The future has never been more uncertain. Old industries are being swept aside by imaginative innovators inventing new business models. Millions of traditional jobs are being automated as countless new occupations are being created for the first time. And all the while, environmental stresses are disrupting our lives, driving the need for strategic foresight to re-imagine our relationship with our planet and ourselves.
The Foresight Lab at the DeGroote School of Business is a learning and networking hub dedicated to empowering professionals to develop futures thinking and leadership skills that will help them shape positive outcomes for their organizations and society. Our expert guidance enables you to:
Spot Trends
Identify global forces and emerging developments disrupting businesses, governments and societies.
Adapt Fast
Become more resilient and agile in the face of constant changes.
Shape Tomorrow
Imagine and position your organization and yourself for multiple future scenarios.
The Foresight Lab focuses on three seamlessly integrated areas to provide industry connections, actionable insights, as well as professional tools and skills development opportunities to enable you and your organization to chart the future and lead with confidence.
The Foresight Lab is an engagement platform designed for business, government, academia, and civil society who wish to better understand and prepare for the long-term, interdependent and often unpredictable dynamics of change that will shape the world in the years ahead.
Most profound discoveries happen at the intersection of knowledge. Through interdisciplinary research activities, the Foresight Lab explores the critical long-term issues and forces shaping the future of Canada and the world at large.
The Foresight Lab, in partnership with DeGroote Executive Education, delivers programs focused on futures thinking and change readiness, cultivating a futurist mindset — one that embraces change, envisions possibilities, and shapes outcomes.
Canada always seems to be at a crossroads but now a change in perspective is imperative. Deep structural forces are reshaping the world: the shift in economic and political power towards Asia, the digitalization of the economy, and the need to make our planet a greener place to live combine with aging of the population and shifting political forces.
It’s a lot to handle. But we have no choice. And now more than ever we need a critical mass of inspiring and collaborative leaders who have the creativity and resilience to imagine and navigate through what is bound to be a long period of change and uncertainty. In short, Canada needs to scale its strategic foresight and leadership capabilities to meet the many challenges and opportunities that the future will bring.
This is why I have supported the establishment of the Foresight Lab at the DeGroote School of Business. It offers McMaster students, working executives and policy makers a range of learning and engagement opportunities to help future and current leaders shape the future for the better. Let’s get started.
— Lynton “Red” Wilson, Chairman of Wilson Foundation
