Strategic Foresight for Leaders | 1-day Workshop | 29 April 2025

In this 1-day workshop facilitated by renowned foresight practitioner Melissa Clark-Reynolds ONZM, you’ll learn to find and analyse signals from the future, identify megatrends and their impact, and build scenarios to be prepared for whatever lies ahead.

You’ll use research-backed methodologies and play with bicultural concepts of time, asking whether we create the future or the future creates us, and explore what it means to be a futurist in Aotearoa.

Throughout the day, Melissa will unravel the powerful forces that shape our future, empowering you to make informed decisions and seize emerging opportunities. You’ll leave with worksheets you can take back and apply in your daily role.

This workshop is designed for the doers — the individuals responsible for driving innovation or strategy within your organisation. Whether you're involved in tech, product design, strategy, community activism, or work within local or central government, this experience is tailored to empower you with foresight skills.

During the workshop, you’ll dive into:

• The significance of foresight and futures work
• Identifying and using signals of change
• How to identify and understand the drivers of change
• Different approaches to scenario design and when to use them
• Effective use of metaphors in communicating future scenarios
• Cultivating curiosity, collaboration, and openness

When: Tuesday, 29 April 2024, 9 am-4 pm

Where: Ilex Cafe, Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8013

Lunch, afternoon tea and all-day tea and coffee are included in the registration.

If you are an Educator or at a Not-for-Profit, you can automatically access a special rate of $995 + GST when you register.

We also have partial scholarships available to attend the workshop. Apply here and we’ll be in touch.

Boma is committed to delivering safe events. We follow best practices suggested by the New Zealand health authorities and work closely with our suppliers to prioritise health and wellbeing.

Our comprehensive health and safety plans ensure you can book with certainty and attend with confidence.

For details on event refunds and transfers, please see our refund policy.

Melissa Clark-Reynolds ONZM is best known as a foresight practitioner and professional director, with over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and strategist.

She has been CEO of a number of technology companies and is an active board member for a number of organisations, including Alpine Energy and Atkins Ranch — the first lamb producer in the world to achieve both Global Animal Partnership Step-4 accreditation and Non-GMO Project verification.

She was previously deputy chair of Radio NZ, a member of the Ministry for Primary Industries Primary Growth Partnership’s Independent Advisory Panel, and the first independent director of Beef + Lamb New Zealand — the industry organisation representing New Zealand's sheep and beef farmers.

Melissa also previously chaired Little Yellow Bird, which makes ethical clothing and has recently moved into the circular economy by converting unused clothing into fabric for reuse.

She delivers strategy and foresight advice with a number of organisations in the sector, including Kotahi, BioSecurityNZ and the Department of Conservation.

Melissa has attended the Te Hono Bootcamp at Stanford University twice, trained as a foresight practitioner with The Institute For The Future in Palo Alto and studied with Clayton Christiansen in his approach to disruptive innovation through Harvard Business School.

In 2015 she was named Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in recognition for her services to technology.

Melissa keeps bees and tweets as @HoneyBeeGeek.

If you have any questions about this event, please email us at [email protected].

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ilex Cafe, Botanical Gardens, Christchurch, New Zealand