I'm Scott Smith, futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, and lecturer currently based in Barcelona.
I founded Changeist in 2007, after about 15 years working in forecasting, strategy, and consulting in New York, DC, and London — including stints as research director for some of the earliest Internet research firms. In that time I've done work for teams at UNDP, JPMorganChase, Google, The Economist, BBC, Comcast, Dubai Future Foundation, and AXA, among others. Most recently, I created a thing called 10F Consortium.
I wrote "How to Future: Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange," published in 2020 by Kogan Page, and co-wrote "Future Cultures: How to Build a Future-ready Organization Through Leadership," with Susan Cox-Smith, also published by Kogan Page, in 2023. My background is in economic history.
I've been a columnist for Quartz, and a guest writer for WIRED UK, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Atlantic, and an array of other publications. I wrote a small piece for Dave Eggers' MIGHT Magazine in the 90s. You may be too young to remember that.
I've spoken at The Next Web, Lift, Flow Festival, Open State SA, the Atlantic Council Energy & Economic Summit, Oxford Futures Forum, EPIC, SxSW, FutureEverything, NEXT, and me Convention, among other places. I even have a Wikipedia page, for my sins.