Strategic Foresight Application in Human Capital Management
Over the past four years, OPM has employed Strategic Foresight to think differently about future challenges and opportunities. OPM's efforts in this area have yielded positive results across government and helped inform strategic plans in retaining talent, attracting new talent, and more. This session will provide a broad overview of current efforts and provide participants tools they can use to apply Strategic Foresight in their organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what it means to create a preferred 'plausible future'.
- Identify key strategies and actions that can help organizations achieve their 'visionary future'.
- Understand and create an implications analysis (futures wheel) for actions necessary to achieve the 'plausible future'.
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Eric Popiel
Eric Popiel is a 1998 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Prior to being hired by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, he flew Coast Guard missions and instructed pilots in both the HU-25 Falcon Jet and the HC-144 Ocean Sentry. Following his aviation tours, he was assigned to the Emerging Policy Staff under the Deputy Commandant for Operations at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he managed the Evergreen Program, the Coast Guard's Strategic Foresight Initiative. In this capacity, he utilized various foresight techniques and methods to help the Coast Guard leverage future opportunities, identify emerging threats, and recognize potential blind spots across all 11 statutory missions.
He currently works at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management as a Strategic Foresight Analyst and manager of OPM’s Strategic Workforce Foresight Team (SWFT). He is responsible for the long-term futures program that informs federal workforce policy for OPM and assists 24 CFO Act agencies in Strategic Human Capital Management. In addition, he serves as a co-chair of the Federal Foresight Community of Interest (FFCOI). He holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Joint Professional Military Education Level 1 certification, and a Masters Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He has attended the University of Houston Foresight Certification Program, and facilitated multiple workshops for Senior Coast Guard leaders, Senior Federal Executives, and foreign countries. He currently provides foresight guidance to multiple federal agencies.
Jason Gibson
Jason Gibson is an academically trained futurist with over five-years of foresight experience within the federal government space. He has designed academic futures research projects for non-profit and government clients and is currently developing foresight projects within the federal human resource management community. Jason has a passion for building foresight capabilities within organizations and is currently working to expand framework foresight skills within the federal government space based on the Association of Professional Futurists Foresight Competency Model. He is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, the Army Strategists Association, and the Society for Human Resource Management.