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Nikki Greenberg

Multi-Award-Winning Futurist; Future Trends & AI Expert

Nikki Greenberg is a world-leading futurist and innovation strategist, focused on preparing organizations for a tech-enabled future. She is a thought-leader, frequent speaker at leading global conferences, commentator in the press, and recipient of numerous international awards.

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Nikki Greenberg is a world-renowned futurist & multi-award-winning innovation strategist, dedicated to preparing organizations for a tech-enabled future. She prepares leaders to reimagine their businesses, aligning them with the increasingly digitized ways people live, work & communicate today.

She has held leadership positions with Fortune 500’s & most recently served as the Head of Technology Strategy for a global investment manager with a $70 Billion portfolio where she led their digital transformation. A true global citizen, Nikki’s impressive international career spans the US, Asia, Europe, Africa & Australia.

Beginning her career as an architect & urban designer on transformative, multi-decadal projects, she brings a unique perspective that combines vision with hands-on experience in delivering bold, impactful initiatives.

A highly regarded thought-leader on future trends & tech, Nikki has received numerous international accolades. In 2025 she won Speaker of the Year in the Trends & Technologies Categories. She was also recently recognized as a Top 15 Most Popular Future Trends Keynote Speaker, a Top 10 Future of Work Speaker, one of CIO View's 5 Most Influential Women in Real Estate to Watch, a ULI Global Luminary, & a finalist at the MIPIM Global PropTech Awards. She is a frequent featured keynote speaker for the leading conferences around the world where she shares her vision of industries tech-enabled future.

Proudly serving as both a three-term co-chair of ULI New York’s Real Estate Technology and Innovation Council, and Global Ambassador of Women in PropTech, (which she also founded), Nikki leads the industry's conversation on built world innovation. Nikki is an alumni of UNSW in Sydney, Australia where she attained Masters of International Business, Masters of Architecture, and Bachelors of Architecture with Honors.

An Australian national, today Nikki resides in New York City.

It is little wonder that Nikki's one of the most sought after speakers of this age.

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FUTURE of WORK in the AGE of AI: Human First, AI Next - Preparing Your Team for the Future, Today
World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg leverages 2 decades of global leadership experience to demystify AI & reveal practical strategies for creating dynamic, inclusive workplaces where innovation thrives, collaboration flourishes, & teams are empowered to navigate change, foster belonging, & succeed in a rapidly evolving world. With her unique expertise in delivering projects built to serve future generations & her proven talent for inspiring positive change in traditional environments, this keynote offers practical insights delivered in a compelling, entertaining & engaging style. For anyone looking to navigate the new world of work - this is one that’s not to be missed!

Key Learning Outcomes
Create an AI Quick Start Guide: Learn actionable steps to leverage AI immediately, based on Nikki’s experience leading the digital transformation of a global organization.
How to Blend Human Expertise & AI Tech: Pair AI’s strength (like data processing & automation) with human creativity, empathy & strategic thinking - to be a future-ready organization.
Leverage Generation Strengths: Harness the expertise of seasoned employees alongside younger employees' digital fluency to drive collaboration, progress, empowerment & industry leadership.
Design 5 Year Technology Roadmap: A straightforward strategic roadmap for full AI adoption, harnessing the potential of this transformative technology to engage and empower all employees.

FUTURE of the BUILT ENVIRONMENT: Today to 2050 - Creating Places for the Future
FUTURE of the BUILT ENVIRONMENT: Today to 2050 - Creating Places for the Future
World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg delivers a light-hearted yet insightful keynote exploring how to shape future-ready places by blending technological advancements like AI & robotics with a human touch, creating inclusive, resilient places that enriches lives. Here, she shares insights from her expertise as a property developer on transformative projects that have shaped her perspective on the world—the places we create today must serve generations to come. Ranked as the world’s top real estate futurist, this keynote is one that’s not to be missed!

Key Learning Outcomes

Understand Future Demand: Gain insights into demographic shifts & the values of future customers & stakeholders to help align development plans with emerging needs.

Tech Trends & Readiness: Stay ahead of critical technological changes, including robotics, AI, & digital transformation, to understand their implications for people, places & organizations.

Inspiring Future Places: Learn about cutting–edge projects from around the world that are truly pushing the envelope in what is possible, shaping the future of the built environment.

Actionable Roadmap Development: Get started on future-focused initiatives while developing a sustainable long-term plan for digital transformation & AI integration.
FUTURE of [insert industry]: Journey to 2030 - How to Leverage the Next Five Years to Become Your Industry's Most Admired & Forward-Thinking Company
FUTURE of [insert industry]: Journey to 2030 - How to Leverage the Next Five Years to Become Your Industry's Most Admired & Forward-Thinking Company
World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg's keynote equips you to proactively shape your organization's future by navigating key trends like AI, generational shifts, and workplace evolution, offering practical tools and a forward-thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies, and drive success in the next five years.

Key Learning Outcomes

Actionable Strategies for Today & Tomorrow: Practical insights you can implement today while building a robust long-term roadmap for navigating the future, including Nikki’s Future Ready Framework.

Technology Made Simple: Understand how technology is transforming industries without feeling overwhelmed, using clear & accessible explanations to get your team on board.

Overcome Barriers to Change: Learn strategies to address the biggest obstacles to innovation, including incentive misalignment, resource allocation, budget constraints & managing multi-generational workplaces.

Be a Truly Visionary Leader: Discover how visionary leaders turn bold ideas into reality & learn how you can join their ranks - igniting inspiration within your team & finding purpose in an ever-evolving world.
The FUTURE ME PROJECT: Interactive Experience (Keynote or Workshop)
The FUTURE ME PROJECT: Interactive Experience (Keynote or Workshop)
In a time of disruption, optimism is a strategy.

