Bob Johansen is a distinguished fellow with the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley. For more than 50 years, Bob has helped organizations around the world prepare for and shape the future, including corporations such as P&G, Walmart, United Rentals, and GlaxoSmithKline, as well as a range of major universities and nonprofits. Bob is the author or co-author of 15 books, including Get There Early, The New Leadership Literacies, and Full-Spectrum Thinking, Office Shock, and The Reciprocity Advantage. In 2025, he co-authored the 3rd edition of Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Skills to Humanize Leadership with Generative AI (with Jeremy Kirshbaum and Gabe Cervantes) and Navigating the Age of Chaos (with Jamais Cascio and Angela F. Williams). Bob’s books are used widely in corporations, universities, nonprofits, and at the Army War College. In 2016, Bob was named the H. Smith Richardson Jr. Visiting Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership. Bob holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois, which he attended on a basketball scholarship, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University—as well as a master’s degree focused on world religions.
Expertise
leadership, custom forecasting, distributed working, shapeshifting organizations, public speaking
