Nikolas Badminton

Keynote Speaker | Toronto, Ontario

Business Innovation & Futurist
Author | Business Strategy & Industry Trends Expert

Nikolas Badminton Expertise Business & Corporate, Business Growth, Innovation & Creativity, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Technology, Transformation and Privacy & Cyber Security.

Nikolas Badminton

About Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is an award-winning speaker, world-renowned futurist & strategist who innovates & futureproofs organizations to face our futures. Nikolas Badminton is a master of igniting curiosity in the changing world & shares an awe-inspiring vision of trends that shape the future to world-leading organizations and governments.

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NIKOLAS BADMINTON BIOGRAPHY

Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned futurist who mentors leaders to create more connected, curious and creative teams that embrace futures design to imagine desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning. He provides expertise in new technologies and promotes exponential thinking that equips executives and business leaders to imagine new thinking, strengthen strategic planning, and anticipate unforeseen risks.

Futurist speaker, Nikolas Badminton continues to work with some of the world’s leading companies and organizations to bring new concepts and new ways of thinking to audiences around the globe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (The RSA), and the futurist who the world’s most impactful companies and filmmakers turn to for big ideas on our collective futures.

Nikolas Badminton Chief Futurist and Think Tank leader is a member of Chatham House and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (The RSA), and has worked with over 300 of the world’s most impactful companies to awaken curiosity and create incredible futures, including NASA, United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, United Way, Bayer, Corteva, Bank of Canada, American Express, AT&T, Thales International, Rolls Royce, Heineken, Procter & Gamble, Government of Canada, UK Home Office, Government of Cayman Islands, IDEO, and many more.

Nikolas has been a mainstay in the media for the past decade talking about our futures. He was an advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downley Jr and appears in two upcoming series – ‘The Secrets of Big Data’ and ‘Deadly Science’. He appears regularly on SIRIUSXM, and on CTV’s Future Friday talking about future trends. In addition, his essential research has also been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Techcrunch, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Forbes, Sputnik, Venturebeat, and Global News.

He was invited to pen the opening chapter for the new book ‘The Future Starts Now’, released in 2021. In February 2023 his new book ‘Facing Our Futures’ is released and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for future design and the tools to imagine new futures, create bolder visions, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning. The book aims to equip world leaders and executives with the tools to design brave new futures while gaining a holistic view of all possibilities.

Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth – is Nikolas’ number one best selling book and has been selected for the Next Big Idea Club and as the ‘Next Gen Pick’ for JP Morgan Private bank’s 2023 Summer Reading List to guide new leaders to ignite curiosity and embrace futures thinking.

As the Chief Futurist and Think Tank leader of a group of futurists who consult, Nikolas Badminton and his team of leading consultants for the future facilitate meetings and empower business leaders through a critical yet optimistic vision of the future. Nikolas Badminton has over 25 years of expertise working with organizations in government, urban planning and city administration, banking and finance, telecommunications, high tech, engineering, agriculture and food supply, automotive, aerospace, retail, marketing and advertising, HR and recruitment, privacy and cybersecurity, and other industries

Nikolas Badminton has advised the world’s most impactful and progressive companies that require to learn and prepare their businesses for technology, industry and market trends to futureproof their organization. Nikolas Badminton is a master of igniting curiosity in the changing world. He inspires audiences in thinking creatively about the impact of exponential technologies including from 2030 to 2040, and beyond.

Nikolas Badminton Topic Presentations

Nikolas Badminton Toronto, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

Energy Transitions: Explore Renewable Energy Futures

Geopolitical Technology Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

The A.i. Leader: Create Incredible Productivity, Profit & Growth

Facing Our Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

Supercharge Innovation: Creating a Brave New World

Nikolas Badminton Books & Articles

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Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth

Nikolas Badminton Speaking Testimonials

"Nikolas Badminton is not just an incredible presenter. He grabs the audience’s attention and doesn’t let go. So many of our partners told us they had never examined the future of their business in such a thought-provoking way – to expose our partners to something new is the highest value we can provide to our partners. Nikolas Badminton brought that value."

Emile Perez

Client Computing Group
INTEL

"Nikolas Badminton gave a high-energy and stimulating romp through some frontiers of the future, in parts eye-opening, confusing, motivating, and disturbing. The intention was to lift our group of health professionals out of their normal day-to-day perspective and offer a glimpse of different worlds, ones that may or may not come to pass. The point was to help us see differently and think differently. Judging by the conversation afterwards, Nikolas Badminton definitely succeeded. The ‘end-of-life care robot’ was a particular talking point!"

Ian Burbidge

Head of Innovation and Change
Marketing, Global Merchant & Network Services, American Express

"Opening keynotes that engage an audience and leave them wanting to hear more is challenging. At our 2018 AutoTech Symposium, we struck gold with futurist Nikolas Badminton. Participants were referring to Nik’s presentation throughout the event and in the days following. Our organizing committee was equally impressed with the quality of custom content, ease of delivery and unprompted ‘only positive’ feedback from attendees. Highly recommended."

Ross McKenzie

Managing Director
University of Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR)

"Nikolas Badminton illustrations were helpful in pointing out the constant change in urban areas over recorded history and the even higher rates of change affecting mobility, housing, food and energy now. Your presentation stimulated creative thoughts across a wide array of municipal service providers in attendance and was a helpful catalyst to inspire more progressive outlooks."

Bruce Macgregor,

Chief Administrative Officer
Regional Municipality of York

"Looking for a Keynote that will engage every single person in the room?  You are looking for Nikolas Badminton  I have been responsible for speakers at education conferences for many years.  Too often educators hear from presenters within a very limited area of focus.  Nikolas’s connections are fresh and applicable to every area of education from the finances and the buildings to the students in Kindergarten to grade 12. Whether it is education or another area of expertise, it is a tough situation to get the right person. The topic of “The Future” pertains to every single organization out there; further, the state of our world to come is of interest to every human, so you can’t..."

Claire Proteau

Supervisory Officer
Halton District School Board

"The Pear Healthcare Solutions team had the pleasure of collaborating with Nikolas Badminton on a special event that we developed and executed for community pharmacists practising in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was part of a multi-expert panel that was tasked with shining a light on the opportunities that exist for pharmacists to evolve and grow their businesses amidst never-ending changes and challenges. Nikolas Badminton was FULL of energy and enthusiasm and worked closely with our team to ensure he fully understood our audience, so he could meet them where they are…BUT push them into thinking about some really novel approaches. He was positive, and engaging, and delivered a fantastic..."

Dawn Murphy

VP, Client Services
Pear Healthcare Solutions Inc.

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