Steve Wells

Steve Wells is a global futurist, keynote speaker, and the COO of Fast Future. He has a particular interest in helping clients anticipate and respond to the disruptive bursts of technological possibility that are shaping the emerging future. Steve Wells is a contributor to "Beyond Genuine Stupidity-Ensuring AI Serves Humanity", "The Future Reinvented-Reimagining Life", Society, and Business, and a co-editor of "The Future of Business", "Technology vs. Humanity", and forthcoming books on "Unleashing Human Potential-The Future of AI in Business and 50:50-Scenarios for the Next 50 Years. Steve Wells advises global corporations on the transformative potential of disruptive technologies and how brands can leverage them to create distinctive identities in a fast changing world and drive exponential growth and improvement. Steve Wells has a particular focus on the new models of leadership, collaboration, and innovation required to sustain and differentiate brands in a rapidly changing reality. Steve delivers fully researched and customized client presentations for each keynote. As COO of Fast Future Publishing, Steve Wells is working on delivering a series of multi-contributor books exploring the emerging future. Steve Wells helps clients understand the key future factors driving innovation, growth and disruptive change, highlighting the new thinking and business models being enabled by exponential technologies such as AI, immersive technologies like augmented and virtual reality, and hyper-connectivity. He explores the mindset shifts and leadership capabilities required to compete in the emerging future in order to help clients and delegates to make informed choices on the potential impact of emerging technologies. Steve Wells has recently spoken across the UK, and in Croatia, Finland, Greece, Germany, India, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, and USA. In addition, Steve has participated as a guest on live national BBC TV, national and regional BBC radio and Talk Radio broadcasts on the subject of the future of automation and on various podcasts and other on-line events. Steve Wells has previously worked as an independent Strategy Consultant and Researcher, and as a Strategy Development Manager in Pfizer's UK business where he worked across C-suite and senior manager level to lead and facilitate the company's strategic planning process.