Chief Futurist and CEO Maggie Greyson is an internationally recognized, award-winning futurist and award-winning designer. She helps organizations and individuals imagine the future(s) to make better decisions today and tomorrow. Maggie is passionate about helping museums to recognize their potential in helping the publics to become comfortable with complexity through futures work.
Maggie has a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from the Ontario College of Art and Design University. She was an Emerging Fellow of the Association of Professional Futurists 2018.
Her mandate is to help people use ambiguous nature of our times to play a meaningful part in the future. Robust research and creative risk-taking define her career as a designer, futurist and writer. Her work garners international attention for strategic communication and innovative storytelling methods. She has designed interactive online experiences for Fortune 100 companies such as Nissan, GE and Shell. She also has a ten year career as a designer for the stage with companies such as the International Shakespeare’s Globe, in the London and the Stratford Theatre Festival.
Affiliations
Book Reviewer “Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums”
FORMS Futures-Oriented Museums Synergies network
Board Member of the Association of Professional Futurists
Co-convener of the Association of Professional Futurists IF Awards for the Most Significant Futures Works
Advisor for the University of Houston Strategic Foresight Masters Program
Fellow of the School of International Futures
Judge, Alumni, and Mentor for the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Awards
Judge for the Association of Professional Futurists Foresight Students Work Awards
Judge and Mentor for How to Change the World
Instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Huron University College, Centennial College
Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation Ontario College of Art and Design University Alumni
Keynote speaker
Global conferences on futures thinking at Carnegie Mellon University Design Department, Systems Design Association, University of Toronto, and universities in India, and Pakistan.
Author
She is writing a book called Making Futures Present, The Field Guide for Future Thinking Mavericks and Next Level Decision Making in Times of Extreme Uncertainty.
Maggie has a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from the Ontario College of Art and Design University. She was an Emerging Fellow of the Association of Professional Futurists 2018.
Her mandate is to help people use ambiguous nature of our times to play a meaningful part in the future. Robust research and creative risk-taking define her career as a designer, futurist and writer. Her work garners international attention for strategic communication and innovative storytelling methods. She has designed interactive online experiences for Fortune 100 companies such as Nissan, GE and Shell. She also has a ten year career as a designer for the stage with companies such as the International Shakespeare’s Globe, in the London and the Stratford Theatre Festival.
Affiliations
Book Reviewer “Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums”
FORMS Futures-Oriented Museums Synergies network
Board Member of the Association of Professional Futurists
Co-convener of the Association of Professional Futurists IF Awards for the Most Significant Futures Works
Advisor for the University of Houston Strategic Foresight Masters Program
Fellow of the School of International Futures
Judge, Alumni, and Mentor for the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Awards
Judge for the Association of Professional Futurists Foresight Students Work Awards
Judge and Mentor for How to Change the World
Instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Huron University College, Centennial College
Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation Ontario College of Art and Design University Alumni
Keynote speaker
Global conferences on futures thinking at Carnegie Mellon University Design Department, Systems Design Association, University of Toronto, and universities in India, and Pakistan.
Author
She is writing a book called Making Futures Present, The Field Guide for Future Thinking Mavericks and Next Level Decision Making in Times of Extreme Uncertainty.