Nancy Giordano

Business adviser, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Marketer, Parent, Potential employer

With an embarrassing amount of energy and passion, I've spent my career building, shaping and reviving many of the country's most iconic brands. We launched Play Big Inc, a strategic futurist company, to inspire companies see what the future needs + expects from them and have the courage to chase it. At conferences and in client boardrooms, I talk a lot about the big shifts society and business must navigate through. And with an especially strong interest in health, nutrition, the conscious economy and emerging technologies, I'm a strong advocate for building adaptive organizations of purpose and have been privileged to work with iconic companies such as Nestle, The Coca Cola Company, Sprint, Energizer, Acumen, NRG and many more. Though a strategist at heart, and an evangelist for the future on stage, I'm also a certified ontological coach -- it's all about leveraging energy and creating momentum! Eager to help leaders accelerate their understanding of the big shifts ahead, we launched the blog CulturalAcupuncture.com. And have a growing collective of provocative builders and innovators we frequently collaborate with called PYNKrs: people you need to know. HQ'd in Austin, we do our work in dynamic teams all over the country (and the world).

Ideas that inspire leaders, parents, and the planet to PLAY BIG! Inspiring bold leaders to embrace a path of humble audacity Motivating healthier products + practices and helping leaders + society better prepare for the big shifts in employment and technology heading our way

I'm currently extremely passionate to share that future of business is shifting from Extraction (and protectionism) to Contribution (and value creation). Once organizations and leaders can embrace this shift, huge opportunities are available to them and tremendous growth is possible. Part of this shift requires a new style of "leader" (within every rank of an organization) who is able to stand in humble audacity -- being able to listen generously, be comfortable not always "knowing", have an orientation to contribution and open to collaborations -- creates a path to design and deliver truly audacious solutions. As Marianne Williamson said so perfectly, you're play small does not serve the world. Playing with humble audacity, allows you to play bigger than ever imagined.

change management, Connector, disruptive technologies, food + technology, generating ideas, generational learning/marketing theories, Health & Wellness, Innovation, Intuition, parenthood, Strategy Development, TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

I have evolved from early TED voyeur to TED evangelist to TEDx leader to TED talks activator. We recently held a workshop with high school kids working on our first TEDxYouth event and was stunned again to hear how TED has impacted them. I know -- I was so moved my Hannah's talk on Love Letters to Strangers that over the holidays I hosted a Dear You party for all my girlfriends inviting them to write and exchange anonymous love letters (it was awesome!). I feel honored to gift Austin with a helluva TEDx event each year -- and am humbled by the passionate team we have assembled to pull off this magic. We calculated that we leverage about $1MM in volunteer talent (against a cash budget of $140K) to create an adult and a youth experience that literally stretched what anyone believes is possible.

upcycling ripe bananas into a very decent bread making up words that really should exist already -- or that capture a unique shift