STRATEGIC FORESIGHT INSTITUTE - Dr Manju Appathurai | Transformation Catalyst | Licensed Psychologist | AI Innovation CEO

Strategic Foresight Institute:
Leadership × Psychology × AI

insight that arrives before the market moves.

See tomorrow’s behavior.
Act today.

We fuse behavioral science with AI to forecast leader and market moves, stress-test strategy, and build crisis-ready leadership systems.

What We Do

Research:

Behavioral-AI forecasts, market/adoption modeling, policy impact simulations.

Advisory:

Strategy under uncertainty, red-team scenarios, decision architecture, risk guardrails.

Strategic Convenings:

Offsites and executive roundtables that turn insight into operating rhythm.

Leadership Programs:

Neuro-agile decision making, cross-cultural execution, AI literacy for boards.

What We're Different

Psychology-driven prediction:

We model cognitive bias, power dynamics, and decision cadence—not just price and press releases.

AI-enhanced intelligence:

NLP on leadership signals, agent-based simulations, and RAG on proprietary corpora to spot inflections 6–18 months early.

Cross-regional lens:

ASEAN × MENA × EU behavioral baselines reveal convergence/divergence you can arbitrage.

From insight to instrumentation:

We don’t stop at a memo; we embed checklists, playbooks, and decision rights you can audit on Monday.

Our Intelligence Stack

Signal graph:

Leader communications, board changes, hiring flows, policy drafts, sentiment, and supply signals.

Modeling suite:

Time-series + causal inference + agent-based behavior models; adoption curves calibrated by culture.

Observatory:

Dashboards for forecast confidence, Brier scores, and drift alerts; everything traceable and replayable.

Human-in-the-loop:

Expert review to curb false positives; interpretability over black-box theatrics.

Scenario lab:

Game-theory and Monte Carlo runs to pressure-test strategic options before you commit.

Programs

Research Subscriptions:

Quarterly foresight briefs, sector watchlists, regional heatmaps, executive digests.

Bespoke Studies:

Market-entry timing, competitor intent, policy-to-practice pathways, tech adoption likelihood.

Executive Councils:

Invite-only roundtables for CXOs and policymakers; Chatham-style sessions with action logs.

Leadership Intensives:

One-day to 30-day sprints on decision hygiene, cross-cultural execution, and AI governance.

Field Labs (Business Project Case Studies):

On-the-ground pilots with cohort teams to pressure-test growth hypotheses (pricing, channels, PMF), capture real-market signals, and produce scale-up playbooks with pre/post metrics and decision checkpoints

Metrics We Track

Forecast quality:

Brier score, lead-time advantage, calibration curves.

Adoption timing error:

Δ between predicted vs. realized uptake by market.

Decision throughput:

Time-to-decision and error-rate under simulated stress.

Policy concordance:

Predicted vs. enacted rule trajectory; implementation lag.

Transfer to work:

Uptake of playbooks in live meetings within 30/60/90 days.

Science & Standards

Nonpartisan, method-transparent research that informs decision-makers - think tank best practice we adopt by design.

Multidisciplinary, policy-relevant analysis to improve decisions under uncertainty.

Convening plus research: we pair independent analysis with high-trust forums to convert insight into action.

Data-driven focus on emerging tech (especially AI) and its systemic impacts.

Global perspective via distributed expertise and cross-market comparisons.

AI governance: PDPA/GDPR compliance, NIST AI RMF alignment, bias tests, model cards, and red-teaming with human oversight.

Who Needs This Edge

Corporations:

Market entry timing, competitor intent, and blind-spot audits.

Investors:

Early inflection detection, policy-sensitive theses, downside scenarios.

Industry Bodies:

Sector playbooks, member preparedness, standards roadmaps.

Governments:

Policy impact modeling that accounts for real human behavior.

Strategic Foresight Institute:Leadership × Psychology × AI