Designer and host of conversations about the future, mother of daughters, slow runner and sports enthusiast.
Lisa Kay Solomon is a bestselling author, strategic foresight designer, speaker, and award winning thought leader who believes we’re all capable of imagining and designing better futures. She is currently a Designer in Residence and Lecturer at the Stanford d.school, where she leads their futures work and teaches popular classes like “Inventing the future” and “View from the future,” that help leaders and learners learn skills to build agency and navigate ambiguity amid increasingly complex futures.
She is the co-creator of award-winning civic initiatives like “Vote by Design: Presidential Edition,” The Team’s “All Vote No Play” civic programming for student athletes, and, most recently, “The Futures Happening: Democracy Edition.” Her work has reached tens of thousands of students and next-gen voters. Lisa recently joined the board of The Long Now Foundation, serving on their Executive Committee, and helped build the K12 Futures library at Stanford to help infuse long term thinking and empathic decision making for the future into both classrooms and board rooms. Lisa is an experienced host, moderator and interviewer of senior leaders and authors around complex ideas.
Lisa co-authored the bestselling books Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, and Design A Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset and Strategy for Innovation, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. She created the popular LinkedIn learning class, “Leader as Futurist,” and contributed a chapter of the same name for Des Dearlove’s Certain Uncertainty: Leading with Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World.