Rita J. King: Harnessing Your Imagination to Create a Better Future

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On a mission to make the imaginative a reality, Rita J. King is a futurist, helping leadership teams around the world align values and goals. As Executive Vice President of Science House, a creative consultancy based in New York City, Rita J. King is on a mission to make the imaginative a reality. Her work helps focus leadership teams around the world align values and goals through applied imagination in order to create the future they can imagine.

The approach at Science House? Creativity is and can be used to solve any problem taking you from one point solution to the next in the most pragmatic way possible while being open to embracing mistakes in order to correct course in real time.

In addition to her work at Science House, she has served as Innovator-in-Residence at IBM, was a futurist at NASA, is a co-founder of Science House, a global influencer, a columnist in Inc, a futurist at the Science and Entertainment Exchange of the National Academy of Sciences, invent novel story architecture, character, technologies for major film and TV projects, as well as  an artist. King’s ability to harness the imaginative and make it a reality is unparalleled.

Listen in as King discusses ways we can all tap into our own innate creativity, what we can do about a shifting technological future, and the power of thinking outside our own traditional silos to better ourselves personally, professionally, and for the organizations, we belong to.

Want more? Join us at #BIF2018 where Rita will be a featured storyteller.

*Correction: The quote: “The creative adult is the child who survived…” at the beginning of the episode should be attributed to Julian F. Fleron.