Julie Friedman Steele

Julie is the CEO and driving force behind the World Future Society, the most influential international authority for the past 50 years in future thinking. She is also on the Board of Advisors of the United Nations Women for Peace and the Managing Director in the Friedman Family Office. She has been authored and featured in the Encyclopedia Britannica’s 250th anniversary edition as a leading futurist and visionary, scored in the top 3% of her AI class at Stanford and wrote jokes for Louie Anderson on Family Feud. As a polymath, autodidact and a working background in entreprenuership, AI & technology, entertainment, science, structured finance and real estate, Julie is working to realize the vision that utilizing a futurist mindset will change our societal narrative. She is passionate about accelerating change being an empowering enabler for humanity. Julie thrives at the cutting edge of disruption and empathy.