Nancy Giordano

Nancy Giordano is Strategic Futurist, Speaker, Gatherer and Founder of Play Big Inc.
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2022 PREDICTIONS | INNOVATION

Leading in New Digital Age

Leading your innovation group? Digital transformation demands a change in leadership mindset
Nancy Giordano
December 30, 2021

Welcome to 2022! It’s a good bet this new year will fly by even more quickly than the past one just did. Recently a key retail executive forecasted that their industry will change more in the next five years than it has in the past 50. Another executive believes society will change more in the next 50 years than it has in the last 300.


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2020 PREDICTIONS

Leadering: Cultivating an Ability to Learn

Futurist Nancy Giordano opens Prepared Foods' annual Predictions issue with a look at where changing tastes and trends meet new technologies
Nancy Giordano
December 31, 2019
In a book due out this spring, I introduce the concept of Leadering (vs Leadership), because a dynamic environment demands we shift from thinking of leadership as a static noun, to embracing it as a dynamic verb.
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2019 Predictions
2019 Predictions

Food Technology Meets Taste

Futurist Nancy Giordano opens Prepared Foods' Annual Predictions issue
Nancy Giordano
December 28, 2018
I recently spent three days looking over the horizon with 21 leading food manufacturers and retailers.
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The Power of Predictions

Predictions—from a variety of trusted resources—give us permission to double down in one area versus investing in another
Nancy Giordano
December 8, 2017
For a futurist this is always a giddy time of year as everyone, everywhere is issuing their predictions for the year (and sometimes bravely, the decade) ahead. But does it matter? Given some will come more true than others—we’re still waiting for flying cars, jet packs and meals in pills—how can we use predictions to guide our work? 
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