Nana Naisbitt is the first executive director of the Telluride Science Research Center, a position she assumed in January 2007, after managing the organization for four years as the executive director of Pinhead Institute. Naisbitt was the founder of Pinhead Institute, a Smithsonian Affiliate and science education non-profit and served as its executive director from April 2001 until December 2006.

In 2003, Naisbitt brought TSRC’s “Public Science Lectures” out of a cloistered classroom into the Telluride limelight. Since then, she has helped guide scientists to present their talks at an appropriate lay audience level. She renamed the lecture series “Pinhead Town Talks” and held them at the Library, later the Conference Center; created a cohesive marketing strategy; brought attendance up from 1-5 laypersons weekly per lecture to an average of 100 locals and visitors per lecture, creating the first high-level, academic science lecture series in the region. She has hosted more that 60 public science talks, attracting audiences up to 400 attendees.

Naisbitt specializes in interpreting science and technology for a lay audience. She has been named a "Smithsonian Research Collaborator" for her writings on natural history and is a member of the Encyclopedia of Life Steering Committee formed by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in 2004. As Pinhead’s director she was instrumental in catalyzing the Encyclopedia of Life Symposium in Telluride in February 2004, which brought together 40 of the world’s leading taxonomists, conservationists, and information technologists. The White Paper and Strategic Plan, which emerged from that meeting under the direction of Pinhead Institute, served as the basis for the $25 million dollar MacArthur Foundation grant awarded to the Smithsonian in 2007 to launch the Encyclopedia of Life project.

She partnered with the California Academy of Sciences to produce a public forum, in February 2002, to help frame the scientific, ethical, and philosophical debates surrounding emerging genetic technologies. Naisbitt designed the program and moderated it with panelists Dr. Rodney Brooks, Dr. Nina Jablonski, Dr. Robert Lanza, and Dr. Thomas Okarma. In May 2000, she designed and moderated a forum, entitled "Human Genome Human Being," in Beijing, China, in cooperation with Peking University and the Link Foundation.

With her father John Naisbitt and Douglas Philips, she wrote High Tech High Touch (Broadway Books, 1999), which was translated into twelve languages. She has appeared on the Leher News Hour, the BBC World Service, and NPR among other broadcasters, and has spoken at venues throughout the world including the Smithsonian Institution, California Academy of Sciences, Peking University, 92nd Street Y, the National University in Taiwan, and the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

In June of 2000, Naisbitt wrote "Will low tech replace high tech?" for TIME magazine's five part series, "Visions 21," which included articles by leaders and scholars Stephen J. Gould, Raymond Kurzweil, Bill Gates, and Freeman Dyson. In 1999, Fast Company selected her as one of 21 "thought leaders offering compelling ideas for the 21st century" along with Bob Pittman, Craig Venter, and others.

Naisbitt is active in the Telluride community, along with her three children. She served on the Telluride Ecology Commission for two years from 2005 – 2007, as the President of Telluride Friends of the Library from 2003 - 2006, was a member of the Robin Magee Memorial Committee in 2005 - 2006. She received her BA from University of Chicago in 1984.