Primary Job Title Founder and CEO Primary Organization Future Today Institute
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Female
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Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist. She is Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. Since 2006, FTI has advised a global base of clients, including Fortune 100 companies, federal government agencies and investment firms.
Webb was named to
the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led and won the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar Award. Webb is a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program and was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where her research received a national Sigma Delta Chi award. She was also a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology, media and international diplomacy. She has advised three-star generals and admirals, White House leadership and CEOs of some of the world’s largest and most respected companies. She is the bestselling author of The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream, which explains how to forecast emerging technology. It was a Washington Post Bestseller, won the Gold Axiom Award for business books, and was selected as one of the best books the year by Fast Company, Inc. Magazine and Amazon. Webb’s newest book is about the future of AI -- The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.
