January 2025

What Will Drive our Community's Future?

Bill Ziemendorf, Leading Edge Economy signals team

Recently Bill shared the plans of the Envision Board to apply Strategic Foresight to help us all shape Greater Green Bay into a “community of choice.” He introduced the community “domain map” and identified its key elements. The board had organized itself into signals teams, scanning for signals and trends related to the future of each element. Soon those teams will be ready to share their work with the community, as Bill’s article explains: read it here.

...help shape your community's future

Join Envision's Foresight Network, community leaders and decision-makers, and representatives from business, nonprofits, government and education.

It's our future – our choice.

Mark your calendar now. Although World Futures Day is on March 1, we'll be celebrating here on February 28. You'll be able to purchase one ticket or reserve an entire table!

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Meet our keynote speaker, Jonathan Brill, called "the world's leading transformation architect" by Harvard Business Review, and "a Silicon Valley legend" by Inc.Magazine. He is the author of Rogue Waves: future-proof your business to survive and profit from radical change. Our audience will also hear reports from Envision's signals teams. They have been scanning for signals and identifying trends for several years now, all aimed at shaping a "community of choice."

8 a.m. to noon

Oneida Conference

Center

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Strategic Foresight Training

2025 Winter Strategic Foresight Workshop - register now

Build your potential to shape your organization's preferred future by building your foresight team! We'll be at the Green Bay Botanical Garden for our next workshop with futurist Garry Golden. Here are the 2025 dates:

February 7 – 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Botanical Garden)
February 21 – VIRTUAL 8 to 10 a.m.
March 7 – VIRTUAL 8 to 10 a.m.
March 21 – VIRTUAL 8 to 10 a.m.
April 4 – 8:30 a.m. to noon (Botanical Garden)

Invite your team to register here.

Foresight You Can Use

Recommended by Nan Nelson

Arts and culture groups in Canada, supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, used strategic foresight to study issues specific to theatre on the prairie. Exploring different plausible futures, opportunities and challenges, they envisioned the theatre of the future. see the conversation.

Decades after writing The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell says he's less optimistic. In this interview with NPR, he reveals darker themes in his new book: Revenge of the Tipping Point. Reviewers call it a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world.

PBS offers an online collection of free teaching resources, now contextualized for use in middle and high school classrooms, using the work of collaborators Peter Bishop and Juli Rush of Teach the Future. See the fascinating media gallery here: “Considering the Future: A Brief Introduction to Futures Thinking”. PBS has also created a new collection of learning resources for use in middle and high school classrooms. view here.