About Nikolas Badminton FRSA, Chief Futurist and Futurist Speaker

Nikolas is the Chief Futurist for the Futurist Think Tank at futurist.com, a Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (The RSA), and works with trillion-dollar companies, central banks, governments, startups and those willing to challenge our poverty of imagination, awaken curiosity and create incredible futures.

Nikolas Badminton is available for TV, radio and podcast interviews and welcomes you to reach out.

Please fill out the contact form on this page to reach out and he will respond quickly to help you with your needs and to get you a copy of the book for review.

You can see more about Nikolas’ at www.futurist.com and www.nikolasbadminton.com

Nikolas has received some kind endorsements from world leaders in innovation, sustainability, venture capital and investing, digital media, futures literacy and more:

‘Nikolas Badminton cracks the code on the leadership model for the future in this must-read masterpiece.’

Josh Linkner, five-time tech entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, venture capital investor

‘In this increasingly volatile and uncertain world it’s even more important to be prepared and build resilience in your business through proven methods well explained by Nikolas Badminton.’

Paul Polman, Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE, former CEO of Unilever

‘Whether you are a CEO of an organisation that is in transition, or a pioneer that is looking for new ways of looking at the future, this book will give you extensive knowledge and practical tools… A must read for every new or experienced futurist!’

Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair in Futures Literacy

‘Nikolas provides important thinking on exploring realistic and holistic futures that support planning for a resilient human race.’

Youssef Nassef, Climate Adaptation Director, United Nations (UNFCCC)

‘Frank, succinct, and fundamentally optimistic, just like Nikolas himself, Facing Our Futures is the manual you need to make sense of, and more importantly, be a part of creating the sorts of collaborative, inspiring, sustainable futures we all want to arrive at.’

Bronwyn Williams, Futurist & Partner at Flux Trends

‘There’s no doubt that holistic futures design is the missing link for disruptive thinkers. You have to read this book and see how Nikolas takes world leading companies to the next level!’

Shawn Kanungo, Disruption Strategist, speaker and author of The Bold Ones

‘Nikolas supplies the framework to upgrade your strategic planning capabilities and establish futures consciousness in your organization.’

Tom Goodwin, Innovation Leader and author of Digital Darwinism

‘Facing Our Futures is an erudite and practical framework through which businesses can analyze a wide range of future outcomes, and then develop strategies that enable them to outflank the competition over years or even decades.’

David Rodnitzky, Founder, 3Q/DEPT

‘An incredibly thoughtful work, pulling insightful resources from diverse fields, written in a skeptic, pragmatic and relevant manner, [which] seeks to discover more truths as data comes in. Very addictive and quenching.’

Saško Despotovski, Managing Director, Hinna Park Capital

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

Nikolas has written Facing Our Futures to provide an opportunity for executives, world leaders, policymakers, activists, designers, strategists and foresight practitioners to explore and create a broader perspective.

In this book, I challenge the idea that we must solely plan for ‘good’, ‘safer’, or ‘ideal’ positive futures and develop a long-term view of our futures, and that we must embrace possible dystopian futures as well. I discuss the industrial complex that has captured us, and how longterm thinking and the discipline of foresight can provide proactive anticipation of unforeseen risks and resilient strategic planning today. I also take you through the process of foresight I’ve used with clients and highlight essential thinking and best practices in the field – signal scanning, world-building, developing futures scenarios, producing speculative fiction and backcasting.

In Facing Our Futures I detail the Positive-Dystopian Framework and take you through its method, exploring how it can be applied to help organizations and governments build more realistic, resilient and balanced pathways to our futures.

The ideas presented in this book are an invitation to broaden your horizons and consider integrating futures thinking into your strategic planning.

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“If operations are the body, strategy is the brain then Foresight is the awareness and consciousness of an organization. We need to embrace foresight and challenge our collective poverty of imagination to create long-term profit and resiliency.” Nikolas Badminton

Progressive organizations develop strategic foresight capabilities to strengthen strategic planning, innovation initiatives, and operations. In fact, organizations that build anticipatory capabilities, strategic foresight practices, and future-proof their business have been found to outperform the average by a 33% higher profitability and a 200% higher growth. Those organizations that do not can face performance discounts of 37% to 108%.

Nikolas Badminton and the Futurist Think Tank works with the C-suite and executives to provide Strategic Foresight services, including:

• Foresight training
• Foresight workshops (using our proprietary Foresight Development Framework)
• Future product exploration
• Discuss of global megatrends, secondary research and scanning for signals.
• Identify disruptive industry trends.
• Seek challenges and seeing unforeseen risks.
• Build WHAT IF… futures scenarios.
• Write speculative fiction and design experiential futures.
• Backcasting and risk anticipation.

Contact us to discuss your project needs.

Chief Futurist and leader of the Futurist Think Tank Nikolas Badminton presents the Exponential Minds Podcast where he explores ideas with experts from futures thinking all fields around the world discussing how humanity is impacted by the exponential growth in technology and the thinking behind it.

Since 2016 he has been interviewing incredible creators, designers, thinkers and futurists on their philosophies and work. These include – Denny Unger, Kharis O’Connell, Dr. Wendy Schultz, Madeline Ashby, Karl Schroeder, Monika Bielskyte, Leah Zaidi, Dre Labre, Dr. Jake Sotiriadis, Dr. Joseph Voros, Tracey Follows, Bronwyn Williams, Loes Damhof, Ian Burbidge, Carol Anne Hilton, Rotem Petranker, Pia Puolakka, Chris Dancy, Peter Nowak, Natalie Nixon, Melissa Eshaghbeigi, Rocky Ozaki, Sasha Despotovski, Rafeeq Bosch, Cathy Hackl, Ben Feist, Marianne Lefever, Anne Boysen, Glen Hiemstra, Shawn Kanungo, Liza Amlani, and more.

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