MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- What does it mean "to future"? Beloved educator, bestselling author and Stanford d.school futurist-in-residence Lisa Kay Solomon is launching a new podcast, How We Future with Lisa Kay Solomon, to explore that question with changemakers across disciplines.

How We Future brings intentional, optimistic, and practical conversations about the future to a broad audience—from students, educators and parents, to entrepreneurs, leaders and committed community members who are eager to make tomorrow better than today. With her signature warmth, curiosity and humor, Lisa invites guests to share the choices, mindsets and everyday actions that help them shape a future worth living.

Each weekly episode features lively, approachable conversations with innovators, artists, athletes, educators and leaders. Early episodes include:

• A Conversation about Optimism amid Challenging Times with Ahmed Best, award-winning actor, futurist and Star Wars Jedi
• A Conversation about Improvising Possibilities with Dan Klein, Stanford lecturer on leadership, storytelling and theater
• A Conversation about Leadership Presence amid Ambiguity with Rae Ringel, executive coach, Harvard Business Review contributor and master facilitator 
• A Conversation about Futures Facilitation with Jeff Rogers, futurist, historian, experience designer and master of ceremonies
• A Conversation about Coaching Champions and Citizens with John Tanner, 10-time NCAA Champion Stanford Women's Water Polo Coach

"Too often, the future is framed as something that happens to us," says Solomon. "But every day we are all shaping the future with our choices, our imagination and our courage. This podcast is about making that approach more joyful, intentional and accessible."

About the Podcast

How We Future with Lisa Kay Solomon is a podcast about shaping the future intentionally, optimistically and strategically. Each week, futurist and educator Lisa Kay Solomon brings her signature energy to conversations with changemakers, asking how they "future" in their work and lives. It's joyful, curious and full of actionable steps. Whether you're a student, a leader or simply someone who wants to make tomorrow better than today, you'll leave each episode ready to play your part.

About Lisa Kay Solomon

With more than 25 years of experience in strategic foresight and design thinking, Lisa Kay Solomon helps leaders navigate complexity and shape a better future. She teaches popular futures-oriented courses at Stanford's d.school, co-hosted the NAIS podcast New View EDU for school leaders, and creates innovative civic engagement programs such as The Team for student athletes and The Futures Happening: Democracy Edition.

Her work has reached tens of thousands of students and next-gen voters. Lisa recently joined the board of The Long Now Foundation, serving on their Executive Committee, and helped build the K12 Futures library at Stanford to help infuse long-term thinking and empathic decision-making for the future into both classrooms and boardrooms.

Lisa is the co-author of the bestselling book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change and other works on innovation, leadership and design. She also developed the LinkedIn Learning class Leader as Futurist, which equips leaders to anticipate change and act with vision. A sought-after speaker and facilitator, she believes that the right conversation, at the right time, can be a transformative experience—and she brings that conviction to every classroom, initiative and podcast.

Availability

How We Future with Lisa Kay Solomon will be available October 14 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms.

For more information, visit howwefuture.substack.com

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