Selected work
Essays, interviews, and long-form conversations on the future of governance, power, and institutional change.
Books & Chapters
A practical guide to using narrative strategy to accelerate organizational innovation and navigate complexity.
Chapter in edited collection, American Strategy and Purpose: Reflections on Foreign Policy and National Security in an Era of Change.
Articles & Essays
Article in Joint Force Quarterly on the utility of strategic foresight to strengthen national security decision-making and institutional adaptation.
An analysis of how Facebook’s integration into social and political life has made its influence effectively irreversible, demanding new approaches to platform governance
An examination of how power now operates through narratives, networks, and institutional legitimacy rather than through traditional military or economic coercion alone.
An argument that effective pandemic response and recovery require not only risk management, but imaginative capacity to rethink systems and institutional assumptions under uncertainty.
A Prescient Policy Sandbox event report of live foresight activity to explore plausible geopolitical futures in which power is distributed among diverse institutions and actors.
A brief argument for why public-sector leaders need structured foresight practices to balance immediate demands with long-term decision making
An examination of how post-9/11 U.S. counterterrorism strategy was shaped by a dominant narrative framework, and why reframing that narrative mattered for strategic choice and legitimacy.
Conversations
An explanation of how strategic foresight helps organizations reduce risk by identifying critical uncertainties, testing assumptions, and preparing for multiple plausible futures rather than relying on prediction.
A TEDx talk examining how narratives structure political power, limit strategic imagination, and shape the futures institutions are able to pursue.
A long-form podcast interview on how leaders and institutions can shift from reactive crisis management toward anticipatory decision making through foresight and narrative framing