THE MANIFESTO

The story of the future is the one we’re writing now.

There is a new generation of business leaders. They feel a growing sense of social responsibility and urgency to play an impactful role in society. They're harnessing the full potential of capitalism as a dynamic engine for profound cultural, social, and economic transformation. In today’s world, citizens have entrusted businesses over governments and non-profits to create impact. The era of short-term, status-quo thinking is swiftly giving way to an era of visionary perspectives and an inspiring focus on creating possible and purpose-driven futures.

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Tameka’s Background

Tameka is a humanity-centered futurist, foresight strategist, educator, and speaker.

She believes it is her life’s purpose to democratize futures thinking and futures design to enable leaders and companies who care about their social and cultural impact with methodologies to yield movement in the right direction.

For over a decade, Tameka led brand and growth programs and teams for global technology startups and enterprises. Before launching The Future Quo, she served as the first head of marketing for Google’s urban innovation and sustainability arm, Sidewalk Labs. Tameka is also Associate Faculty for the Future of Work course at Columbia University. Previously, she taught at the Stevens Institute of Technology and St. John’s University.

Throughout her career, Tameka has had a unique vantage point of the impacts and opportunities of socially-impactful technologies and found that despite this realized power to design the future, most organizations operated with hindsight as opposed to foresight. Tameka has done various speaking engagements, facilitations, and advisory work introducing futures thinking to business and academic communities across North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

Born in Guyana and raised in St. Maarten before immigrating to the United States, Tameka additionally draws on perspectives gained through cultural and socioeconomic identity to confront the status quo in the culture of business.

Tameka holds a B.A. from the City University of New York, an M.S. from Columbia University, and is certified in strategic foresight.

Outside business life, you’ll catch Tameka wandering cityscapes and hunting for new art.