Helping leaders act decisively at the Human + Machine + AI frontier — before opportunity becomes history.
CHOOSE FORWARD
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We treat “the future” like some distant utopia or apocalypse we’ll deal with later — when really, it’s embedded in the decisions we’re making now.
And we’re making a lot of them. The average adult makes around 35,000 decisions a day — roughly 2,000 per hour. Some subconscious, some deliberate. But every single one of them is based on our mental models of what comes next. Our expectations. Hopes. Fears. Assumptions. So every choice is a future bet, whether we know it or not. That’s where Morris comes in.
Immediate Futures isn’t about some far-off foresight exercise, conversation or prediction, it’s about activating practical momentum.
YOUR FUTURE STARTS NOW
Get Results with Immediate Futures™
Unlock your potential with Immediate Futures™—where action meets foresight. Craft your success with a strategy that's as dynamic as the world around us. Through Immediate Futures™, we don't just predict the road ahead; we pave it. By honing in on the ripple of today's decisions, we offer clarity in chaos, guiding you to not only navigate but also shape your future, starting now.
With a blend of meticulous planning and strategic agility, we ensure your actions today lay the groundwork for tomorrow's successes. With Immediate Futures™, the future isn't a distant dream—it's the reality we're creating, together, one insightful decision at a time. Your future starts now—let's make it remarkable.
The Blueprint for Shaping Your Future
The Immediate Futures™ Framework is a visionary blueprint created by Morris to help organizations and their leaders/teams navigate the complexities of tomorrow's challenges and opportunities. Drawn from decades of insights, research, and foresight in shaping the future, the pillars of the framework are designed to empower individuals, organizations, and societies to not only anticipate change but to lead it. Keep scrolling to discover how the Immediate Futures™ Framework can revolutionize your approach to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead
Why ‘Futures’?
Most people still talk about the future like it’s a fixed destination, one road, one outcome, one version of what’s coming. But the truth? There are always multiple futures in play each shaped by the decisions we do or don’t make, by signals we do or don’t see.
“Futures” is plural because life is messy. Complex. Contradictory. It doesn't arrive in a straight line, it arrives in ripples, reactions, and contradictions.
In business, policy, or everyday life, decisions aren’t made in isolation, they’re made in a moving landscape. So when we say Immediate Futures™, we’re not predicting a fixed tomorrow.
We’re preparing you to meet whatever tomorrow shows up as, not with fear, but with foresight.
We don’t choose the future. We discover possibilities, sense what’s shifting, and head toward the one we prefer knowing full well we may have to duck, weave, or change course along the way. That’s the work: keeping your eyes up, your mind open, and your direction clear enough to act, even when the path bends.
Think of it like this: An expecting mother hopes for a smooth birth. But she prepares for more than one possibility. Hospital bag packed. Contingency plan ready. Loved ones informed. Not because she’s afraid, but because what’s coming matters too much to leave to chance.
That’s what it means to plan for futures, not just the one you hope for, but the ones you may have to face, work with, and move through, all while keeping your eyes on the future you still believe in.
APPLICATIONS FOR USE
Immediate Futures™ in Action
These aren’t case studies. They’re glimpses, short stories from the edge of what’s next. Each one shows how the Immediate Futures™ Framework, developed by Morris Misel, helps real people shift the question, reframe the moment, and act before the signal becomes noise.
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The CEO Who Asked a Different Question
Corporate / Executive Strategy
She had dashboards for everything: performance, risk, ESG. But something didn’t land.Using the Immediate Futures™ Framework, we shifted her lens — not forward, but inward:
“What will your team regret not doing five years from now?”
That question revealed blind spots.
A long-running project was paused for review. A quiet voice in the team was given the room to lead.
No fanfare — just foresight turned inward.
A clear case of regret anticipation — one of the many tools nested inside the framework.
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The Council That Mapped Loneliness Like Infrastructure
Government / Civic Futures
The brief was transport planning.But the signal — quiet, repeated — was teenage loneliness.
