Resilience During Evolutionary Change
WHY STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
Higher Education Is Facing Existential Questions
Unlike visionaries or forecasters, trained practitioners of Strategic Foresight use proven techniques to help leaders explore alternative scenarios and ask existential questions about their future.
These questions arise when the rules of the game themselves are changing and no single future can be assumed. For thousands of colleges and universities, that moment has arrived.
We believe that introducing higher education leaders to this way of thinking can improve both their outlook and their planning. We do this in two ways:
Strategic Foresight Office Hours
Free 45-minute conversations for higher education leaders who want to explore a question through a foresight lens.
Executive Foresight Intensive
A one-day facilitated experience for leadership teams to explore plausible futures, assess risk and readiness, and identify practical next steps.
STRATEGIC FORESIGHT OFFICE HOURS
Let’s Talk About the Future
Pick a question and book a free 45-minute conversation
Who will be attending college in the 2030s?
How will college prepare students for AI work?
What is the future of the arts and humanities?
What hidden college advantages could be unlocked?
I spend a lot of time studying these questions, and I use these calls to share what I’m learning and hear what you’re seeing at your institution. Bring a question, and I’ll offer the most useful perspective I can, no strings attached.
Ed Venit, Managing Principal of Evolution Foresight
Meet Ed Venit
A different kind of futurist
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.
Expert commentary
Ideas in public
Selected research, interviews, and commentary on AI, institutional change, student success, and higher education’s future.
BUILT FOR INSTABILITY
Let's Talk About the Future
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.
