Dr. Terri Horton

Dr. Terri Horton is a workforce futurist and founder of FuturePath, LLC. She is a future of work expert. Her expertise sits at the intersection of the future of work, artificial intelligence & the impact on business & people strategies. She is a consultant, corporate trainer, futurist coach, international speaker, & author that delivers high-impact and future-focused strategies and solutions for organizations, business professionals, and entrepreneurs. Her superpower is her unique ability to synthesize her background in corporate strategy, futuring and foresight, learning & organizational development, brand strategy, and higher education to deliver insights & results for clients to succeed in the accelerated unfolding of the future work. Dr. Horton works with organizations to humanize the workplace by improving culture, worker experience, engagement, developing emotionally intelligent leaders & teams, crafting future-focused learning & reskilling strategies & using artificial intelligence & data ethically & responsibly. She coaches business professionals & entrepreneurs to think, act & perform like futurists, to design their futures with purpose & intention, grounded in foresight, resilience, hyper-relevancy, audacious boldness & a commitment to unapologetically thriving on their terms in the future of work. Dr. Horton is a widely recognized thought leader on the future of work, an international speaker & SME with global research consultancies. She has provided strategic insights for the Pew Research Center, Forbes, the Obama Foundation Scholars Program & one of the largest community college districts in the United States. She is a Forbes 50 over 50 nominee & a TEDx speaker. She is the author of Force Majeure: A Futurist’s Guide to Boldly Thriving on Your Terms in Future of Work. She has provided training, coaching, & keynote speeches for Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, associations, higher Ed, government agencies, international officials & executives from Asia, Europe & Africa. Prior experience includes advertising executive roles with global media organizations & roles in higher Ed as associate dean & chair. She holds an EdD focused on organizational change & leadership from USC. Her research focused on the FOW, AI, & the skills gap crisis. She holds a MA in Org Mgmt, MBA, micro-credentials in AI business strategy from MIT, data analytics & HR from Cornell University & training in future studies from IFTF & is EQ-i 2.0 certified. Book Dr. Horton for keynotes, consults, coaching, training, board presentations, workshops & podcasts.