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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 Greenberg’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 Greenberg 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.

Nikki Greenberg 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.

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Future of Your Industry: Journey to 2030 - How to Leverage the Next 5 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 & workplace evolution. Here she offers practical tools & a forward-thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies & drive success in the next five years. In a light-hearted, dynamic & entertaining keynote, this keynote is a combination of inspiration, motivation & practical insights in how to become future ready, today.

Key Outcomes:
Actionable Strategies for Today & Tomorrow
Gain practical insights you can implement today while building a robust long-term roadmap for navigating the future. Learn Nikki’s 5-Step Future Ready Framework, designed to help leaders turn bold ideas into reality in a way that has impact, gains traction & garners organizational buy-in.

Technology Made Simple
Understand how technology is transforming industries without feeling overwhelmed, using clear & accessible explanations to get your team on board. Nikki draws from her experience as the Head of Technology Strategy for a $70 Billion AUM global investment manager, sharing invaluable, practical lessons learned along the way.

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 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.

Future of the Built Environment: Today to 2050 - Creating Places fo 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 Outcomes:
Understanding Future Demands
Gain insights into demographic shifts & the values of future customers & stakeholders to help align development plans with emerging needs. Learn Nikki’s framework for future-readyness, harnessed through her established expertise in commercial real estate development & technology strategy leadership.

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 Roadmaps
Nikki will share how to quickly get started on future-focused initiatives while developing a sustainable long-term plan for digital transformation & AI integration, based on her expertise in developing a digital masterplan project for new $4 Billion developments.


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 two 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 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. Successfully attract, retain & improve retention of early-career employees through initiatives such as 360-mentoring and Young Sounding Boards.


Design an 5 Year AI Roadmap
A straightforward strategic roadmap for full AI adoption, harnessing the potential of this transformative technology to engage and empower all employees.

The Future Me Project: An Interactive Experience

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 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.

Testimonials

Listening to Nikki, there isn’t a fear about the technology that’s out there in the future - rather we need to embrace it.
– Marc Selvitelli, CEO, NAIOP (Las Vegas)
Nikki was engaging and energetic and left people with easy takeaways that they can bring back to their companies and their work.
– Megan Rooney, VP for Education, NAIOP (Las Vegas)
Nikki’s lunch keynote was incredibly thought provoking. Nikki’s willingness to volunteer her time, energy, and support on behalf of our practice was greatly appreciated… and enriched our event with her presence. We hope that Nikki can join us again.
– Jeffrey S Alpaugh, CEO AON North America (Marsh, Chicago)
Nikki’s keynote was a hit and everyone loved chatting with [her] throughout the event. My phone was blowing up with people telling me how much they loved what [she] had to say!
– RL, Director, Barings (Marco Island, FL)
We would love to have [Nikki] again! The audience loved hearing about the vision and optimism around AI in our field
– Director, Urban Land Institute (virtual)
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 a perfect fit for us.
– MB, AEW Capital Management (New York)
Nikki was so amazing and [we] are receiving rave reviews from the event attendees.
– President, CREW (San Antonio)

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