Futurist Hour
Gain a fresh perspective on current events by joining Futurist Dave Wild for an energising and inspiring look at the future. Explore beyond day-to-day demands to discover what your future ahead might look like.
Exploring shifts.
Inspiring possibilities.
Creating change.
Each Futurist Hour webinar focuses on a different topic for a fresh perspective on current events and evolving trends – giving you time and space for big-picture thinking. Registration is with our compliments and you’ll join a community of future-focused leaders, giving you access to tools and events designed to support your work and key priorities.
Designed to inspire, shift and connect, Futurist Hours are an opportunity to experience our approach to equipping teams with renewed energy and new skills – from Masterclasses to Future Ready Leadership programmes.
FUTURIST HOUR FORMAT
Join online for the first 30 minutes or stay for the hour:
Futurist trends and insights (30 min)
Questions and conversation (20 min)
Reflect, strategise or gain back time in your day (10 min)
Book even if you can’t make it along on the day and receive
the Futurist presentation and recording afterwards.
Note: Once registered you’ll receive Teams links and details
Leadership Programme: 12–13 May 2026, Aotearoa New Zealand
Leading-edge Skills to Create the Future
2026 Trends Series
Technology
Trends
Trying to keep up with technology changes can result in knowing less, rather than more.
As we chase endless news headlines and notifications across the surface, while missing the bigger picture above and the deeper impacts below.
Looking at the year ahead, leaders and teams are being both empowered and challenged by pivotal technology shifts:
Our technology has made us more connected than ever, yet in some ways we now feel more divided and alone than ever – how do we build connected organisations and communities with enduring strength?
Powering the next generation of technology for solving environmental challenges is creating new environmental challenges – what level of intelligent technology dependency is… intelligent?
Physical AI is converging with robotics to solve real-world production challenges, while displacing valuable frontline roles – how do we bridge the gap between global advances and individual prosperity?
Fast change happens slowly. From daily technology launches to overnight stock market shifts, a longer-term more powerful force is at work.
As technology changes, we change.
And as we change, our technologies change.
Trending forward.
FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments
Monday 13 April
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min
2026 Strategy Series
Critical
Thinking
The future isn’t one destination – it’s multiple possibilities we can prepare for today.
Traditional planning assumes predictable outcomes. Scenario planning embraces uncertainty as a strategic advantage. Equipping leaders to navigate multiple potential futures with greater confidence and agility.
Converting uncertainty into opportunity – transforming the anxiety of not knowing what’s coming into the strategic advantage of being ready for whatever does come.
Critical thinking isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about preparing your organisation to adapt and advance no matter which future unfolds.
The question isn’t what will happen.
It’s what you’ll do when it does.
FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments
Monday 15 June
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min
2026 Strategy Series
Strategic Intelligence
Intelligence isn’t found in data alone – it’s how you connect the dots others can’t see.
In a world drowning in information, strategic intelligence isn’t about having more data. It’s about developing the capability to see patterns, anticipate shifts and make sense of complexity ahead of others.
This requires a new approach. Creating intelligence ecosystems – combining human insight, artificial intelligence and collective wisdom to build strategic intelligence that’s considered and actionable.
Strategic intelligence isn’t a tool.
It’s a personal capability.
FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments
Monday 10 August
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min
2026 Strategy Series
Visionary Leadership
Your greatest leadership strength isn’t what you know – it’s how readily you can learn and evolve.
In this age of rapid change, visionary leadership has moved from nice-to-have to mission-critical. This requires mastering new capabilities, from leading through ambiguity to balancing stability with agility. Maintaining the core strengths that define your organisation while developing the flexibility to reinvent how you deliver value.
Guiding teams forward with confidence, while remaining open to course corrections. Creating cultures where experimentation is celebrated, failure becomes data and continuous evolution is the competitive advantage.
Visionary leadership isn’t about having all the answers.
It’s about asking better questions, sooner.
FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments
Monday 12 October
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min