Can we really predict the future?

Today’s guests make future-planning their business… but they will also be the first to tell you that the future is far from predictable.

Peter Schwartz, Mick Costigan, and Niall Ferguson join the podcast to discuss what they call scenario-planning; the process of identifying the most likely outcomes for the future and helping businesses and governments prepare. They reflect on decision-making in the past year, share 2022 trends business leaders should prepare for, and offer advice for individuals who want to apply scenario-planning to their own lives.

About the Guests:

• Peter Schwartz is the Chief Futures Officer and SVP of Strategic Planning at Salesforce.
• Mick Costigan is the Vice-President of Salesforce Futures.
• Niall Ferguson is a historian and author. He is a Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, as well as a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard.