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3. Yvette Montero Salvatico, Principal and Managing Director
Holding a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from the University of Florida, Yvette has over 15 years
of corporate experience with large, multi-national firms such as Kimberly-Clark and The Walt Disney
Company. Before becoming a partner at Kedge, she led the effort to establish Future Workforce Insights at
the Walt Disney Company, identifying future workforce trends and leveraging foresight models and
techniques to assess potential threats and impacts, emerging ideas, and exciting opportunities for the
organization. Yvette is an experienced speaker, addressing large audiences on topics such as business
policy, diversity, and foresight.
Frank Spencer, Founding Principal and Creative Director
Prior to founding Kedge, Frank worked for 15 years as a leadership coach and developer with
entrepreneurs, social communities, networking initiatives and SMEs, helping them to advance human
development, local and global innovation, and open-source collaboration. He holds a Master of Arts in
Strategic Foresight from Regent University, and is a member of the World Futures Studies Federation. With
a strong background in both business and academic foresight, Frank developed a course on futures and
foresight for the Duke TIP Institutes; has worked on foresight projects for companies such as Kraft, Mars,
Marriott, andTheWalt Disney Company; and is a prolific speaker on foresight and innovation.
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4. 8:00 – 8:15 Welcome and Introductions
8:15 – 8:45 Natural Foresight
8:45 – 9:15 iSee: Headlines from Today
9:15 – 9:45 Art & Science of Scanning
9:45 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 11:00 Pattern and Sensemaking
11:00 – 12:00 iSee: Headlines from the Future
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Futures Wheels
2:00 – 3:15 Qualitative Predictive Analysis
3:15 – 3:30 Wrap Up and Close
Trends Plus Agenda

5. So. . .You Want To
Create The Future?
An Introduction to
Futures Thinking and
Strategic Foresight
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6. Context and Background Futures Intelligence
World Building Strategy Recommendations
• Unconscious Bias
Modeling
• Ladder of Inference
• Causal Layered
Analysis
Discover personal and organizational
assumptions around the focal issue.
Sample Tools:
Explore and interpret the emerging
trends, patterns and clusters.
• Environmental Scanning
• Qualitative Predictive
Analysis
• Probability/ Impact Matrix
• Pattern and Sensemaking
Sample Tools:
Create sets of divergent, provocative maps
using creativity, data, intuition, and research.
• Scenario Fields
• Cross Impact Matrix
• Narrative Transformation
• Futures Wheels
• Design Fiction
Sample Tools:
Inform long-range planning efforts, inspire
innovation and begin creating the future today!
• Backcasting
• Artifacting the Future
• Sign Posts
• Scenario Commonalities
• Scenario/Strategy Matrix
Sample Tools:
WFS Conference Master Class - 2015
Trends Plus
The Natural Foresight™ Framework
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12. Instructions
• In a moment you will be shown a series of
pictures and headlines from recent
publications. Each visual will be on the screen
for just 30 seconds.
• Choose a wristband that represents your initial,
gut response to the visual:
• Green = “I feel positive about this”
• Yellow = “I feel neutral about this”
• Red = “I feel negative about this”

16. • Now we will give you a little more information
about the article that may change your
perspective.
• Choose another wristband that represents
your initial, gut response to this visual:
• Green = “I feel positive about this”
• Yellow = “I feel neutral about this”
• Red = “I feel negative about this”
You will be wearing two wristbands
(they both may be the same color).
Instructions

19. • Now that you know even more about the visual
and the emerging issue it represents, spend
the next 5 minutes discussing your reaction
and insights with your team.
• Work as a group to reach a consensus about
the issue represented in the visual and the
article. Choose a final wristband:
• Green = “We feel positive about this”
• Yellow = “We feel neutral about this”
• Red = “We feel negative about this”
Instructions

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56. Fortress
World
Market
World
Transformative
World
How might your
pattern manifest in
each scenario world?
Write a news headline
for each scenario
world from the year
2030 that summarizes
your perspective.
Headlines from
the Future

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59. Stretch us to become
more provocative
Uncover unexpected
consequences
See the bigger picture,
create a story
Explore connections
between drivers
Why are
implications
and impacts
important?

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64. The Pattern of
Generative
Cities
Stewardship
Conservation
Equality
Community
Sustainability
New Productivity
Measurements (P)
Innovation Hubs (T)
Hybrid Value
Chain (F)
Collaboration
Abundance
Exploration
Posterity
Holistic
The Pattern of
Intentional
Evolution
Synthetic
Humanity (P)
New Ethnicities
(F)
Brain Hacking (C)
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