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Foresight Research & Strategy
Research Leader & Futurist
I am a Research Leader with Deloitte's Center for Integrated Research where I develop thought leadership on the future of work. I previously spent more than a decade with Institute for the Future leading major foresight projects in global trends, technology, health and food. A sought after speaker, I've delivered keynotes and facilitated workshops on five continents.
Deloitte Insights
As a Research Leader with Deloitte's Center for Integrated Research, I produce rigorous, data-driven thought leadership on how AI, workforce data, and human-machine collaboration are reshaping organizations.
Explores how human capabilities — not just technical skills — may be the key differentiator in building resilient, high-performing teams as AI reshapes organizational work models.
Read article →New data from a survey of 11,900+ individuals surfaces challenges and opportunities for employers — including how to preserve learning pathways for early-career workers in an AI-accelerated workplace.
Read article →Scenario planning for strategic resilience — examining four plausible futures for how generative AI could reshape the enterprise, helping leaders plan for uncertainty and build adaptable strategies.
Read article →Examines how AI and demographic shifts — retiring experienced workers, shrinking pipelines — are combining to demand new approaches to workforce agility, knowledge transfer, and upskilling.
Read article →Analyzes the structural forces driving the tech talent gap and outlines how organizations can transform their approach to planning, attracting, and activating technical talent.
Read article →A multi-report series examining how organizations can harness workforce data to drive human performance — reframing surveillance as shared value. Based on surveys of 2,000+ workers and 50+ case studies.
Read the series →Drawing on qualitative interviews across 30 companies, this article examines how human-AI collaboration is reshaping workplace experience — and what organizations must do to ensure these partnerships benefit workers.
Read article →Expertise
Architecting long-term scenarios that help leaders make more resilient decisions. Using qualitative research, signals scanning, expert interviews, and cross-industry synthesis to map the decade ahead — provoking insight and shaping action in the present.
Translating complex research into compelling narratives through articles, keynotes, and workshops. Experienced in multi-format delivery — from Deloitte Insights publications and Wall Street Journal features to in-person conference keynotes and visual research maps.
Aligning diverse global teams and vendors to deliver complex, high-impact research projects. Orchestrating large-scale research campaigns and translating senior stakeholder goals into published insights that shape market conversations.
Designing and running workshops that move groups beyond their current thinking — from strategy and visioning sessions to innovation sprints and futures methods trainings, with clients across industries around the world.
IFTF Projects
Throughout my time at IFTF, I led large-scale, multi-client research projects delivered in multiple formats including video, reports, visual maps, and at in-person conferences and workshops. This work involved designing a bespoke research process for each project, assembling and managing the project team, assigning, reviewing and editing contributions, developing the overarching narrative, and presenting the findings to sponsoring organizations. Below are some highlights:
Framing the climate crisis as the defining strategic force of the 2020s — and helping organizations act with urgency in a longer timeframe than usual.
View project →Analyzing how converging advances in biotech, energy, and materials science will open new strategic frontiers and demand organizational resilience.
View project →A year-long study of how climate change, automation, and institutional volatility are redistributing power and remaking the global operational environment.
View project →Examining how emerging forces are challenging traditional models of trust — and what new frameworks are needed for brands, institutions, and individuals.
View project →Forecasting how advances across the technology stack will create a world of intelligent, autonomous objects — and what values we need to encode into them.
View project →Arguing that the next decade wouldn't produce one "next big thing" — but a communications landscape reshaped by AI, VR/AR, and ambient computing combined.
View project →Talks & Keynotes
I've delivered keynotes all over the world based on my research. While most of my talks are not available publicly, I've collected a few highlights below.
Client Outcomes
Past and current clients include Facebook, Intel, Telstra, the Department of Defense, Syngenta, Kaiser, and many others across for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors.
Providing an outside-in perspective on the external environment for ongoing strategy and long-range planning — giving clients a longer time horizon and preparing them for developments outside their normal frames of reference.
Grounding long-term trends with concrete present-day examples to help product and innovation teams see new possibilities — and facilitating sessions that move groups beyond current thinking.
Teaching foresight and futures methods to professionals worldwide, and helping them build strategies to connect foresight work to more traditional organizational processes.
Contact
Always happy to connect with curious people — whether you have a question about my research, want to discuss the future of work, or are just exploring ideas.