Mark Stevenson

‘Reluctant Futurist’ Mark Stevenson is a much-demanded speaker and strategic advisor to governments, NGOs and corporates, helping them face the grand systems challenges of our time and understand their (changed) role in meeting them, or dying gracefully if they need to. He helps organisations change the way they feel, think, invest and operate in order to answer the intertwined questions the future is asking us – on climate change, inequality, the retreat of democracy and the failures of the markets to price risk properly (to name just four). His two bestselling books, An Optimist’s Tour of the Future and the award-winning We Do Things Differently map out some existing and proven solutions to our current dilemmas. Mark advisory roles include being Medicins Sans Frontiers ‘Futurist without Borders’, global ambassador for Client Earth, special advisor of climate change, peace and national security to the UK Ministry of Defence, mentor at music industry re-boot The Rattle and ‘Chief Annoying Question Asker’ at The Tour Production Group. He also enjoys a successful side career as a comedy writer and songwriter which he regards as essential for maintaining key skills needed in his strategy work. “The brain does the PR for what the heart has already decided, if you can’t speak to the heart any systems change is dead in the water.” His hit podcast with comedian Jon Richardson and fellow systems change advocate Ed Gillespie is available on all major platforms.

Systems change

Carbon Removals

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