Practical Foresight: How to Make Impact in Today's Corporation
Thursday 7 May 2026,  7:00 PM ET,  Akendi office,  Toronto

We often forget that in times of change, there is also great opportunity. UX practitioners today have an unprecedented opportunity to become the strategy leaders within their organizations. We are uniquely positioned to solve what Jared Spool identifies as the "highest-risk problems." Strategic foresight is a set of methods devised to anticipate and create the future. Join Sam Ladner, PhD as she explores these methods, based on research from her upcoming book, Practical Foresight.

BIO: Sam Ladner (she/her) is a sociologist who helps teams innovate, design, and learn. She is the author of Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in The Private Sector and Mixed Methods: A Short Guide to Applied Mixed Methods Research. She has worked on dozens of advanced software projects at Microsoft, Amazon, and most recently Workday, where she worked as a Senior Principal Researcher studying the future of work. She is now an independent researcher and consultant, writing her third book, tentatively titled Practical Foresight: Strategic Foresight in Applied Settings. She received her PhD in sociology from York University and lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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