Shaping What’s Next

Changeist is a multidisciplinary consulting group that helps organizations around the world identify, make sense of, structure and tell stories about what’s next.

The future is our working material.

What We Do

  • Helping organizations discover and understand what lies ahead, from emerging signals to engaging scenarios to unseen opportunities.

  • Defining and enhancing individual and team skills for anticipation, analysis, imagination and communication through hands-on learning experiences.

  • Creating broader understanding of possible futures through effective communication strategies.

  • Crafting creative, coherent and constructive stories about the future and who and what shapes it.

  • Creating custom immersive learning experiences that build strategic agility to lead through contexts of deep uncertainty and surprise.

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Who We Are

  • 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.

    Bio

  • Susan Cox-Smith

    Partner & Director, Experience

    A multidisciplinary explorer, Susan makes Changeist's projects happen, and guides development of new collaborative concepts.

    Bio

Who We’ve Worked With

Some of the global and national organizations we’ve partnered with to explore possible futures.

What’s New

How to Future Summer School

Changeist is launching a How to Future Summer School online this July 28-30 2025. This 9-hour interactive online Masterclass will balance hands-on activity, discussion and knowledge transfer to equip participants with essential futuring skills for this moment or rolling polycrisis. US/North American times offered.

The Future of Media

Scott Smith joined a panel at FACT 2025 at ACMI in Melbourne to explore the future of media, from broadcast to narrowcast to multicast, alongside Angela Stengel (ABC), Keri Elmsly (ACMI), Stuart Buchanan (Sydney Opera House), and Dr Indigo Holcombe-James (ACMI).

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