Some ask what the future will bring, few ask how we can shape that future. It goes without saying that there are several futures, not just one. However, we can strategise and plan for changes. Today we explore from a practical perspective the very exercise of scenario planning and how it is used to rethink strategy. For this, I am joined by Steve Tighe of Chasing Sunrises.

Who doesn’t like a good story to let the imagination flows? Today we explore the value of Narrative Foresight to actually explore, generate and describe possible alternative scenarios, whether utopian or dystopian. I am joined by Sohail Inayatullah, UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies. Sohail designed the Casual Layered Analysis (CLA) framework to explore in-depth drivers of change and create narratives for the futures.

In a society that is pivoting to a ‘new’ normal which shows the fragility of the interrelationship of its elements and values are changing, people are questioning what the future will hold. Today I will explore the potential of embracing an attitude toward imagining the futures and leveraging off diversity as strategy for resiliency. For this I have the honour to be joined by Riel Miller, Head of Foresight for UNESCO, whose speciality is Futures Literacy.