
SCENARIC
SENSEMAKING FOR COMPLEX TIMES
STRATEGIC FORESIGHT AND SCENARIO PLANNING
Prepare for alternative futures
As change accelerates and generates more systemic novelty, on what basis can decisions be made? Leading with more than 20 years experience with scenario planning, foresight and innovation, Scenaric helps clients succeed with proprietary tactics and tools to confront and manage radical uncertainty.
Better strategic conversations and more actionable insights
Scenaric develops customized processes and facilitate conversations to help manage unpredictable futures and better navigate change. Together we clarify problems, test strategies, identify new opportunities, and articulate options—all the while enhancing the organizational capacity to act with foresight and strategic intent.
What SCENARIC DoES
Bespoke engagements

Create strategic plans with decision makers
Conduct scenario planning
Design board and executive retreats

Facilitate difficult conversations
Develop stakeholder dialogues

Advise on foresight and strategy
Results
Scenaric engagements have helped leaders stress-test major decisions, build in-house strategic intelligence and scenario planning functions, align on key issues after months of stalemate, and spot opportunities others missed.
Clients
Scenaric's clients range from multinational companies and utilities to non-profits, laboratories, and cities. Recent work spans energy, advanced technology, luxury, legal and financial services, among others.

How engagements work
- Scoping. A conversation to define the dilemmas at stake and who needs to be involved.
- Design. A bespoke process, often informed by interviews and research.
- Delivery. Workshops, retreats or a series of sessions, in person or virtual.
- Follow-through. A written synthesis and support for putting the work to use.

LEADERSHIP
Dr. Cynthia Selin is a social scientist with 20 years of consulting experience in strategic foresight, scenario planning, and stakeholder engagement. She is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, where she directs the Oxford Scenarios Facilitation Programme and has taught on the Oxford Scenarios Programme since 2013.
At Arizona State University, she served as a tenured faculty member and founded the Center for the Study of Futures. She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed works on foresight and the anticipatory governance of emerging technologies.
Dr. Selin leads every engagement and brings in trusted collaborators when a project needs particular expertise.
PhD, Copenhagen Business School. More about Cynthia.
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