Using HUMAND, a sub-framework within Immediate Futures™, we helped them read the data not as movement, but as unmet human need.
What started as a bus route review became a city-led wellbeing audit.
From infrastructure to emotional architecture.
No added budget.
Just better questions.
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The School That Scrapped Its 5-Year Plan
Education / Future Skills
They wanted to future-proof their strategy.But when we applied the Immediate Futures™ Framework, it became clear the static plan was the problem.
Instead, we co-designed a foresight rhythm: monthly signal scans, student-led horizon boards, and an adaptive dashboard that tracks what’s emerging, not just what's measured.
One board member said it best: “This didn’t just change our plan — it changed how we plan.”
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The Clinic That Designed for the Unspoken
Healthcare / Human Services
They were drowning in crisis care.But beneath the surface was something quieter: shame, inherited trauma, unspoken grief.
We used the Immediate Futures™ Framework and Morris Misel’s PTFA model (Past Trauma, Future Anxiety) to map what people couldn’t yet name.
The outcome wasn’t a new service.
It was a reorientation: toward those who might never walk in the door, but who most needed to.
Foresight, with feeling.
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The Startup That Built for the Day After the Pitch Deck
Entrepreneurship / Innovation Strategy
Their pitch was flawless.But running the Immediate Futures™ Framework and the UNFAIR filter Misel developed to spot invisible advantage they saw it:
“We’re solving a problem people might not have in three years.
That realisation changed their direction.
They reframed their product around emotional utility and shifting values, designing for future resilience instead of immediate hype.
It wasn’t just a better business.
It was a more human one.
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The Town That Skipped the Trend Report
Community / Regional Futures
They didn’t want a buzzword-laced foresight report.They wanted to know one thing: “What would make our kids want to come back?”
We used the Immediate Futures™ Framework to lead a community-wide signal surfacing: farmers, teenagers, shopkeepers, and elders.
What emerged was a shared future built on eco-trades, joyful infrastructure, and cultural continuity, not copy-paste “innovation”.
Sometimes the future isn’t far away.
It just hasn’t been invited in yet.
MORRIS’ TOOLS (THAT BECOME YOUR ADVANTAGE)
Proprietary Frameworks For The Future & Today
The stories above draw from just a few of the tools I’ve developed over 30 years of working in the field, tools like PTFA (Past Trauma, Future Anxiety), HUMAND (Human + Machine + AI collaboration), and UNFAIR (spotting unseen advantage).
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Immediate Futures™
My signature five-step framework that equips organizations and their leaders with a blueprint to act now to shape what’s ahead.
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The Inhabitable Futures Grid
My proprietary lens that blends human, tech, political, demographic, and environmental forces into a strategic view of where you're likely headed. Unlike typical foresight models, this is lived and intuitive. Not taught. Not borrowed. Built for people who have to make real decisions.
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HUMAND
A workforce and organisational model that asks: Who or what should do what, when, and how? It's a practical, human-first framework for navigating talent, tech, and transition.
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PTFA (Past Trauma, Future Anxiety)
One of the biggest invisible forces blocking progress. I coined the term to describe why some leaders and organisations feel stuck. They’re caught between the grief of what’s gone and the fog of what’s next. I clear that fog.
A MESSAGE TO EVENT ORGANISERS:
These tools are part of my Immediate Futures™ Framework, battle-tested, insight-driven, and ready to apply.
But here’s the truth: I don’t use them all, every time.
This isn’t a prescription. It’s a bespoke recipe. Sometimes the most powerful work comes from one simple shift. Sometimes it needs layers.
Every organisation, every audience, every moment demands its own mix and that’s the real work: knowing what to use, when, and why. And that’s the difference.
These tools don’t work because they exist, they work because we use them together, with intent, clarity, and care.
My skill isn’t administering frameworks. It’s navigating futures. Mapping landscapes. Helping people move from the known to the not-yet-known and doing it with purpose. That’s what makes this work powerful. That’s what makes it yours.
Choose forward,
P.S. You can learn more about my keynote & workshops here or my advising here.