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 Strategy Series
Critical
Thinking
In a world of accelerating complexity, the greatest risk for leaders isn’t
a lack of information –
it’s a lack of clear thinking.
When everything is urgent, interconnected and constantly shifting, your ability to think critically is the foundation of effective strategy.
Critical thinking is a core leadership capability that enables leaders to cut through noise, challenge assumptions and make decisions with clarity in uncertain environments:
In an age of infinite data and AI-generated insight, how do we distinguish between signal and noise and ensure decisions are grounded in judgement rather than just information?
As cognitive biases and groupthink quietly shape organisational decisions, how can leaders build cultures that question assumptions and elevate diverse perspectives?
With increasing pressure for speed, how do we balance rapid decision-making with the discipline of deep thinking to avoid costly missteps?
Strategy doesn’t begin with plans. It begins with perspective.
The quality of our thinking shapes the quality of our decisions, which ultimately shapes the future of our organisations.
Because in a world of constant change,
the leaders who think better,
lead better.
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 ability to see patterns, anticipate shifts and make sense of complexity ahead of others.
Strategic intelligence is the capability that sits between thinking and action:
As data, trends and signals multiply across industries, how do we integrate diverse sources of intelligence to build a clearer, more actionable picture of the future?
With AI augmenting analysis and prediction, how can leaders combine machine intelligence with human context to strengthen foresight and decision-making?
In fast-moving environments where yesterday’s insights can quickly expire, how do we continuously update our understanding and stay strategically aligned?
Insight alone isn’t enough. Intelligence is what turns insight into direction. Which means that the organisations that lead won’t be the ones with the most information, but those that can interpret, connect and act on it with clarity and confidence.
The most effective leaders don’t just respond to the world as it is.
They see the world as it’s becoming.
And they move first.
FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments
Monday 10 August
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min
2026 Strategy Series
Visionary Leadership
If you can’t see the destination,
how can you expect anyone
to follow you there?
In a landscape of constant disruption, a leader's most vital role is no longer just managing the present, but articulating a future that others actually want to reach. Building a bridge between current reality and future possibilities.
Visionary leadership is the capability to imagine possibility, align others around it and bring it to life through action. In environments where change is constant and ambiguity is high, vision becomes the anchor that guides decisions, inspires commitment and sustains progress.
It goes beyond setting goals,
to shaping meaning, momentum and belief:
As organisations face competing priorities and constant disruption, how can we create a clear and compelling vision that cuts through noise and aligns action?
With increasing reliance on data and short-term metrics, how do we balance evidence with imagination to define futures that don’t yet exist?
In times of uncertainty and change fatigue, how do we translate vision into momentum that people can understand, engage with and sustain?
Vision isn’t about predicting the future. It is about creating it.
Equipping leaders to move from reacting to change, to shaping direction. From incremental progress, to transformative impact. From just managing today, to actively building tomorrow.
The future isn’t a place we are going.
It’s a place we are creating.
Together.
FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments
Monday 12 October
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min