Author and Speaker on Future Exploration and Storytelling
Stefaan Vandist began his career as a brand strategist and now gives lectures on trends, future exploration, sustainable innovation, and moderates discussions on climate and circular challenges.
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Gain control over your future narrative
Stefaan Vandist is an experienced keynote speaker and coach with over 25 years of expertise in sustainable business innovation and future-inspired storytelling. Sustainability is the common thread throughout his work. With his lectures and coaching program ‘The Magic of Storytelling’, he helps organizations gain control over their future narrative.
As the author of impactful books such as “We, Myself & AI (2018)”, “Pretopia (2022)”, and “Provotyping the Future (2024)”, he offers clear perspectives aimed at liberating the future from dry reports and technical jargon. As a curator of Love Tomorrow, he also contributes to programming a future-positive conference at the Tomorrowland festival site. Stefaan motivates leaders to leave a lasting legacy and encourages the transition to a sustainable society as the greatest adventure of our time.
We create our stories, and then the stories create us.
For Stefaan Vandist, everything begins and ends as a story. Your youth, your career, the organization you have built, and perhaps even your investment fund, … everything is a story. Every meaningful sequence of actions is shared as a story. But what message do you want to leave behind?
Most leaders will say it’s about legacy. They hope to leave a legacy for which future generations will thank them. As a keynote speaker, Stefaan Vandist inspires large groups to gain control over their future narrative. As a coach, he helps organizations write, share, and experience their own stories, supported by his program ‘The Magic of Storytelling’.
Storytelling has the power to reshape our reality and transform challenges into opportunities. Stefaan has over 25 years of experience helping organizations with narratives, from advertising to sustainable branding and business innovation, contributing to a future-proof society. He does this through keynotes, workshops, and in-depth coaching programs.
Every lecture by Stefaan Vandist is experienced as a pilgrimage where he takes his audience on a journey of future exploration. What are the major forces of change impacting our organization? And how do we gain control over our own future narrative? His lectures are always tailored and can shed new light on energy transition, regenerative agriculture, circular economy, innovation in construction, and trends in urban development.
Stories give meaning to facts
To predict the future, one must vividly imagine, share, create, and celebrate it. That is the essence of every future-exploring keynote by Stefaan Vandist. Together with his audience, he dives into trends and ‘waves of change’ that stir their industry and looks the future straight in the eyes to create a bold, connecting, and attractive vision of the future.
He takes you on a pilgrimage to visit the pioneers who utilise the crème de la crème of science, technology, and creativity. In this way, he takes your audience on a brisk journey from one enlightening example to another to make that vision tangible.
With his experience in crafting stories for organisations, he provides concrete steps to bring new Future Narratives to life. Sustainability is always the common thread that holds everything together.
New energy arises in the audience when they realise that sustainability is not only about necessity, dry reports, or technical jargon—it is about unlocking new possibilities for innovation and change.
Learn the art, craft, and magic of storytelling
Are you ready to shape the future with a compelling new story that resonates and connects? During the masterclass by Stefaan Vandist, you will discover the fundamental elements, structures, and core principles of storytelling that can enhance your organisation’s narrative power.
“First we create our stories, and then our stories create us.”
As brilliantly articulated by Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens, the foundations of civilisation arose from our ability to believe in great stories. We create knowledge, promote abstract ideas, and weave stories that inspire, enabling us to build cities, forge religions, and even resolve conflicts. Over the past two millennia, stories often celebrated gods, wealth, or nation-states.
Let us now use storytelling to celebrate new visions of our shared future.
Stories are mental post-its that allow us to anchor ideas and beliefs in the minds of your audience. Our brains are increasingly allergic to predictability. Boredom is the enemy, and as storytellers, it is our task to entertain the brain. See yourself as a DJ at the controls, moving large groups of people. When you harness the power of storytelling, you start a chain reaction of dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins—also known as D.O.S.E. These neurotransmitters affect how your audience feels, and when they feel good, they connect more deeply with your message.
In 1.5 hours, you will learn how to create stories that not only captivate but also inspire action. Central to the masterclass are the building blocks of my Storytelling Canvas. This tool helps you gain an overview and select the best ingredients for your story. Inspired by historical speeches, the best keynote speakers, Netflix documentaries, and films from animation studios like Pixar, we explore the techniques to shape and enhance your story, so you engage your audience on a deeper, emotional level.
At the end of the masterclass, your team will understand the basic principles of storytelling that form the core of branding, marketing, content creation, PR, and HR communication.
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