I’m Marisa. I help leadership teams test major investment and transformation decisions against plausible futures.
For leaders and teams navigating uncertainty, emerging technology, and organizational change. I connect strategic foresight with business value and practical execution.
Engagements are shaped around the question you need to answer and the decisions ahead.
Explore how your operating environment could change, identify emerging opportunities and risks, and test how your strategy holds up across different futures.
For: Teams revisiting long-term direction or facing an uncertain market.
Signal and trend brief · Scenario narratives · Strategic implications and options
Translate a strategic or technology opportunity into a clear business case. Connect investment choices with outcomes, assumptions, and a value narrative that decision-makers can use.
For: Leaders evaluating investments or building support for a new initiative.
Business case · Value model and assumptions · Executive decision brief
Turn strategic direction into a practical path forward. Align teams around priorities, define meaningful milestones, and connect organizational ambition with the work required to deliver it.
For: Organizations moving from a strategic vision into coordinated execution.
Transformation roadmap · Stakeholder alignment sessions · Outcome and milestone framework
Explore what AI could mean for your organization, assess strategic use cases, and question the assumptions behind AI-enabled plans. Bring business value, organizational readiness, and governance considerations into the same conversation.
For: Teams deciding where AI fits in their strategy and how to approach adoption.
AI opportunity brief · Use-case priorities · Strategic evaluation of AI-generated plans
Tell me what is changing, the decision you face, and where you need clarity. We can define the right scope, deliverables, and way of working together.
Strategic foresight is the thread that connects my work and my curiosity: noticing change, questioning assumptions, and exploring the futures our choices might create.
I bring more than 15 years of strategy, business value, and transformation experience across technology, government, and nonprofit sectors. My work connects executive priorities, investment decisions, and the people and systems needed to turn strategy into action.
Scan for trends, weak signals, and critical uncertainties.
Build contrasting scenarios and stress-test assumptions.
Identify what to act on, prepare for, and watch.
Developed executive value frameworks, business cases, and transformation roadmaps. This work enabled $225M+ in strategic technology opportunities and quantified $500M+ in projected customer business value.
Design and evaluate AI-enabled business strategy and strategic foresight scenarios, pressure-testing model outputs against real-world executive decisions.
Supported economic development, digital modernization, and transformation initiatives with public and private stakeholders.
What becomes possible when we look a little further ahead?
My approach to strategic foresight starts with curiosity about change and a willingness to question what feels inevitable. I explore possible futures and how today’s choices might shape them.
Research on emerging change, with a note on how each piece can inform a decision.
Ten forecasts explore how AI may change what we trust, how global influence could shift, and how extreme heat might reshape everyday life. Use them to test which assumptions in today’s strategy would need to change.
Open the full forecast Read the public overviewAmy Webb and her team examine ten ways technology, capital, geopolitics, climate, and behavior can reinforce one another. Use it to test how several shifts could affect a strategy at the same time.
Get the Convergence OutlookA practical guide to scanning for change, building scenarios, and testing whether a plan holds up across them.
Open the UNDP toolkitA framework for deciding what an agent can do, when a person must approve an action, and how to audit what happened. Use it when deciding what to delegate in an AI pilot.
Read the AI agents playbookShare your challenge, the decision you’re working toward, and what useful support would look like. Let’s explore how foresight and strategy can help you move forward.