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
Leadership
Trends
As a leader, what trends should you follow?
Or as a leader, should you be defining the trends – not following them?
In 2026 leaders will have to navigate complex balancing acts:
Developing ‘parallel intelligence’ by advancing from piloting tools to orchestrating decisions with AI, while elevating human judgement and accountability
Increasing productivity with autonomous high‑performance teams, while strengthening the foundational bonds of organisational identity and shared purpose
Managing a dual workforce of people and digital agents, while clearly differentiating between the value of human potential and the constraints of software algorithms
Knowing that our world has shifted already. Meaning it’s no longer a question of whether to change.
But how best to lead the change.
To trend forward.
FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments
Monday 16 February 2026
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min
2026 Trends Series
Workforce
Trends
Which is more important: the Future of Work or the Now of Work?
The future isn’t off in the distance. It’s all around us, with shifts in today’s workplaces signalling the trending dynamics of tomorrow’s workforce.
Instead of reacting to the changing nature of work, we can actively shape it. While strategically navigating the pivotal forces at work:
Entry-level tasks are being automated away by AI, while an apprenticeship gap now threatens the development of future leaders – how do we rebuild development pathways across generations?
Physical offices are evolving from cost centres to culture engines, while digital channels connect across boundaries – how do we design collaborative workflows that increase efficiencies while strengthening culture and innovation?
Worker wellbeing is becoming a core operating metric, elevating from employee benefits into workforce capacity – how can we achieve more with fewer meetings, clearer priorities and space to disconnect?
We used to talk about work-life balance.
Now we’re navigating work-life flow.
With the boundaries blurring between professional and personal spaces, between digital and physical presence, between human and machine capabilities.
The workforce isn’t just changing. It’s being reinvented. By us all.
Trending forward. Together.
FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments
Monday 16 March 2026
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min
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 2026
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min
Futurist Dave Wild Formats Overview
Inspire. Shift. Upskill.
Do you sometimes wonder what your future holds?
In the search for answers, it’s easy to miss the signals of the future all around you. It doesn’t have to be that way. Just as we’re making the machines smarter by writing new code, we can also rewrite our own habits. Changing the way we think. Shifting the way we lead.
Creating the Future of Work. Today.