Cecily Sommers

As a professional futurist and keynote speaker, Cecily Sommers helps people understand how emerging trends, markets, and technologies are reshaping our world. "It is a time for reinvention on every level," she says, "as we shift to new business models in industry, and new expressions in our personal lives."

Cecily is the author of Think Like a Futurist: Know What Changes, What Doesn't, and What's Next, named "Most Significant Futures Work in Methods and Practice" and listed on "Top 25: What Corporate America is Reading."

Frequent keynote presentations and workshops include Think Like a Futurist, The Art of Reinvention, and "But..." Busters.
"Cecily is gifted with amazing presentation skills: her passion is infectious and, in a room full of people, she makes you feel like she’s speaking directly to you.”

Cecily blogs for the Huffington Post and is a frequent contributor to NPR's "All Things Considered" and other media outlets. Cecily is honored to be named by the Business Journal as one of twenty‐five "Women to Watch," and one of Fast Company's "Fast 50 Reader Favorites."She member of the Association of Professional Futurists and on the Advisory Board for the University of Houston's Foresight Program.