Category: Planning Futuring Strategy

I had a fun experience today while walking the main drag in my West Seattle neighborhood. I wandered past the brand new branch of Verity Credit Union. Two years ago I had the opportunity to lead a Futurist.com evening and day of long-range strategic...

How can an organization overcome resistance to change? In this excerpt from my Keynote to the Transas Global 2018 conference in Vancouver BC, I discuss my organization change formula. The formula is: D x V + FW > R which means Dissatisfaction times Vision...

The future creates the present. Is this idea new to you? In March I had the welcome opportunity to keynote a Smart Meetings gathering, in the Seattle area. Afterwards, the hosts interviewed me about a key concept in my keynote, that our image of...

Imagine the city of tomorrow, not the distant future but a decade or two from now. That city could, if we choose, be smart, connected, solar, sustainable. In fact it could be beyond sustainable. This was the assignment I took from First Utility in...

This past week I had the privilege of helping to host the Association of Professional Futurists in an annual gathering, as part of the planning committee. The Association was celebrating its 15th Anniversary, and it was an opportunity for these professional futurists to look...