Susan Cox-Smith

Drawing on over twenty years experience as a writer, designer, creative director, interactive producer, and researcher Susan Cox-Smith seeks to enrich public engagement with possible futures.

Across multiple consulting engagements for Changeist, she has consulted on futures projects for ADCB, AXA, BBC R&D, Comcast, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, National Lottery Fund UK, Nesta, and several Silicon Valley tech companies. She has contributed to trend research and scenario development looking at the futures of personal transport, health and wellness, entertainment, arts and culture, and emergency response practices. Recently, she led the design and delivery of a public workshop platform exploring feminist futures in a post-Covid world for the International Women’s Development Agency.

Cox-Smith also oversees the design of and co-leads Changeist’s capacity building workshops, and the development of related instructional materials, developing futuring skills in leaders from organisations ranging from Microsoft to Netflix, Wells Fargo and NASA JPL. She was the contributing editor on How to Future: Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange, published by Kogan Page Inspire in September 2020.

In addition to client work, she has written for several Medium publications, including How We Get to Next, as well as The Next Web and other publications. She has presented and facilitated strategic foresight, design futures, and scenario planning workshops at A/D/O in Brooklyn, Sibos in Geneva, ThingsCon Amsterdam and UXLondon. She has co-facilitated How to Future courses at the Dubai Future Academy, and for organizations in the US, UK, Abu Dhabi and Malta.

Cox-Smith is a graduate of the Miami Ad School at Portfolio Center in Atlanta, and has a post-graduate certification in art history and appraisal studies from New York University. She has also worked in digital curriculum development, and supported the University of Leiden’s respected online learning lab courses, as a consultant, community coordinator and mentor.