Strategic Foresight for Agile Leaders: Turn Changing Priorities into Decisions

Title: Strategic Foresight for Agile Leaders: Turn Changing Priorities into Clear Decisions

Description:
Agile teams are good at adapting in the moment—but leaders still get stuck with plans that go stale as priorities shift. Strategic foresight adds an outside-in lens to planning: noticing signals of change early, making meaning together, and updating assumptions before disruption forces a scramble.
In this session, we’ll demystify strategic foresight in plain language and connect it to the realities of strategic and quarterly planning. You’ll leave with practical ways to incorporate signals, drivers, and assumption-checking into the planning and leadership routines you already have—so strategy remains relevant as conditions change.

Speaker Bio:
Lani Dame is a Future Readiness Strategist who collaborates with organizations to turn complex, messy change into clear strategy and actionable plans. She brings 15+ years as a strategist and cross-functional leader in marketing, organizational transformation, customer success, and workforce/career programs. Her experience spans startups, Fortune 500s like IBM and Dell, and higher education. In her approach, she blends strategic foresight with Agile and human-centered design to help create and scale programs and organizations that improve the customer experience. Lani also leads Career Readiness at Austin Community College, teaching students the building blocks to create a thriving career.