Martin Raymond

Co-founder and editor-in-chief

Martin is co-founder of The Future Laboratory and editor-in-chief of LS:N Global. Martin is a well-known trend guru, having written several best-selling books on trend forecasting, including The Trend Forecaster’s Handbook and The Tomorrow People. Martin contributes regularly as an expert on trends and business for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV.

Latest articles from Martin

Energy Vault and SOM designed four innovative gravity-based energy storage systems, US

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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+: Climate Adaptation and Resource Scarcity

More frequent extreme weather and the lived reality of climate change are creating new risks for states, businesses and people, while positive tipping points are being met with fragmented, uneven approaches to systems change itself.

Helping Britain Invest Through It All by Wonderhood Studios for Hargreaves Lansdown, UK

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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+: Fragmenting Societies

The shared ground that democratic societies depend on is giving way – eroded not by accident, but by design – with political actors, platforms and economic structures active beneficiaries of the breakdown.

What do I wear by Zalando. Creative by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, Global

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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+: Diverging Demographics

Demographic reality is diverging from the systems built to manage it, according to The Future Laboratory’s analysts, as populations continue to age, boom, fragment and re-organise how they live and connect.

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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+: Colliding Technologies

As machine learning, generative intelligence and quantum computing become essential utilities of everyday life, society must renegotiate its relationship with them.

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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+ Overview: Harnessing Uncertainty

In our game-changing Global Drivers series we unpack the key forces of change driving and defining trends and consumer behaviours for the coming decade.

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Podcasts

Podcast: Merlin Hanbury-Tenison on Rewilding the Future Soul

In the latest episode of Back to the F\*\*kture!, Merlin Hanbury-Tenison – Cornish conservationist, army veteran and founder of The Thousand Year Trust, Britain’s rainforest charity – reveals the need for a deeper, more symbiotic relationship with nature.

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Technology

Foresight Friday: Martin Raymond, co-founder and editor-in-chief

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, co-founder Martin Raymond unpacks what C-suite leaders really need from foresight intelligence right now.

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Tomorrow's Leadership

Podcast: Nathalie Milian on Navigating the Future of Leadership

Nathalie Milian, author of Relational Skills Development for Next Generation Leaders, talks to The Future Laboratory’s co-founder Martin Raymond, about why old-style leadership skills are failing to connect with next-gen leaders and workers alike.

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Colliding Technologies

Podcast: Leila Fataar on Building Culture-Led Brands

In the latest episode of Back to the F\*\*kture!, Leila Fataar, founder of Platform13 and author of Culture-Led Brands, discusses how brands can stay relevant by grounding themselves in real people and cultural context rather than marketing gimmicks.

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Tomorrow's Leadership

Podcast: Jo Farmer on Future-Ready Leadership

Jo Farmer, joint managing partner of law firm Lewis Silkin talks to The Future Laboratory’s co-founder, Martin Raymond about leadership thinking in his on-going exploration of what makes someone a great strategic foresight thinker and leader.

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Diverging Demographics

Podcast: June O’Sullivan on Foresight, Empathy and Lasting Impact

In the first episode of a new podcast series Leading with Foresight, June O’Sullivan sits down with Martin Raymond to explore empathy, foresight and the power of playing the long game.

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Tomorrow's Leadership

Anticipating Tomorrow On-demand Webinar

If uncertainty is a virus, then strategic foresight is the best way to inoculate your organisation against it, as we find out in this much-anticipated webinar.