Who Reads Emerging Futures?
Readers come from innovation and change facilitation, complexity practice, organizational development, foresight, the arts, higher education, ecology, AI research, healthcare, and beyond. What they share is not a job title. It's a conviction – that the world is more creative, more relational, more alive than any framework they've been handed can grasp.
Most have already cycled through the usual tools. Design Thinking. Systems Thinking. Sensemaking. Complexity frameworks. Each illuminated something real. None was enough.
Emerging Futures is for the practitioner who knows that there is more – and wants a shared community, language, and space for sustained speculative inquiry to grow from what they already know.
A Weekly Ritual for People Who've Outgrown Their Frameworks
Emerging Futures doesn't land in your inbox like most newsletters. It doesn't summarize the week. It doesn't give you five tips.
It asks you to slow down with a question, a concept, a practice, a speculation that will actively reshape how you engage with creative processes.
Ryan Spence, CEO of AmeriFab, Inc., says about the newsletter: “Nothing makes me more appreciative of being alive and active these days than the work of Jason & lain. The impact is a daily meditation before I launch into action.”
For Bhavana Nissima, Founder & CEO at The Lightweaver House, “the newsletters opened a portal… I won't attempt to define it anymore nor summarise what must have taken years to reflect and publish… I have read only a fraction of the resource, and it was plenty…” And of the journey that followed, she says, “My current play is this: a new opening is what emerges when being-with in a state of deeply perceived complexity of the whole relationship. I know it will evolve. This in itself is profoundly exciting."
Others save it for the close of the work week - Ozgen Bagci, an educational consultant and HundrED community lead, “ends her Fridays with the newsletter and a glass of wine.” Her closing ritual.
What they have in common is that Emerging Futures isn't content to consume. It's an integral part of their ongoing meaning-making practice. It’s something you return to. Something that builds, volume by interactive volume, into a different orientation toward creativity – one that shows up in how you live, engage the world, facilitate, teach, collaborate and lead – how you notice what's emerging in spaces that everyone else is trying to control.
Over time, the newsletter doesn't just give you new concepts. It transforms what you pay attention to – the unintended outcomes, the things no one planned, the affordances hiding in plain sight – and ultimately how you act beyond the given and the known.
