Selected Work
Essays, interviews, and long-form conversations on the future of governance, power, and institutional change.
Books & Chapters
Strategic Narrative: A Framework for Accelerating Innovation
A practical guide to using narrative strategy to accelerate organizational innovation and navigate complexity.
“Reevaluating the Role of Information in National Strategy and Policy Making”
Chapter in edited collection, American Strategy and Purpose: Reflections on Foreign Policy and National Security in an Era of Change.
Articles & Essays
Maximizing the Power of Strategic Foresight
Article in Joint Force Quarterly on the utility of strategic foresight to strengthen national security decision-making and institutional adaptation.
How Power Really Works in the 21st Century: Beyond Soft, Hard and Smart
An examination of how power now operates through narratives, networks, and institutional legitimacy rather than through traditional military or economic coercion alone.
Imagination: Powering Post-COVID Pandemic Planning
An argument that effective pandemic response and recovery require not only risk management, but imaginative capacity to rethink systems and institutional assumptions under uncertainty.
The Future of Power through a Nonstate Lens
A Prescient Policy Sandbox event report of live foresight activity to explore plausible geopolitical futures in which power is distributed among diverse institutions and actors.
It’s Too Late to Envision a Future without Facebook — or at least the World it Built
An analysis of how Facebook’s integration into social and political life has made its influence effectively irreversible, demanding new approaches to platform governance.
Effective Leaders Know How to Focus on the Future
A brief argument for why public-sector leaders need structured foresight practices to balance immediate demands with long-term decision making
The Global War on Terror: A Narrative in Need of a Rewrite
An examination of how post-9/11 U.S. counterterrorism strategy was shaped by a dominant narrative framework, and why reframing that narrative mattered for strategic choice and legitimacy.
Conversations
How to Predict the Future: Mitigating the Impacts of Uncertainty
An explanation of how strategic foresight helps organizations reduce risk by identifying critical uncertainties, testing assumptions, and preparing for multiple plausible futures rather than relying on prediction.
Power Narratives
A TEDx talk examining how narratives structure political power, limit strategic imagination, and shape the futures institutions are able to pursue.
The Anticipation Advantage
A long-form podcast interview on how leaders and institutions can shift from reactive crisis management toward anticipatory decision making through foresight and narrative framing
