Nick Turner, Founder and Managing Partner

Adviser, corporate strategist and futures thinker, Nick Turner has over 25 years’ experience offering counsel to senior decision makers at multi-national corporations and governments, helping make better choices today for an uncertain tomorrow.

A product of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, Nick specialises in using strategic thinking, behavioural economics, simulations and scenarios to ensure that senior decision-makers and their organisations develop robust, future-proofed strategies and options.

Lucy Adams, Network Partner

Lucy Adams founder of Disruptive HR,  has held Board level Human Resources roles for over 10 years, most recently at the BBC. Lucy created Disruptive HR with the belief that the challenges of an increasingly disrupted world can only be met if we dramatically improve our approach to leading, engaging and developing our people.

Lucy’s ambition is to help businesses develop fresh, innovative approaches that will achieve better results today and equip for tomorrow.

Jim Butcher, Network Partner

Jim Butcher is the Founder and Principal of Entegra Partners.  He created Entegra Partners around three principles: first, uncertainties need not lead to paralysis but rather new strategic insights that help you navigate and excel in today’s times. Second, the world is facing more systemic and complex problems, from health care, higher education to environmental and energy challenges, which require new approaches and often multi-stakeholder solutions.

Simon Commander, Network Partner

Simon Commander is Founder and Managing Partner of Altura Partners which provides strategic and economic policy advice to top decision makers in governments and companies in emerging economies. He has a vast amount of experience working as an adviser in many emerging and developing economies across all the major regions of the world. Aside from his involvement with many country lending programmes and policy dialogue with governments, he has had extensive experience working with investors and companies operating in emerging markets, as well as with all the leading International Financial Institutions.

David Gann, Network Partner

Professor David Gann CBE CEng FICE FCGI is the Vice-President of Development and Innovation at Imperial College, London. David is responsible for shaping the vision, strategy and innovation agenda for Imperial College and the development of its new London campus at White City. He is a member of the College’s Executive Board, responsible for new ventures such as ThinkSpace, increasing and diversifying income. He holds the Chair in Innovation and Technology Management at Imperial College Business School and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. 

Nada Ivanovic, Network Partner

Dr Nada Ivanovic is an experienced analyst and consultant in helping to enhance individual performance and the productivity of teams.  She has coached leaders of significant global and national organisations, such as the Prudential, AstraZeneca, the Norwegian Health Service, and the Nordic Council of Ministers. Her private client base includes notable individuals in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

Kate Lye, Network Partner

Kate’s consulting focus spans three areas; leadership development, organisational change and executive coaching. Her work with businesses strengthens the link between leadership and strategy. With over 20 years of international experience in the US, Europe and Asia, she has significant experience in financial services, professional services, pharmaceuticals and technology businesses. Her formal training is in organisational psychology and behaviour, leadership development, coaching and change management.

John O’Brien, Network Partner

John provides leadership, team and organizational consulting services to leading companies in the United States of America, China, Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Africa and South Eastern Europe. Having successfully led major people transformation projects in the financial services industry and in nuclear energy industry, John has also consulted at the most senior levels to companies such as: European Central Bank, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Boston Consulting Group, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, GSK, ITV, British Energy, and Clifford Chance. His former clients include a USA Presidential Adviser and a member of the German Economic “six wise men”.

Matt Ranen, Network Partner

Matt is an independent Scenario Planning and Strategy Consultant, helping senior executives frame up and make decisions as they grapple with the complex uncertainties of future change. His work draws on his 9 years as a leader at Global Business Network (GBN), the pioneering scenario consultancy that helped elevate the field of scenario planning worldwide.

Richard Watson, Network Partner

Richard Watson is a London-based writer, speaker and scenario thinker.

He is the founder and editor of www.nowandnext.com , a website that documents global trends, and has worked extensively on scenario planning projects in Australia with Oliver Freeman (ex GBN) prior to moving back to the UK.

Steve Weber, Network Partner

Steve is a Professor in the Political Science Department and in the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He works at the intersection of technology markets, intellectual property regimes, and international political economy. A professor since 1990, Steve was one of the early leaders at GBN and helped to establish scenario planning as a core methodology in business, government, and non-profit sectors.