Turning vision into action these women are not simply disruptors, they are reconstructors, leading by example with a deep belief in our human potential to shape a better world. Listen to what they have to say...
Founder, Afrofuture Strategies Institute
#43 Ingrid LaFleur is founder of The Afrofuture Strategies Institute (TASI), merging foresight methodologies with the cultural movement of Afrofuturism to cultivate Afrofuture consciousness and inspire transformative action toward a just and harmonious future.
Director, Creative Industries Blockchain Lab, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Institute at Georgia State University
With an impressive academic background that includes a BA in Philosophy, a BS in Computer Science, and an MFA in Digital Filmmaking and Fine Art, Elizabeth embodies the spirit of interdisciplinary (and deeply curious!) learning. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate students how to harness the power of technology, digital transformation, and the metaverse to tell immersive stories and launch successful businesses.
co-Founder + CEO DEOND
#41 ARCHITECTING THE FUTURE. Ila Colombo is co-Founder + CEO of DEOND, a multi-disciplinary practice dedicated to crafting cutting-edge, innovative environments and advanced designs that are not only functional and beautiful, but also sustainable and responsibly tech-driven.
Co-Founder + Head of Product, erthos
#40 KRITIKA TYAGI is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at erthos, where along with co-Founder + CEO Nuha Siddiqui, she seamlessly blends her expertise in Plant Biology with her leadership in product development and sustainability to pioneer new regenerative biomaterials that are revolutionizing the plastics industry.
Stanford d-school Academic Director + Author
#39 Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school. A two-time author, we talk about her new book Assembling Tomorrow, and how design is not just for products or things, it is systems, it is life, it is human.
Futurist, Speculative Designer + Founder, Protopian Futures
#38 MONIKA BIELSKYTE is Founder of Protopia Futures, a platform for showcasing how transcultural, interdisciplinary and life-centric design approaches alongside disability and neurodivergence inclusion, can help us design a better world for most of humanity, and foster regenerative economies of the future.
CEO of Holo + Executive Director of Holochain
#37 MARY CAMACHO is CEO for Holo + Holochain, championing the integration and adoption of innovative peer-to-peer application infrastructure to facilitate truly independent communication that transforms how we interact digitally to create a more human internet that gives users complete control.
VP of Building Design + Performance (+Space Architect), ICON
#36 MELODIE YASHAR is a designer, researcher, and technologist focused on the design of augmented environments, human-machine interaction, and space technology development. As VP of Building Design + Performance, Melodie is shifting the needle by developing technology to advance humanity's future in space.
Author of Seeding Innovation, Partner at Montcalm TCR
Robyn O'Brien is founder of Sirona Ventures and rePlant Capital, financial services firms scaling agricultural and climate solutions, and she is a partner at Montcalm Capital. Along with her many accomplishments, she is an Executive Producer, along with others, for the award winning documentary Common Ground, about restoring integrity to our food system.
Co-Founders, Astercare
#34 ASTERCARE CMO and CEO Lailah Kara Newton & Fifi Kara are providing radically better maternal and women’s healthcare that offers continuous at-home monitoring for mothers pre and post-natal with 24/7 support. This dynamic duo have developed a global, reproductive industry game changer.
CEO at Savimbo, MD-Technologist, & Serial Entrepreneur
DREA BURBANK is the CEO of Savimbo, an MD-Technologist, & Serial Entrepreneur. As an interdisciplinary thinker, Burbank's projects range from Web3 to stem-cells to business and startup strategy. In global health, she develops high-tech for low resource environments.
Founder at Futures Forward + Futurology Director, The LEGO Group
JOANA LENKOVA is Futurology Director at the LEGO Group's Creative Play Lab, leading a team of visionaries who explore the future of play and creativity. She is also founder of Futures Forward, a strategic foresight consultancy.
Founder, Center For Deep Self Design & Visual Thinking Revolutionary
SUN (Kagami) BROWN is Founder of the Center for Deep Self Design, using visual + collaboration literacy, design thinking, and applied gamification to solve complex problems and cultivate more ethical, self-aware and relationally-skillful leaders and self-authors.
