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Nikki Greenberg is a world-leading futurist and multi-award-winning keynote speaker, focussed on preparing organisations and leaders for a tech-enabled future.
Nikki Greenberg helps leaders reimagine their businesses to bring them into alignment with the increasingly digitised way that people live, work, and communicate today.
She has held leadership positions with Fortune 500s, most recently serving as Head of Technology Strategy for Real Estate at Australian investment manager QIC. She is the founder of Women in PropTech and co-chair of the Technology and Innovation Council for ULI in NYC.
She is a highly respected and highly after thought leader, speaker and commentator. She is the recipient of a vast number of awards, including being recognised as one of the Top 15 Most Popular Future Trends Keynote Speakers, CIO View’s Five Most Influential Women in Real Estate to Watch, and as a finalist at MIPIM Global PropTech Awards.
A globally recognised visionary at the intersection of real estate, technology, and strategy, Nikki Greenberg holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture, a Master’s in Architecture, and a Master’s in Commerce with a focus on international business.
A truly global citizen, Nikki Greenberg’s career has spanned the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, and has worked with leading organisations including Lendlease, Brown Harris Stevens, Greenland Australia, and Koichi Takada Architects.
With a global portfolio, Nikki brings informed, commercially grounded insights to real-world challenges and is widely regarded as fluent in the language of business strategy, the language of the built form, and technology innovation.

From magazines to online press and podcasts, Nikki is a trusted voice on future trends, leadership, sustainability, and architecture.
She has featured on a number of industry podcasts, including Risk in Context, NAIOP Podcast, Nareit’s REIT Report, CRE With CBCworldwide, The Jason de Sousa Show, Point of View With Gil Rosen, Speaking Business, the Proptech Podcast, REAL Time, UnderDog, and The PlaceOS Podcast.
She also hosts her own podcast – The Visionaries Podcast. An ultimate guide on how to turn bold ideas into reality, Nikki has interviewed visionary leaders such as Anna König Jerlmyr, Kyle Scott, Judy Baker and Tim Papandreou on building a content business, solving global poverty, retaining and engaging Gen-Z, digital fashion, inclusivity and innovation, and the future of workspaces.
– Speaker of the Year in Future Trends and Technologies (2025)
– LinkedIn Top 10% Creator in USA (2024)
– CREI Top Influencer List (2023, 24, 25)
– Top Nine Most Influential Women in PropTech (2024)
– ULI Global Luminary (2022)
– Top 25 Most Influential Owners, Dealmakers, Creators, and Innovators List (2021)
– Best Mixed-Use Development by Property Council Australia (2016)
– Gold Award at ICSC Asia Pacific (2016)
– Five Star Award for High Rise Residential Architecture at Asia Pacific Property Awards (2016)
– City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition Winner (2012)
Nikki has delivered keynote talks for organisations including American Public Works Association, Bank of America, Barings, Brookfield, CIO, Cityscape, Innovation Norway, MIPIM, NAR, Smart Cities Expo, and UN-Habitat.
Future of Work in the Age of AI: Human First, AI Next: Preparing Your Team For the Future, Today: Nikki leverages two decades of global leadership experience to demystify AI and reveal practical strategies for creating dynamic, inclusive workplaces where innovation thrives, collaboration flourishes, and teams are empowered to navigate change.
Key Outcomes
– Create an AI quick start guide
– Learn actionable steps to leverage AI immediately
– How to blend human expertise and AI tech
– Leverage generational strengths
– Design five five-year technology roadmap
Future of the Built Environment: Today to 2050: Creating Places For the Future: Nikki delivers a light-hearted yet insightful keynote exploring how to shape future-ready places by blending technological advancements like AI and robotics with a human touch, creating inclusive, resilient places that enrich lives.
Key Outcomes
– Understand future demand
– Gain insights into demographic shifts
– Tech trends and readiness
– Inspiring future places
– Actionable roadmap development
Future of [Insert Industry]: Journey to 2030: How to Leverage the Next Five Years to Become Your Industry’s Most Admired and Forward-Thinking Company: Nikki equips audiences to proactively shape their organisation’s future by navigating key trends like AI, generational shifts, and workplace evolution, offering a forward-thinking framework to embrace change, harness emerging technologies, and drive success in the next five years.
