CYNDI COON.
THREATCASTING CO-CREATOR.
Cyndi is the Director of Threatcasting.ai, the founder and principal futurist at Applied Futures Lab, founder of Laboratory5, and founder and publisher at Turkey Hill Press. Co-founder of Arizona State University’s Threatcasting Lab and Press, where she collaborates with diverse teams to anticipate future threats and opportunities. Cyndi is the co-author of Threatcasting (2022) and the author of Thrive! Creative's Guidebook to Professional Tenacity (2019), numerous reports, articles and book chapters. Her use of imagination, combined with her playful approach to research, drives her passion for human-centered, self-powered innovation.
Cyndi Coon is a visionary, a time traveler, and rule-bender, using creativity, imagination, and play for good. As an Applied Experiential Futurist, she leverages data, science, and curious questions from her research to drive a deep human-centric investigation of the future across enterprises, governments, higher education, industry, the military, and private partnerships.
She is an Affiliate at the Center for Emergency Management & Homeland Security. Co-Chair of the Human Wisdom Committee IEEE Planet Positive. Chief Media Officer for Content Evolution. She leads the i4j (global innovation for jobs workforce) and Coolabilities communities, promoting inclusive and forward-thinking solutions. She is a Web 3 advisor and a Generative AI play trainer.
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Constellation of Experience
Cyndi has peered into the future of Accessibility, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Bio-Health, Coolabilities, Covid-19, Design Fiction, Digital Currency, Digital Equity, Disabilities, Gender Equality, Human Ecosystems, [the] Individual, Information Warfare, Leadership, Mis/Dis/Mal Information, Ship Building, Sports, Truth, Workforce, Weaponization and more. Her clients and collaborators include the Army Cyber Institute, BioDesign Institute, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program, Homeland Security, National Guard, Sandia National Lab, and the US Secret Service, to highlight a few.
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