Nancy Giordano

Nancy Giordano is a strategic futurist, bestselling author, and global keynote speaker who helps enterprise organizations and visionary leaders navigate exponential technological and cultural change. She speaks on future trends, AI strategy, leadership transformation, and building sustainable, inclusive business models for a rapidly evolving world.

Bestselling Author and World’s First TEDx Licensee
Giordano is the author of Leadering: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger, which ranked #1 on Amazon for both Business Ethics and Organization Strategy. As the world’s first TEDx licensee and a Singularity University guest lecturer, she has delivered more than 200 global keynotes across every industry. She is co-founder of the Femme Futurists Society and recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists by research conducted by Ross Dawson.

Strategic Advisor to Global Brands
As founder of Play Big Inc., Giordano has spent her career building, shaping, and evolving a portfolio of $60+ billion worth of major global brands, including Coca-Cola, Nestle, Sprint, Mercedes-Benz, and Brinker International. Her expertise spans AI, digital transformation, and the emerging “Exponential Productivity Transformation” era, helping leaders transition from outdated industrial-era thinking to regenerative, future-ready strategies that serve both business and society.

Background and Expertise
A frequent panelist at SXSW and advisor to Kungfu.AI, Giordano holds degrees in Business and Anthropology from her early career at three of the top global advertising agencies. She is based in Austin, Texas.

The Case for Audacious Leadering: Six Steps to Playing Bigger

In this time of great change, what does it take to be a leader with great vision? What will the future expect from you? How do you guide transformation and manage constant complexity?

Shaping Your Business Future

Our reality is that business leaders are spending so much time fixing problems and getting work done that they have little energy left to see how the future taking shape.  Nancy provides an executive-level understanding of how changes in technologies, demographics, culture, economic behavior, public policies, and much more will provide unique opportunities and critical challenges to the profitability of companies. Expand the scope of your event and find out now what this means to you.

The Seven Technologies That Are Changing Everything

As Executive Producer of Gigaom Change, Nancy and her company have curated the leading experts on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Virtual + Augmented Realities, 3D+ Printing, Cybersecurity and Human-Machine Interface. What is the gist? Why do these matter and what can businesses expect looking ahead?

How Technology, Demographics and Values Are Disrupting the Future of Work and Talent

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Drones, and other technologies are increasingly making certain job functions obsolete. Behaviors and attitudes are changing what we want to do for work. How will these change the nature of work, and how companies operate in the future?  Nancy delves into both the advancing technologies and the critical shifts companies and the workforce must confront to stay relevant in the future.