“Futurism is not about predicting what’s going to happen but making conscious choices to create the future we desire.” – Rudy de Waele.
Rudy de Waele has lifelong experience on the frontiers of cultural, artistic and technological innovation. He advises companies, leaders and projects on how to design regenerative businesses, co-create hybrid experiences and activate communities for regenerative presence and action.
Rudy’s mission is to bring regenerative principles to business leaders as a holistic way of thinking, being, and acting that can be institutionalized to create a more meaningful, balanced and beautiful world.
Rudy guides, connects and inspires leaders, and entrepreneurs to co-create the regeneration paradigm and in getting ready for the next waves of change through talks, circles, workshops and curating training programs and conferences. His focus is on creating experiential learning and communal experiences on how to thrive in a regenerative economy and how to design conscious businesses and a meaningful life. He coaches practical guidance and inspires an awareness connecting past and future generations.
He is a Keynote Speaker on Regenerative Business Innovation. In his +40 years of experience working in innovation in different sectors and working as a futurist for the last 15 years, his vision for the future is that the deeper underlying systemic shifts cannot happen any longer on the outside and need to happen from innovating from within ourselves.
His book “Shift 2020 – How Technology Will Impact Our Future” delivers visionary and impactful insights into how future influences such as IoT, Genetics, Robotics and AI will have on our collective daily lives. The book includes predictions from some of the world’s leading technology experts, and presents rare prescience in a notoriously unpredictable landscape.
He founded Unconditional Men, a platform and a community for evolutionary men, empowering the authentic transformation of leaders in service to the regeneration of our communities and the world.
A graduate from Singularity University, Rudy has developed over 200 leading industry events across more than 50 cities across the globe. He has helped diverse global brands such as ABN AMRO, Adobe, Bayer, Boston Consulting Group, BMW, Cap Gemini, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel and many others.
In his visual and dynamic presentation style, with a deep and philosophical human touch, Rudy de Waele gives insights and strategizes upon the present and future of some of the most important topics for any leader and organisation today. Mr de Waele, a native of Belgium, is fluent in English, French, Dutch, and Spanish.
