Speaker Profile
CHARLOTTE KEMP
Charlotte Kemp is a futurist keynote speaker, author, and executive coach, specializing in strategic foresight and futures thinking. With an early career in financial services, Charlotte understands the complexities of banking, risk, and compliance—insights that now inform her work in helping leaders navigate uncertainty and prepare for emerging disruptions.
As the Past President of the Global Speakers Federation and an active member of the Association of Professional Futurists, Charlotte has worked with business leaders across industries to develop future-fit strategies. She is the author of multiple books, including Futures Alchemist, which introduces a practical framework for thinking about the future.
Charlotte’s approach combines scenario planning, ethical foresight, and strategic innovation, equipping executives and teams with the tools to anticipate industry shifts, manage risk, and seize opportunities. Her engaging style and deep expertise make complex futures concepts accessible and actionable.

Charlotte Kemp
June 25 2025
11 : 00 AM EST
90 Minutes
Future Fit Finance: Scenario Planning for the Next Disruption
In an era defined by accelerating change and unprecedented complexity, the traditional finance function is undergoing a profound transformation. Finance professionals who once primarily focused on backward-looking reporting and near-term forecasting are now expected to navigate uncharted waters, providing strategic guidance amid multiple intersecting disruptions. The convergence of technological revolutions..

Charlotte Kemp
July 21 2025
11 : 00 AM EST
90 Minutes
Strategic Foresight for Business Leaders: Seeing the Future Before It Arrives
In today's hyperconnected world, the boundaries between industries are blurring, technological advances are compounding, and emergent challenges—from supply chain vulnerabilities to climate impacts—are creating complex ripple effects throughout the business ecosystem. Traditional strategic planning, with its emphasis on linear projections and known variables, increasingly falls short in this environment of ..

Charlotte Kemp
August 11 2025
11 : 00 AM EST
90 Minutes
From Compliance to Culture — Building Future-Resilient Organizations
In an era defined by accelerating change and compounding disruptions, traditional approaches to organizational resilience are proving increasingly inadequate. While compliance frameworks provide essential guardrails, they primarily prepare organizations for known risks and predictable scenarios. Yet today's most significant threats often emerge from unfamiliar territories—complex intersections of technologi..

Charlotte Kemp
September 22 2025
11 : 00 AM EST
90 Minutes
Agility as a Future Strategy — Rethinking Change Management for the Long Term
In an era defined by compounding disruptions and accelerating complexity, traditional change management approaches increasingly fall short. The conventional model—articulating a compelling vision, creating a structured plan, managing resistance, and eventually reaching a new stable state—was designed for a world of episodic, predictable change. Today's reality is starkly different: organizations face contin..

Charlotte Kemp
October 17 2025
11 : 00 AM EST
90 Minutes
Storytelling for the Future — Engaging Audiences in an Attention-Scarce World
In an era defined by information overload, algorithmic curation, and fragmenting attention spans, the fundamental challenge facing communicators has transformed. The primary obstacle is no longer reaching audiences but earning their sustained attention and trust in environments specifically designed to scatter focus and encourage passive consumption. Against this backdrop, strategic storytelling has reemerg..

Charlotte Kemp
November 20 2025
11 : 00 AM EST
90 Minutes
Risk and Uncertainty in Finance: A Futurist’s Guide to the Next Era of Risk Management
The financial world finds itself navigating unprecedented territory—where technological transformation, climate change impacts, geopolitical realignments, and social shifts are creating complex, interconnected risks that defy traditional analysis. Conventional risk management approaches, designed for a more stable and predictable environment, increasingly fall short in this landscape of deep uncertainty and..