Empowering Hope and Stability through Strategic Foresight

Integrating Joel Barker’s Strategic Exploration Tools to Help People and Organizations “See Possible Futures”

A Fast Company article, “The quality employees need most right now from their leaders may surprise you” (Fast Company, 8/4/2025), research from Gallup revealed hope as the primary need (56%), followed by trust (33%), compassion (7%), and stability (4%). Gallup’s Jim Harter stated: “I think that it’s hard to have a sense of stability if you can’t see the future.”