Lisa Kay Solomon
Lecturer and the Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school
Lisa Kay Solomon brings over two decades of strategic foresight and futures and design thinking to education and civic fellowship. Currently a lecturer and the Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school, Solomon teaches popular classes like “Inventing the Future” and “View from the Future,” and, the forthcoming digital course, “Futures Thinking for Strategic Decision Making,” helping leaders and learners develop skills to anticipate and adapt to increasingly complex futures. She recently joined the Board of The Long Now Foundation, focused on igniting cultural imagination around long term thinking and responsibility.
Solomon is the host of the How We Future podcast and Substack, helped start and co-host the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) podcast New View EDU for school leaders and works extensively with K12 administrators and educators, infusing futures thinking and practices into both classrooms and board rooms. She is the creative force and co-founder of award-winning civic initiatives like “Vote by Design: Presidential Edition,” The Team’s “All Vote No Play” civic programming for student athletes, and “The Futures Happening: Democracy Edition.” Her work has reached tens of thousands of students and next-gen voters.
Solomon 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. She’s got a new chapter in a forthcoming book called Leading for Tomorrow: Unlocking Human Potential in an Era of Continuous Change and Endless Possibility.
Speaker's Events
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY
Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI
Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science at MIT’s Sloan School of Management
Lecturer and the Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school
Feb 19 2026
ZOOM EVENT
Leaders as Futurists: Cultivating Civic Imagination for a Dynamic World
Lecturer and the Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school
Professor at Northwestern University, Co-Director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and Faculty Founder of Design for America
Oct 17 2024