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From ForgeFront and Good Judgment Inc.

Equipping you with the tools to embrace opportunities, mitigate threats and successfully deliver in a rapidly changing world. 

Practical and implementable tools and techniques from industry leading futures, foresight and forecasting experts.  

For individuals and teams to transform your futures and foresight capability.

Allowing you and your organisation to take command of your future with our Lodestar and Vanguard courses, and our Pathfinder bolt-on.

For organisations, teams and individuals who need a bespoke engagement.

Futures and foresight.

Forecasting.

Wargaming and

red teaming.

Capacity building.

Data delivery.

Key note speaking.

Future.ctrl course

Our flagship online course is purpose built to teach you the skills and techniques we have successfully used to help governments, think tanks, public and private sector organisations to prepare today for the opportunities and threats of tomorrow. This comprehensive course will give you a firm understanding of the practical and implementable tools we use as futures and foresight experts.

✓ 43 lessons across 8 modules
✓ Downloadable resources
✓ Case studies & hands-on practice opportunities
✓ Unlimited lifetime access

FUTURE THINKERS

  • Managing Director, ForgeFront

    Sam is a policy and government affairs leader who has worked in the private office of two MOD ministers, for the UK’s Cabinet Office, and for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He has worked for a former Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons, led accounts for a leading public affairs firm, and was in the last tranche of British EU Civil Servants working for the institutions in Brussels. During his career he has delivered wargaming and related services to a range of public and private sector clients including NATO, foreign governments, the Cabinet Secretariat, the Office for Veterans’ Affairs and companies including Siemens and Zurich. Sam is an accredited Microsoft data analyst and holds a degree in politics from the University of Bristol. 

  • Director, ForgeFront

    Gavin has most recently led teams at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to analyse the future risk and threat landscape posed by emerging cryptocurrency technologies. Previously he spent time at the UK Treasury where he led work to on tariffs and trade legislation, defending the UK’s interest post-Brexit. He has a deep understanding of decision making in government and has advised MEPs, Lords, UK ministers and senior civil servants on a number of high profile and sensitive issues. He has an extensive stakeholder network in Brussels and Whitehall and previously worked for an MEP and in the Northern Ireland Assembly. He holds an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict and Legislative Studies from Queen’s University Belfast, with published works in academic journals and the Northern Ireland Assembly library.  

  • Futures and Policy Executive, ForgeFront

    Hester is a strategic planning and training expert, having previously led campaigns for one of the UK’s largest social change charities. A stakeholder engagement and content creation specialist, she has helped deliver projects for C-suite executives, FTSE 100 companies and heads of state. She has implemented future focused industry research, literature reviews and quantitative data analysis for a range of industries including global consultancy, media and technology. She holds a first-class History degree from the University of Bristol. 

  • CEO, Good Judgment Inc.

    Warren Hatch joined Good Judgment as a volunteer forecaster in the ACE research project sponsored by the US government, became a Superforecaster, and is now CEO of the commercial successor, Good Judgment Inc. His prior career was on Wall Street where he worked at Morgan Stanley before co-founding a boutique investment firm. He earned his D.Phil. in Russian politics from the University of Oxford, and he is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder. 

  • Senior Vice-President, Good Judgment Inc.

    Mark Koehler is a Superforecaster, who’s served multiple tours as an American diplomat in US embassies in Asia and Europe, as well as in the White House, Pentagon, and State Department. He leads Good Judgment’s training programs and their partnerships with government. A Superforecaster himself, Marc was also the top-ranked forecaster on the US Intelligence Community Prediction Market. His experience as a geopolitical forecaster for the United States’ Intelligence Advanced Researched Projects Activity (IARPA) and as a strategist for The Joint Staff in the Pentagon make him uniquely placed to offer expert wargaming support. Mark is also a distinguished graduate of the National War College and holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Oxford University and Harvard University. Marc is also a volunteer fireman in his hometown in rural Colorado.  

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Procurement information

  • Futures procurement framework


    We are an approved UK Government supplier on the Futures Framework agreement.

    This allows a wide range of public sector organisations to procure us directly for projects under £50k (excl. VAT).

    More information is available on gov.uk.

  • Procurement act 2023


    Under Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 we can be directly awarded contracts that concern the development of prototypes, are urgent, or are in relation to security and defence.

    More information is available on legislation.gov.uk.

  • Low Value Purchasing System


    Instead of advertising on Contracts Finder, we can be awarded contracts through the Low Value Purchasing System (LVPS).

    More information is available on crowncommercial.gov.uk and cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

  • Defence Procurement Frameworks

    We are approved suppliers on dstl’s ASTRID framework (including Task 411 - Universal Wargaming Construct) and on R-Cloud which provides for opportunities across the UK’s Ministry of Defence.

    More information is avaible from gov.uk and contracts.mod.uk.