What are the top 10 trends for the next ten years? Download the report here.

Signals of the future are all around us. Join Rebecca Ryan + Friends to kick off our fall Futures Friday series with one of our most popular live events, Signals and Sensemaking.

The panel will share signals and discuss the OECD report, which suggested 24 questions governments and organizations should ask in a post-pandemic world.

Read the report here
, and be ready to share your signals and make sense of what’s happening alongside our experts:

Sara Bixby,
Deputy Director, Solid Waste Assocation of North America (SWANA)
David G. Brown,
President and CEO, Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Creston Burse,
Chief Information Security Officer, MINACT
Dr. Mark Funkhouser,
CEO, Funkhouser & Associates
Ann Gegen,
Executive Director, Association of Government Risk Pools (AGRiP)
Dr. Charlie Grantham,
APF, Awakening to Wholeness
Rebecca Ryan,
APF, Founder, NEXT Generation Consulting

Past Event:
Position Yourself for the Future: The Top Ten Trends with Rebecca Ryan & Co.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
12:00 to 1:00 PM Central (Chicago)

Imagine a world a decade from now. How prepared are you to thrive? Join Rebecca Ryan, an economist and top-50 professional futurist, for an exclusive session on: "Ten Trends You'll Face in the Next Ten Years."

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Past Event:
The future of communities: Live signals and sensemaking panel
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
4:00 to 5:00 PM Central (Chicago)

Ever wondered where the next big shift is coming from? It's not in the headlines you read today but in the subtle signals lurking in the shadows. MIT Sloane believes that spotting and interpreting these signals is an essential skill for leaders.

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Past Event:
Futures Friday: You, Futurist + Foresight Module 5.1
Friday, December 17, 2021
12:00 to 1:00 PM Central (Chicago)

[ 5.1 ] Practice constructing framing questions with Strategic Doing to start taking action on major strategies.

[ Module 5 ] Doing: How to get to work on the future, starting today. When the plan is done, the real work starts. In this final module, we cover how you can use the Strategic Doing approach to start taking action on major strategies. We will practice constructing "framing questions" that will help you translate strategic directions into high-impact pilot projects. Such projects can help you immediately build momentum for the future and vision you have created.

Pre-reading will be sent via confirmation email following registration. Only registered participants will be able to access the event recording post-event!

Registration link coming soon!

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Past Event:
Futures Friday: You, Futurist + Foresight Module 4.1
Friday, December 10, 2021
12:00 to 1:00 PM Central (Chicago)

[ 4.1 ] In this session we will explain what crossover levers are and how they are used and practice identifying shared levers between scenarios.

[ Module 4 ] Defining: How to decide on the preferred future you want. In this module, we shift from creating scenarios to actually using them. After asking “What could happen?” it’s now “What are you going to do about it?” The answers are a special set of strategies called "crossover levers." We discuss what exactly such levers are and practice identifying them.

Pre-reading will be sent via confirmation email following registration. Only registered participants will be able to access the event recording post-event!