Futurist-In-Residence

Futurist-in-Residence

Embed future thinking into how your organisation actually makes decisions.

A Futurist-in-Residence is a strategic foresight partner embedded with your organisation over time, helping leaders anticipate change, test assumptions and make better decisions in the face of uncertainty. Rather than delivering one-off talks or static trend reports, this role integrates future thinking directly into your planning cycles, leadership conversations and strategic choices.

As your Futurist-in-Residence, I work alongside your leadership, strategy, innovation or people teams, or with internal innovators, to bring structured foresight into live decisions - supporting you to move from reactive responses to deliberate, future-aligned action.

What this engagement involves

Each residency is tailored, but typically includes a combination of:

  • Ongoing futures scanning and sense-making
    Identifying emerging trends, weak signals and systemic shifts relevant to your organisation — and interpreting what they actually mean for your strategy, workforce and operating model.

  • Scenario thinking and strategic challenge
    Developing plausible future scenarios to stress-test assumptions, reveal blind spots and explore strategic options before choices are locked in.

  • Advisory support for live decisions
    Providing foresight-informed input into current strategic questions, investment decisions, transformation initiatives or policy choices as they arise.

  • Leadership and team capability building
    Strengthening futures literacy across your organisation so teams can think long-term, hold uncertainty productively and make decisions with greater confidence.

  • Facilitated conversations that matter
    Working with executives, boards or cross-functional teams to surface implications, align perspectives and translate futures insight into action.

Who it’s for

This service is designed for organisations that want future thinking to be ongoing, practical and embedded, including:

  • Executive and leadership teams navigating complexity or transformation

  • Strategy, innovation and transformation functions

  • Boards seeking independent future insight to inform governance and long-term direction

  • HR and People teams aligning workforce strategy to emerging realities

Why a Futurist-in-Residence?

In environments shaped by uncertainty, disruption and compounding change, the organisations that perform best are not those that try to predict the future, but those that are prepared for multiple plausible futures.

A Futurist-in-Residence helps you:

  • Anticipate change earlier

  • Reduce strategic blind spots

  • Make better long-term decisions under uncertainty

  • Align strategy, workforce and capability to future conditions

  • Build resilience without losing momentum

The result is not a report on the future, but a stronger strategic muscle inside your organisation.

Formats

Residencies are flexible and may include:

  • Quarterly futures blocks aligned to planning and strategy cycles

  • On-call strategic foresight support for leadership teams

  • Time-bound embedded residencies with specific teams or initiatives

Let’s explore fit

If you’re looking to move beyond surface-level trend watching and embed future thinking into how your organisation actually operates, a Futurist-in-Residence may be the right fit. If this is something you’d like to explore, send me a note, and I’ll come back to you with next steps.

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