One of the World's Top 50 Female Futurists | Keynote Speaker | Best-Selling Author
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About This Speaker: Cecily Sommers
Cecily Sommers is a renowned business futurist, keynote speaker, and best-selling author of Think Like a Futurist. She helps leaders decode disruption and lead with clarity by developing a core leadership capacity she calls Change Literacy—the ability to understand and apply the universal patterns of change.
A two-time TEDx speaker, Cecily has advised global organizations including Google, Salesforce, JPMorgan Chase, Nestlé Purina, and American Express. Her clients span industries from corporate and healthcare to public service and the arts. Through her signature Lead Like a Futurist program, she goes beyond keynote insights to train leaders to think, see, and act like futurists, enabling them to thrive at the edge of change.
Her book, Think Like a Futurist, has been translated into several languages and is considered an essential guide for applying foresight to strategy and innovation. It was named one of the “Top 25: What Corporate America Is Reading” by the Tribune Review and nominated for “Most Significant Futures Work in Methods and Practice” by the Association of Professional Futurists.
Recognized among the “World’s Top 50 Female Futurists” by Forbes, Cecily has also been honored as a “Fast 50 Reader’s Favorite” by Fast Company and a “Woman to Watch” by the Business Journal. A regular contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered and other media outlets, she is celebrated for her ability to make sense of disruption and translate it into actionable strategies for executives and their teams.
With a rare blend of foresight, business acumen, and transformational coaching, Cecily Sommers equips leaders to navigate disruption and turn change into opportunity.
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