” the session was and have since had many thoughtful comments from students and faculty about framing the future with optimism. One theatre student even said to me that he is less panicked about how to frame the unknown. That’s not an insignificant...

Jennifer McIlroy

Professor, SCMAD Lead, SCMAD Entrepreneurship & COE Special Initiatives, Coordinator

STORYWORKS Centennial College, School of Communications, Media, Arts & Design

Maggie teaches Interactive Narrative in Centennial College’s Interactive Media Management program. She’s an excellent teacher! Highly creative, loves exploring ideas, completely out-of-the-box thinker, plus, students really respond to her. She challenges their thinking, and they love it.

Pamella Koster

Partner Parallax Communications

Thank you for your efforts in putting this together and the considerable insights you were able to surface. It was clear from the slide deck that you were quite comprehensive in your approach and were able to gather insights from a range of audiences. We are acutely aware that it was a challenging task and the slide deck has illustrated both the ambition we have for the network and the tangible things that need to be done.

Cat Tully

Founder

School of International Futures & FromOverHere

For global systems to shift, every stakeholder will need to have some insight into their own expectations of the future. Maggie Greyson’s personal experiential futures technique called Making the Futures Present helps people to use strategic foresight to explore diverse futures. This creative one-to-one or group workshop uses multiple futures as a human-centred design tool pushing foresight in different ways. It is an introduction to the value of foresight to new segments of society providing...

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