Foresight Research & Strategy

Brad
Kreit

Senior Research Leader & Futurist

I make sense of large-scale change and help organizations prepare for it. As a synthesizer and facilitator, I bridge disciplines to surface what's emerging — then turn those signals into strategy.

Currently: Senior Research Leader, Deloitte Center for Integrated Research, focused on the future of work.

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Brad Kreit
Currently thinking about
01 Human & machine collaboration at work Deloitte Insights
02 Workforce data, trust & shared value Quantified Org series
03 The shifting demographics of work Future of Work
04 Long-range foresight & organizational resilience IFTF legacy
05 How teams adapt when AI scales Deloitte Insights
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I’ve spent most of my career trying to making sense of large-scale change and helping organizations prepare for that change. In practice, what this means is I’m a synthesizer: Someone who is constantly becoming literate in new fields and scanning horizons to understand what's emerging globally. I’m also a facilitator: Someone who can help people from different backgrounds, jobs and organizations have expansive yet practical and productive conversations that advance strategic goals.

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I am currently a Research Leader with Deloitte's Center for Integrated Research where I focus on the future of work. Prior to this, I worked for Institute for the Future for more than a decade. During this time, I led major research projects in health, technology, and food and cross-industry global trends. I've delivered keynotes on five continents and regularly facilitate strategic workshops and trainings in futures methods all over the world.

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Deloitte Insights

Published Research at Deloitte

As a Senior Research Leader with Deloitte's Center for Integrated Research, I produce rigorous, data-driven thought leadership on how AI, workforce data, and human-machine collaboration are reshaping organizations.

2026Human Capabilities · Resilience
Building High-Performing Teams

Explores how human capabilities — not just technical skills — may be the key differentiator in building resilient, high-performing teams as AI reshapes organizational work models.

Deloitte Center for Integrated Research

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Dec 2025Early Career · Gen AI
Entry-Level Jobs & Reskilling for AI

New data from a survey of 11,900+ individuals surfaces challenges and opportunities for employers — including how to preserve learning pathways for early-career workers in an AI-accelerated workplace.

With Sue Cantrell & Monika Mahto · Deloitte Insights

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2025AI Outcomes · Team Design
Team Structure and AI Outcomes

Counter-intuitive findings: the teams getting the strongest AI results aren't the smallest — they're the most connected and cognitively diverse. A reframe for organizations scaling AI deployment.

With Monika Mahto · Deloitte Insights

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2025Workforce Demographics · AI
Strategies for Workforce Evolution

Examines how AI and demographic shifts — retiring experienced workers, shrinking pipelines — are combining to demand new approaches to workforce agility, knowledge transfer, and upskilling.

Deloitte Center for Integrated Research

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Jun 2024Tech Talent · Workforce Strategy
Navigating the Tech Talent Shortage

Analyzes the structural forces driving the tech talent gap and outlines how organizations can transform their approach to planning, attracting, and activating technical talent.

With Nate Paynter, Manoj Mishra, Monika Mahto & Sue

Expertise

What I bring to the table

01
Long-Term Foresight & Scenarios

Using qualitative research, signals scanning, expert interviews, and cross-industry synthesis to map the decade ahead — provoking insight and shaping action in the present. I work as both individual contributor and project leader, regularly managing research budgets of $500K+.

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Research Team Leadership

Organizing and managing multidisciplinary research teams — assigning deep-

IFTF Projects

Flagship research at Institute for the Future

Each project involved designing a bespoke research process, assembling and leading the team, developing the overarching narrative, and presenting findings to sponsoring organizations.

2021 · Climate
Toward Climate Positive Organizations

Framing the climate crisis as the defining strategic force of the 2020s — and helping organizations act with urgency in a longer timeframe than usual.

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2020 · Innovation
Organizing for Future Readiness

Analyzing how converging advances in biotech, energy, and materials science will open new strategic frontiers and demand organizational resilience.

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2019 · Geopolitics
The Age of Distributed Superpowers

A year-long study of how climate change, automation, and institutional volatility are redistributing power and remaking the global operational environment.

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2018 · Society
Remodeling Trust

Examining how emerging forces are challenging traditional models of trust — and what new frameworks are needed for brands, institutions, and individuals.

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2017 · Technology
Toward an Internet of Actions

Forecasting how advances across the technology stack will create a world of intelligent, autonomous objects — and what values we need to encode into them.

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2016 · Media
When Everything is Media

Arguing that the next decade wouldn't produce one "next big thing" — but a communications landscape reshaped by AI, VR/AR, and ambient computing combined.

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Talks & Keynotes

Delivered on five continents

2019
Global Digital Conference
Toward an Internet of Actions
Opening Keynote
Oct 2019
IFTF Ten Year Forecast
The Age of Distributed Superpowers
Opening Keynote
2021
Research Companion
Building Climate-Positive Organizations
Keynote + Video
2015 · Auckland, NZ
Beyond the Line of Sight
Seeds of Disruption — The Future of Food
Closing Keynote
2013
Healthy Communities Data Summit
Citizens, Communities and Open Health Data
Opening Keynote
Ongoing
Ask a Futurist — Technology Forecasting & Strategy
Panel / Workshop

Client Outcomes

How my work adds value

Past and current clients include Facebook, Intel, Telstra, the Department of Defense, Syngenta, Kaiser, and many others across for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors.

Strategic Planning

Providing an outside-in perspective on the external environment for ongoing strategy and long-range planning — giving clients a longer time horizon and preparing them for developments outside their normal frames of reference.

Innovation & Inspiration

Grounding long-term trends with concrete present-day examples to help product and innovation teams see new possibilities — and facilitating sessions that move groups beyond current thinking.

Learning & Development

Teaching foresight and futures methods to professionals worldwide, and helping them build strategies to connect foresight work to more traditional organizational processes.

Selected Clients

Facebook Intel Telstra U.S. Department of Defense Syngenta Kaiser Permanente Deloitte Institute for the Future