Futures ALCHEMY™: Transforming Disruption into Bold, Strategic Innovation
A powerful method to turn uncertainty into imagination capital, actionable vision, and future-forward adaptive advantage
Featured at ESOMAR North America 2025
Dr. Ford will debut Futures ALCHEMY™ as the opening keynote of the ESOMAR Trends Horizon North America Conference.
What is Futures ALCHEMY™?
The Futures ALCHEMY™ method is a visionary yet practical framework that integrates futures literacy, narrative thinking, and innovation strategy.
Transforming Disruption
A method for turning uncertainty into imagination capital, actionable vision, and iterative innovation—equipping individuals and organizations with critical capabilities to thrive in an era of accelerating change.
Human-Centered, Science-Backed
Inspired by Dr. Ford's lived experience of alchemizing personal upheaval, the framework is also rooted in cognitive science, evidence-based power of storytelling, and strategic foresight.
Building Adaptive Capacity
Blends futures thinking and narrative strategy to unlock breakthrough thinking and empower leaders to navigate complexity with clarity, creativity, and boldness.
Imagination Capital™ — a measurable capability to envision compelling alternative futures and use those visions as assets to drive innovation amid uncertainty.
Seven Steps of Futures ALCHEMY™
A — Anticipate
L — Listen
C — Curate
H — Hone
E — Envision
M — Manifest
Y — Yield
Transforming Disruption into Bold Innovation
Corporate Offerings
Keynote Experience
A dynamic, science-backed keynote that empowers leaders to unlock breakthrough thinking and see disruption as a portal to possibility. Ideal for conferences and leadership events.
Half-Day Intensive Experience
A modular, interactive journey through the 7-part Futures ALCHEMY™ framework to generate actionable insights, and build future-forward, iterative innovation strategies within organizations.
Custom Executive Sessions
Tailored engagements for senior leaders—ranging from boardroom strategy sessions to retreat-style immersions and curated dinner conversations—designed to spark creativity, foresight, and adaptive advantage.
Building Futures Literacy for the Next Generation
Education Offerings
Keynote Experience
An inspiring, story-driven keynote for educators and students that introduces Futures ALCHEMY™ as a tool for resilience, creativity, and critical thinking. Can be adapted for conferences, assemblies, or special events.
Educator Workshop
A professional development experience that fuses futures thinking, creative problem-solving, speculative design to invite educators to reimagine teaching and learning (particularly STEM) in today's tech-driven world.
The Futuring Lab™
An immersive, assembly-style activation for schools or districts that engages an entire student body in backcasting innovations, anticipating trends, and creating bold prototypes of tomorrow.
Beyond Disruption: A Distinctive Edge in Futures Thinking
Dr. Ford uniquely integrates lived experience of transformation, rigorous scientific expertise, and visionary storytelling with applied foresight tools. This rare blend creates powerful experiences that both resonate emotionally and deliver tangible value.
Scientific Authority
Biomedical research background provides credibility in evidence-based approaches to understanding human potential and behavioral change.
Master Storyteller
Proven ability to translate complex concepts into relatable and compelling narratives that are accessible and actionable.
Practical Foresight
Real-world tools and methodologies that help leaders and organizations develop strategic imagination and futures literacy.
Liberatory Lens
An approach that helps individuals and organizations break free from limiting beliefs and systemic constraints to unlock untapped creativity and foster resilience.
Custom Sessions and Fireside Chats
Dr. Ford is also available for tailored sessions, hosting/emceeing, panels, and fireside chats that align with organizational priorities—including social impact, innovation, STEM education, and beyond. Topics can be co-developed with your team to meet your audience's needs.
Booking & Contact:
TESTIMONIALS
"We held a computer science workshop 3 weeks after summit and one of our facilitators pulled me aside and said, 'It's been 3 weeks, and I am still thinking about Dr. Ford. I have never thought about a keynote speaker and their message this long after a conference before.' What a compliment! What an inspiration!"
Anna Pyles, STEM Project Specialist at Battelle
Ohio STEM Learning Network
Let's Begin a Transformation Journey Together
Ready to convert disruption into strategic innovation and bold possibilities for your organization? Let's co-create powerful experiences tailored to your unique challenges and aspirations.
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