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John Schmidt | Complex Global Problem Management using Foresight and Synthesis. | 2022-12-14 | Special Time
December 14, 2022 @ 16:00 - 18:00 EST
Speaker: John Schmidt
Topic: Complex Global Problem Management using Foresight and Synthesis.
Time: Dec 14, 2022 16:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
Our civilisation faces several mutually reinforcing existential threats arising from myriad compounding factors, many of our own making. It is a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, and dangerous world. Most of those who do try to address these circumstances do so from specialist perspectives, relying on expert analytic tools, historical datasets, and predictions based on current apparent trajectories to try to produce effective solutions. This discussion will cover two interweaving elements necessary for success: foresight and synthesis.
Biography:
John M Schmidt, founder of CANSYNTH, practices and promotes the discipline of Synthesis in areas including strategic intelligence, foresight, risk and counter-terrorist resourcing. John worked at FINTRAC (Canada’s FIU) from 2000 to 2015, mostly in strategic intelligence. He was seconded to Canada’s Integrated Threat (now Terrorism) Assessment Centre from 2006 to 2011. He later led the development of the Strategic Analysis Course for the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, and its delivery internationally (including a train-the-trainer course) from 2013 to 2015. John has BSc and MSc degrees in Psychology from the University of Alberta, Canada, and has publications in several areas.