Principal Designer, MINT (Machine Intelligence & New Technologies), Adobe
BROOKE HOPPER is Principal Designer for Machine Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Adobe, exploring the role of new technologies in creativity; how they can deepen and enhance the creative process and allow all humans to more fully realize their creative visions.
Global Director of Foresight, McDonalds
JOANNA LEPORE is Global Foresight Director for McDonald’s, leading the exploration of new capabilities globally and helping future proof the strategies of one of the world’s best known brands by putting humans and sustainability at the center.
Futurist + Global Keynote Speaker
ELATIA ABATE is Founder of Future of Now and Futurist in Residence for Paylocity, whose mission is to revolutionize the way trailblazing leaders understand, train and fuel their leadership. She is a globally recognized expert on the futures of work and strategy.
Futurist + Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey
DR GUILLERMINA BENAVIDES is a professor at the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, advising Federal, State and Local Governments on the need for social development policies to evolve alongside the rapid pace at which women and their roles in family systems are changing within Mexico.
Founder + CEO, Evolutionary Guidance Media R&D, Inc.
DR DANA KLISANIN is CEO at Evolutionary Guidance Media R&D, Inc. and Co-Founder at ReWilding: Lab, a new venture to "rewild the mind" and expand the way we learn, heal, and envision our planetary futures.
Co-Founder, The Futures School
CEO, FutureThink
LISA BODELL is an award-winning author and CEO of FutureThink. A futurist and expert on the topic of innovation and simplicity, she has delivered complexity killing and innovation solutions to organizations in over 40 countries, helping people get to the work that matters.
Foresight Strategist, Dolby Labs
Futurist + Strategist, CWM Enterprises
CRYSTAL WASHINGTON is a technology strategist and futurist who takes complex social media, app, and web topics and makes them easy to understand and connect to for a wide range of audiences of varying cultures and ages.
Director, Infinite Futures
DR WENDY SCHULTZ is an academically trained futurist with over thirty-five years of global foresight practice. She has designed futures research projects for NGOs, government agencies, and businesses using exploratory, provocative, and creative visioning.
Global Strategic Manager + Founder, Culture of Future
Founder, On the Other Side of the Hill Agency
Founder + Principal, TEEM Innovation Group
DR TAMSIN WOOLLEY-BARKER is an evolutionary biologist and organizational biomimicry pioneer pulling from nature’s most ancient and successful R&D labs, built by super organisms, to catalyze high-performance teams that thrive on change + interwoven systems.
President, Center for Partnership Systems + World-Renowned Author
Scholar-Practitioner, Urban Planning + Governance
CEO, evrmore.io
Founder + CEO, Future by Design Institute & The Ageless Way Academy
Co-Founder, Future of Governance Agency
Founder + Imagineer, HireWisdom
Founder, Disrupt Design + Unschool
Chief Data Officer, Pierre Fabre Group
SARAH DAVANZO is a global insight and foresight leader, driving strategy, innovation, and marketing for some of the world’s leading brands, with a radically innovative approach to data, analytics, insights, cultural strategy and strategic foresight.
Project Manager, The Good Future Project
ZAHARA CHETTY has for 20 years been passionately dedicated to fostering innovation, building sustainable solutions for businesses, communities and the planet, as well as nurturing the next generation of talent to achieve their full potential.
Business Futurist, Wherefore Co.
Founder + CEO, Cotential
Global Futurist + Multi-Award-Winning Author
Co-Founder + Chief Strategic Officer, Agora Envisioning
Founder + Chief Change Navigator, April Worldwide
APRIL RINNE has spent her 25+ year career across 100+ countries with a wide range of companies, cultures, business models, and leadership styles, ultimately with the goal of helping leaders + teams improve their tolerance for uncertainty in a world in flux.
Partner + Future of Work Strategist, ImpactEleven
Founder + Chief Metaverse Officer, Journey
CATHY HACKL is a leading authority in emerging tech and co-founder of Journey, advising companies, brands, cities and governments on gaming, AR, AI, spatial computing, metaverse, web3, virtual world strategies and strategic foresight.
Futurist, Tata Consultancy Services
ALEXANDRA WHITTINGTON is a futurist writer and speaker focused on the future of humanity and society, passionate about empowering people to imagine and create positive futures for themselves and their communities.
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