Keynotes · Workshops · Coaching

Proven Futurist. Inventor. Entrepreneur.

Building the infrastructure that allows human intelligence and creativity to flourish alongside artificial intelligence.

Sally Dominguez is championing Human Intelligence Infrastructure: helping organizations build the systems, cultures and technologies that ensure human originality remains their greatest competitive advantage in the age of AI.

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Sally Dominguez
Sally Dominguez
Sally Dominguez
Sally Dominguez
Sally Dominguez

Activating optimism and creative confidence in others.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sally Dominguez is a multi-award-winning Australian inventor, designer, futurist and educator. Her strategic insights have helped global organizations navigate profound technological and societal change, from pioneering innovation strategy and circular systems to resilience, moonshot thinking and AI-enabled creativity.

Sally's work is united by a single mission: ensuring that organizations don't just adopt artificial intelligence, but strengthen the human intelligence that makes them impossible to copy.

She is the architect of Adventurous Thinking, EPIC Resilience, and Xpollinate, a governed enterprise platform for capturing, protecting and developing human-originated ideas.

Credentials include seven design awards (Nest and HOG), work in the permanent collections of the Powerhouse Museum, the Victoria & Albert and the Museum of the City of New York, six years judging ABC TV's New Inventors, and faculty teaching at Stanford and Singularity University.

Keynotes that activate possibility thinking.

Customized, interactive keynotes designed for 45 minutes plus Q&A. Every keynote addresses the rise of machine intelligence and emphasizes creative thinking so humans can use those tools for impact. Simultaneous translation to Spanish or Portuguese available.

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Human Intelligence Infrastructure

Helping Organizations Amplify Human Originality with AI

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Synergizing minds and machines, unleashing human innovation through AI. A hands-on activated keynote on trust, idea-sharing and continuous innovation, with Adventurous Thinking lenses practiced live.

  • Inclusive implementation of AI
  • Redefining workplace roles with human-centric strategy
  • Structuring creative thinking alongside machine learning
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Exploring Exponential Systems

2026 and Beyond

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The fundamental differences between linear and exponential thinking, adjacency mapping, pretotyping and purpose activation for leaders navigating accelerated convergence.

  • Understanding of exponential systems
  • Experience of possibility thinking
  • Adjacent Opportunities Mapping tool
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10X Leadership

Leading with Vision and Inclusion

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Purpose, trust and inclusion as the North Star metrics for exponential leadership, stimulating moonshot thinking and sustainable growth.

  • New metrics for strategy in the age of AI
  • Tools to provoke and develop moonshot thinking
  • Concepts for inclusive workplace culture
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Regenerative by Design

Circular Systems & Decentralized Energy

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Circular systems for strategic advantage (brand loyalty, supply security, ESG benefits) and a bright green, circular energy future spanning green hydrogen, storage and micro-factories.

  • Circular system design insights at multiple scales
  • Energy innovation overview and pipeline tools
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The 10X Human

Resilient, Transparent, Ingenious

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In the rush to celebrate 10X technology the human element has been neglected. This keynote reignites ingenuity, curiosity and personal resilience at the edge of chaos.

  • Activated 10X mindset and optimism
  • Structure for inclusive innovation
  • Best practice in failing forward

Future-forward workshops.

Fast-paced sessions full of hard thinking. Participants leave with 2 to 3 Adventurous Thinking tools immediately applicable in daily work, and an experience of the 10X mindset. From 90 minutes to multi-day; in-person preferred, online and hybrid available.

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Future Visioning

Reframe the future of your industry, explore moonshots, unexpected convergences and adjacent opportunities with Parkour, Adjacent Opportunities, ReThinking, Moonshot Development Map and EPIC Resilience.

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Moonshot Thinking

Free the mind into bearable discomfort and possibility thinking, then develop moonshot concepts without shrinking the scale of vision.

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Exponential Systems

Linear vs exponential strategy, Purpose, pretotyping, prosumer models and the lenses that keep teams adaptable under relentless change.

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The Future of…

Custom topic workshops on water, green energy, transport, food, health, retail, work and cities, producing a future-forward pipeline of impactful products and services.

Moonshot coaching and product pipelines.

Sally coaches Fortune 500 leadership teams, including Sony Corporation, on Exponential Leadership and Moonshot Thinking. Retainer-based brain-on-call consulting and specific project bookings available.

Co-Creation Product Pipeline Workshops combine bleeding-edge research with Adventurous Thinking tools to ideate, pretotype and deliver economical, sustainable concepts. Past collaborators include Breville, ClifBar and Dubai Tourism.

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What leaders say.

“Sally is a fantastic person in how she pushes the mindset of those she works with. Over the last couple of years she helped us not only envision possible futures but also see what exponential developments and key insights the future will bring.”

Ludvig Liljekvist, IKEA Innovation & Foresight

“Thank you for your incredible leadership and coaching!”

SONY Corporation Participant, 2021

“I worked closely with Sally for the past year and she is truly a one of a kind talent. Her energy and enthusiasm are infectious; she’s a skilled facilitator with the rare ability to get everyone in a room to be engaged, excited and participate in challenging and often uncomfortable exercises. She’s also a ton of fun to work with!”

Christine Miller Kelly, Design Thinking Strategy, US Dept. of State Digital Lab

“You're a rock star! I overheard people commenting on how perfect your keynote was to kick off ETS and set a tone of optimistic, creative problem solving.”

Organizer, Energy Thought Summit, 2022

Writing

Weak signals and future convergences.

Sally's Substack keeps the thinking current, reading recent affairs in innovation, originality and organizational resilience.

Sally Dominguez

@deminx

Sally Dominguez

Futurist, Strategist, Inventor, Educator. Curious about a lot. Passionate about idea-sharing - the most inclusive human activity. Generally pleased to meet you.

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