Tom Cheesewright, Applied Futurist
Tom Cheesewright is the Applied Futurist, helping people and organisations around the world to see the future more clearly, share their vision, and respond with innovation. Tom will help you and your audience to connect tomorrow’s world to today’s experience, and make sense of what’s happening next, and why.
Tom’s clients include global 500 corporations, government departments, industry bodies and charities. Using a unique set of tools that he developed, and now teaches and licenses to others, Tom finds the critical intersections between today’s macro trends and the existing stresses in each client’s organisation and sector.
These are the points at which the greatest change will take place.
Tom is a frequent presence in the media, his face, voice, and unusual name recognisable from weekly appearances on TV and radio including BBC Breakfast, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, 5live, Radio 4, and TalkRadio, and in The Guardian, The Times, and The Evening Standard.
Tom’s specialities
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Tom is a very experienced keynote speaker, delivering talks that are inspiring, scary and uplifting in equal measure. A specialist at speaking to expert audiences and telling them something new, Tom is ideal for corporate events as an opening or closing speaker.
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Tom is the author of two successful books, High Frequency Change (LID Business Media) and Future-proof Your Business (Penguin), and is producing a set of children’s books about the futurewith Usborne. He has written thousands of articles, reports and stories for clients. If you are looking for insight or fiction with a focus on the future, Tom is your man.
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With more than 2000 broadcast appearances behind him, Tom is the consummate on-air professional. If you want a safe pair of hands to act as the spokesperson for your future-focused campaign, Tom is ideal. His deep knowledge of technology makes him particularly suited to technology campaigns.
“Tom really delivered what we asked of him in our future focused keynote, leaving our audience re-evaluating their business’ ability to adapt into the future with some key learnings from global industries. Tom was also great to work with ahead of the event and was an excellent chairman on the day, neatly tying the threads of different sessions together to give a lot of insight for our audience.”
Catriona Smith, World Rail Festival
