#63 Strategic Foresight with Wilson Wong

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Wilson Wong, Director of insight and futures at Wong at work.  

We delve into futures and foresight, how organisations can anticipate disruption, navigate uncertainty, and strategically plan for the long term.  

Wilson shares fascinating insights from his 20 plus years of futures work, including real world examples, like Shell scenario planning and shifts in the global energy market. We explore why leaders must step back to think critically amidst short term pressures, and how tools like scenario planning can uncover risks and opportunities that might be hiding in plain sight.

A data scientist and futurist, Wilson has over 30 years of experience of applied research into organisations – their leadership, values/ culture, futures strategy, and the evaluation, management and development of human capital for policy & practice, investors and in academia. His research consulting and futures strategy development clients include the Metropolitan Police, Logica, Standard Chartered Bank, Nottingham County Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, DWP. MoD, Human Capital Development Corporation, HCLI, and RBS.

He is Visiting Professor at Nottingham Business School, Adjunct Professor at HK Baptist University, and sits on several academic research strategy boards, and is Chair of the IJHRD. He was for over a decade the Head of Insight & Futures, and Head of Research at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD, UK) developing the base for evidence-based practice, and helmed the research at the European Association of People Management (EAPM) and the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA). A UK human capital metrics expert to ISO, he co-edited Human capital management standards: A complete guide, published by Kogan Page.  He has led on and continues to develop measures of sustainable HC. He is a member of the UN Millennium Project global futures experts network, and has led the futures research on national talent ecosystems for policy development in Singapore and Malaysia.