Are you ready to Navigate the Badlands? You got in alone but you can’t get out alone.
As we look ahead to 2030, we ask ourselves: How do we get from here to there? How do we chart a path through the next long decade? Where will we experience considerable pain and bewilderment as one way of life ends and we grapple with how to create the next.
Where are you leading your organization? In an environment that demands radical innovation, you cannot be a risk avoider and a stability junkie. Innovation is the creation of relevancy for the future. How irrelevant are you today – let alone for that which is coming in 2030 and beyond?
Get ready for the journey of your lifetime. The journey starts here.
“The Badlands” is a metaphor for the rugged risk strewn landscape of the future of the global economy and the survival of America that we all must pass through. The Badlands is the rugged transition zone between eras. Like pioneers before us, we must act courageously and creatively or perish by the wayside.
Transitions are always painful, and escape is only an illusion.
Global Foresight
Client List
- Agilent Technologies
- Aircraft Technical Publishers
- Apple Computer
- AT&T
- Avery Dennison
- Bank of America
- Bell Helicopter
- Cable and Wireless
- Campbell Soup Company
- Canadian Imperial Bank
- Chevron
- China Merchant Bank
- CITIC- Pacific
- Coca-Cola
- DaimlerChysler AG
- DARPA
- Dell
- Electronic Data Systems
- Ericsson
- Fortune Brands
- Gap, Inc
- Genentech
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM
- ITConvergence
- Kaiser Permanente
- Kodak
- Kraft Foods
- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Microsoft
- Motorola
- Oracle
- Pricewaterhouse Coopers
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- Procter & Gamble
- Purdue Pharmaceuticals
- Scripps Networks
- Sempra Energy
- Sino-American Development and Industry Corporation
- Sitcom Furniture
- Skandia
- Social Solutions
- Sun Microsystems
- Swank AV
- State Farm Insurance
- Texaco
- Wells Fargo Bank
- Weiming Biotech
Rave Reviews
Navigating the Badlands offers a concise, coherent interpretation of globalization and its impacts on companies along with strategies to do something about it.
Harald Pressler, Daimler Chrysler AG Berlin, Germany
Mary is in the disruption business. She is guaranteed to shake up your thinking—in the best and most productive way imaginable—on strategy or how to dispel the sacred cows that are getting in your way.
Kaj Alhmann, VP General Electric Board, GE Captial Services Founder and President, Six Sigma Winery
You really disturbed my thinking. Thank you for letting me leap on stage to engage with you on what we need to do to bring this generation into our culture. We will never forget this presentation.
Greg Diekemper, CEO Swank AV
Every region in State Farm needs to hear your talk on Gen Y before they put their strategy together to target this group.
Deborah Bobbit, EVP State Farm Insurance
Mary provided China insights that surprised me despite my long, successful business dealings with the mainland.
Norman Yuen, Deputy Managing Director CITIC-Pacific Ltd.
An outstanding, cogent presentation and discussion on the future of jobs. Both the insights and data were immediately useful to us.
David Kiefer, Dell Computers
Your global forecast and China’s opportunities will help Chinese CEOs build innovative companies for the global marketplace and avoid the common problems and pains of their global competitors. We need your team in every Chinese strategy meeting.
Chen Zhangliang, Founder and CEO of several Chinese private ventures Member of the National Peoples Congress President, China Agricultural University
This was just the kind of energizing, barrier-breaking keynote we needed to kick off our strategy session. Your insights about our future were enlightening and tremendous value-adds to our strategic thinking in this retreat. We want you back yesterday for the future of food.
John Lansing, President and CEO Scripps Network
There is no one who has put together a more coherent understanding of the future of higher education and how it must change than Mary. You turned our faculty and Board’s minds 180 degrees. You have shaped our future in a much different way.
Judy Kuipers, Ph.D. Dean, Fielding Graduate University
Mary’s insightful analysis of the global economy is provocative and pragmatic. I could immediately put the strategies to work in my company.
Derek Van Eck, CEO Global Financial Services, New York
Your skills in framing the important and critical issues were impactful and meaningful. Thank you for building bridges of understanding and collaboration between leaders, cultures, generations, and points of view.
Lillie Richardella, CEO International Women’s Forum
Brilliant! Truly breakthrough thinking on the kind of leadership that we need to innovate.
Deborah Dagit, Merck & Co., Inc.