Keynote futurist speaker
Amy Zalman helps leaders and organizations explore the implications of critical global trends and prepare their organizations for transformation.
In her words:
“Although I have had some very different professional roles in my career, I have heard in each a common refrain. Everywhere I have worked, people have felt that technology and the societies in which we live, work, fight and play are changing more quickly than the institutions they are working in.
That was true in 2005, when I founded Oryx Communications, a boutique consultancy that created communications products for US defense clients. The 9/11 attacks had shocked our clients and they were surprised by the ways the world was changing — technologically, culturally and geopolitically.
Later, as the Chair of Information Integration at the National War College, it was my job to introduce new ways of understanding “information” to future senior leaders.
At the time, it seemed a little crazy to view information as simultaneously tangible (like cables, and code) and ephemeral, located in the invisible, but crucial, social ether, where people communicate meaning to each other. Today, in the wake of election meddling and fake news, it doesn’t seem crazy to see how complex information is.
In 2014, I became the CEO and President of the World Future Society, which was the world’s first and largest membership organization for futurists when it was founded in the 1960s. Like many organizations of its age, it was in financial trouble and losing members. I led its transformation from a publishing model to a modern membership ecosystem, and left it with a positive bank balance and positioned for renewed global impact.
In 2017, I decided to gather the insights I had learned along the way and founded Prescient (called the Strategic Narrative Institute, for its first year). Prescient is a foresight firm, and we provide executive education, strategic retreats and other services to firms seeking to transform in the face of uncertainty and dramatic change.
If you are also interested in the challenging, troubling, exciting ways that world is in flux, I’d love to hear from you.”
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Amy is a part-time professor of Strategic Foresight in the Department of Culture, Communication & Technology at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
IN HER WORDS
“Learning and sharing learning are an important part of my life and career. At Georgetown, Iteach strategic foresight methods to the talented, interdisciplinary students in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. I also periodically teach military officers of the Joint Flag Officers Warfighting Course, and elsewhere.
At earlier points, I have served on the facilities of New York University, Cornell University and the New School University in New York.My Ph.D. is from New York University’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies and I also received a Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Cornell University and my undergrad degree in English literature from Columbia. Along the way, I have been a Fulbright scholar in Jordan and a research fellow at the EastWest Institute.”
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