Nancy Giordano

Nancy Giordano helps organizations navigate the rapidly evolving future of work and workplace innovation. As a futurist and strategist she speaks on emerging workplace trends and adapting organizational structures for changing realities and preparing teams for jobs that don’t yet exist. Drawing from extensive research into workplace evolution Nancy provides frameworks for understanding how technology demographic shifts and cultural changes reshape where work happens how it gets done and what skills matter most. Her insights help organizations prepare rather than react to inevitable changes. Organizations value Nancy’s practical approach to futurism. Rather than abstract predictions she provides concrete actions leaders can take now to position organizations for multiple possible futures. Her work bridges vision and implementation. Her presentations address the changing employment relationship and the rise of gig economy and remote work normalization and what organizational structures succeed when traditional hierarchies become obsolete. Nancy shows how forward-thinking companies are already adapting. Nancy discusses skills requirements for future work emphasizing adaptability and continuous learning and human capabilities that complement rather than compete with automation. She helps organizations think strategically about workforce development for uncertain futures. What sets Nancy apart is her focus on human elements of workplace transformation. Technology enables change but success requires addressing culture mindset and the very human resistance to leaving comfortable familiar ways of working. Beyond workplace trends Nancy addresses leadership evolution and what it means to lead in flat networked organizations and how authority comes from influence rather than title in modern structures. Her frameworks help leaders adapt to new realities. Nancy discusses generational dynamics in workplaces where five generations now work together with vastly different expectations about work schedules autonomy and purpose. She provides strategies for managing these differences productively. Companies facing workforce transformation and leaders wanting to future-proof organizations and HR professionals preparing for changing talent markets find Nancy’s future-of-work expertise essential for making strategic decisions about structure culture and capability development that position organizations to thrive regardless of which scenarios actually unfold.

Described as endlessly optimistic, Nancy Giordano is a strategic futurist with a drive to help enterprise organizations and visionary leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead. Recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and evolving a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands. Executives love her unique abilities to sense and synthesize the shifts ahead and to guide those ready to build more relevant and sustainable solutions.

Nancy Giordano started a formidable career at several of the most influential ad agencies in NY, Chicago, and LA.  For more than fifteen years she has been the Founder/CEO of Play Big Inc., a strategic inspiration company, applying her broad understanding of the intense cultural and technological shifts we’re facing.

Her extensive knowledge of the drivers shaping our future (and driving business) have guided transformation projects with The Coca Cola Company, Brinker International, Sprint, Nestle, Acumen, Energizer, Mercedes Benz and many other Fortune 500 companies. Her work has made her one of the fastest rising women speakers in the world, both as a keynote speaker and at C-level strategy exchanges, in wide range of industries including technology, entertainment, travel, food, retail, consumer products, homebuilding, talent, B2B services, and much more.

Her current work is diving more deeply into the intersections of tech, business and society.  Two recent examples include her work to frame the internal culture and talent infrastructure for a leading artificial intelligence company, and the producing of Gigaom Change, a Leader’s Summit diving into the seven most disruptive technologies for enterprise.  Nancy Giordano has been ranked as one of the World’s Top Female Futurists (research by Ross Dawson) and was voted 7th Woman of Influence on the Future of Leadership list (Women Speakers Association). She was the first global TEDx licensee and currently leads a youth-led team to produce one of the globe’s largest TEDx events for teens, hosting nearly 1000 annually.

Her vibrant presentations are about answers to your toughest questions.  She meticulously crafts her talks based on the specific needs of your audience, spending time with you in advance to pinpoint the critical issues.  If you are looking for a high-energy futurist who thinks like a strategist and acts like a creative marketer, she may be the perfect speaker for your next event.

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.