EP 76: Raising our Personal Complexity Capacity - Thomas Gauthier

Thomas Gauthier is Professor in the Strategy and Organization department at Emlyon Business school in Lyon, France.

He serves as Course Director for the Disrupted Futures program. Disrupted futures is a core course in the school’s Master of Science in Management, International MBA, and Executive MBA curricula. Disrupted futures is a live case-based course in which participants apply newly acquired knowledge and competencies to help a real organization anticipate multiple, alternative futures.

As a researcher, Thomas is exploring how organizations may learn to "use the future(s)" to navigate unchartered waters. He is an experienced strategic foresight and scenario planning process facilitator. He has recently published a strategic foresight handbook with EPFL Press in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

More about Thomas

• LinkedIn - Thomas Gauthier

• Disrupted Futures certificate at emlyon business school

  URL: https://executive.em-lyon.com/en/Programmes/Certificates/EMBAC01-Disrupted-futures?

• Prospective : Anticiper, décider et agir dans l’incertitude (Thomas Gauthier and Vanessa Hanifa, EPFL Press, 2020) (in French)

  URL: https://www.epflpress.org/produit/978/9782889153763/prospective

• Prospective technologique (Quentin Ladetto and Thomas Gauthier, 2020-) (in French)

  URL: https://prospective-technologique.ch/
  

References 

• L’attitude prospective (Gaston Berger, 1959) (in French)

  URL: http://www.laprospective.fr/dyn/francais/memoire/texte_fondamentaux/attitude-prospective-g-berger-1959.pdf

• Invitation à la prospective / An invitation to foresight (Hugues de Jouvenel, Futuribles Perspectives, 2004) (in French and in English)

  URL: http://www.laprospective.fr/dyn/francais/memoire/texte_fondamentaux/invitation-a-la-prospective.pdf

• Design Fiction: A short essay on design, science, fact and fiction (Julian Bleecker, 2009)

  URL: http://drbfw5wfjlxon.cloudfront.net/writing/DesignFiction_WebEdition.pdf

• Using scenario planning to reshape strategy (Rafael Ramirez, Steve Churchhouse, Alejandra Palermo, and Jonas Hoffmann, MIT Sloan Management Review, 2017)

  URL: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/using-scenario-planning-to-reshape-strategy/

• Transforming the Future. Anticipation in the 21st century (edited by Riel Miller, Routledge, 2018)

  URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351048002

  
  Thomas Gauthier reference books in the field of futures studies

• Strategic reframing (Rafael Ramirez and Angela Wilkinson, Oxford University Press, 2016)

  URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/strategic-reframing-9780198745693?cc=de&lang=en&

• Scenarios: The art of strategic conversation (Kees van der Heijden, Wiley, 2004, second edition)

  URL: https://www.wiley.com/en-fr/Scenarios:+The+Art+of+Strategic+Conversation,+2nd+Edition-p-9780470023686

  Organizations that Thomas Gauthier is affiliated with

• Emlyon Business School

  URL: https://www.em-lyon.com/en/

• Geneva Centre for Security Policy

  URL: https://www.gcsp.ch/

• Fondation Internet nouvelle génération

  URL: https://fing.org/

• Futuribles

  URL: https://www.futuribles.com/en/