Karen Sands

Karen Sands is the CEO and founder of Futures By Design InstituteTM (FBDI) an innovative human potential refinery, personal and professional development resource for leaders who wish to effect conscious change in their lives and in the enterprises they guide and marketplaces they serve–transforming communities and co-creating positive futures.

A “life-stage expert,” Sands teaches others to value the gifts of each generation, creating unstoppable enterprises, teams and individuals, so they bring their best to the workplace, marketplace, and personal space to rock their AGE at every age and meet the Greatness Challenge of our times.

From her pioneering work in GeroFuturingTM, Sands formed the Ageless Way Academy a key component of the Future By Design Institute. Ageless Way Academy offers turnkey and customized curricula, strategic foresight consulting, and executive coaching for academia, non-profits, and businesses to dismantle the "silver ceiling” to combat age bias and elevate the value of older adults (40+) while raising consciousness about the importance of intergenerational collaboration and ageless aging across the life course for all generations.

As a high-impact Certified Master-Mentor Coach (MCC,BCC) and strategic partner, she offers tools, principles, and strategies for radical reinvention through her signature Future by Design™ programs that have catalyzed radical transformation for visionary change agents, CEOs, executive leaders of all sectors, social-entrepreneurs, and trusted advisors who reshape the world.

Sands is a distinguished bestselling author of 12 books, a firecracker speaker, game changer, and thought leader on the future of work & education, creating positive futures during VUCA times, leveraging the longevity economy, the future of aging & longevity, enterprise and personal wellness, the 40+ market, the business of aging and the aging of business, and the future of women leadership at the forefront of change.