Ed Gillespie is a writer, communications specialist, serial entrepreneur and futurist.
He is the Co-Founder of Futerra Sustainability Communications working with organisations who are turning the sustainability imperative into an entrepreneurial opportunities for future generations. Their clients are building brands that are symbols of positive change.
Ed’s core talent is to take the complex, interconnected, interdependent nature of the many challenges the world faces, from climate change and sustainability to disruptive innovation, and make common sense of them for non-specialist audiences.
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Author of ‘Only Planet – a flight-free adventure around the world’ a book about his circumnavigation of the globe without getting on a plane.
“Allow[s] the world’s flaws and beauty to seep into your soul”. – The Independent
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Ed Gillespie is a keynote speaker, writer, communications specialist, serial entrepreneur and futurist. His core talent is to take the complex, interconnected, interdependent nature of the many urgent challenges the world faces, from climate change to disruptive competition, and make common sense of them for non-specialist audiences. He often works at C-suite level to help Boards understand big business’s role in ‘self-disruption’ of their own business models, and creating entrepreneurial ‘lifeboats’ of lean innovation.
Ed Gillespie is a seriously credible and experienced voice on a range of key future-focused issues; from ‘Big Data’, through the future of work and the impact of AI, robots and technology, to how climate action can and must be reframed as seismic opportunity not just catastrophic threat.
Professionally Gillespie is known for his own unique brand of authentic ‘insultancy’ – being strategically and playfully cheeky to clients, with judicious wit and wisdom to inspire them to greater heights and aspirations.
He is highly adaptable, constructively challenging and pushes audience assumptions of business as usual, opening hearts and minds and then mapping possible practical solutions and opportunities.
Gillespie is the co-founder of the Global Goals Accelerator, a business programme aimed at delivering the Sustainable Development Goals, the first two businesses supported were Panda Packaging (bamboo and coconut based plastic alternatives) and Agronomex (tackling food waste at the farm gate).
Ed Gillespie is a facilitator with the Forward Institute for responsible leadership, a board member of Greenpeace UK, a Trustee of Energy Revolution and alongside fellow futurist Mark Stevenson is one half of the ‘Futurenauts’ doing live shows and podcasts on pragmatic optimism.
A regular media contributor from the BBC to the Guardian, Gillespie is a sought after speaker, event host, lively compere and trusted Chairperson. Since 2001, he has presented all over the world, from Hong Kong to Bratislava, from Korea to Auckland and by audiences, from the UN and national governments, to multi-national corporations.
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