Futurist.com

Name

Futurist.com

Legal name

Futurist.com

Website

https://futurist.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Strategic Foresight Consulting

NAICS

Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169), Professional and Management Development Training (611430)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Simulation & Scenario-Based Learning Authoring (EDAFAHAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Training Delivery Services (Onsite/Virtual Instruction, Workshops, Coaching) (BPAEANAN)

Keywords

• Strategic foresight consulting
• Futurist keynote speaking
• Scenario planning workshops
• Executive coaching futures
• Megatrends advisory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Futurist Keynote Speaking: Deliveries of customized keynotes at corporate events, conferences, and government gatherings. Available in-person, virtual from Future Casting studio (4K streaming), or hybrid format. Keynotes cover AI, innovation, geopolitics, energy transitions, and futures thinking.
2. Strategic Foresight Consulting: Consulting engagements including global megatrends discussion, signals scanning, disruptive trend identification, risk anticipation, and scenario development for organizations building anticipatory capabilities.
3. CxO and Executive Coaching: One-on-one coaching for C-suite executives on augmenting strategic planning with foresight processes. Includes monthly/quarterly signals and trends reports with coaching on implications.
4. Futures+ Coaching Program: Intensive coaching program to help individuals become world-leading Futurist & Hope Engineers. Focuses on developing thought leadership and delivering futurist keynotes.
5. Book Sales - Facing Our Futures: Book sales through Amazon, Bloomsbury, Barnes and Noble, and independent bookstores. No. 1 Amazon Best Seller in Business Research & Development.
6. Foresight Training and Workshops: Foresight 101 training and workshops covering megatrends monitoring, signals scanning, scenario development, CLA, speculative design, and backcasting techniques.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Futurist.com is a consulting and keynote speaking platform operated by Chief Futurist & Hope Engineer Nikolas Badminton that delivers customized futurist keynotes, strategic foresight consulting, CxO/executive coaching, and foresight training workshops to enterprises and governments. Engagements use proprietary methodologies including the Positive Dystopia Canvas and Hopeful Futures Framework to help organizations identify disruptive trends, anticipate risks, and shift from short-term thinking to a WHAT IF strategic mindset. The core deliverable is expert-led professional services (speaking, consulting, coaching, workshops) rather than a software product, supported by a content library, podcast, and two published books.

Product overview

Futurist.com is a consulting and keynote speaking platform operated by Chief Futurist & Hope Engineer Nikolas Badminton. The core offerings center on speaking engagements and strategic foresight consulting services, supplemented by coaching programs, training workshops, books, and a podcast. The main product is the Futurist Keynote Speaking service, which can be paired with consulting engagements, executive coaching, or the Futures+ coaching program. Supporting content products include the Exponential Minds Podcast and two books (Facing Our Futures, The Hope Engineer's Playbook). The Futurist Think Tank provides a platform for a collective of futurists. All offerings are delivered directly by Nikolas and his team rather than through a software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Exponential Minds Podcast: A podcast hosted by Nikolas Badminton exploring ideas with experts from futures thinking and various fields discussing how humanity is impacted by exponential growth in technology.

