www.worldxo.orgThe World Experience Organization is where thought-leaders from diverse experience sectors collaborate in order to increase the impact of experiences: increase profit, improve wellbeing, and build a better society. There are 2 key problems / opportunities in the Experience Economy: 1. Coronavirus has decimated swathes of experience-oriented organizations.2. Experience sectors are way too siloed.So, I'm part of a team of experience pioneers forging a new global alliance to solve these problems. We believe the UX and CX designers can learn from - and inspire - immersive theatre creators and destination management companies, that EX designers and experiential retailers can learn from - and inspire - games designers and XR creators... etc. Each experience sector has so much to teach, and learn from, the others.If you're an experience pioneer - in UX, EX, CX, escape rooms, immersive theatre, gaming, AR, VR, mixed reality, tourism, museums, attractions, urban planning, destination design etc - & would like to know more, get in touch. You'll be joining a band of exceptional people from around the world... ... from award-winning experience innovators who've changed the way we think about experiences, to experience pioneers who've turned their madcap ideas into businesses that have raised tens of millions of dollars and pounds.

As a futurist since 2004, and as a time, experience and wellbeing thought leader, I give insprational keynote talks via expert speaker agency, Chartwell Speakers.

I'm advising the UK government on its strategy for the Experience Economy, identifying innovations, trends and opportunities.

We advise clients from AVIS to VISA with smart thinking via keynotes, white papers and workshops.Our global client list includes HSBC, KFC, Kayak, KPMG, Marriott, Nomura, IDEO, Disneyland, Facebook, Ferrero Rocher, and Toyota.We also advise smaller firms & startups: eg, Gudoo in London, Joan Creative in NY, Gloo in Bordeaux. To be good futurists, you have to be a generalist. We report on topics as diverse as the future of... work, tech, travel, food, financial services, society etc. We are experts in the Experience Economy.

Through keynotes, workshops and consultations, I'm working with the partners at this very successful architectural practice in Santa Barbara and Santa Monica to evolve the company culture and enhance the employee experience. This practical work is based on insights and discoveries from leading and lesser known sociologists and psychologists - including those reported in my award-winning book, Time And How To Spend It.

Carbon13 is the venture builder for the climate emergency. We are selecting and investing in 1000 entrepreneurs over five years who will build scalable ventures with the collective potential to reduce CO2e emissions by over 400 million tonnes. Applications are open now for would-be founders from technical and commercial backgrounds, including from untapped talent pools. The eight month Venture Builder invests in founders, and supports them to Meet their “perfect” cofounder Get beyond the prototype to create a real, valuable venture De-risk the venture process Build a business model around their venture which both optimises commercial value and allows for a meaningful impact on emissions Secure access to finance after the end of the programme to continue the journey to a scalable venture in the low carbon economy. The first cohort will begin their journey in Cambridge, UK on 2 March 2021. www.carbonthirteen.com/venturebuilder

Teaching the National Portrait Gallery's designers to create more compelling designs based on insights on how to design time and experiences discovered by scientists.

The TTC is pioneering a new way to travel.Transformational travel is intentionally travelling to stretch, learn and grow into new ways of being and engaging with the world.If you believe in the theory of the Experience Economy, the evolution of capitalism is from the agricultural economy to the industrial/manufacturing economy, to the services economy, to the experiences economy, and next to the economy of transformations. If that all sounds strange, read The Experience Economy by Joe Pine & Jim Gilmore. It's also in my books Stuffocation & Time And How To Spend It.

The Financial Times named this one of the Books Of The Year 2019. Based on science, TIME AND HOW TO SPEND IT reveals a revolutionary, science-backed approach to choosing and designing experiences. TIME AND HOW TO SPEND IT contains exceptional insights for designing all kinds of experiences: employee experience (EX), customer experience (CX), and user experience (UX).

"Like The Tipping Point meets Freakonomics - with a huge idea at its heart. Fascinating, inspiring, and great fun to read"—The Sunday Times Stuffocation touched a nerve all round the world. Reported by more than 200 media, from the New York Times to TIME, MSNBC, ABC, BBC, CBC, and Le Monde.Stuffocation is about what I believe is the most important cultural trend of the 21st century: the shift from materialism to experientialism. Instead of looking for happiness, identity, status, and meaning in material things – stuff – we are now finding them in experiences instead.

I have commented on trends happening now, forecast the future, and written for many of the world's leading publications, including The Times, the Financial Times, the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, the Evening Standard, The Independent, Conde Nast Traveller (UK), Conde Nast Traveler (US), Men's Health, Departures, Wallpaper, Esquire and GQ.

This startup project is on hold. The WXO is eating my life and taking off. This startup aims to fix a consumer experience that is all too often inefficient, frustrating and awkward: gifting. (Based on my first book, Stuffocation, I 18 months of experiments, iterating, improving & creating some great value (eg sent one person to a balloon festival in the Italian Alps - the experience was, and the video is, spectacular). But the team wasn't right, I was learning too slow, & we were burning cash too fast.)

Using insights from social scientiests - especially those I gathered for Time And How To Spend It - to advise Eurest, Compass Group's food & beverage services firm.

Loved my time working with this long established speaker agency. Gave inspiring & future-based talks from USA to UK, via places like Luxembourg & Finland.

This tech startup aimed to help people better remember their experiences. Then pivoted to workforce management. Great learnings!

Experience gifting startup inspired by the research for my book Stuffocation... & the problems of sorting out a friend's 40th birthday gift. Built a team, identified a problem and a customer, crafted a 'wizard of oz' solution (i.e. (looks automated but really it's humans running the show). Iterated through 4 versions. Ended up with a beta product that made a lot of people quite happy. Made a ton of mistakes, learned a lot, but we weren't learning or moving forward fast enough, so I closed it to analyse what was good & what was bad, and be in a better position next time around.

I was a keynote speaker for, and the editor of, LS:N Global, the consumer insight, innovation and trends publication from trends consultancy The Future Laboratory. I presented at our own forums, at conferences and to clients in New York, Shanghai, Cannes, Paris, Stockholm et al.I created and managed a network of correspondents who spanned the globe from Shanghai to Sao Paolo and from Melbourne to New York, as well as an in-house team. Together, we filtered the noise to find the signal, for clients such as Nike, Nokia, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and Dunhill.

I wrote the futurology column for Future's leading tech magazine, T3, where I made entertaining, informative reading out of complex topics such as the futures of money, sex, synthetic biology and nanotechnology.

I earned my journalist spurs in this role at a real-life weekly woman's magazine named Full House, learning from former The Sun and News of the World journalists how to ferret out hard-to-get stories, and how to turn those into visceral first-person reads. I was a key part of the team that, in a struggling market, improved sales by 40% - by finding and writing cover stories that would make your, and our new readers', hair stand on end.

As senior trends analyst I managed researchers and writers to produce incisive trends analysis and foresight for companies such as Absolut, BMW and Coors.

Managing a team of five, I took an unloved quarterly and turned it into a successful bi-monthly for the world's leading publisher of inflight magazines.

My first in-office role after completing my journalism course: fact-checking and copy-editing.

Creatively sold advertising as part of an award-winning team: we won the Online Publishers' Association award for sales team of the year.