Lisa writes about the future with clarity, urgency, and hope.
Her writing includes topics like leadership, futures thinking, and the art of designing better conversations.
For her latest thinking, head straight to the How We Future Substack.
Books
Leading for Tomorrow: Unlocking Human Potential in the Era of Continuous Change and Endless Possibility
Lisa’s chapter in this new book explores how we can learn to lead with "Optimistic Humility," empowered by mindsets and practices of: Agency over Anxiety, Abundance over Scarcity, Opportunity over Obstacle, Becoming over Being
Moments of Impact:
How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change
This Wall Street Journal best-seller provides an accessible framework and tools to help leaders solve their most complex and vexing strategic challenges through creative and constructive problem solving sessions.
Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
Whether you're a business leader, aspiring entrepreneur, corporate innovator, growth investor, social impact change agent or enterprising student, this comprehensive guide helps you master ambiguity and create value from uncertainty. Design a Better Business has been translated into over 12 languages and is routinely used in business schools and innovation classes around the world.
“What if conversations at work actually mattered? Moments of Impact shows how they can, offering an actionable model for sparking creativity and driving change.”
Adam Grant, Author, Give and Take and OriginalsLeadership Perspectives
5 Pandemic Era Lessons on Leading through Drastic Change
Harvard Business Review, March 2025
Moments of Impact: The Value of Strategic Conversations
Harvard Business Review, September 2025
It’s Time To Take Culture Seriously
Chief Executive, April 2018-
☼ Learning to make the “right call” in the right moments – Fulcrum, September 2023
☼ How to Unlock Creative Collaboration With Presence and Play – singularityhub, February 2018
☼ The Best Leaders Know a Complex World Demands an Improvised Response – singularityhub, September 2017
☼ How Leaders Can Make Innovation Everyone’s Day Job– singularityhub, April 2017
☼ How Leaders Dream Boldly to Bring New Futures to Life – singularityhub, February 2017
☼ How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World – singularityhub, January 2017
☼ The New MBA: A Masters in Business Ambiguity – Medium, September 2015
Futures & Strategic Foresight
The Case for Futures-Centered Design
Medium, March 2019
Becoming Good Ancestors: The Urgency of Long-Term Thinking
Medium, October 2018
A Call for Better Futures: Lessons from The Smithsonian’s FUTURES exhibit
Medium, January 2022-
☼ Meet the change leaders: Lisa Kay Solomon, futurist – Fulcrum, February 2024
☼ The Man who Saw and Sparked the Future (again and again and again) – Medium, March 2022
☼ Educators as Futurists: A Conversation with Stanford d.school Leaders– education reimagined, March 2021
☼ Educator as Futurist: From Preparing the Future to Shaping the Future – Medium, October 2020
☼ Hack, Hustle and Design The Future – Medium, June 2019
☼ Leading for the Long View – Medium, May 2019
☼ Making Futures Tangible – Medium, May 2019
☼ The New MBA: A Masters in Business Ambiguity – Medium, September 2015
Civic Futures
The NCAA is having a Ted Lasso moment
Fulcrum, October 2021
Lessons on being a good teammate, building community, and strengthening democracy
Fulcrum, November 2023
Coaching citizen-athletes
Stanford Report, June 2023-
☼ Student Athletes Are Rallying Peers to Vote With the All Vote No Play Initiative – teenVOGUE, September 2022
☼ The Power of My Voice – Stanford Medicine, August 2022
☼ Amanda Gorman a Civic Futurist – Fulcrum, January 2021
“How can we be hopeful (and even joyful) about the future — without bypassing what is worrisome about the present? Lisa Kay Solomon has a plan for that.”
Citizen University