Lisa Kay Solomon

Lisa Kay Solomon brings over two decades of strategic foresight and futures and design thinking to education and civic fellowship. Currently a lecturer and the Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school, Solomon teaches popular classes like “Inventing the Future” and “View from the Future,” helping leaders and learners develop skills to anticipate and adapt to increasingly complex futures.

Solomon helped start and co-host the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) podcast New View EDU for school leaders and works extensively with K12 administrators and educators, infusing futures thinking and practices into both classrooms and board rooms. She is the creative force and co-founder of award-winning civic initiatives like “Vote by Design: Presidential Edition,” The Team’s “All Vote No Play” civic programming for student athletes, and “The Futures Happening: Democracy Edition.” Her work has reached tens of thousands of students and next-gen voters.

Solomon co-authored the bestselling books Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change and Design A Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset and Strategy for Innovation, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. She created the popular LinkedIn learning class, “Leader as Futurist,” and contributed a chapter of the same name for Des Dearlove’s Certain Uncertainty: Leading with Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World.