INSIGHTContext-fed. Future-facing.
Signals dispatches, foresight essays, and strategic forecasts from a futures-informed practice.
AUTHORITY MAGAZINE: Kelly Kuhl On 5 Things You Need To Know To Create A Very Successful Lifestyle Brand
As a part of Authority Magazine’s series “5 Things You Need To Know To Create A Very Successful Lifestyle Brand”: Kelly Kuhl’s practice spans technology, fashion, culture, and film. A life spent moving between cities and cultures, paired with 10+ years in brand forecasting, has made her fluent in reading rooms, shifting contexts, and finding the thread that makes a brand resonate anywhere. In addition to finding opportunities to flex her creative unicorn skills, she’s also a professional dancer, vintage fashion connoisseur, and Dinosaur aficionado.
Fashion, Tech, & Dinosaurs. Oh My!
This convo is packed with WISDOM, INSPIRATION, and lots of LAUGHS! Why blending industries (and roles!) is the future of creative work, how authentic connections can lead to surprising opportunities (like a dinosaur poster contest, no joke) and breaking into new spaces without a traditional path—and thriving while doing it.
Five delights: APR 2026
Monthly signal scanning - Five especially relevant (and equally random) spring signals worth tracking in April 2026 across fashion/ technology/ culture/ design/ art.
Signal: The Age of Collectors
Signals to watch: In a content creating economy, sometimes I need less. Less of everything. If content creation is more, what is the opposite of more? What is the opposite of a content creator? Could this opposing force be signalling the future of the social and content creation industries?
Five delights: OCT 2023
Monthly signal scanning - Five especially relevant (and slightly haunted) Halloween signals worth tracking in October 2023 across fashion/ technology/ history/ design/ art.
Five delights: AUG 2023
Monthly signal scanning - Five especially relevant (and not-universally-lovely) signals worth tracking in August 2026 across fashion/ dance / design/ art.
Reflecting on Future Leadership
In an increasingly uncertain, volatile, complex future, there is no longer a well-traveled leadership path which ensures success.
In "Reflecting on Future Leadership", strategist Kelly Kuhl shares how to be a leader of the future by thinking like one. By breaking down 3 Macro Movements shaping the future of leadership, Kuhl explains how to engage in a personal foresight practice and use it to bravely lead teams into the unknown.
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur; French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist
Sears Global - Consumer Insight Report: Au/Wi 2020
Facing the aftermath of the novel, global coronavirus pandemic finds us disillusioned and overwhelmed. How can we find center? How can we connect with carefully guarded, modern consumers? Shouting gets us nowhere. Time to listen.