Described as endlessly optimistic, Nancy is a visionary strategist, gatherer and author who has given more than 200 keynotes across the world. With a drive to help enterprise organizations and caring leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead, she is recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists. As founder of Play Big Inc, she + her global PYNKrs ("people you need to know") guide visionary leaders through this exponentially potent moment of change.
Her expertise and experiences range from A.I. to frozen foods to reinventing the internet, and all of her projects have a key common denominator: transitioning away from the extractive operating systems and expired thinking of the industrial era to creating the more regenerative, inclusive and dynamic solutions the future demands. The world’s first TEDx licensee, co-founder of the Femme Futurists Society podcast, best-selling author of LeaderING: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger, and mother of three, Nancy has advised and worked with many of the top companies in the world. In 2015, she was eager to learn from AI pioneer Doug Lennat in an attempt to commercialize his symbolic approach to common sense, explainable AI. Fascinated by the intersection of technology, business, society and our own expanding consciousness, she has designed and produced several immersive leadership conferences and strategic acceleration summits and for the past five years has been as advisor to Kungfu.AI, a fast-growing AI services company.
An activist for a better next, she is championing two bold ideas poised to weave a more human, truly peer-to-peer internet: Holochain + Holo Hosting; she is helping usher in an era of Partnerism, a socio-economic approach that recognizes and rewards the value of caring for people and for nature (and makes visible the cost of not doing so); she hosts an online gathering each month to help us all move beyond uncertainty by embracing the potential in “the new story” taking shape; and she is co-producer of a new, hopeful documentary that explores the regenerative socio-economic models emerging around the world.