Shaping What’s Next
We help organizations worldwide build the capacity to identify weak signals, navigate uncertainty, and prepare for emerging futures.
What We Do
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Custom research, tools and systems, advisory, and scenario development that help organizations identify emerging opportunities and navigate uncertainty with confidence.
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Workshops, learning programs and strategic simulations that build your team's capacity to anticipate change and make decisions under pressure.
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Exhibitions, narrative design and experiential concepts that make complex futures accessible and engaging for broad audiences.
Our Practice Areas:
Who We Are
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Scott Smith
Managing Partner
A 25-year veteran of strategy and foresight, Scott leads Changeist's futures research and consulting practice, and builds new partnerships.
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Susan Cox-Smith
Partner & Director, Experience
A multidisciplinary explorer, Susan makes Changeist's projects happen, and guides development of new collaborative concepts.
Who We’ve Worked With
We've designed strategic foresight programs, research tools, and scenario simulations for global corporations, government agencies, and research institutions. We've helped created public exhibitions and immersive experiences for museums and cultural organizations worldwide. Our work ranges from advising on internal strategy and policy development to large-scale public engagement programs that help audiences understand emerging technological and social change.
What’s New
Engaging the Public With Possible Futures
From Dubai's Museum of the Future to MOD.'s BEGINNINGS exhibition in Adelaide, we've spent a decade helping cultural institutions translate complex futures into experiences that move visitors from contemplation to action. Read our principles for making futures tangible. MORE
10 Forecasts for the Next Decade
This past year, Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith helped conceive and launch 10F Consortium, a global practitioner-led foresight project mapping ten critical shifts in the unravelling global order. Read more about the initiative and the forecasts here.
Where to Find Us
United States / Rest of World
Changeist LLC
+1 310 382 6202
info@changeist.com
Europe
Changeist SL
+34 678 044 919
info@changeist.com
VAT: ES B10871531
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We’re happy to talk about what we do, and how we can best explore and meet your challenge.
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