RECENT WORKS (2023-Present)
2024-25 Culture Futurist™ Trends to Watch Report
READ NOW - Driven by NeuroDynamism™, our technology-forward culture will force the business sector to reimagine its innovation playbooks.
Emerging Leadership Opportunities in America’s Nonprofit Arts Sector
READ NOW - 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
READ NOW - 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!
Who's Job Is Truth?
READ NOW - 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.
Beyond Limits of Light
READ NOW - 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". READ NOW
Managing Creative Tension Between People + Ideas
READ NOW - Unexpected ways artists and scientists are working together to ignite a new wave of transformational creativity in corporate America
Children of the Digital Dawn: How Gen Z May Finally Harmonize America’s Geographic & Cognitive Divides
READ NOW ... plus an original Culture Futurist folkstory inspired by Dr. Seuss about the power of people who live authentically, choose love, and lean into the power of an artful life.
Gratitude is a wilderness skill.
READ NOW - As 2023 ends, my wish for you today is…
I'm Theo Edmonds, the Culture Futurist™
READ NOW - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Genius is a Cultural Outcome
READ NOW - 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.
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? Read more and follow me on Medium.
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.
A GENXER'S NEW YEAR'S WISH FOR GENZ LEADERS: 6 SUPREME HEAVIOSITIES FOR YOUR JOURNEY AHEAD
My New Year's Wish for CAM’s Emerging Leaders: 6 Supreme Heaviosities for Your Journey Ahead
I want to tell you a quite possibly true story. The past few days, weeks, and years have been strange. Oddly though, not strange in an unfamiliar sense. Just strange in a way that brought forward a forgotten voice inside of me that whispered, "If you hold still and quiet your mind, you may discover a different path. One you overlooked and missed before. Before the plague. Before you got so consumed with all of your doing."
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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.