Futurist Nikki Greenberg on Leading Before You're Led

Hear Greenberg's take on why boards must lead rather than react to technological change.

What will the boardroom look like in a decade? NACD’s Board Leadership Futurist Program brings NACD executives into conversation with leading futurists, historians, and business thinkers to examine the forces that will shape governance in the years ahead.

For Nikki Greenberg, the boldest move companies can make is often the simplest: Start over. She believes directors should question whether implementing gradual change may hold back the organizations they serve.

Greenberg is a futurist and an executive advisor, helping leaders align their businesses with the increasingly digital ways people live, work, and communicate. She is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York Technology Council and previously served on Urban Land Institute New York’s Real Estate Technology and Innovation Council. She is the CEO of Real Estate of the Future.

In this interview, Greenberg and NACD president and CEO Peter R. Gleason discuss the case for artificial intelligence expertise in the boardroom, how directors can break free of incremental thinking, and why a company’s physical assets are a strategic value driver.