Key Outcomes
– Practical insights you can implement today
– Understand how technology is transforming industries
– Overcome barriers to change
– Be a truly visionary leader
The Future Project: In a Time of Disruption, Optimism is a Strategy: Drawing on 20 years of global leadership experience, Nikki leads audiences through a series of thought-provoking exercises that reveal the long-term consequences of their current trajectory, exploring the impact of even one intentional change and helping to unlock bold possibilities.
Key Outcomes
– 3 futures framework
– Future opportunities scenarios
– Build actionable routines
– Explore the default future, daring future, and the designed future
– Engage in emerging technologies
– Be Future-Ready: How to Create the Organisation of Tomorrow, Today
– Creating Cities of the Future
– Superhuman Organisations: Human and AI
– AR and the Metaverse: Convergence of Physical Space and Cyber Space
– Gen Z: The 2030 Opportunity
– iCommerce: The New eCommerce
– Sustainability: Pioneering the Future of Urban Living
– AI for a Sustainable Future: Innovating for People, Planet, and Profit
– The Future Traveller
– Embracing Technology to Reshape Shopping Experiences
– What Cities Will Be Like When AI Takes Over
– Revolutionising Construction: NextGen Technologies
– Future Construction: Robot and Human
– The Happy Hybrid Workplace
– Peak Performance: Optimising the Digital, Mental, and Office Space
– Superhuman Workforce: Human, Cyborg, and AI

– Future of Construction
– Future of Consumer Goods
– Future of Gen Z and Alpha
– Future of Homes
– Future of Innovation
– Future of Insurance
– Future of Marketing
– Future of Office
– Future of Public Sector
– Future of Real Estate
– Future of Retail
– Future of Smart Cities
– Future of Technology
– Future of Travel
Nikki provides a range of corporate services alongside her keynote speaking, such as:
– High-impact, short engagement executive briefings with leadership teams
– Scenario planning workshops
– Immersive workshops where teams explore future scenarios, risks, and strategic responses
– Quarterly advisor retainer
– Annual advisor retainer
– Ongoing board member engagement
Barings, Brookfield, CBRE, CICSC, CIO, Cityscape Global, Harvard Business School, Innovation Norway, Institute of Directors, KONE, Marsh, MFAA, NABCA, National Association of Realtors, NEOM, New York Energy Week, Principal, Smart City, UN-Habitat, Urban Land Institute
Nikki showed how there are points in time that change everything and that today, with AI as one of them, really hit home.
Stanford University
Feedback on Nikki’s session has been amazing. A lot of differnet people have contacted me to suggest things we need to start doing as a business because of what she highlighted and discussed.
Frasers Property
Her topic was both entertaining and relevant. Our audience was very engaged and it made for a good wrap up to our conference.
Principal
It was a great one to close on. Sometimes we are so busy thinking about the problems of today that it’s great to be challenged to look ahead.
National Association of Realtors
Listening to Nikki, there isn’t a fear about the technology that’s out there in the future – rather we need to embrace it.
Marc Selvitelli, CEO, NAIOP
Best presentation of the day!
Mike Butcher, Editor-at-Large, TechCrunch (London)
Nikki’s lunch keynote was incredibly thought provoking. Nikki’s willingness to volunteer her time, energy, and support on behalf of our practice was greatly appreciated… and enriched our event with her presence. We hope that Nikki can join us again.
Jeffrey S Alpaugh, CEO AON North America (Marsh, Chicago)
I believe the audience had their eyebrows raised a few times and the leaders starting to think about generation Z more seriously. I hope that we get a chance to have [her] onboard again in another setting, great way for everyone to get up to speed on the trends out there.
JN, CBRE Global Investors 2021 (London)
I’m so thankful that we engaged Nikki Greenberg. It was such a great way to segway to talk about our organization’s future vision
MCB, Vice Chair, Appraisers Foundation (Washington DC)
Nikki’s topic ‘The 2030 Opportunity’ enabled us to all think about what’s coming next, highlighting mega trends that will shape the future of our industry. We had an outstanding turnout and insightful event, thanks so much Nikki!
Opteon (Sydney, Australia)