Ruth Glendinning

Summary

I am the founder of Future Story Lab, a platform identifying & activating sense making tools for the unfolding future. The core of my work is building ecosystems of relationships, connections and creative partnerships in projects that are mapped to real needs in the market, catalyzed by expanding technology and activated by personal relationships. As a natural product of the ecosystems built, I design & implements platforms and systems to develop, produce & sustain local wealth. It was here that I emerged the cultural strategy model which demonstrates the importance of creating a balance between community, culture and commerce for sustainable economy and trademarked the “SLOW Tech® Incubator” (Sustainable Local Organic Work + Technology) concept in which specific technology is added to no- or low-tech community-based human-scale businesses to better equip them to thrive. Social Quant ~ I do for social capital what financial quants do for financial capital. I have a complex network of connections at the local, national & global level, all based on trust capital & shared values. I have a unique ability to recognize the patterns of past, present & future events & weave into a complex story with a wide variety of elements leveraging the power of the who, what, where, how & why of what's next. This emerges in many forms including language, underlying architecture of ideas, consumer products and inclusive, accessible economic engines. Underlying all of this is my passion for inclusion and accessibility, a message that became a driver for my work thanks to my late husband Keith Hogan who had a form of Muscular Dystrophy called Spinal Muscular Atrophy, whose story was captured in The Lucky Mutant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiwHyeY9QRM Specialties: ideation, social impact ecosystem building, strategic relationship development, brand messaging & public speaking