I’m the UK Assoc Partner for the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. The Institute works around the world to imagine, work with and shape the futures of clients, on a strategic level.

CIFS apply futures studies and foresight methodologies to specific societal and business challenges. Renowned for ‘applied thought-leadership’ the core advisory offerings inc scenario planning, risk assessment, innovation & strategic foresight.

I research and consult for CIFS, alongside running courses. Here’s a link to a video where I give an overview about Foresight-Driven Innovation…

Here’s an article for the World Economic Forum that wrote for the WEF with my colleagues Lasse & Martin from the Institute.

By a remarkable coincidence, it refers to the ‘Foresight-Driven Innovation’ activity I run for CIFS! For more info please checkout their site: cifs.dk

I also give speeches for the Institute - here’s a video intro to one of my futures talks…

I’m really pleased that my article on ‘Challenging Leaders with Foresight’ was featured alongside some great company in this bumper-edition of ‘Compass’ - the official magazine of the Association of Professional Futurists.

My piece addresses an array of big questions that futurists should consider as part of their day-to-day practice.

It was featured alongside a number of thought-provoking articles including career lessons by Sohail Inayatullah (whom I interviewed for my podcast ‘The New Abnormal’), commentary by legendary futurist Jim Dator, info on the UN Summit of the Future, and a call for the US to establish an office of strategic foresight...

The Institute’s magazine ‘FARSIGHT’ is a quarterly publication that explores possible futures with the aim of provoking & inspiring change in the present. The guiding editorial principle is that the future can never be predicted & that multiple possible futures exist at any given time.

Here’s a link to an article I wrote on ‘Why generational inequality matters’

The framing of societal challenges as being intergenerational isn’t new, indeed far from it. The ‘father of generational analysis’ Karl Manheim outlined a belief that generations and the tension between them provide us a framework for understanding society and social change.

But the moral system of intergenerational fairness appears in its current state to be broken…

Please click on this link to read my article.

…and here’s a link to another on my articles, this one titled ‘Hope – the pillar that holds up the world’

Immanuel Kant stated ‘optimism is a moral duty’.

But how valid is that sense of optimism and indeed is there any genuine hope - or should we be pessimistic - at a time when coverage of the World Economic Forum noted a depressive array of issues which suggest that hope is in short supply?

Please click on the link to read the article and find out more…

  • Here’s an image from a speech I gave for CIFS in Western Denmark, which involved getting a seaplane to the destination. A first for me!

  • Here’s a photo from an excellent event I attended in Norway on behalf of CIFS, where I gave a keynote talk on sector trends and brand strategy.