WHY STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
When the rules are changing, planning for a single expected future leaves institutions exposed. Strategic foresight helps leaders explore alternative scenarios, surface risks, and assess their future readiness.
Signature engagement
A facilitated experience for your leadership team to explore plausible futures, assess institutional risk and readiness, and identify practical next steps together.
Explore the Scenarios
Explore four ways AI could reshape graduate careers—and the signals that could reveal which futures are emerging.
01 / Baseline scenario
Legacy organizationsFalling opportunity
Graduates still pursue familiar careers, but AI shrinks junior work and makes entry into first jobs increasingly costly and competitive
02 / Collapse scenario
New organizationsFalling opportunity
Student frustration fuels backlash against AI and big corporations and drives demands for AI limits and financial security
03 / New equilibrium scenario
Legacy organizationsGrowing opportunity
Students shift into majors and fields that are less exposed to AI, while new programs emerge to retrain unemployed recent grads
04 / Transformation scenario
New organizationsGrowing opportunity
Graduates use AI to launch small businesses, attract venture capital, and grow wealthy while opening new sectors of the economy
Ed Venit, Managing Principal of Evolution Foresight
Meet Ed Venit
An evolutionary biologist by training and a longtime adviser to higher education leaders, Ed studies how institutions adapt when their environment changes.
Before founding Evolution Foresight, he spent nearly two decades at EAB, where he served as a Managing Director and advised college and university leaders on student success, enrollment, and technology strategy. Over the past five years, his public work has reached higher education audiences nationwide through research, articles, webinars, and presentations.
BUILT FOR INSTABILITY
The fossil that greeted you at the top of this page is Mesolimulus walchi, a Jurassic horseshoe crab. Its lineage reaches back roughly 450 million years and continues to the present day—a remarkable example of remaining viable while the world changes around you.
