Futurist Hour

Gain a fresh perspective on current events by joining Futurist Dave Wild for an energising and inspiring look at the future. Explore beyond day-to-day demands to discover what your future ahead might look like.

Exploring shifts.
Inspiring possibilities.
Creating change.

Each Futurist Hour webinar focuses on a different topic for a fresh perspective on current events and evolving trends – giving you time and space for big-picture thinking. Registration is with our compliments and you’ll join a community of future-focused leaders, giving you access to tools and events designed to support your work and key priorities.

Designed to inspire, shift and connect, Futurist Hours are an opportunity to experience our approach to equipping teams with renewed energy and new skills – from Masterclasses to Futurework Leadership programmes.

FUTURIST HOUR FORMAT

Join online for the first 30 minutes or stay for the hour:

  • Futurist trends and insights (30 min)

  • Questions and conversation (20 min)

  • Reflect, strategise or gain back time in your day (10 min)

Book even if you can’t make it along on the day and receive
the Futurist presentation and recording afterwards.

Note: Once registered you’ll receive Teams links and details

2025 Futurework Leadership Programme

13–14 May 2025, Aotearoa New Zealand

New Ways of Thinking, Leading and Working

2025 Trends Series

Leadership
Trends

As a leader what trends should you follow?

Or as a leader, should you be defining the trends – not following them?

In 2025 leaders need to navigate complex balancing acts:

  • Leveraging the rise of independent leadership styles, while retaining the strengths of inclusive collaborations

  • Increasing productivity by delegating decision-making to AI systems, while managing the risks of imperfect data and algorithms

  • Elevating what it means to be a valuable leader – someone worth following – while building proactive, high‑performance teams

Knowing that our world has shifted already. Meaning it’s no longer a question of whether to change.

But how best to lead the change.

To trend forward.

FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments

Monday 3 March
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min

2025 Trends Series

Technology
Trends

Trying to keep up with technology changes can result in knowing less, rather than more.

As we chase endless news headlines and notifications across the surface, while missing the bigger picture above and the deeper impacts below.

Looking at the year ahead, leaders and teams are being both empowered and challenged by pivotal technology shifts:

  • Powering the next generation of technology for solving environmental challenges is creating new environmental challenges – what level of intelligent technology dependency is… intelligent?

  • Our technology has made us more connected than ever, yet in some ways we now feel more divided and alone than ever – how do we build connected organisations and communities with enduring strength?

  • AI can instantly generate text for the writer, then rapidly summarise the same text for the reader – what words truly matter and how is this reshaping business workflows and human dynamics?

Fast change happens slowly. From daily technology launches to overnight stock market shifts, a longer-term more powerful force is at work.

As technology changes, we change.

And as we change, our technologies change.

Trending forward.

FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments

Monday 7 April
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min

2025 Trends Series

Workforce
Trends

Which is more important: the Future of Work or the Now of Work?

The future isn’t off in the distance. It’s all around us, with shifts in our workplaces of today signalling the trending dynamics of tomorrow’s workforce.

Instead of reacting to the changing nature of work, we can actively shape it. While strategically navigating the pivotal forces at work:

  • Younger workers are redefining success beyond traditional career paths, while experienced staff seek deeper meaning – how do we create workplaces that energise multi-generational teams?

  • AI enhances our human capabilities, yet can also displace human roles – what’s the new blueprint for reskilling teams to thrive at the intersection of artificial and human intelligence?

  • Remote work has evolved from a privilege to an expectation, to an expected privilege for some, while our office spaces transform into collaboration hubs – how do we design hybrid ecosystems that support both productivity and wellbeing?

We used to talk about work-life balance. Now we’re navigating work-life integration.

With the boundaries blurring between professional and personal spaces, between digital and physical presence, between human and machine capabilities.

The workforce isn’t just changing. It’s being reinvented. By us all.

Trending forward. Together.

FUTURIST HOUR
Investment:
With our compliments

Monday 19 May
2pm NZT / 12pm AET
Online 30–60 min

Futurist Dave Wild Formats Overview

Inspire. Shift. Upskill.

Do you sometimes wonder what your future holds?

In the search for answers, it’s easy to miss the signals of the future all around you. It doesn’t have to be that way. Just as we’re making the machines smarter by writing new code, we can also rewrite our own habits. Changing the way we think. Shifting the way we lead.

Creating the Future of Work. Today.