Nikolas Badminton

Activist, Business leader, Business mentor, Change Agent, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Global soul, Idea generator, Technologist

Nikolas has spent over three decades working with leadership at more than 600 leading organizations at the frontline of futures, strategy and disruption - including NASA, Disney, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, VISA, Procter & Gamble, Metro Vancouver, City of Ottawa, UK Highways, Government of the Cayman Islands, US Department of State, United Nations, World Intellectual Property Organization and many more. His new book - ‘The Hope Engineer’s Playbook, How Leaders Build Vision, Pathways and Energy for Better Futures’ - offers leaders a next-level layer of futures thinking, guided by hope, energy for change and wisdom. It provides the day-by-day practices and tools that help cities sustain momentum, expand agency, and deliver real change for better futures. Nikolas’ previous number one best-selling book, ‘Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth’ - has been named JP Morgan Private Bank’s “Next Gen Pick” for their Summer Reading List, and a Top-50 Business Book by The Next Big Idea Club. In addition, his essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others. He was a key advisor on the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downey Jr. and appears on radio, TV, and in documentaries regularly.

Music. Family. Community. Art.

Hope transforms organizations and provides a renewable energy for change - by setting audacious goals and traveling together down agency-driven pathways guided by wisdom that turns aspiration into transformation.

exponential tech and AI, Futures exploration and futurology, smart cities, storytelling, strategy and more., sustainability and the circular economy

...still unfolding.

DJing and music curation. Cooking. Snowboarding.