FUTURIST + MAKER
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Thoughts from the Near Future
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Advisor, Coach and Board Director
Steve has partnered with top-tier executives and the C-Suite, guiding them in mastering strategic foresight methodologies to shape their organization’s vision. He plays a crucial role in supporting influential figures from impactful organizations, trillion-dollar corporations, startups, forward-thinking governments, and multi-billion dollar investment funds. Steve has acted as an independent director, consultant, and mentor for individuals striving to shape the future within their organizations, boardrooms, executive teams, or personal careers. Through his coaching services, he helps C-suite executives elevate their corporate strategic planning and risk assessment by integrating foresight abilities.
Think Forward Show
Conversations with Futurist and Big Thinkers about what is on the horizon and what it means to be a futurist in today's world.
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Why Engage Steve?
Envision and Build New Worlds Together
Steve will work with your organization to imagine the worlds that it might inhabit and to be responsive to opportunities that arise.
We are at the dawn of a transformative era, where design and foresight will turn imaginative concepts into realms for innovation. The emergence of new coding languages and decentralized networks will revolutionize decision-making and interactions, paving the way for fairer trade and community-building beyond conventional limits. Our collective ingenuity and flexibility will forge a future where technology amplifies human potential, transforming dreams into reality in a more connected, equitable, and innovative world.
Explore Alternative Futures
Exploring the future without context can be abstract, distant, and difficult to envision, let alone navigate. Incorporating alternative futures into the present allows for experiencing them as tangible "what-if" scenarios on a 1:1 scale of reality. By using design thinking and techniques such as speculative design and design fiction, the exploration of future landscapes and trends can enable your organization to turn possibilities into practical solutions and catalyze real change.
Navigate AI and Web3
Hyperscale Your Innovation Efforts
Innovation is crucial for any organization, mirroring the ups and downs of a financial portfolio. By adopting futures thinking, your organization gains the foresight to anticipate trends and disruptions, enabling strategic investments in growth areas and ensuring you stay ahead of the competition. This approach not only positions you to seize new opportunities but also fosters a culture of continuous improvement and resilience, essential for long-term success and adaptability in an uncertain world.
Make Futures Thinking Persuasive
Organizations relentlessly seek growth and prosperity but often become ensnared in short-term thinking, prioritizing immediate results and quarterly earnings over long-term strategies. By embracing futures and foresight as central to their strategy, they can extend their vision, exploring potential futures, spotting emerging trends, and preparing for possible disruptions. This broader outlook allows for the development of resilient strategies, ensuring organizations can navigate future uncertainties securing their position as leaders in an evolving landscape.
How do you leverage the future today?
The rate of change today is exponential. What do you focus on and how do you stay ahead? They are four key ways today to do that:
A Motivational Coach That
Inspires and Ignites Action
Steve collaborates with you to map regular schedules and motivating rewards that encourage consistent participation in future planning. These will be incorporated into current program initiatives, strategies, and operations to navigate effectively through the unpredictability that your organization faces, now and in the future.
Wield the Future to Navigate Uncertainty
Encourage a forward-thinking mindset and develop the ability to anticipate future trends and opportunities across the organization, including leaders, essential personnel, and other stakeholders. Foster strong connections between these individuals and the organization's requirements, culture, and operational procedures, ultimately resulting in increased profitability and market expansion.
Build Organizational Foresight Culture
As a component of Steve's advisory and coaching services, he offers monthly and quarterly reports highlighting signals and trends, along with proactive guidance on the significance of these developments in shaping our future.
Use Actionable Insights to Shape the Future
Thinking about the future is different from actively engaging with it. Steve can help you develop a future-forward mindset and provide coaching to prepare you to make decisions that keep you ahead of the game.
Be Future-Ready and Future-Forward
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Steve Fisher is the Chief Futurist of the Revolution Institute's Center for the Future (CFTF), curator of DesignFuturist.com and host of the Think Forward podcast, where he interviews bold and amazing thinkers, innovators, and leaders on the promise of futures thinking.
Steve is a pragmatic design futurist with over 25 years of experience using technology, strategic foresight, and futures thinking to help organizations and individuals envision and understand possible futures while building the path to get there. Steve has worked with government and private organizations of all sizes, all over the world, to spark curiosity, ignite imagination, and explore a better future for all.
Steve co-founded Revolution Factory, a global innovation company that removes barriers to solving complex problems, and The Revolution Institute, an organization collaboratively exploring complex problems and their potential solutions. Steve is also an experienced entrepreneur, filmmaker, and author with a dual MBA from Brown University and Instituto De Impresa. His master's thesis focused on smart cities, industrial IoT, augmented reality, and entrepreneurial innovation models.
As a spiritual follow-up to his bestselling book, “The Startup Equation,” his new book, "Designing the Future: How to Harness Tomorrow, Today" (coming in late 2023), gives organizations and individuals the "Operating System" for futures design, as well as the tools needed to explore the future, imagine what's possible, create a bold vision, build the path to get there, and navigate it successfully.
The Center for the Future or CFTF (CFTF.ORG) is a global collective of thinkers, makers and pioneers working together to explore the future and share knowledge, insights, and tools with organizations around the world.
As a part of the Revolution Institute, the CFTF brings diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise in futures, design, behavioral science, anthropology and engineering to projects that benefit the future of humanity.
The Center for the Future or CFTF (CFTF.ORG) is a global collective of thinkers, makers and pioneers working together to explore the future and share knowledge, insights, and tools with organizations around the world.
As a part of the Revolution Institute, the CFTF brings diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise in futures, design, behavioral science, anthropology and engineering to projects that benefit the future of humanity.
The Center for the Future or CFTF (CFTF.ORG) is a global collective of thinkers, makers and pioneers working together to explore the future and share knowledge, insights, and tools with organizations around the world.
As a part of the Revolution Institute, the CFTF brings diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise in futures, design, behavioral science, anthropology and engineering to projects that benefit the future of humanity.
The Center for the Future or CFTF (CFTF.ORG) is a global collective of thinkers, makers and pioneers working together to explore the future and share knowledge, insights, and tools with organizations around the world.
As a part of the Revolution Institute, the CFTF brings diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise in futures, design, behavioral science, anthropology and engineering to projects that benefit the future of humanity.
The Center for the Future or CFTF (CFTF.ORG) is a global collective of thinkers, makers and pioneers working together to explore the future and share knowledge, insights, and tools with organizations around the world.
As a part of the Revolution Institute, the CFTF brings diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise in futures, design, behavioral science, anthropology and engineering to projects that benefit the future of humanity.
The Center for the Future or CFTF (CFTF.ORG) is a global collective of thinkers, makers and pioneers working together to explore the future and share knowledge, insights, and tools with organizations around the world.
As a part of the Revolution Institute, the CFTF brings diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise in futures, design, behavioral science, anthropology and engineering to projects that benefit the future of humanity.
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CXO Coaching, Board Director
and Advisory Work
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. True leadership also requires a willingness to change and evolve. Leaders can’t stay one note forever. They have to be willing to shift control, know when to advance ideas, and know when it is time to stand aside to allow for others to succeed.
Steve strives to combine high-level strategic and futures thinking with hands-on operational experience to help companies push the envelope of innovation to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges. This includes being a coach to CXOs, Chief Futurists, Board Member or Advisor to organizations looking to leverage the future in real and actionable ways.