“A True Visionary & Futurist”

Margaret Regan, president and CEO of The FutureWork Institute is a visionary and futurist who constantly researches the next 10 years to help her clients catch the wave before it drowns them. Every two years, she reinvents the organization by completely rethinking its structure to respond to “what’s next” for the workforce, workplace, and marketplace. She created a culture based on “myjob-myway, myperks-myway, my business-our way,” which allows staff to move fluidly in and out of several concentric circles: full-time or part-time staff, associates, associate partners, affiliates, etc. She has won the Promise of Innovation Award for her people, process, structure, and culture at The FutureWork Institute (FWI).

As a futurist and member of the World Future Society, Margaret is often asked to bring to her keynote presentations and consulting assignments a perspective on the next 10 years and their implications for workforce change management. Her keynote presentations, See the Future to Be the Future, are visual journeys into the next 10 years as ESIs and AI change the nature of how we work and serve clients. As a global diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant, Margaret has led executive teams in Japan, keynoted future-focused conferences in Europe, Asia, and North America, worked in Paris on French-American mergers and global summits, educated executive teams on cross-cultural differences, and conducted women’s studies in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Margaret operates at the cutting edge of change, using research and consulting expertise to help clients envision the future manager, employee, and customer. She works with her clients to help them lead change at every level, give them a competitive advantage in the war for talent, and provide the market insight to target products and services for an increasingly diverse and rapidly changing customer base. She also works with clients going through a change process to coach individual executives on leading the change. Having been the first woman executive in three different companies, she spends much of her time helping executives understand, recognize, and address personal, style, leadership, and behavioral issues. When new women entrepreneurs start their business, Margaret spends an afternoon or an evening with them, helping them get started and advising them on celebrating their wins and learning from their losses. She also spends a lot of time on women's work/life issues as they balance the entrepreneur’s life with family commitments. She has helped several women start their businesses and been there as a coach and colleague when they are ready to give up, or the work becomes more than they feel they can handle. She has also pushed women to step up into leadership roles, even when they think they are not ready, since men step up when they only have 60% of what is needed, and women tend to wait to have 100%. Armed with just brilliant ideologies, Margaret has been leading the company towards greater heights.

The FutureWork Institute, a global consulting firm that translates future trends to transform organizations, operates on five continents. It was also born because clients wanted to work with a woman-owned business. The FutureWork Institute is a certified women-owned business (WBE) incubator of innovation and change in addressing current and future workplace and marketplace issues.

As the Global Pandemic emerged, The FutureWork Institute became known as the firm that has the most experience in virtual collaboration and learning modalities. They gave birth to their sister company, CNDG UniVirtual, that has been building immersive virtual worlds for 12 years. To help keep social distance, Margaret created the FutureWork Conference Center in immersive virtual reality with CNDG/UniVirtual. This allows clients to hold conferences, meeting and training in auditoriums, exhibit halls, meeting rooms and classrooms with breakout spaces in a Mountain Cabin, Space Station, Tropical Island, a Tokyo or Paris office, etc.. What clients find so important in the “Now Normal” is that the Center allows employees to create their diverse avatars and go to the cinema together, learn dances from different cultures, ice skate, jet ski, go hang gliding and ride in a hot air balloon with colleagues without worrying about social distance and without suffering the endless Zoom fatigue. This is all part of Margaret’s focus on helping clients achieve a MindShift, a HeartShift, and a SkillShift in creating a more inclusive, future-focused culture and environment. IEWL