About

Jessica Wade’s creative and technical background delivers a honeycomb of skillsets that include the adaptability and inclusiveness of design thinking, the grit and determination of entrepreneurship, the attention to detail and technology focus of product development, the emotional engagement of brand storytelling, the qualitative analysis of interactive workshops, the quantitative analysis of data mining, and the futures thinking frameworks of humanistic management and global sustainability. Her cross-industry experiences nurture diverse team perspectives and stimulates empathetic collaborations between all stakeholders.

Jessica Wade is a systems thinker and collaborator with a passion and curiosity for life-long learning, people and the world that surrounds us. In 2009, after a decade of designing in the fashion industry, she founded a start-up and built an award winning B2C luxury brand. In 2019, she completed an MBA with a concentration in global sustainability from the Fordham Gabelli School of Business and began doing product and strategy consulting for technology start-ups. She empowers students, academics and professionals with the innovation potential in sustainability frameworks through futures thinking workshops.

Jessica is an adventurer and avid gardener and lives in NYC with her husband and two daughters.

Disruption

Disruption presents tremendous opportunities to actively engage in purposeful future thinking and positive change mindset. Organizational transformation is a duel process that, first and most importantly, preserves what has purpose and, second, recognizes what is ready to evolve.

Innovation

Design thinking and foresight frameworks help connect-the-dots between highly specialized and diverse roles toward long-term planning and future thinking leap-frog solutions. Now is the time for businesses to adopt and develop strategic planning adapted to future thinking, perpetual innovation and rapid scaling. Today, with technological disruptions effecting most industries, many corporations are building innovation labs or partnering with innovation agencies to build proprietary business technologies. The challenge now is to use a sustainability lens to view long-term impacts and engage all stakeholders and business units in developing their own ESG (Environmental Social Governance) focus for their own team or department’s purposes and innovations.

Transformation

Transformation is the exciting potential of our time. Research technologies and human-centered engagements are accessible and investment ready for creating, managing and measuring shared value in business. Since the 2016 introduction of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the urgency to manage and measure business with ESG metrics (Environmental Social Governance) has drastically increased. In 2018, according to research of over 700 annual corporate reports by PwC, over half of major corporations have identified priority SDGs for their business while less than a quarter have established meaningful KPIs, targets and business strategies. This disparity or gap between business goals and the methodologies to achieve those goals is a white space for leap frog innovations. By combining technology and scientific research, businesses will begin to measure and manage the materiality or ecosystem that drives long-term profit and reaps long-term growth while doing good for the world.