Tom cheesewright, applied futurist

Tom Cheesewright is a speaker who scares and inspires people in equal measure, with his clear and powerful stories of tomorrow. Using his unique ‘Futurist’s Toolkit’ he can turn his analytical eye to any industry, impressing the audience with his deep understanding and giving them a unique take on where they are heading. 

Biography

Tom Cheesewright is the Applied Futurist, helping people and organisations around the world to see the future more clearly, share their vision, and respond with innovation. Tom will help you and your audience to connect tomorrow’s world to today’s experience, and make sense of what’s happening next, and why.

Tom’s clients include global 500 corporations, government departments, industry bodies and charities. Using a unique set of tools that he developed, and now teaches and licences to others, Tom finds the critical intersections between today’s macro trends and the existing stresses in each client’s organisation and sector.

These are the points at which the greatest change will take place.

PROFILE

Tom is a frequent presence in the media, his face, voice, and unusual name recognisable from weekly appearances on TV and radio including BBC Breakfast, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, 5live, Radio 4, and TalkRadio, and in The Guardian, The Times, and The Evening Standard. He has now amassed more than two thousand broadcast appearances in total.


Tom’s global client base includes:

Publications

Tom’s first book, High Frequency Change, was published in 2019 by LID Publishing and shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2020 in the ‘Leadership for the Future’ category.

Tom’s second book, Future-Proof Your Business, was published by Penguin in July 2020 and recommended by the Financial Times as one of its business books of the month.

Tom has provided the foreword to reissue of the classic Usborne Book of the Future (June 2023) and is working on a series of children’s books about the future with Usborne.

He has also contributed to other publications, including the collection Aftershocks and Opportunities - Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic Future.