Big ideas, made useful.

Amy combines intellectual depth with clarity, empathy and humor. Her talks make audiences active participants in seeing change and deciding what to do about it.

The talk was like rocket fuel to help me and my organization move forward. Empowering!”
SENIOR LEADER, U.S. GOVERNMENT

SIGNATURE KEYNOTES

Three ways to open up the future.

How to Think Like a Futurist

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SEEING AROUND CORNERS

Pivotal shifts in technology, culture, politics and the environment put institutions at decisive crossroads. Amy shows audiences how futurists anticipate change, interpret early signals and challenge the assumptions that keep yesterday’s logic in place.

Leave with a more disciplined way to notice change, explore what it could mean and widen the choices available now.

Leading in the Black Swan Age

STEWARDSHIP WHEN DISRUPTION WILL NOT WAIT

Climate shocks, geopolitical disruption, political volatility and technological change are colliding. Amy helps leaders move beyond brittle predictions and prepare for multiple plausible futures — including the ones that strain existing plans and institutions.

Leave ready to make consequential decisions without false certainty and build the capacity to adapt as conditions continue.

Change Your Story. Transform Your Future.

STRATEGIC NARRATIVE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE

Every institution has a story about where it came from, what makes it distinct and where it is headed. But we have a strategic narrative: a purposeful story that gives people a meaningful role in creating a desired future. In an age of abundant and contested information, your story is the future vision only you can own.

Leave with a practical framework for aligning identity, decisions and action around the future your institution intends to help create.

Each keynote is tailored to the audience and the decisions in front of them. Amy connects broad shifts to the institution’s real work, responsibilities and possibilities.

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ON STAGE WITH AMY

A speaker who treats audiences
as participants.

Amy Zalman is a futurist, keynote speaker and founder of Prescient. For more than two decades, she has helped leaders make sense of structural change across governance, technology, geopolitics and public life.

She combines a scholar’s depth with the directness of a strategist. Her audiences do not receive a tidy prediction. They gain a sharper way to see change, challenge assumptions and take a more confident role in shaping what comes next.

Former CEO

WORLD FUTURE SOCIETY

Former Chair

U.S. NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE

Top 50

FEMALE FUTURISTS, FORBES

FROM THE TEDX STAGE

Change the Story. Change the Future.

Amy’s talk on power narratives connects directly to her renewed focus on civic futures: institutions change when people can see themselves in a different story about what is possible and what they can build together.

GLOBAL STAGES · Big Questions

“Dr. Zalman's speech intrigued and inspired not only the forum participants but also the TV audience and netizens.”

—Director, International Relations Department, KBS

WHAT AUDIENCES SAY

Ideas that continue after the applause

“It crystallized the idea that narrative is a strategic tool—not a byproduct. The talk was like rocket fuel to help me and my organization move forward. Empowering!”
— Senior leader, U.S. government
“Attendees appreciated the opportunity to think extremely ‘big picture’ about their environment and the future. I would definitely recommend working with Amy!”
— Senior Marketing Manager, John Wiley & Sons
“The ability of an organization to engage stakeholders and develop a compelling and aspirational strategy for the future has never been more critical.”
— Director, Strategy & Performance, U.S. government
“Dr. Zalman’s speech intrigued and inspired not only the forum participants but also the TV audience and netizens.”
— Director, International Relations Department, KBS
“Amy reinforces what history demonstrates—that what may seem improbable has a way of coming true, and that planning for the future can be a fun and stimulating way to unleash your team’s creativity.”
— Audience member, Together Rising as an Environmental Community