What does it mean to imagine a future that is not your own? As foresight practitioners, we are asked to inhabit the hopes, fears, and worldviews of people we may never meet, in places we may never go. This radical exercise in empathy is powerful, but it carries a quiet contradiction: the more we dissolve [...]| Houston Foresight
Insight-led feels like a baseline for how businesses say they operate right now: in particular, design thinking has popularised the idea that to grow or do good things in the world, an insights-led approach is critical. I don’t disagree, having built my career in the market research industry up to now, I love that more| Houston Foresight
WHAT IS FORESIGHT? Foresight is the study of change that uses a systematic methodology to explore the future in order to make better decisions today by helping us move us toward the futures we want and avoid those we don’t, and to ultimately build confidence in the future by building our capacity to| Houston Foresight
If you’ve been meaning to add foresight to your toolkit - scenario building, scanning, drivers, implications, and strategy - October is your moment. The University of Houston’s Professional Certificate in Foresight (Virtual) runs Wednesdays, October 1–29, 2025, 9:00 AM–12:30 PM (CST), with collaborative small-group work between sessions. This is an intensive, project-based boot camp built [...]| Houston Foresight
We are complex, multilayered individuals, experiencing a constant push and pull between the various versions of ourselves. Call it a quarter-life crisis or just an ongoing cycle in life, but every time I think I’ve figured out who I am and what| Houston Foresight
The 2025 APF Student Recognition awards were announced and, once again, we had some winners! It is quite an amazing set of projects. You can take a look at them here (and the Houston Foresight Awards as well!) Jen Stumbles WON FIRST PLACE!!! in the Master’s Individual category of this year’s APF Student Recognition awards [...]| Houston Foresight
The 1st Annual Houston Foresight Awards took place last year and the winners presented at the 2025 Spring Gathering celebrating our 50th anniversary. It’s high time we recognized them publicly! The individual winners were: Stephen Dupont with Profiles in Organizational Foresight Jess Robbins with Entangled Tomorrows: Harnessing Quantum Insight for Dynamic Foresight| Houston Foresight
The Future of Horizon Scanning: Embracing Emergence through Grounded Theory In a world defined by deep uncertainty and accelerating change, identifying signals of change won’t be enough. The future of horizon scanning will lie in Anticipatory Futures Intelligence; measured by how well we can engage with| Houston Foresight
The "sex team" from the Houston Foresight community just keep on rolling. What started as a Design Futures class that was first exhibited at a Spring Gathering was literally parlayed into a world tour. The next chapter, and I really appreciate that they took the time to| Houston Foresight
"We are still here," cried special guest Morpheus at the UH 50th Anniversary Celebration from May 1-3. Higher education has not been kind to foresight programs. Ours is the first grad program dedicated to foresight to make it to 50 years. Many have come and gone over the years, and we had our own near-death-experience [...]| Houston Foresight
It’s time to update my list of ten books that a prospective futurist should read. The principle is the individual is starting from a tabula rasa (limited or no previous exposure). It’s hard to| Houston Foresight