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Designing the Future with Donna Dupont
Today on Experience by Design, we welcome Donna Dupont, Founder and Chief Strategist in Foresight and Design for Purple Compass. Donna helps companies explore what might happen in the future, creating ideas and plans to meet those challenges and opportunities. On this episode, we talk about the process of future and foresight planning, why it is important to maintain a sense of agency during times of massive change, the place and importance of emotion as part of our planning, why doing future planning can sometimes feel like therapy, and how the foresight planning process is a vital part of designing positive futures.
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