"He has a real passion for his field which made his speech incredibly meaningful and impactful to the audience."
Tricentis
Take Control of Your Future
You have dreams, ambitions, aspirations, both for your company and yourself. You want to think more strategically and make great decisions. Yet every day you seem to get caught up in the day to day and putting out fires.
I help people escape the noise of the present and realise more ambitious futures for themselves by applying the techniques that futurists use to solve the psychological allergy we have to uncertainty.
How did I get into that?
It started the day I found out my mother had gone into hospital. The reason was incredible to me: Anxiety.
When she got home a week later, the most obvious symptoms was her complete inability to make decisions. It was as if the future had been cut off from her, and there was nothing she could do to pull the trigger on even the simplest of choices.
The uncertainty was crippling, and it took months of cognitive behavioural therapy to get her back on track.
While most people don't suffer from uncertainty to the same degree as my mother, I see many people struggle with what I describe as a psychological allergy to uncertainty.
Even I know all the psychology behind it, I still make terrible decisions when I'm not paying attention, especially when the situation is changing rapidly.
Which is why I researched for my doctorate change and adaptability among knowledge workers in China, where the pace of change is mind-boggling.
But something was still missing.
Sure, we can adapt in response to change, but what if we could adapt ahead of change?
Foresight is the capacity, completely teachable, to understand what could happen in the future and take action now in anticipation of it.
By thinking more deeply into the future, we can not only take the sting out of uncertainty, but better understand the options available to us so we can maximise our influence over what happens.
Over the past six years, I've been helping organisations big and small get their people out of their mobile phones and working towards compelling visions of the future.
Thinking about the future is hard, so if I can get you to think even one more minute into the future, we've made progress.
What else could you know about me?
I was a journalist for 10 years.
I spent 20 years living in Asia, including Taipei, Singapore, Tokyo and Beijing.
I hold both an MBA and Doctorate from Edinburgh Business School.
I love K-Pop.
Where now?
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