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Natalie Nixon

Creativity Strategist | CEO, Figure 8 Thinking, LLC | Keynote Speaker

 Natalie Nixon is "the creativity whisperer to the C-Suite." She is a creativity strategist who advises leaders on achieving transformative business results by applying wonder & rigor. She is a highly sought after global keynote speaker, valued for her accessible expertise on creativity, the future of work and innovation.

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Natalie Nixon, PhD is "the creativity whisperer to the C-Suite." She is a creativity strategist who advises leaders on achieving transformative business results by applying wonder & rigor. She is a highly sought after global keynote speaker, valued for her accessible expertise on creativity, the future of work and innovation.

Natalie was selected for Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2024; Real Leaders' "Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World for 2022" list; and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company and INC. She is the author of the award-winning The Creativity Leap—an honoree in the creativity category of Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards. Her firm, Figure 8 Thinking, was named among the top 20 women-led innovation firms in 2021 by Core 77. Clients have included Microsoft, Salesforce, Comcast, Citrix, Morrison & Foerster, Living Cities, VaynerMedia and Bloomberg.

A hybrid thinker, Natalie consistently applies her background in cultural anthropology, fashion, design thinking and dance. She is an early-stage investor at two social impact ventures, valued for her ability to work at the intersection of commercial value and stakeholder equity.

Natalie is a trustee of the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Design Museum; and a former trustee of Vassar College and Leadership+Design. She has lived in Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Israel, and Sri Lanka and is proficient in Portuguese and Spanish. She is certified as a Foresight Practitioner by the Institute for the Future. She received her BA (honors) from Vassar College, and her PhD from the University of Westminster in London.

When she's not dancing up a storm in hip-hop class, Natalie is fine-tuning her salsa, foxtrot and tango on the ballroom floor. She lives in her hometown of Philadelphia with her husband, John Nixon, and is the proud stepmother of Sydney.

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  • The New I in AI- Unleashing Human Creativity as Your Competitive Advantage in the Imagination Era
  • The Trust Deficit: Why Your Change Initiatives Keep Failing (And How to Fix It)
  • Adapt and Disrupt: Building Creativity's Business ROI
  • Curiosity Is the Currency of the Future

4 Easy Ways You Can Make Creative Thinking a Habit

The first step to making creative thinking a habit is to understand the two components of creativity: wonder and rigor. While the wonder component seems like a no brainer to most, it is the rigor dimension which can be more counterintuitive. After all, you may think, isn't creativity doing whatever you feel like? Having a “the sky's the limit” outlook and attitude? Not exactly...

The Challenge of Leaving a Long-Term Job to Start Something New

May 5, 2024 by Dorie Clark and Natalie Nixon

A new way to think about work for 2024

Natalie Nixon introduces a new approach to operating called: the motor framework. By Natalie Nixon, Dec. 1, 2023

This is the AI we didn't see coming: artificial imagination

Natalie Nixon says there are four ways to think about generative AI as a co-creator. By Natalie Nixon, PhD, April 26, 2023

Every organization needs a provocateur. Focus on these 3 drivers for positive change

There is a difference between being a provocateur and a troll and Natalie Nixon suggests not every organization is intentional about building positive provocation into how they work.

World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Creativity Finalists and Honorable Mentions

Fast Company World Changing Ideas Honoree: for “The Creativity Leap” May 4, 2021

  • 2025 Move. Think. Rest: Redefining Productivity and Our Relationship with Time
  • 2020 The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work
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