Keynote
Cecily Sommers
Business Futurist & Author
"Change is the boss, not us."
She teaches leaders to read change the way a navigator reads weather: find the patterns, follow the currents.
Forbes Top 50 Female Futurists Author, Think Like a Futurist 8 Years with Google Exec Development
Client work includes Google · Salesforce · JPMorgan Chase · Purina · Target
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Business futurist Cecily Sommers teaches leaders to read change the way a navigator reads weather: find the patterns, follow the currents. She helps leaders become Change Literate, because those who can read change are the ones to lead it.
Since 2000, she's led major "Future of ____" projects for Google, Salesforce, JPMorgan Chase, Purina, and Target, and trains teams to lead like a futurist. Her 8-year engagement with Google's Executive Development team helped shape the Google School for Leaders. The secret her clients discover: anchor to what doesn't change, and you'll see where change is headed.
Named one of the World's Top 50 Female Futurists by Forbes, she's the author of Think Like a Futurist (named to "Top 25: What Corporate America is Reading") and a global keynote speaker known for making big ideas land simply. Her premise: the future may not be figureoutable, but it is followable.
Leave Cecily's keynote with the ability to:
- Recognize where you are in the cycle of change
- Read both ends of any trend
- Decode disruption and reveal new opportunities
- Increase alignment and effectiveness of your teams