Futurist Keynote Speaker James Taylor has been featured in Forbes, BBC, and The Wall Street Journal and his clients including many of the Fortune 500.
Top Futurist Keynote Speaker James Taylor is an inspiring and motivational keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and author, with strong expertise in futurism, creativity, innovation, and leadership. In the past 20 years, Taylor has been traveling the world and delivering highly insightful and entertaining keynote speeches to companies and individuals from 35 different countries. His clients come from various industries such as technology, financial services, banking, consumer products and services, healthcare, and professional services.
In his trips from the US to Europe, Asia to the Middle East, Taylor has provided insights to his audiences on the topic of futurism as well as innovation, productivity, and change. His extended list of clients includes many of the Global Fortune 500 such as Apple, Sony, Dell, McDonald’s, Cisco, Accenture, Roche, GSK, EY, Intuit, Bell, UPS, Tata, Visa, Chubb, IBM, Honeywell, as well as numerous national governments.
“James Taylor was a fantastic keynote speaker. His presentation was an insightful and entertaining closing keynote for the event audience. James also hosted a small group presentation for the G3 Company Sales Meeting earlier in the year that was also great.”
Kristi Kawana, Events & Marketing Director, G3 Communications
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General Information about Futurist for Meeting Planners and Prospective Clients.
The term “futurist” usually refers to people who try to understand future patterns, and are sometimes called “trend analysts.” These people can be authors, consultants, thinkers, organizational leaders, or other professionals who engage in future thinking and use their expertise to advise organizations on matters related to diverse global trends, possible scenarios, emerging market opportunities, or risk management. This type of futurism should not be confounded with the early 20th century art movement called futurism. Futurists are often visionaries, corporate strategists, policy analysts, planners, foresight consultants, marketers, forecasters, prediction market developers, road mappers, operations researchers, investment managers, or future-oriented individuals. Such individuals are very diverse, having highly different academic backgrounds, including anthropology, mathematics, philosophy, sociology, or economics. Several authors have become recognized as futurists. They research new trends, particularly in technology, and come up with astute observations, conclusions, and predictions.
For business leaders, the ability to think like a futurist has the power to transform and improve businesses. Futurism plays an important role when companies are trying to develop new business models or new products and services. It also plays a fundamental role when trying to reinvent marketing plans and innovative partnerships and to recreate organizational structures. While there are specific sectors within companies that are inherently focused on futurism, in fact every team member could benefit from thinking outside the box and being open to new possibilities that a futurist-oriented thinking can provide.
In addition to booking James Taylor as your futurist keynote speaker here are some of the most popular books on futurism:
What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly
Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler
Futurism in a Political Line
by Meetmeagain Advaith
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
by George Friedman
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
Here is a selection of other futurist related conferences and events that book futurist keynote speakers:
ICFAD – International Conference on Futurist Architecture and Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands
There are a number of highly-rated podcast shows that cover all things futurist.
The Future of Work Podcast With Jacob Morgan
IdeaFaktory | Seeing what will be | Building what should be
Futurati Podcast
The Future Grind Podcast : Science | Technology | Business | Futurism
Between Worlds
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