Karen Sands
KAREN SANDS, MCC, BCC
The Wisdom Futurist: An Oracle for Today
Become an Everyday Futurist™: Develop Whole Brain Foresight to Reap Greater Agency, Authority and Sovereignty in VUCA Times™.
KAREN SANDS, MCC, BCC
The Wisdom Futurist: An Oracle for Today
ORACLE: person considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or potential predictions, most notably of the future.
Karen Sands is recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the "top leading global female futurists" (2020) and "among the top 42 leading futurist authors past and present" by Leader-to-Leader's managing editor Bruce Rosenstein (2021).
- CEO, Chief Futurist, and Founder of Futures By Design Institute, LLC™
- Futurist
- Gerontologist
- Creator GeroFuturing™
- Founder & GeroFuturist™ of Ageless Way Academy, LLC™
- Master Certified Coach (MCC,BCC)
- Distinguished Keynote Speaker
Publications & Media
Bestselling author of twelve books, including Visionaries Have Wrinkles, The Ageless Way and Gray is the New Green– revolutionizing how we think about aging, longevity and wellness into the near and long term future.
Featured writer in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Leader-to-Leader, Glamour, and on CNN, NBC, HBO, and other major media outlets.
Contributor to the White House Task Force on Innovative Learning, the Hudson Institute's landmark study, Workforce 2000, as well as its sequel: Workforce 2020. Served as an invited reporter for the White House Conference on Aging.
Karen is the CEO and founder of Futures By Design Institute™ (FBDI) an innovative human potential refinery, personal and professional development resource for leaders who wish to effect conscious change in their lives and in the enterprises they guide and marketplaces they serve–transforming communities and co-creating positive futures.
A "life-stage expert," Karen teaches others to value the gifts of each generation, creating unstoppable enterprises, teams and individuals, so they bring their best to the workplace, marketplace, and personal space. Karen's GeroFuturing™ is a cutting-edge approach to empowering professionals and executive leaders to rock their AGE at every age and meet the Greatness Challenge of our times.
Birthing from her pioneering work in GeroFuturing, Karen formed the Ageless Way Academy within the Future By Design Institute. Ageless Way Academy offers turnkey and customized curricula, strategic foresight consulting, and executive coaching for academia, non-profits, and businesses to dismantle the "silver ceiling" to combat age bias and elevate the value of older adults (40+) while raising consciousness about the importance of intergenerational collaboration and ageless aging across the life course for all generations.
As a high-impact Certified Master-Mentor Coach (MCC,BCC) and strategic partner, she offers tools, principles, and strategies for radical reinvention through her signature Future by Design™ programs that have catalyzed radical transformation for visionary change agents, CEOs, executive leaders of all sectors, social-entrepreneurs, and trusted advisors who reshape the world.
Karen is a distinguished bestselling author of twelve books, a firecracker speaker, game changer, and thought leader on the future of work & education, creating positive futures during VUCA times, leveraging the longevity economy, the future of aging & longevity, enterprise and personal wellness, the 40+ market, the business of aging and the aging of business, and the future of women leadership at the forefront of change.
KAREN SANDS, MCC, BCC
The Wisdom Futurist: An Oracle for Today
ORACLE: person considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or potential predictions, most notably of the future.
Karen Sands is recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the "top leading global female futurists" (2020) and "among the top 42 leading futurist authors past and present" by Leader-to-Leader's managing editor Bruce Rosenstein (2021).
- CEO, Chief Futurist, and Founder of Futures By Design Institute, LLC™
- Futurist
- Gerontologist
- Creator GeroFuturing™
- Founder & GeroFuturist™ of Ageless Way Academy, LLC™
- Master Certified Coach (MCC,BCC)
- Distinguished Keynote Speaker
Publications & Media
Bestselling author of twelve books, including Visionaries Have Wrinkles, The Ageless Way and Gray is the New Green– revolutionizing how we think about aging, longevity and wellness into the near and long term future.
Featured writer in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Leader-to-Leader, Glamour, and on CNN, NBC, HBO, and other major media outlets.
Contributor to the White House Task Force on Innovative Learning, the Hudson Institute's landmark study, Workforce 2000, as well as its sequel: Workforce 2020. Served as an invited reporter for the White House Conference on Aging.
Karen is the CEO and founder of Futures By Design Institute™ (FBDI) an innovative human potential refinery, personal and professional development resource for leaders who wish to effect conscious change in their lives and in the enterprises they guide and marketplaces they serve–transforming communities and co-creating positive futures.
A "life-stage expert," Karen teaches others to value the gifts of each generation, creating unstoppable enterprises, teams and individuals, so they bring their best to the workplace, marketplace, and personal space. Karen's GeroFuturing™ is a cutting-edge approach to empowering professionals and executive leaders to rock their AGE at every age and meet the Greatness Challenge of our times.
