About Us
Prescient was founded in 2017 to help leaders and organizations better anticipate the social, technological, and geopolitical forces reshaping their world, so they can compete more effectively. Our tools are strategic foresight and the insights of storytelling.
Prescient works with companies, trade associations, government agencies, and civil society and community leaders. Through the Foresight Sandbox, a training program launched in 2019, the firm has helped build foresight capacity in dozens of public and private sector organizations. Our practice is sector-agnostic — Prescient has worked across fields from business to agriculture to law and national security. But the goal is always the same: to give people the skills, knowledge, and courage to transform their organizations to meet the needs of the future a future that is just, inclusive, plentiful, and joyful.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Dr. Amy Zalman
Dr. Amy Zalman has spent more than two decades helping the people who run large, complicated institutions think more clearly about what's coming. She led Deloitte's strategic foresight practice for government and public-sector clients, served as President and CEO of the World Future Society, and was the first person to hold the Chair of Information Integration at the U.S. National War College — a role created to give warfighters and diplomats the strategic literacy required to meet the demands of the digital and AI era.
She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and advises graduate research at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Her work has carried her across five continents, briefing military leaders, government officials, and Fortune 500 executives on the changes now shaping their decisions. Mxolisi Mgojo, former CEO of Exxaro, described her as “a guide and coach rather than an instructor,” whose questions “helped us explore and understand aspects of our business... more than we could ever have expected.”
“People are both bewildered and bedazzled by change. Foresight offers tools to gain a sense of empowerment — greater clarity over what's changing, which changes actually matter, and what you want to do about it.
There's no dearth of information that may be telling us something about the future. What's in short supply is the discipline to stop and ask how it could play out, what it means, and what we'd like it to mean.
There's also no shortage of visions of the future. What's missing are roadmaps — a plotted path from here to a future that's genuinely transformative. That's what Prescient helps build.”
— Amy Zalman, Founder
