Keynote Speaker | Strategic Advisor
For more than 25 years, I’ve worked with organizations that have an outsized impact on our lives—and an equally large responsibility to steward the future well.
My work focuses on three capacities: identifying proprietary advantage, mooring strategy on shaky ground, and building change-ready cultures.
I train leaders to become their own best futurists: people who can see where the future is going and know how to move with it. In real time.
I care deeply about one thing: helping people understand how change actually works.
Because when they do, they change. And so does their future.
That’s my mission: spread Change Literacy everywhere.
The Strategist Behind the Strategy
Cecily has worked in the trenches with organizations that shape how we live: retail, healthcare, energy, commercial banking, and more. Because she follows the universal patterns of change, her approach is industry agnostic. The signals may differ, but the underlying dynamics are the same.
Her insight into where real advantage lives is hard won. Cecily doesn’t just deliver strategy; she becomes a thinking partner from the first question to the final decision.
Developing Change-Fluent Leaders
Her eight-year Future of Leadership partnership with Google’s Executive Development team helped shape what became the Google School for Leaders. That work became Lead Like a Futurist, the leadership program Cecily now brings to organizations worldwide.
Built around the Six Fluencies of Leadership she identified, it develops leaders who can read change, lead through it, and bring others with them.
Built for Continuous Reinvention
Exponential change doesn’t pause while organizations catch up. Continuous Reinvention is mandatory.
This isn’t simply a strategy; it’s an operating system that keeps organizations relevant by tuning business model and management to change in real time.
Cecily’s work embeds this capacity into how organizations think, decide, and move.
“This was FANTASTIC! Cecily breaks it down: how to manage ambiguity, bring our best to an emerging future, and collaborate with others to make it real. Brava!”
Global keynote speaker, business futurist, and strategic advisor guiding executive teams through their most consequential work. One of Forbes’ Top 50 Female Futurists.
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