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Embrace uncertainty

Every audience leaves an Amy Zalman keynote seeing the future differently. Drawing on decades of work in strategic foresight, she synthesizes the trends reshaping your industry and world — making the complex navigable, the uncertain actionable, and the future something to move toward rather than fear.

Amy has delivered keynotes and facilitated conversations to corporate and government leaders, mission-based organizations and communities on five continents, helping people all over the world to gain confidence that they can anticipate and shape their preferred futures.

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“Amy’s keynote sparked a spirit of innovation and enthusiasm for the future, while breaking down a complex topic into understandable language. The keynote expanded perspectives about future trends… and pushed the audience to think about how their own work might have to change.”

— Cris Gardner, VP Futurecasting, AARP

Topics

How to Think Like a Futurist: the Art & Science of Seeing around Corners

Tools futurists use to anticipate change, interpret signals, and challenge assumptions applied to relevant trends for your organization.

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Navigating the Contested Mind: AI, Algorithms, and the Future of Human Judgment

How algorithmic environments are reshaping decisions, trust, creativity, and leadership, for organizations navigating AI governance, workforce policy, and institutional trust

Strategies for Leadership in the Black Swan Age

Our age is characterized by high impact events that leaders have limited ability to control. Leadership in this context requires prescient stewardship, and the ability to steer organizational narrative in choppy reputational waters

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Audience benefits

  • Insight that clarifies complexity.

Amy translates disruptive technologies, geopolitical shifts and societal change into clear implications for leaders making high-stakes decisions, and audiences unsure of how to navigate the fog of the present.

  • Frameworks that teams can use immediately

Amy’s keynotes offer practical foresight tools that help organizations anticipate risk, evaluate options, and prepare for multiple plausible futures.

  • Inspiration and a steady, engaging, and warm presence

Amy combines intellectual depth with a grounded, relatable delivery that leaves audiences more confident and focused on what they can influence.

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“Dr. Zalman provided an essential futurist’s view of the global security environment …. Her assistance in helping senior Army leaders understand … the battlefield in 2050 will improve the critical roles of the Army of the future.”

— David G. Perkins, former Commanding General, US Army Training and Doctrine Command