STRATEGIC FORESIGHT FOR TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE
Activate the future.
| pre-scient /prē’SH(ē)ənt/ having knowledge of events before they take place
Prescient is a foresight consultancy. We help leaders anticipate and plan for transformative change.
Prescient works with leaders and teams who recognize the urgent need to anticipate and prepare for a future that will differ from yesterday and today. We help you understand emerging trends, explore their implications, and integrate change into strategy. Our work combines research, strategic imagination, and practical facilitation to turn uncertainty into useful choices.
Trusted by leaders in business, government & civil society
SERVICES
Ways we can work together.
Prescient works with organizations through tailored engagements, from a single leadership conversation to an ongoing advisory relationship.
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Advisory relationships
Ongoing strategic counsel for leaders navigating a changing landscape.
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Leadership briefings & keynotes
Invigorating, thought-provoking perspectives for boards, executive teams, and convenings.
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Strategic Foresight
Customized projects for exploring potential futures and widening strategic options
SELECTED WORK
Foresight in Practice.
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
Building a new direction during a period of industry transition.
STRATEGY & CAPABILITY
A major energy and mining company used a period of significant transition to make strategic foresight a permanent internal capability and rethink its future in a changing market.
OUTCOME
The company identified a new core business direction and developed a strategic narrative for stakeholders, the market, and the public.
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
Preparing a national court system for novel conditions and new challenges.
INSTITUTIONAL RESILIENCE
Across a two-year initiative, Prescient partnered with the research leadership of a national organization of state supreme courts to guide the development of scenarios exploring how technology, public trust, private-sector involvement, emergencies, data, and workforce change could reshape the delivery of justice.
OUTCOME
The work surfaced six critical vulnerabilities and gave national, state, and local court leaders a practical basis for action.
Real time conversations & hands on trainings on future-critical issues
PRESCIENT LIVE
Join us for live online conversations about emerging issues that are beginning to shape public life, as well as short, hands-on trainings in strategic foresight that offer practical methods for anticipating, planning for and shaping possible futures.
CONVERSATION
October 15 · Live online
Are Prediction Markets the New Public Square?
A free moderated conversation about prediction markets, public knowledge, and institutional decision-making.
FORESIGHT SANDBOX
November 12 · Live online
Weak Signals: Turning Early Clues into Strategic Insight
A 90-minute applied session for people who need to recognize and interpret early change before it becomes obvious.
Meet Prescient’s Founder
Prescient was founded in 2017 by Dr. Amy Zalman, a futurist, strategist, educator, and author who has been working with leaders and institutions for 20 years, to help them understand and prepare for structural change. Amy has been named by Forbes as one of the world’s Top 50 Female Futurists.
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What is changing around you
before your organization is ready?
Bring Amy into a leadership conversation, an event or a working session. Get future-ready.
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Occasional writing on emerging change, with advance notice of public conversations and trainings.