Steven Fisher

About Steven Fisher

I operate at the intersection of strategy, foresight, and commercialization — helping organizations make high-stakes decisions under uncertainty and translate complex, future-oriented thinking into work clients can confidently invest in. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve led strategic foresight, product design, and product innovation initiatives across financial services, healthcare, and technology —partnering with Fortune 500 executives to anticipate disruption, identify asymmetric growth opportunities, and embed future-ready capabilities into operating models. I’ve lived on the client side, bought professional services, built platforms, and carried responsibility for outcomes.What differentiates me is not prediction — it’s translation. I understand how foresight, innovation, and emerging technology must be positioned commercially without compromising credibility. I’ve seen firsthand how misalignment between sales and delivery erodes trust, and how disciplined commercialization strengthens long-term relationships.At McKinsey, I co-founded the Futures Practice, integrating long-horizon scenario planning and speculative design into enterprise strategy engagements. At FTI Consulting, I built AI-powered foresight and venture-building capabilities that identified over $500M in new opportunity space and launched new revenue streams across healthcare, energy, media, and financial services.I’m most effective where ambiguity is high, and stakes are real — aligning value propositions, pricing, scope, and delivery capacity so growth is sustainable rather than reactive.My focus is pragmatic foresight:• Translating signals into strategic implications• Connecting AI to real business model change• Designing decision architectures for uncertain futures• Building organizational foresight maturityOutside of my operating work, I write and speak about long-term change and emerging technology, including SuperShifts (Wiley, 2025) and Designing the Future (Wiley, 2026). That perspective informs my commercial judgment — but I measure success by outcomes, not ideas.

Experience

1. Chief Futurist, Head of Foresight & Macro Systems

   CFA Institute

   Apr 2026 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Building a net-new foresight and macro strategy capability at CFA Institute to help the organization and the global investment profession see structural change earlier and more clearly. The investment landscape is being reshaped by forces that don\'t map cleanly to prior cycles — AI, the expansion of private markets, and the broader technological, industrial, and geopolitical dynamics that sit behind them. This role provides outside-in, systems-level analysis of how these shifts may reconfigure markets, institutions, and professional practice over time, before they are fully visible or priced. The work is intentionally pre-consensus: mapping uncertainty rather than predicting outcomes, connecting dynamics across domains as a system, and surfacing the questions that matter before they reach consensus — informing how CFA Institute, and the global community of investment professionals it serves, navigates what comes next.

Education

• University of Baltimore

  B.S., Accounting

  1992 — 1995

• IE Business School

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

• Bentley University

  Masters Certificate, Experience Design

• Brown University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

• University of Houston

  Master of Science - MS, Foresight and Futures Studies

Skills

• Strategy
• User Experience
• Start-Ups
• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• E-Commerce
• Smart Cities
• Internet of Things
• Mobile Applications
• Product Management
• Saas
• Digital Strategy
• Digital Marketing
• Content Strategy
• Web Analytics
• Content Management
• Marketing Strategy
• Lean Startup
• Cloud Computing
• Information Architecture
• User Interface Design
• Aviation
• Competitive Analysis
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Video Production
• Analytics
• Online Marketing
• Digital Media
• Product Marketing
• Digital Photography
• Trend Analysis
• Experience Design
• Open Innovation
• Film Production
• SEO
• Strategic Thinking
• Futurist
• Future Trends
• Trend Spotting
• Technology Trends