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.

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 regularly lead large-scale, multi-client research projects that get delivered in multiple formats including video, reports, visual maps, and at in-person conferences and workshops. This work includes designing a bespoke research process for each project, assembling and managing the project team, assigning, reviewing and editing contributions, developing the overarching narrative, and presenting the findings to sponsoring organizations.

Below are some recent highlights:

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Toward Climate Positive Organizations

The climate crisis will be perhaps the most critical force of the next several decades — and the decisions we make in the 2020s will be essential to our ability to shape our long-term future. The climate crisis demands that we act with urgency in a time of unprecedented challenge and complexity, and it means we must think in a longer-term timeframe than we usually do. 

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Organizing for Future Readiness

A combination of advances from biotech, energy, and materials science are maturing and will open new frontiers in innovation and organizational strategy as well as profound new risks.

To take advantage of these advances, organizations will need to look beyond a single innovation and imagine new ways to combine advances to become resilient to shocks and prepared to take advantage of unexpected opportunities.

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The Age of Distributed SuperPowers

Power, the ability to shape consequences, is being distributed and remade in ways that are fundamentally reshaping the operational environment. In this year-long research project, we analyzed how three extreme forces--climate change, automation, and institutional volatility--will impact the decade ahead and create new risks, demands, and opportunities.

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Remodeling Trust

Whether shopping for a favorite brand of baby food, diagnosing a perceived illness, or deciding where to invest, issues of trust emerge at every step. In this project, we analyzed how an emerging set of future forces is challenging traditional forms of trust and creating new questions about how we will need to build trust with each other. As part of this work, we examined how these forces will impact long-standing models we use to build trust.

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Toward an Internet of Actions

Over the next decade, advances across the technology stack will combine to reveal a world where inanimate objects speak to us, bots act on our behalf, and networked machines negotiate with each other, hopefully with our best interests in mind. But what values should we encode into these intelligent objects and networked terrains? What do we really want from these billions of intelligent, autonomous machines who will soon share our business, social, and civic spheres? Optimizing technical systems for a variety of values and goals will open up opportunities to use technology in surprising and innovative ways.

When Everything is Media

As the smart phone has matured--with relatively stable user experiences and slowing growth--tech leaders and innovators are increasingly asking: What's the next big thing? In this 2016 research, we looked at the emergence of AI, VR/AR, wearables and more to argue that rather than one "next big thing," we should prepare for a decade where communications will be seamless and ambient. As this takes place, communications strategies will need to be reimagined to match our intentions for communications with our technical abilities.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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