In this episode of Build Momentum, We are joined by Jeremy Nulik. Jeremy is a futurist at Big Wide Sky from St. Louis Missouri.

In 2002, Jeremy completed his Bachelor or Arts degree majoring in English Literature at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Come 2018, Jeremy successfully completed  a compreensive certification course in Strategic Foresight at University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

Some Questions I Ask:

• What is a Futurist? (1:30)
• Are we all really on the same page with our future? (6:30)
• How did you become a Futurist? (7:50)
• Is there an actual program to be a futurist? (11:06)
• How do you work with leaders to define and put meaning behind innovation? (13:33)
• You want people to live in that transformational face when you're running through this with them? Or do you want them to go through all of these, all of them? (19:00)
• How can we encourage our listeners and our leaders to really become more of a visionary thinker? And to try to get a couple paces ahead of me? Do you have any advice for us and us? (25:41)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• What a futurist is.  (1:38)
• What is Strategic Foresight (2:42)
• What a futurist does (3:56)
• How and Where you can be a certified futurist (11:16)
• Putting meaning behind innovation thru Foresight (13:40)
• Future Archetypes framework (15:12)
• Being a visionary thinker (25:54)

Quotes:

“Like it or not, those images, if you're not conscious of them, you still have and do have an impact on how you make decisions”

“The only thing you would need is curiosity.”

“You know, and so the thing that's beautiful about that kind of mental exercise, you know, going through growth, collapse, discipline, transformation, even something that simple, and it would only take you like 20 minutes, the thing that's beautiful about it is for that 20 minutes, you are emancipated from having to like be right about the future, you don't have to predict it. You don't have to even place any bets on it for a while. You just get to live in that future, and figure out how you would feel, who you would be and how you'd respond.”

“The images, like to your point that you cultivate that you go about building, have an impact on what it is you're actually going to decide to do.”

“We just use the future as the safe canvas on which you can sort of play out what it is your real intentions are.”

Connect with Jeremy Nulik:

Big Wide Sky Website

Jeremy Nulik’s LinkedIn

Stay in touch with Sarah Williamson:

Free Case Study Guide

Website

Facebook

‍