Episode #30: Scenario Planning to be Ready for Tomorrow with Maggie Kolkena
Today’s Mission-Critical Work of Scenario Planning to be Ready for Tomorrow
In this episode, we introduce you to the world of scenario planning and its role in making your organization more resilient in the future. Find out how this work will help you better manage the next disruption coming your way!
In this episode, we discuss the following:
The limits of traditional strategic planning
Today’s complex, fast-paced world demands Scenario Thinking.
Scenario Planning will help you make sense of everything coming at you.
Unknow, doesn’t mean unknowable.
Creating and using scenarios gets easier and faster with practice (and fun if you let it be)
Ways to become a trend nerd! Because you don’t have to be a futurist to be a competent trend watcher
How design thinking and creative problem-solving capabilities complement being a Scenario Planner
OUR GUEST: Maggie Kolkena
Maggie Kolkena, MSOD, is the author of Today for Tomorrow: A Field Guide to Scenario Planning. She brings over 25 years of expertise in providing leadership development experiences and helping leaders manage the future. She studied with the renowned Global Business Network and has developed a practical approach for leaders to envision and plan for the long-term future. Maggie is passionate about good facilitation and is recognized for her generative approach and a spark of humor. Leaders who work with her appreciate the quick rapport she creates and her rapid grasp of the challenges they face. She has worked across sectors with organizations in diverse industries and geographies, from Boston to Bangladesh. Enabling innovation has been a strong theme in Maggie’s consulting. Her first career was in the performing arts. She graduated from Pepperdine’s MSOD program, and her research exploring collaborative creativity compared improvisation teams to corporate innovation teams.
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