Products and services

• Futurist Keynote Speaking World-renowned futurist keynote speeches delivered by Chief Futurist & Hope Engineer Nikolas Badminton at corporate events, conferences, and government gatherings in-person, virtual (via the Future Casting 4K studio), or hybrid formats. Topics include AI leadership, hopeful futures, innovation, energy transitions, and geopolitical technology futures.
• Futures Consulting Strategic foresight consulting engagements that help organizations build anticipatory capabilities, identify disruptive trends, develop WHAT IF scenarios, and strengthen strategic planning. Uses proprietary frameworks including the Positive Dystopia Canvas, Foresight Development Framework, and Hopeful Futures Framework.
• CxO and Executive Futures Coaching One-on-one coaching for C-suite executives to augment corporate strategic planning with foresight processes, including monthly/quarterly signals and trends reports with active coaching on implications for global megatrends and disruptive industry trends.
• Futures+ Coaching Program Intensive coaching program to become a world-leading Futurist and Hope Engineer, including mindset development, processes, tools, and guidance for establishing thought leadership and delivering futurist keynotes.
• Foresight 101 Training and Workshops Foresight training workshops covering tools and techniques including global megatrends monitoring, signals scanning, WHAT IF scenario development, Causal Layered Analysis, Positive-Dystopian Framework, Speculative Design, and Backcasting.
• Facing Our Futures (book) Award-winning book (No. 1 Amazon Best Seller in Business Research & Development; JP Morgan's "Next Gen Pick" for their 2023 Summer Reading List) providing executives with foundations for futures design and tools including the Positive Dystopia Canvas methodology. Sold via Amazon, Bloomsbury, Barnes and Noble, and independent bookstores.
• The Hope Engineer's Playbook (book) Forthcoming book for leaders who want to create bigger visions and supercharge strategic planning, including the Hopeful Futures Framework with Explore, Empower, Execute stages, hope resolutions, workshop exercises, and approaches for working with generative AI.

Quantifiable outcome

• 33% higher profitability for companies with strategic foresight capabilities
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers21 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Glen HiemstracoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Glen Hiemstra, founder of Futurist.com (since 1993), passed leadership to Nikolas Badminton in 2018. Glen remains involved as Founder and Futurist Emeritus, providing guidance and continuing collaboration through the Futurist Think Tank. This partnership represents the continuity and evolution of the platform.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Gerd Leonhard: Independent futurist keynote speaker and author with a comparable personal-brand business model: solo principal delivering paid keynotes and consulting on AI, technology, and futures. Closest direct analogue to Futurist.com's go-to-market.
• Future Today Institute (Amy Webb): Strategic foresight firm publishing annual tech trend reports and offering enterprise foresight consulting. Comparable because it sells research-driven foresight to enterprise clients, though it is a larger team and more research-product oriented.
• Fast Future (Rohit Talwar): Independent futurist consultancy offering keynote speaking, foresight workshops, and executive education. Directly comparable in services mix, customer type (enterprise and government), and solo-led delivery model.
• The Futurum Group: Research and advisory firm covering emerging tech (AI, semiconductors, cloud) with paid research, briefings, and analyst advisory. Comparable enterprise audience and foresight-oriented research output, though larger and more analyst-driven.

Broad incumbents

• Deloitte (Human Capital / Consulting foresight practices): Global strategy and consulting firm with foresight, scenario planning, and AI advisory offerings. Competes for the same enterprise foresight budgets but from a much larger, multi-disciplinary delivery platform.
• McKinsey Global Institute: Research arm of McKinsey publishing megatrends, technology, and economic foresight. Adjacent in topic and audience but delivers research through a global consulting platform rather than a single principal.
• Institute for the Future (IFTF): Nonprofit foresight research organization offering forecasts, scenario workshops, and executive programs. Comparable foresight methodology and enterprise training offerings, with a larger research team and longer institutional history.
• Accenture Strategy / Accenture Foresight: Global professional services firm with dedicated foresight, scenario planning, and AI strategy offerings for enterprise and government. Competes for the same strategic foresight and AI leadership budgets as Futurist.com but at vastly greater scale.

Emerging players

• Peter Diamandis (Abundance360 / XPRIZE): Founder of XPRIZE and Abundance360, an executive membership program on exponential technologies and futurism. Comparable premium futurist positioning and exclusive executive cohort model, though built around a membership rather than per-keynote fee.
• Brierley Consulting Partners: Strategy consultancy with strong scenario planning and customer strategy practices serving Fortune 500 clients. Comparable foresight consulting scope and enterprise customer base, with a more traditional strategy firm delivery model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/GlenHiemstra
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/FuturistSpeakerNikolasBadminton/featured
• Facebookfacebook.com/futuristcom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/futuristnikolasbadminton

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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