Experiential Futures for Strategy and Innovation with Roger Dennis:
This learning intensive will strengthen your approach to strategy and innovation by incorporating experiential futures into your professional toolkit. Drawing on the wildly successful ‘showcase engagement workshops’ which drew international attention and connected thousands of people to the Canterbury Health System’s vision and purpose, Roger will share how successive leaders of the Canterbury’s District Health Board embraced futures and foresight to transform a ‘broken system’ to a world-leading one.
There is an appealing simplicity about what the Canterbury health service has done. The starting place was talking with the staff. Mock-ups of healthcare settings were built in a warehouse and groups of staff walked through them to stimulate thinking on solutions for the many challenges they faced in an under-performing system. It was supposed to last a fortnight and involve about 400 people; it eventually ran for six weeks and more than 2,000 people turned up.
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What You Can Expect:
🔍 Mythbusting Traditional Strategy - Debunking common misconceptions about traditional strategic planning and introducing experiential futures.
🌐 Global Learnings and Local Applications - Insights from Roger’s extensive global experience and application to local contexts.
💼 Integration into Your Work - Tips on how to integrate experiential futures into your leadership, governance, and organisational strategies.
Throughout the session, there will be ample opportunities to reflect, engage with Roger on his extensive global experience, and collaborate with your peers to share ideas and solutions.
Outcomes: You will leave the session equipped with practical tools and strategies for incorporating experiential futures into your strategic planning processes, along with a deeper understanding of the benefits and challenges of modernising communication and innovation practices.
Who This Is For: 👤 This learning experience is designed for professionals and leaders at the beginning of their journey into strategic foresight and innovation. Participants may have extensive experience in other fields but might not have been exposed to experiential futures and interactive communication methodologies.
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Speaker Bio:
Roger Dennis has over two decades of experience advising CEOs and boards on the link between foresight and strategy.
Roger helped establish the world’s largest foresight programme called Future Agenda. He also partnered with an ex-advisor to the UK Prime Minister to deliver public-sector innovation courses in Australasia for the Australia-New Zealand School of Government.
Roger is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, a member of the Digital Council of New Zealand and an Edmund Hilary fellow. He’s written for and contributed to publications globally, including Scientific American, Knowledge at Wharton and the Financial Times.
From 2006 to 2008 he co-led the Shell Technology Futures programme for the GameChanger team in The Hague. In 2015 he led a team analysing the impact of a pandemic on New Zealand, and is now ideating post-COVID recovery for large companies across the Asia Pacific region.
