About Eleanor

Eleanor is a foresight and innovation specialist whose career has spanned legal policy, money laundering investigations, innovation and future thinking. She designed, built and led KPMG’s Future Institute in the UK, the firm’s first foresight capability, and has worked with the senior leadership teams of organisations spanning multiple sectors and industries from healthcare through to mining, logistics and financial services.

Today she is the owner of Foresightfully, a boutique consultancy, which specialises in supporting C-suite leaders to think and act differently in the face of rapid and unpredictable change; that might include refreshing strategy, motivating the leadership team, bringing the ‘outside-in’ perspective or providing one to one challenge. Eleanor specialises in creative thinking on strategy, leadership and culture and brings experience, insight and provocation around global trends, future ready leadership, scenario planning, strategy, innovation and disruption.

Using value as the anchor, how it is built, sustained and lost, Eleanor helps her clients to understand the impact of external change on their sector and industry dynamics and, critically, to react by developing clear short and long term action plans. She provokes her clients to be curious about what’s changing and to be bold in taking advantage of the opportunities that change presents.

Eleanor is co-author of The Disruption Game Plan: New rules for connected thinking on innovation and risk and a member of faculty on the Kings College London and Duke Corporate Education Executive MBA programmes.

She is trusted by clients including Mars Foods, Aviva, the UK Green Building Council, British Airways, the NHS, KPMG, First Group, Associated British Ports, Hiscox, JLL and many others, to provoke different thinking and inspire action.

“Curiosity is the number one behaviour we need as leaders in a disrupted environment. How can we expect to stay ahead of change if we’re not curious about what’s changing? By embracing that curiosity and learning how to navigate challenging business environments, we unlock the clarity, confidence, and foresight needed to lead through disruption.”

Eleanor Winton

THE CREATIVITY, STRATEGY, INNOVATION & COMMS SESSION

Generating value in uncertain times

In this talk, Eleanor will help you to understand the impact of external change on your sector with industry dynamics in mind and, critically, how to react by developing clear short and long term action plans. She provokes organisations and teams to be curious about what’s changing and to be bold in taking advantage of the opportunities that change presents. The co-author of The Disruption Game Plan is also faculty member at Kings College London and Duke Corporate Education Executive MBA programs. Presented is an insightful session on how to adapt, innovate, think and act differently to make the most of the opportunities and mitigate the risks generated by uncertainty.

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