ABOUT THEO EDMONDS

Culture Futurist®

(who still believes in WONDER)

I’m an Appalachian innovator living in the Rockies. For thirty years, I have fused arts, science, and business to shape the future of American innovation.

WORKING WITH MY HEAD

I'm an award-winning future-of-work researcher, pracademic, and artrepreneur with unique skills in bridging creative industries, brain science, and innovation. I've built strategic, interdisciplinary partnerships across healthcare, academics, technology, and Fortune 100 corporations to unlock the human creative potential of organizational culture and strategy.

WORKING WITH MY HEART

While the mind conceives new ideas, the heart must believe to turn imagination into innovation. In an age of technology, the poet in me knows that we need a bigger language for innovation. Sustaining wonder, trust, freedom, and joy is essential. The science of how teams think, feel, and do is making big jumps. Innovation is converging with arts and business to create new possibilities for human progress. Creativity is currency in this next chapter of American exploration—the Wonder Economy™. 

WORKING WITH MY HANDS

From the Aspen Ideas Festival and U.S. State Department's Cities Summit of the Americas to the United Nations General Assembly Science Week and Brain Capital Week in Silicon Valley, I've guided some of America's most innovative leaders and teams in building their Creative Brain Capital™—the skills needed to forge beyond old frontiers and be brave enough to engage in acts of courageous imagination.