Jeff De Cagna
Executive Advisor, Foresight First LLC
Jeff De Cagna AIMP DAIG FRSA FASAE FNI.Dir is executive advisor for Foresight First LLC, located in Reston, Virginia. He is an AI critical thinker, association contrarian, foresight practitioner, governing designer, stakeholder/successor advocate, and stewardship catalyst. Jeff is the originator of both the board’s duty of foresight and the stewardship, governing, and foresight (SGF) board capacity-building methodology.
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities, Jeff has continued his learning with the future at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Oxford University, Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, the First Nations University of Canada, BoardSource, Competent Boards, Copenhagen Compliance, the Corporate Governance Institute, the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Management, and the Institute for the Future.
In 2019, Jeff was named the 32nd recipient of ASAE’s Academy of Leaders Award, the association’s highest individual honor given to consultants or industry partners in recognition of their exceptional contributions to shaping the future of the association community.
Sessions
Using the Anti-Futures Triangle to Build Organizational Risk Resilience
In this session, participants will begin building a new dimension of organizational risk resilience by working through the “anti-futures triangle.” This construct will challenge participants to think critically and surface orthodox beliefs—the deep-seated assumptions we make about how the world works—that pull their organizations back toward the past, intensify the growing weight of the present, […]
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