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Nan Nelson, Board MemberThe world’s first robot lawyer will soon defend a human in a speeding ticket case in an actual UnitedStates court. The CEO of DoNotPay introduced his AI lawyer to the world in a January Twitter clip. In thisvideo the company’s bot successfully negotiated a Comcast Internet bill with the Comcast Chat bot. Human […]

The Automobile Gallery was again the site for a new Envision Strategic Foresight cohort to begin studies under the guidance of Garry Golden. On February 3 the following businesses and nonprofit organizations sent representatives to the training, bringing the total number of local leaders now trained to 125: • O’Connor Connective• NE Wisconsin Technical College• […]

Randall Lawton, Envision Board member “The surprise-free future isn’t.” —Herman Kahn Firms prepared for the future are 33% more profitable and grow twice as fast as others, research says. Companies that scan a variety of environments, such as technology, politics, environment, competition, and customer landscape, develop a strong understanding of market shifts and of new […]

Phil Hauck, Board President We have learned that our graduates, after completing their Strategic Foresight (SF) training, recognize value in comparing experiences with other SF grads and continuing to work together to implement the tools they’ve learned. So we’re launching our first two networking cohorts in the very near future, bringing together like-minded people who […]

Explore Envision’s newsletter, January 2023 Horizons. We spotlight community leader Ann Franz and highlight Chris Czarnik’s insights on work forces. Read about our March 1, 2023 World Futures Day celebration.

Jim Golembeski, Envision Board Member It was 2006 when Paul Rauscher met Ann Franz. Ann had recently started as Business Liaison for Bay Area Workforce Development Board (WDB), and Paul owned EMT International, a manufacturer of large, high-speed printers in Green Bay. Watching trends in manufacturing, Paul had observed:

Phil Hauck, Envision Board President “There is a zero percent likelihood you will have enough people to fill all your jobs for the next ten years!” That’s the headline takeaway from Chris Czarnik, an Appleton-based national speaker on “Talent Recruitment and Management” and author of Winning The War for Talent. Employers have realized for two […]

Jeff House, Envision Board Member As the “future” becomes the “present,” one trend that started decades ago and continues to grow is the electrification of our lives. It seems that everything we touch today has a motor and a circuit board. And so, the question becomes: How are we going to continue to energize this […]

Reviewed by Tom Schumacher, Envision board member Without exception, our Strategic Foresight workshop graduates find themselves thinking more about the future. The question is how to engage others and communicate the results in a way that moves toward a preferred future. The answer can likely be found in Thinking About the Future, a book by Andy […]

Meet the fall 2022 Strategic Foresight graduates!

We recently invited another group of Strategic Foresight graduates to get together over coffee, with Garry Golden on hand virtually, for an informal chat about what’s working, what’s difficult, and how folks are feeling about things. The most recent group met at Copper State Brewing Co. Click here for complete story.

Click here for the November 2022 Horizons Newsletter by Envision. Board member Heidi Selberg comments on the social safety net and social mobility in the US, Board member and Executive Director of Wello Natalie Bomstad enlightens us on the results of the 2021 Wello Community Health and Well-Being survey, Board President Phil Hauck offers new […]

Natalie Bomstad, Board Member Envision Greater Green Bay and Executive Director of Wello The future of Greater Green Bay is directly tied to the people who call it home. Wello’s Community Health and Well-Being survey provides a snapshot of the people in Brown County, Wisconsin and how they experience all the things that impact their health […]

Phil Hauck, Board President Envision Greater Green Bay We often fail to recognize many of our options. Sometimes simply looking at a subject from a different perspective can shape a better future because more options become evident. Innovations usually don’t come from within the “system,” but from people frustrated with it. Healthcare and health insurance […]

Heidi Selberg, Board Member Envision Greater Green Bay Research on upward mobility shows that other western countries have greater rates of upward mobility than the United States. This is often attributed to those countries’ policies of offering more plentiful social supports. Further, it’s often asserted that the culture of personal responsibility and self-reliance in the […]

Phil Hauck, Envision Greater Green Bay Board President Green Bay’s new police chief, Chris Davis, reported for duty just one year ago, and he’s already enrolled in our program at Envision to learn the tools, skills and mindset of Strategic Foresight. So we invited him to speak to our Envision board in October. Here are […]

Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rates we’ve ever seen, and ambitious young women are prepared to do the same. To make meaningful and sustainable progress toward gender equality, companies need to go beyond table stakes. That’s according to the latest Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey, in partnership with LeanIn.Org. Click […]

When Hurricane Ian decimated the west coast of the Florida peninsula in late September 2022, virtually wiping out Ft. Meyers, the community called Babcock Ranch, to its immediate north, came through with hardly a scratch. How could that be? Apparently the community was designed for success – by former Green Bay Packer lineman, Syd Kitson […]

by Steve McCarthy, Executive Director If you’re seeking a real-life, practical application of strategic foresight to a meaningful situation with which we can all relate, look no further than the war in Ukraine!

Meet the sixth Envision Strategic Foresight cohort, including representatives from local businesses (Schneider, KI, Packer Fastener, and Lindquist Machine Corp.), government (Oneida Nation), education (University of Wisconsin Green Bay, GRACE Schools, and Notre Dame Academy), and nonprofits (Aging and Disabilities Resource Center, The Richard Mauthe Center, and Casa ALBA Melanie). They met for the first time on […]