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What future do you want to be responsible for?

Nancy Giordano is a strategic futurist, global keynote speaker and the author of Leadering. She helps visionary leaders build a future worth being excited about.

  • Strategic Futurist
  • Author
  • Gatherer
  • Keynote Speaker
  • Founder of Play Big Inc.

Nancy has delivered more than 200 global keynotes and helped reshape more than $60B of brand direction.

Logos of organizations Nancy has worked with, including Dell, Coca-Cola, Cargill, Nestlé, PwC, SXSW, Red Hat, Accenture, Verizon, SAP, Fidelity, TEDx and Mercer
Leadering: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger, by Nancy Giordano

Amazon #1 bestseller

Leadering

The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger

Leadership is built on yesterday. Leadering confidently and thoughtfully anticipates tomorrow. The book lays out the mindsets and practices visionary leaders use to navigate exponential change.

Also available as an audiobook. Explore The Book and the workshop

  1. Nancy Giordano on stage at a Blue Cross Blue Shield conference

    why

    Your playing small does not serve the world.

    M. Williamson

    Never before have we each been granted more power to change our worlds. And as a result, never before have we been called to deeper levels of self awareness. Because the alignment we each hold between our personal values, our sense of agency and responsibility to each other, and our understanding of the technological horsepower being put in our hands will literally determine the world we, and our children’s children, will be fortunate to inherit (… or not).

    As every single industry, policy and social agreement is now up for review and reinvention, it is absolutely critical we each feel ready and able to step up and play bigger with clarity, discernment, curiosity and intention, as leaders, citizens, innovators, parents, investors, students and neighbors, to shape the world we believe should exist.

  2. Play Big Inc.

    what

    At this pivotal moment in history we are not simply heading into a “Fourth Industrial Revolution”.

    We’re rapidly advancing into an entirely new age: the “Exponential Productivity Transformation” (XPT). Exponential technologies are converging with quickly shifting cultural advances to reshape every industry and societal construct, redesigning life ahead. What understandings and questions are essential to allow your organization to embrace the significant opportunities this represents?

  3. Three nested circles: your work, your life, a member of society

    how

    As we leap out of the industrial era, we are finding ourselves pushed up against the harsh limits of endless growth and inequitable distribution and are recognizing the inadequacy of many current systems, from education to regulation. As such we need to move beyond the quest for enterprise productivity, GDP gains and the winner-take-all race to rogue AGI, to instead create new paths and paradigms to exponential prosperity for all.

    This is the moment to question it all. To honor the opportunity being granted to each of us. To dare imagine what it looks like when it all goes right.

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What clients say about Nancy.

26 client testimonials · 200+ keynotes

Thanks so much for being the keynote speaker for our event. I've heard nothing but rave reviews! It's always refreshing to meet new people making a difference.

John Watts Jr.

Chief Executive Officer at Paradigm

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What’s on Nancy’s mind

The Youthquake Is Rumbling.

While we are all becoming well versed in the forces shaping our future: digital and economic transformation, sustainability and regenerative (vs extractive) practices, systemic equity, access and justice, and tending to our overall wellbeing… I have not met a single business leader who is paying attention to the one that will also radically impact our lives in the years ahead: the emerging Youthquake.

Beyond The Industrial Era. What Comes Next?

Throughout our industrialized past there have been several big shifts in the way we have leveraged resources and organized societies. As we find ourselves here, on the cusp of another, it's important to acknowledge that we are not simply heading into a "Fourth Industrial Revolution". We're rapidly advancing into an entirely new age: the "Exponential Productivity Transformation" (XPT).

Two communities Nancy built

Femme Futurists Society

A collection of compelling conversations with the thoughtful women actively shaping our world.

Femme Futurists Society

Futurist(Mom)

Nancy’s podcast on parenting for the future: tangible perspectives, real-life stories and the people you need to know, so kids and families can step confidently into life, work and the world ahead.

Futurist(Mom), the podcast with Nancy Giordano

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