World-leading futurist Nikki Greenberg delivers a dynamic, interactive keynote that empowers individuals and teams to take bold ownership of their future in an age of rapid transformation.

Drawing on two decades of global leadership experience, she leads audiences through a series of powerful, thought-provoking exercises that reveal the long-term consequences of their current trajectory, explore the impact of even one intentional change, and unlock bold new possibilities. Blending the energy of a main stage experience with the depth of a hands-on workshop,

Nikki introduces tools like to spark creativity and team-wide momentum, scenario-based decision making to build confidence in responding to uncertainty, and a Future Self Time Capsule that arrives back in your inbox a year later as a personal progress check-in. Delivered with her signature mix of foresight, humor, and practical strategy,

The Future Me Project isn’t just a keynote - it’s a catalyst. For anyone ready to turn insight into action and actively design the future they want, this is one that’s not to be missed.

Key Learning Outcomes

The Mirror Moment: See the path you're currently on and the future it leads to. Then explore how a single decision—big or small—can radically alter your trajectory.

3 Futures Framework: Explore the default future, the daring future, and the designed future—then choose which one you’re going to build.

Future Opportunities Scenarios: React in real-time to a set of provocative "future news" headlines, revealing your instinctive mindset—panic, pause, or pivot?

Build Actionable Routines: Engage with emerging technologies - like generative AI, wearable tech, AR and more - to can start building future readiness into their daily routines today.

BONUS: Attendees get access to Nikki's personal vault of future-focused exercises - so you can take the experience back to your job, your professional network - or even your family. Because shaping the future shouldn’t stop when the keynote ends!
Additional Topics by Focus
Additional Topics by Focus
Future of Travel

Future of Retail

Future of Smart Cities

Future of Construction

Future of Homes

Future of Office

Future of Real Estate

Future of Public Sector

Future of Consumer Goods

Future of Insurance

Future of Technology

Future of GenZ & Alpha

Future of Marketing

Future of Innovation

... & more! (just ask)

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Environmentalism & Sustainability

Technology & STEM

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Harvard Business School Online: To create the future, first you must imagine it

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The feedback on her session has been amazing. A lot of different people have contacted me to tell me how much they enjoyed it, but also have already been suggesting things we need to start doing as a business (or doing better) because of what she highlighted and discussed.

AB, CEO, Frasers (Sydney, Australia)

The perfect blend of charisma, levity and insight.

CS, Global Real Estate, IBM (Washington DC)

I believe the audience had their eyebrows raised a few times and the leaders starting to think about generation Z more seriously. I hope that we get a chance to have [her] onboard again in another setting, great way for everyone to get up to speed on the trends out there.

JN, CBRE Global Investors 2021 (London)

They thought the topic was on point for what we're all going through as we transition back to work. The [audience] felt engaged and were not bored with anything. It was great -really great!!

JS, Director of Major Events, CREW (San Antonio)

What Nikki said resonated throughout the rest of the [executive board] meeting. More than once, our asset/portfolio managers said “as Nikki referenced earlier”. It was really a perfect fit for us.

MB, AEW Capital Management (New York)

I'm so thankful that we engaged Nikki Greenberg. It was such a great way to segway to talk about our organization's future vision .

MCB, Vice Chair, Appraisers Foundation (Washington DC)

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FUTURE of WORK in the AGE of AI: Human First, AI Next - Preparing Your Team for the Future, Today

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The feedback on her session has been amazing. A lot of different people have contacted me to tell me how much they enjoyed it, but also have already been suggesting things we need to start doing as a business (or doing better) because of what she highlighted and discussed.

The perfect blend of charisma, levity and insight.

I believe the audience had their eyebrows raised a few times and the leaders starting to think about generation Z more seriously. I hope that we get a chance to have [her] onboard again in another setting, great way for everyone to get up to speed on the trends out there.

They thought the topic was on point for what we're all going through as we transition back to work. The [audience] felt engaged and were not bored with anything. It was great -really great!!

What Nikki said resonated throughout the rest of the [executive board] meeting. More than once, our asset/portfolio managers said “as Nikki referenced earlier”. It was really a perfect fit for us.

I'm so thankful that we engaged Nikki Greenberg. It was such a great way to segway to talk about our organization's future vision .

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Nikki Greenberg

Bio

Keynotes

FUTURE of WORK in the AGE of AI: Human First, AI Next - Preparing Your Team for the Future, Today

FUTURE of the BUILT ENVIRONMENT: Today to 2050 - Creating Places for the Future

FUTURE of [insert industry]: Journey to 2030 - How to Leverage the Next Five Years to Become Your Industry's Most Admired & Forward-Thinking Company

The FUTURE ME PROJECT: Interactive Experience (Keynote or Workshop)

Additional Topics by Focus

Topics

The feedback on her session has been amazing. A lot of different people have contacted me to tell me how much they enjoyed it, but also have already been suggesting things we need to start doing as a business (or doing better) because of what she highlighted and discussed.

The perfect blend of charisma, levity and insight.

I believe the audience had their eyebrows raised a few times and the leaders starting to think about generation Z more seriously. I hope that we get a chance to have [her] onboard again in another setting, great way for everyone to get up to speed on the trends out there.

They thought the topic was on point for what we're all going through as we transition back to work. The [audience] felt engaged and were not bored with anything. It was great -really great!!

What Nikki said resonated throughout the rest of the [executive board] meeting. More than once, our asset/portfolio managers said “as Nikki referenced earlier”. It was really a perfect fit for us.

I'm so thankful that we engaged Nikki Greenberg. It was such a great way to segway to talk about our organization's future vision .

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