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Expert Session: Strategic Foresight – Leading with the Future in Mind
06 Nov 2026
9am - 1pm
Institute for Adult Learning, Experiment Room
What is this session about?
As organisations navigate an increasingly uncertain landscape shaped by AI, geopolitical shifts, evolving customer expectations, and changing business models, strategic foresight has become a critical leadership capability. Rather than attempting to predict the future, foresight enables leaders to systematically explore emerging trends, anticipate potential disruptions, and position their organisations to thrive amid uncertainty.
Drawing on his extensive experience in the banking and financial services sector, Mr Ian Wong will share how strategic foresight informs enterprise strategy, innovation, risk management, and investment decisions. Through practical examples, participants will gain insights into horizon scanning, scenario planning, and strategic conversations that help organisations identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and build long-term resilience.
The session will encourage participants to think beyond today’s challenges and develop a future-oriented leadership mindset, equipping them to make more informed decisions in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment.
What participants will take away
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Think beyond current trends – Consider developments and possibilities that may not yet be obvious.
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Challenge assumptions – Recognise what we are taking for granted when making decisions.
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Explore alternative futures – Use the Futures Cone to understand how different conditions might unfold.
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Test decisions against uncertainty – Consider whether today’s plans, investments or designs would still make sense under different scenarios.
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Identify practical next steps – Decide what to act on now, what options to keep open and what changes to watch.
Guest Speaker
Ms Carol Lim
Carol Lim is the Founder and Principal of The Human Futures Practice, a futurist, foresight practitioner, experiential learning designer and facilitator with more than 25 years of cross-sector leadership experience spanning government, higher education, technology, entrepreneurship and the nonprofit sector. Her foresight journey began as an urban planner in the Singapore public service, where she worked with scenario planning and long-term land-use and policy considerations. Today, she helps leaders and organisations navigate and lead change by challenging assumptions, anticipating emerging opportunities and risks, stress-testing strategies, and translating alternative futures into present-day choices and action. Her practice integrates strategic and transformative foresight, systems thinking, human-centred design, leadership and organisational development, experiential learning and impact storytelling.
Price
| IAL Corporate Member | Public |
|---|---|
| $25* | $100 |
Registrations may be subject to verification to ensure participants are placed under the correct category.
*For IAL Corporate Members, please ensure you have created a learner account and registered for the Corporate Membership Benefits under your account to enjoy the preferential rate.