

Spencer Glendon
Founder, Probable Futures
Spencer Glendon founded Probable Futures, a nonprofit initiative aiming to change how we think about, talk about, and plan for the future of our society and our planet. Probable Futures offers frameworks, tools, and storytelling to help people understand, prepare for, and choose between the futures that the climate offers us. The online platform provides educational materials about the workings of Earth’s systems and climate models as well as local and global projections of heat, cold, precipitation, drought, wildfire, and shifting climate zones. All Probable Futures materials are free to anyone in the world. Glendon is also a pro bono consultant to many institutions including governments. He has worked in Michigan, Chicago, Germany, Russia, China, and Boston. For many years, he conducted and directed research as a partner at Wellington Management. He is an executive fellow at Harvard Business School and a senior fellow at the Woodwell Climate Research Center.