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Alexa Naudziunas, Envision Executive Director, Jeff House, Envision Board Member, ChatGPT As we drive toward a preferred future, our ability to shape an effective response to change proves both necessary and challenging. Strategic foresight has emerged as a valuable tool for all of us. Seeking to help create a resilient and adaptable Greater Green Bay, […]

What if the signals told you that you’ve been pitching the wrong product – to the wrong audience? Or imagine the signals told you that artificial intelligence (AI), rather than a danger to your primary audience, is actually the key to enhancing the services they need? What if the signals suggest AI will make things worse? Those were some […]

Fr. Paul Demuth, Board Member A Choctaw elder tells the story of a lost arrow shot through time which lands in the future. Today, in County Cork, Ireland, stands a monument to the Choctaw people — 20-foot-high steel feathers entitled Kindred Spirits. It is a reminder of an amazing act of generosity back in the 1830s that became […]

Green Bay’s Metro Fire Department is considering buying an electric fire truck. Such vehicles are reported to be much quieter than the traditional truck and exude no fumes. The elimination of background noise might improve the scene, making radios and shouts unnecessary. This electric truck could pump water continuously for four hours on a single […]

John Werner, Sr. VP & Chief Strategy Officer, Schreiber Foods “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” This statement, often attributed to Mark Twain, has been written on the wall in my office for the past four years. Around that time, […]

Jim Golembeski, board member I met Michelle Schuler in 2014 when we were organizing what is now the NEW North Digital Alliance. Michelle had taken six years off from her business career to raise her children, and she was ready to reenter the workforce. As she went through the networking process, Michelle discovered two important […]

Resurrection Envisions the Future of Spiritual GrowthTony Pichler, Mission Outreach Director, Resurrection Parish On March 1, 2023, the entire leadership team from Resurrection Catholic Parish attended Envision’s World Futures Day at the KI Center in downtown Green Bay. Our minds were stretched as we learned more about artificial intelligence, bots that can create a speech […]

A tribute to the memory of Phil Hauck Our community celebrates the life of Phil Hauck, 1942-2023, Envision president 2006-07, 2022-23.A mentor and cherished friend to so many, Phil chose to be exceptional. He did nothing half-way – and he brought the rest of us along. It was only his understated and modest demeanor that […]

Gratzia Villarroel, Ph.D. , Director of International Studies, St. Norbert College The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) emerged in the late 1990s when the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) identified a need for an international assessment beyond traditional performance measures. The first PISA assessment took place in 2000 and included 32 countries, […]

Lynn Gerlach, Envision Communication Consultant We welcomed 23 new Strategic Foresight students to our fall workshop, held at the beautiful Green Bay Botanical Garden – our biggest class yet. Collectively, they represent ten local organizations, some new to strategic foresight and others in training to enhance teams already established. Pictured in back on the far […]

Alexa Naudziunas, Executive Director It is with great enthusiasm that I share some news with you about the ever-evolving landscape of our community. As we look ahead to the future, I believe it is our duty to equip ourselves with the tools and insights needed to navigate the challenges and opportunities that lie on the […]

Nan Nelson, Envision Board Member and Economic Transformation Signals Team A new startup is using AI to make non-English call center employees, who are often located in India, Pakistan or the Philippines, sound American. Founded in 2020, Sanas now provides companies with a proprietary AI software that works in real-time to alter users’ voices to sound more […]

Enjoy the September 2023 Horizons, Envision’s bi-monthly newsletter. Meet Alexa Naudziunas, Envision’s new executive director; read how Karmen Lemke, Director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay, has helped implement Strategic Foresight Training in her agency; and benefit from valuable insights on current trends and signals from Envision Board members.

Jim Golembeski, Envision Board member and Upward Mobility Signals Team It takes 18 years to grow a worker. That makes workforce forecasting one of the easiest things that Envision can do in our efforts to identify trends and challenges. It is easy to gather live birth data for our region on an annual basis and […]

Karmen Lemke, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay Although the future is really in the hands of our Almighty God, we can use our wisdom to best prepare Catholic Charities for our next years of service. That’s just what we’ve been doing since 1918. Catholic Charities of the Diocese of […]

Phil Hauck, Board President Alexa Naudziunas, with deep roots in community-building, has accepted the position of Executive Director of Envision. She begins her term September 8 when she joins Envision’s eighth Garry Golden Strategic Foresight Workshop series along with 23 others. In October, she will enter the University of Houston’s certification program on Strategic Foresight. […]

(Excerpts from Leatherby, Lauren. “How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World,” New York Times, July 16, 2023.) Excerpted by Phil Hauck, Envision Board and Economic Transformation Signals Team The world’s demographics have already been transformed. Europe is shrinking. China is shrinking, with India, a much younger country, overtaking it this year as the […]

Judy Nagel, Envision Board and Upward Mobility Signals Team When you think of a drone, how high do you imagine it going, and how long do you imagine it staying in the air? Did you realize that the new “pseudo-satellite” drones can soar to heights of more than 60,000 feet and stay up there for […]

By Phil Hauck, Envision Board President Our first Network Cohort held its second meeting … and they know that ChatGPT will be on the agenda each meeting for quite some time. Participants recounted how they are using it so far, mainly to write contracts and publicity material. One member used ChatGPT to develop a service […]

By Phil Hauck, Board President Post-Workshop, you are likely to need some advice or even ongoing consulting to help you implement the Strategic Foresight techniques you’ve learned, to make them more impactful within your team or organization. Envision offers that support. And we start during Garry Golden’s workshop! We now meet with participants after the […]