Futurist Erica Orange on Overcoming Boardroom Inertia 

Hear Orange's view on protecting individual agency as time, trust, and truth run low in the AI era.

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.  

In an age of misinformation, how can one distinguish fact from fiction? According to Erica Orange, that’s where human judgment and agency come into play.

Orange is cofounder of Wake the Future, a multimedia advisory company. She is a partner with The Future Hunters, a futurist consulting firm that identifies and analyzes long-term trends impacting business. Orange is also the author of AI + The New Human Frontier: Reimagining the Future of Time, Trust + Truth.

In this interview, Orange and NACD senior vice president of content Mohamed Younis explore the clash between accelerating technology and boardroom inertia, why truth is becoming harder to verify, and how directors can protect their judgment. ...