RECENT WORKS (2023-Present)
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Evolution of the American Dream
November 6, 2024. Reclaim wonder and we reclaim the pursuit of fulfilling lives, transformational innovation, and sustained economic growth.
A New Cultural "Kodak Moment" for American Innovation
American Businesses at a Crossroads . What business can teach us about culture and the presidential race .
Humans Being Here
In the voyage of a poem, we locate the infinite in the present—infinite stories etched within our collective soul. A poem shapes the quiet spaces between words.
Moon Paradox
Human Creative Potential and the Paradox of American Dreaming
Innovation’s Missing Link Is Us*
While cognitive creativity drives ideation and social creativity drives implementation, an often-overlooked bridge activates and connects both—“emotional creativity.”
The First Mile of
Innovation Is the Last
How John Lennon taught us that the “first mile” of decision-making in all innovation is getting the WILL to transform firmly on the table from the start.
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From Measuring the Past, To Unlocking the Future
New Possibilities in How Arts Approaches Data Collection.
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What is the corporate creativity cure when R&D stagnates?
Progressive Failures, Brain Skills & Precision Culture Interventions.
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Why Cultivating Creativity is the Best Risk Management Strategy
For Innovation Companies in 2025 and Beyond — Moving Beyond Incrementalism to Redefine Risk as an Opportunity for Transformation.
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Wonderpreneurs™: IDEArchitects of the Future
Excavating the Tools of Quantum Storytelling: Rituals, Mythologies, and Tabernacles.
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We the People(+Machine)
Rediscovering the Leadership Edge of American Enterprise: The Power of Wonder.
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Innovation Grief in Creative Industries
To Reconnect With Your 'Creative Why' ~ The First Step Is Often An Ending.
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Leading Creativity in the Wonder Economy
A brief synopsis of my 8.14.24 Culture Futurist keynote address at the International Leadership Association conference in Boulder, CO.
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Emerging Leadership Opportunities in America’s Nonprofit Arts Sector
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When logical and creative thinking begin their grind to shape evolution in our consciousness, new things become visible, possible, and valuable. Whether or not we can make them real and lasting is the bigger question.
Creativity New Deal: America’s Creative Economy Evolution
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Creativity isn’t just the currency of the future economy; it’s the lifeblood of a society worth aspiring to. Artists have a leadership role to play, but we will have to claim it!
Creativity at America’s Rural-Urban Divide
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How Gen Z may harmonize America plus an original Culture Futurist folktale about the power of people who live authentically, choose love, and lean into the power of an artful life.
Managing Creative Tension Between People + Ideas
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Unexpected ways artists and scientists are working together to ignite a new wave of transformational creativity in corporate America
Genius is a Cultural Outcome
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Our greatest genius might be in finding creative ways to slow down a bit—just long enough to find the courage to cultivate better questions.
Beyond Limits of Light
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These are a few early reflections on where I found hope in Washington, DC, while participating in a landmark arts and culture summit, co-hosted by National Endowment for the Arts and The White House. This gathering was more than a meeting; it was the spark of a collective journey toward a profound integration of the arts into our societal fabric.
Unopened Life: A Call to Wonder
Exploring the Intersection of Arts, Science, and Entrepreneurship in Solving America's "Grand Challenges”
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Gratitude is a wilderness skill.
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As 2023 ends, my wish for you today is…
I'm Theo Edmonds, the Culture Futurist™
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Frequently Asked Quesations
2024-25 Culture Futurist™ Trends to Watch Report
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Driven by NeuroDynamism™, our technology-forward culture will force the business sector to reimagine its innovation playbooks.
Who's Job Is Truth?
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At its core, business represents a communal venture, and like any collective pursuit, it thrives on shared wisdom. To find it, we must push beyond the limitations of light in our shining city on a hill.
From the Vault
RAISING UP COURAGEOUS IMAGINATION: ALIGNING CULTURE CHANGE WITH INNOVATION FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK
Is the Great Resignation really America showing life as a country of Courageous Imagination? I believe the answer is yes. But, for creative people with new ideas on how to make the future of work, work for all, how can we better assess whether or not the organizations we will contribute our creativity toward, are organizations who are also willing to operate with Courageous Imagination as well?
CAMPFIRE 39: HOW TO DESIGN FOR CREATIVITY AND CURIOSITY
Creativity and curiosity might be traits we’re born with, but they can also be provoked, encouraged and measured from the types of experiences we design. The key to doing this is understanding that identity is cultural, and that experience is therefore a cultural question. We need to broaden our understanding of what creativity, curiosity and intelligence are to better suit the fast-moving world we inhabit, and to design experiences that suit the diverse, contradictory mass of individuals and identities we design for.
Learn more about the questions experience designers can ask ahead of their next project.
ARTPLACE AMERICA SERIES (SUMMER 2019)
Artplace was a ten-year collaboration (2010-2020) among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions with a mission to position arts and culture as a core partner in planning and development. I was asked to pen a series of 4 articles outlining how the corporate community might structure next-gen partnerships with the creative industries that improve employee health and economic resiliency. The four articles below are the result of the collaboration.
Prize launches Louisville's health initiative | Theo Edmonds Op Ed for Courier Journal
A New Shared Value "The Artist as Agent of Change" Profile by National Endowment for the Arts
WHAT IF you used art as a tool for promoting better health? TEDMED
The importance of cross-discipline engagement for improving health: Guest contribution by IDEAS xLab co-founder Josh Miller on Aspen Ideas Spotlight Health 2017, published by County Health Rankings & Roadmaps - a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program.