About Rebecca
Technology will shape the future. But humanity is the hope the future needs.
For more than two decades, Rebecca Maklad has worked at the intersection of ideas, technology and human potential.
My Story
For more than two decades, I’ve worked alongside futurists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors and thought leaders exploring the forces reshaping business, technology and society.
I began my career helping other people communicate big ideas. I was part of the founding team at ODE Management, later founded Supernova Speakers, and went on to become CEO and Director of Future Crunch. Along the way, I advised experts on influence and authority, hosted more than 125 conversations through The DNA of Purpose, and eventually stepped onto the stage myself.
Over time, the question that interested me most began to change.
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It became less about what technology will do next, and more about what technological change will ask of us.
For years, I watched organisations invest heavily in developing qualities like judgement, adaptability, creativity, collaboration and leadership in adults. Then AI began changing the value of knowledge itself.
That led me to a simple question:
If these are the capabilities people will need to thrive at 30, 40 and 50, why are we waiting until adulthood to develop them?
That insight brought the future of work and the future of education together for me.
Today, through Future Crunch, I help organisations understand technological change and develop the human capabilities needed to navigate it well. Through Humanity Schools, I take that same conversation upstream, exploring what young people need to develop now for the world they are growing into.
For me, this work is also deeply personal.
Becoming a mother made the future feel less abstract. It made me think more deeply about the kind of world our children will inherit, and who they will need to become within it.
And many of the things that keep me grounded sit outside technology altogether: the ocean, nature, breath, presence, conversation and connection. They remind me that progress is not only about what we can build. It is also about what we choose to preserve, strengthen and pass on.
That is the belief underneath all of my work.
Technology will shape the future. But humanity is the hope the future needs.
What Rebecca is thinking about now
A note on human advantage in the age of artificial intelligence.
Rebecca writes essays exploring the ideas behind The Human Edge: what stays valuable as intelligence becomes abundant, how leaders earn trust at speed, and where human judgement, meaning and connection make the difference.
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Selected clients
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Agent, Future Crunch
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