About Reanna Browne
Reanna Browne is a globally recognised and academically trained futurist and strategic foresight practitioner.
She is the founder of the strategic foresight consultancy, Work Futures, an industry fellow and startup co-founder, and has been recognised by her peers as one of the ‘World’s Top Female Futurists’.
Reanna’s expertise spans across sectors like technology, sports, agriculture, engineering, healthcare, law, and education.
Her work is distinguished by her ability to reframe how people think about the future, linking these new perspectives to actionable steps come Monday.
Keynote "The Future Doesn't Exist": Why unlearning 'the future' helps us to see the present in new ways!
In a world fixated on predicting the next big thing, futurist Reanna Browne channels Jim Dator’s provocative insight that the future doesn’t actually exist.
Building on this idea, Reanna’s keynote will move beyond the typical ‘pop-futures’ talk packed with buzzwords and trendy trends. As an academically trained and practicing futurist, she’s here to flip the script on how we think about ‘the future’.
This keynote is designed to shake loose our rigid assumptions about ‘the future’ and reveal how these beliefs silently shape our sense of possibility and how we act today. It’s a call to unlearn—to question critically, think boldly, and view our work and lives through a new lens.
In this session, Reanna will help you:
- Reframe ‘the future’: Challenge your thinking about ‘the future’ so you can see the present in new ways.
- Reimagine action: Uncover how small, everyday action (and in-action) can spark big changes in your work and life.
- Fuse futures and design: See why futures work is a powerful precursor to your design work.
- Make ‘futures thinking’ personal and practical: Apply futures techniques to navigate towards a career and life you actually want to inhabit, and gain practical actions you can apply ‘Come Monday.’