Nancy Giordano

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Beyond the Industrial...Era Whats Next? | Nancy Giordano

Speech Topics

We are now moving way beyond the Industrial Eras to an age of exponential technological, “intelligence” + societal change that is supercharging productivity and allowing us to evolve our capabilities at blindingly fast speed.

What are the key forces driving this hyperchange and what are the responsibilities + opportunities these present?
What will this mean for the future of work vs the future of working?
How can we better prepare ourselves, our teams and our communities to make better decisions, much faster?

In a time of constant flux, the ability to navigate the unknown and deliver exponential value creation are the defining characteristics of successful organizations. It’s not what we think anymore, it’s how we think that’s important.

Understanding the necessary shift from traditional leadership to a more dynamic, caring, systemic approach.
What are the evolving practices and mindsets needed to shift from replicating the past to confidently navigating an emergent tomorrow?
Who are the visionary leaders showing the way?

The embedded patterns and constructs underlying our decaying systems and stymieing our ability to make vast, systemic shifts are expiring. What are healthier, more equitable, and sustainable options emerging for the future?

As every system and industry is being reshaped, how can these be repatterned for greater resilience and inclusion?
How does distributed technology offer new patterns for coordination and exchange?
How can regenerative practices & new economic systems restore and enhance all living systems?

Biography

Described as endlessly optimistic, Nancy is a visionary strategist, gatherer and author who has given more than 200 keynotes across the world. With a drive to help enterprise organizations and caring leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead, she is recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists. As founder of Play Big Inc, she + her global PYNKrs (“people you need to know”) guide visionary leaders through this exponentially potent moment of change.

Her expertise and experiences range from A.I. to frozen foods to reinventing the internet, and all her projects have a key common denominator: transitioning away from the extractive operating systems and expired thinking of the industrial era to creating the more regenerative, inclusive and dynamic solutions the future demands.

The world’s first TEDx licensee, co-founder of the Femme Futurists Society podcast, and best-selling author of LeaderING: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger, Nancy has advised and worked with many of the top companies in the world. In 2015, she was eager to learn from AI pioneer Doug Lennat to commercialize his symbolic approach to commonsense, explainable AI. Fascinated by the intersection of technology, business, society, and our own expanding consciousness, she has designed and produced several immersive leadership conferences and strategic acceleration summits and for the past five years has been as advisor to Kungfu.AI, a fast-growing AI services company.

An activist for a better next, she is championing two bold ideas poised to weave a more human, truly peer-to-peer internet: Holochain + Holo Hosting. Nancy is also helping usher in an era of Partnerism, a socio-economic approach that recognizes and rewards the value of caring for people and for nature (and makes visible the cost of not doing so). She hosts an online gathering each month to help us all move beyond uncertainty by embracing the potential in “the new story” taking shape, and she is co-producer of a new, hopeful documentary that explores the regenerative socio-economic models emerging around the world.

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