Birthing from her pioneering work in GeroFuturing, Karen formed the Ageless Way Academy within the Future By Design Institute. Ageless Way Academy offers turnkey and customized curricula, strategic foresight consulting, and executive coaching for academia, non-profits, and businesses to dismantle the "silver ceiling" to combat age bias and elevate the value of older adults (40+) while raising consciousness about the importance of intergenerational collaboration and ageless aging across the life course for all generations.
As a high-impact Certified Master-Mentor Coach (MCC,BCC) and strategic partner, she offers tools, principles, and strategies for radical reinvention through her signature Future by Design™ programs that have catalyzed radical transformation for visionary change agents, CEOs, executive leaders of all sectors, social-entrepreneurs, and trusted advisors who reshape the world.
Karen is a distinguished bestselling author of twelve books, a firecracker speaker, game changer, and thought leader on the future of work & education, creating positive futures during VUCA times, leveraging the longevity economy, the future of aging & longevity, enterprise and personal wellness, the 40+ market, the business of aging and the aging of business, and the future of women leadership at the forefront of change.
As A Leader, What Keeps You Up At Night?™
Get ready for a cognitive jolt to your assumptions, opening the way to envisioning new alternative futures for your organization, your community and for yourself as a more confident visionary leader.
New and veteran leaders will have the opportunity to examine the hottest topics worrying leaders today about tomorrow's workforce, the shifting marketplace, and their evolving role as a confident visionary leader.
I kick-start a unique conversation on how to turn what keeps...
GRAY IS THE NEW GREEN: Monetizing the Longevity Economy™
With the current economic conditions and shifting paradigms of the Longevity Economy, you will need every bit of market intelligence, practical tips, ideas and connections you can get to meet your goals in near term and realize your vision beyond into the future.
We will kick-start a unique conversation for understanding the business and consumer trends creating the Longevity Economy, the opportunities and challenges of serving the "Platinum" market and how to leverage them -- as...
HOT FUTURES: For Confident Visionary-Servant Leaders™
Join other visionaries and visionaries-in-the-making like you who seek to lead and live ahead of the curve of change.
Hot Futures is an inspiring, transformative and substantive forum for you if you are seeking to bring positive change to your leadership role, your workplace, your marketplace, and the world.
Change is the new Shaman in our global village. Massive systemic change demands that we step forward and become bold, enlightened and confident "Visionary-Servant...
AGE TOXIC TO AGE FRIENDLY: CREATING THE AGELESS SPACE FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY, PERFORMANCE, AND INNOVATION™
Executive-leaders are confronting the “graying” of enterprises. Age bias, “brain drain,” and intergenerational rifts are destabilizing impacts of this megatrend. Research indicates that age-inclusive workplace environments have positive implications for organizational productivity, performance, and innovation. Intergenerational challenges are often due to a lack of knowledge about how to encourage an age-friendly culture and how to facilitate shared goal-setting of workers.
This...
WOMEN ARE LEADING THE WAY BY REDESIGNING THE FUTURE- DISCOVER HOW
Leaders across all sectors are struggling to find their footing in our VUCA world. For women leaders who are 40+, this task becomes increasingly more difficult as we face the harsh realities of the conflation of sexism and ageism. Nevertheless, women visionary leaders are positioned to have a great impact in the workplace and beyond.
The qualities of the Inner Feminine are poised to aid in times of uncertainty: the ability to see things through a macro lens, focusing on the bigger...
BOOMER WOMEN MEAN BUSINESS, BIG BUSINESS!
Get ahead of the curve of change by honing your skills to stay in sync with those who keep you in business. Grow your understanding of how to harness the feminine advantage in the post 50 C-Suite, the workforce and consumer audience.
Staying in Sync with the People Who Keep You in Business™
This informative, insight building, no-holds-barred inspirational presentation will provide an eye-opening education on the unique challenges that...
VISIONARIES HAVE WRINKLES: It's Never Too Late to Lead™
Aging for the future means living the Third and Fourth Ages of our lives with more meaning in everything we do and in who we are. In this engaging presentation we'll discuss these ideas and share our personal hopes, goals, and heartfelt questions about the future and our place in it as we age. You will leave having gained new inspiration and perspective in the company of other like-minded professionals who are transforming the story of aging and our role as visionaries who will lead us...
VISIONARIES HAVE WRINKLES Serving the Generation Who Will Change the World . . . Again™
Participants will learn how to communicate with this market, how to use their talents as employees, how to develop products that serve Boomer and Mature needs, and how to market and sell to them to generate a positive purchasing response that supports their vision of a reimagined life.You will leave having gained new inspiration and perspective on how to transform your business into a profitable money-making magnet, winning the hearts and wallets of your 50+ clients, and dramatically...
THE AGELESS WAY: Illuminating The New Story Of Our Age™
Calling all risk-takers, change-makers, and world-shakers...and all of you who don't even realize that's what you are yet. Be part of shaping the new Ageless story for our times-one that transcends age in the workplace, the marketplace and in your place!
In her no-holds-barred style, Karen will blend intimate storytelling, historical insights and cutting-edge ideas into a powerful presentation which shifts paradigms and turns what you think you know about aging inside out and upside...
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