Foresight That Sticks. Advisory That Stays.

You’ve got your legal. You’ve got your finance. What most leadership teams don’t have—and desperately need is a direct line to the future.

Morris Misel partners with boards, CEOs, and executive teams as a retained advisor, resident futurist, and quietly embedded provocation engine. He doesn’t just deliver insight. He stays in the conversation.

This isn’t a one-off keynote or a slide-deck sprint. It’s long-game guidance built on trust, candour, and deep commercial instinct delivered with clarity, context, and just enough healthy discomfort to keep you moving forward.

As you navigate the impact of these transformations on your industry, Morris goes beyond predictions to show you how to see differently so you can navigate the future with confidence.

Board Advisory, Made Real:

Many of my engagements take the form of a named advisory or observer role retained at the board or ELT level. I act as an internal outsider: not there to tick governance boxes, but to expand what’s on the radar. I speak as the voice of your future customer, your next generation talent, and your soon-to-emerge risk and reward landscape. I’m not interested in theatre. I’m here for traction.

What Morris Does (& Why It’s Different)

Much of this is guided by my HUMAND™ model a human-centric foresight framework that helps boards and teams align across Humans, Understanding, Machines, AI, Navigation and Design. It’s the connective tissue that helps future strategy move across every layer of your organisation.

I’m not a consultant. I’m not a futurist-for-hire. I’m your strategic confidant with a sharper lens on what’s coming and how it affects every part of your business.

Some clients bring me in for six or twelve months to sit quietly beside their most senior conversations. Others roll forward year after year, knowing they’ve got a thinking partner who sees differently and acts accordingly.

What Morris Brings

check_circle Unmatched pattern recognition across 160 industries

check_circle The ability to translate foresight into strategy, action, and messaging

check_circle A radar built from 30 years in the field

check_circle Board-level presence with ground-floor fluency

This Isn’t About Predictions. It’s About Preparation.

And preparation takes time. Embedded foresight partnerships give you the edge not just the ideas.

Results Clients Report:

check_circle Clarity in the chaos of change

check_circle Strategic confidence others can rally behind

check_circle A voice that expands not competes with existing teams

check_circle Embedded insight that drives momentum and credibility

check_circle Language that sticks, stories that travel, signals that convert

  • As part of an ongoing foresight engagement delivered through EY, I worked with Westpac’s leadership across Australia and New Zealand to explore behavioural trust and its impact on banking relevance. This multi-phase advisory work shaped how product, language, and trust intersected—before market data caught up.

  • Over a decade-long advisory partnership, I’ve worked with MNP not just on client foresight, but on helping their own consultants evolve for a world where AI and advisory collide. The result? Internal frameworks now shaping how MNP leads its national foresight efforts.

  • Chair of the Industry Advisory Board. Ongoing advisor to 250+ researchers, helping them commercialise breakthrough innovations and position them for real-world impact. Their Chief of Strategy said: “Morris translated our research into real-world relevance and helped the team see possibilities they never would have on their own.”

  • Designed and delivered a year-long, foresight-led strategy program cascading from the boardroom to frontline operations.

  • Multi-year collaboration with one of Australia’s most design-driven hospitality groups, shaping future guest experience and long-horizon service models.

  • Advisory Board Member. Represented them in a national funding round—secured the win. Supported founder positioning and stakeholder narrative.

  • Resident Futurist for 6 years. Ran foresight forums and led Silicon Valley tech immersions for Australia’s senior leadership.

  • Multi-country advisory on future hospitality expectations, design, and competitive positioning.

Strategic foresight isn’t a fringe idea it’s foundational to how leading nations and organisations plan. Singapore’s government, Shell, Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, Microsoft, and Visa have all formalised foresight as part of their growth playbooks.

But what most lack is what Morris brings: translation. Embedding. Action.

Clients work with Morris not because he mimics those systems but because he helps them make foresight real, cultural, and profitable inside their context.

Why Clients Stay (& Where This Helps Most)

check_circle Reframing or validating your strategic plan

check_circle Retooling board and executive conversation focus

check_circle Resetting internal culture around future readiness

check_circle Injecting foresight into M&A, expansion, or transformation

check_circle Providing C-suite briefings with actionable context

Foresight That Sticks.

Advisory That Stays.

How We Work Together

We start with a few open, honest conversations. Where are you at? What’s keeping you up at night? What story are you telling yourself about the future?

Then we co-design the relationship:

check_circle Quarterly foresight briefings and provocations

check_circle Retained board or strategy advisor role

check_circle Multi-month collaboration on transformation or repositioning

check_circle Foresight mapping across divisions, teams, or talent

check_circle Executive and stakeholder engagement labs

check_circle Optional ambassador or spokesperson representation for your innovation agenda

However we shape it, I’m on your side. My job is to keep you alert, relevant, and unmissable.

Add-On Primary Research (When Needed): Commission Morris to run executive interviews, original scenario labs, customer foresight research, or competitor scans. This is available as needed and seamlessly integrates with ongoing advisory.

The best work happens when we’re in rhythm where foresight isn’t a project, it’s a habit. If you’re looking for more than a consultant for a committed partner with global pattern fluency, strategic depth, and relentless curiosity let’s talk.

I’m not here to impress the room. I’m here to keep you ahead of it. Let’s work together to make your board, business and people unforgettable for all the right reasons.

The future’s already calling. Let’s answer it together.

Choose forward,