“We are bounded by time, surrounded by time and have the capacity to travel in time beyond our wildest imagining”

Michael Shaun Conaway

“We are bounded by time, surrounded by time and have the capacity to travel in time beyond our wildest imagining”

Michael Shaun Conaway

MY PURPOSE

My purpose is to unleash the greatness of people, to have them live extraordinary, fulfilled lives, while bringing about a thriving future for humanity and the planet.

FUTURIST

I help people and organizations see the future. Then help them with strategy, process and structure to focus on the critical actions that will have them realize that future.

Consulting – For the past decade I have facilitated future searching where we invent futures for companies, business units, products or projects. Then I help build structure and processes to keep the companies eye on the future they are realizing.

Coaching – My personal coaching clients range from Fortune 100 leaders to startup entrepreneurs. In our sessions we explore passion, purpose, values, goals and visions for the future. Then we roll our sleeves up and work through the issues and challenges that stand in the way of success and deep personal fulfilment. We focus on, leadership, self knowledge, conflict, hard conversations, team management, emotional and social intelligence and cause high performance.

COMPANIES I HAVE WORKED WITH

SPEAKER

Current Keynote Speeches

Being & Time – Humankind’s greatest breakthroughs have come from the minds of visionaries who were able to see a radically different future. How can we get our hands on that power? It turns out it’s hiding in plain sight.

Designing the Future – The best way to predict the future is to create the future. But how is that done exactly. In this talk we will look at how become great at creating futures big and small. You will be inspired to get out of your seat and start launching.

Collective Intelligence – In the natural world collective intelligence givers other species incredibly powerful thinking, understanding and acting. How can we reorganize our organizations with structures and processes that give us access

OTHER WORKSHOPS, & COURSES

Future Search – A whole system, strategic visioning process where participants move through a series of experiential stages that result in a new future for an organisation, initiative, product or service.

Purpose Led – Purpose is a driver and predictor of success in today’s world. In this talk and accompanied workshop we focus on generating an authentic purpose with real world impact.

Collective Intelligence – In the natural world collective intelligence givers other species incredibly powerful thinking, understanding and acting. How can we reorganize our organizations with structures and processes that give us access to collective intelligence? Inspiring talk and/or workshop.

Do What You Love Change the World – In this course you will discover your gifts and purpose, see a new future for yourself and the things you most care about in the world and then take action to realize that future.

FILMMAKER

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2121 FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

Director: Michael Shaun Conaway

Synopsis: WeRiseUP asks the questions: What is a successful life? What is a successful human civilization? Through this inquiry, the film examines the most pressing issues of our time, inspiring viewers to inquire for themselves, find their passion, and give their gifts to the world.

Featured Cast: His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Amina Mohammed (Deputy Secretary-General UN), Blake Mycoskie (CEO, TOMS Shoes), Prince EA (Spoken Word Artist), Moby (Grammy Musician), John Mackey (CEO, Whole Foods Market), Dwight Howard (NBA All-Star), Tom Chi (Co-Founder, Google X) Marie Forleo (Founder, B-School), Peter Diamandis (Founder, X-Prize), Luke Nosek (Founder, PayPal), Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

“It’s a bold and radical departure from the expert-driven documentary, and it settles, beautifully, in a series of significant and profound personal journal entries and a glimpse at the answer of how to change this world for the better.”
“An inspirational message that resonates with all the challenges humanity will be facing in the near future.”

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“An inspirational message that resonates with all the
challenges humanity will be facing in the near future.”

AUTHOR

Upcoming Book Release: The Futurists

In this book, Generative Futurist Michael Shaun Conaway takes you on a journey into the fabric of time to search for answers to the fundamental questions: What is time? How does time shape our being? When is now? How can we realize new futures?

Once you emerge from the rabbit hole you will find that a new perspective on the enigma of time has infinitely expanded the horizons of life. Come learn what it means to be a Generative Futurist and how to practice one of the most important disciplines for the future of humanity.

ABOUT MICHAEL SHAUN

Michael Shaun is endlessly curious about how life works, why we do things the way we do and how we might do them differently. This led him to become a phenomenological philosopher – someone who examines life from the way life shows up moment to moment. His current work in Being and Time is rooted in this tradition.

Michael Shaun’s purpose in life is to unleash greatness to bring about a thriving future. His mission is to empower and accelerate the redesign of our failing systems to create an anti-fragile, anti-rival world, one that works for all.

To this end he helped to create the field of Generative Futurism, the practice of generating or envisioning desirable futures at near and long timeframes, back-casting steps it would take to realize that future and then acting to take those steps moving forward in time. Simply put, this is the capacity to see and realize futures.

Michael Shaun is a frequent speaker on long-term strategy, the future and being and time. His keynotes have the uncanny power to shift culture by building a new narrative for the audience. His talks are journeys designed to leave the audience seeing from a new reality.

Michael Shaun Conaway is the founder of five highly successful ventures. He is an award-winning filmmaker, editing publisher of PROOF magazine, founder of Bold.ly NOW, a entrepreneur education platform, CEO of Storyworks, a social impact creative agency, and the non-profit Generative Futures initiative.

Michael Shaun is the director of award-winning documentary feature, WeRiseUP, a culture-shifting film featuring key global leaders. WeRiseUP asks a fundamental question: What is success for humanity?

Michael Shaun started his career in the mid-nineties as a writer/director for video games. By 2000 his creative agency, Storyworks became the go to agency for high tech companies looking to create visions of the future.

Current Projects

PROOF ZINE

Digital magazine with a mission to shine a light on people, organisations and ideas that stand as PROOF of a Thriving Future.

FUTURISTS TV

This ten part streaming documentary series explores what it would look like in one-hundred years if we got everything right.

BOLD.LY NOW

A digital education platform to help people and organizations see their best future and take actions to realize that future for themselves and for humanity.