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Yvette Montero Salvatico, Principal and Managing DirectorHolding a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from the University of Florida, Yvette has over 15 yearsof corporate experience with large, multi-national firms such as Kimberly-Clark and The Walt DisneyCompany. Before becoming a partner at Kedge, she led the effort to establish Future Workforce Insights atthe Walt Disney Company, identifying future workforce trends and leveraging foresight models andtechniques to assess potential threats and impacts, emerging ideas, and exciting opportunities for theorganization. Yvette is an experienced speaker, addressing large audiences on topics such as businesspolicy, diversity, and foresight.

Frank Spencer, Founding Principal and Creative DirectorPrior to founding Kedge, Frank worked for 15 years as a leadership coach and developer withentrepreneurs, social communities, networking initiatives and SMEs, helping them to advance humandevelopment, local and global innovation, and open-source collaboration. He holds a Master of Arts inStrategic Foresight from Regent University, and is a member of the World Futures Studies Federation. Witha strong background in both business and academic foresight, Frank developed a course on futures andforesight for the Duke TIP Institutes; has worked on foresight projects for companies such as Kraft, Mars,Marriott, and The Walt Disney Company; and is a prolific speaker on foresight and innovation.

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8:00 – 8:15 Welcome and Introductions

8:15 – 8:45 Natural Foresight

8:45 – 9:15 iSee: Headlines from Today

9:15 – 9:45 Art & Science of Scanning

9:45 – 10:00 Break

10:00 – 11:00 Pattern and Sensemaking

11:00 – 12:00 iSee: Headlines from the Future

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Futures Wheels

2:00 – 3:15 Qualitative Predictive Analysis

3:15 – 3:30 Wrap Up and Close

Trends Plus Agenda

So. . .You Want To Create The Future?

An Introduction to Futures Thinking and

Strategic Foresight


Context and Background Futures Intelligence

World Building Strategy Recommendations

• Unconscious Bias Modeling

• Ladder of Inference• Causal Layered

Analysis

Discover personal and organizational assumptions around the focal issue.

Sample Tools:

Explore and interpret the emerging trends, patterns and clusters.

• Environmental Scanning• Qualitative Predictive

Analysis• Probability/ Impact Matrix• Pattern and Sensemaking

Sample Tools:

Create sets of divergent, provocative maps using creativity, data, intuition, and research.

• Scenario Fields• Cross Impact Matrix• Narrative Transformation• Futures Wheels• Design Fiction

Sample Tools:

Inform long-range planning efforts, inspire innovation and begin creating the future today!

• Backcasting• Artifacting the Future• Sign Posts• Scenario Commonalities• Scenario/Strategy Matrix

Sample Tools:

WFS Conference Master Class - 2015Trends Plus

The Natural Foresight™ Framework

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Instructions

• In a moment you will be shown a series of pictures and headlines from recent publications. Each visual will be on the screen for just 30 seconds.

• Choose a wristband that represents your initial, gut response to the visual:

• Green = “I feel positive about this”

• Yellow = “I feel neutral about this”

• Red = “I feel negative about this”

• Now we will give you a little more information about the article that may change your perspective.

• Choose another wristband that represents your initial, gut response to this visual:

• Green = “I feel positive about this”• Yellow = “I feel neutral about this”• Red = “I feel negative about this”

You will be wearing two wristbands (they both may be the same color).

Instructions

• Now that you know even more about the visualand the emerging issue it represents, spendthe next 5 minutes discussing your reactionand insights with your team.

• Work as a group to reach a consensus aboutthe issue represented in the visual and thearticle. Choose a final wristband:

• Green = “We feel positive about this”• Yellow = “We feel neutral about this”• Red = “We feel negative about this”

Instructions

Fortress World

MarketWorld

TransformativeWorld

How might your pattern manifest in

each scenario world?

Write a news headline for each scenario

world from the year 2030 that summarizes

your perspective.

Headlines from the Future

Stretch us to becomemore provocative

Uncover unexpected consequences

See the bigger picture, create a story

Explore connections between drivers

Why are implicationsand impacts important?

The Pattern of Generative

Cities

StewardshipConservation

EqualityCommunity

Sustainability

New Productivity Measurements (P)

Innovation Hubs (T)Hybrid Value

Chain (F)

CollaborationAbundanceExploration

PosterityHolistic

The Pattern of Intentional Evolution

Synthetic Humanity (P)

New Ethnicities (F)

Brain Hacking (C)


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