What We’ve Learned

Over the past two decades, we’ve built a wealth of experience understanding the future-centered challenges of brands, policy-makers, creatives, technologists, and activists, as well as the constantly moving edges of practice. We’ve written two books to document these experiences, tools and contexts. Find out more about them below, or order through their respective microsites.

Books

How to Future

Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange

This tremendously successful book provides a practical, tactical guide to applied futuring — from clear definitions to descriptions of methods and practices in context, with examples from around the globe applied in various situations. It’s written for the non-expert, and can be used alone or together with a team, to support a few exercises or an entire project. Published by Kogan Page.

OCTOBER 2020

Future Cultures

How to Build a Future-Ready Organization Through Leadership

In this book, Changeist partners Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith explore how to engage everyone in creating new futures —  from improving skills of sensing and anticipation to changing the way leaders consider risk and uncertainty. It also provides practical advice on how organizations can rewire their cultures to be better prepared for the future. Published by Kogan Page.

OCTOBER 2023

Find out more

Are you interested in finding out more about the books, ordering a set to use as textbooks, obtaining custom reprints, or interviewing the authors?