Explore the forces shaping our world in society, politics, environment, and technology.
Societal Trends
Our world is undergoing rapid transformation characterised by collapsing digital trust and the rise of AI in the workplace. We need authentic leadership, upskilling, and wellbeing as a priority. Brands need cultural awareness. Societal megatrends demand integrated, innovative solutions for a resilient future. Explore these articles further to understand more.
Life Trends 2025
ACCENTURE
Ever feel like you're navigating a digital minefield? This report reveals that online trust is collapsing, with deepfakes and scams muddying the waters. Get ready for a world where authenticity is the new currency.
AI will evolve into an organisational structure for all
Wired
Forget traditional hierarchies! This document unveils how AI is poised to become the backbone of future workplaces, enabling human-machine collaboration. Startups are already showing how this works, using AI to scale their operations.
What Followers Want?
Gallup Global Leadership Report
What do people really want from their leaders? This global study says it's not just charisma, it's hope, trust, compassion and stability. Learn what inspires people from all walks of life.
Healthier cities will require a dose of nature
Wired
As cities become concrete jungles, this report sounds the alarm: nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. Discover how green spaces can combat rising rates of disease and improve our overall wellbeing.
10 Trends for 2025: Ready for a refresh?
Marian Salzman
This report explores ten emerging trends, moving beyond hustle culture to embracing authenticity, and the return of "slow fame" over disposable virality, all while balancing tech with a more human touch
To Keep Gen Z, Companies need to Level Up
Wired
Companies beware! Gen Z is not here for your rigid rules and structures. This document explains how workplaces must shift from top-down models to flexible, purpose-driven environments that encourage creative input and peer driven feedback.
Work Trends Report 2024-2025
Torque
Tired of being "always-on?" This report shows how boundaries are back, with companies using tech and AI to create seamless work environments, while promoting work-life balance, and boosting employee wellbeing and productivity
Unlocking business impact through personal cultural relevance
WARC/TikTok
Want to make your brand truly connect? This report details how cultural relevance is the key to capturing attention, driving engagement, and making an impact. It emphasizes the importance of humour and understanding the diverse cultural landscape to achieve business goals.
Future of Jobs Report 2025
World Economic Forum
Prepare for a job market shake-up! This report dives into how tech, the green economy, and other shifts are transforming the skills we need and the work that we do. It's time for a workforce revolution with an emphasis on reskilling.
Global Skills Taxonomy Adoption Toolkit 2025
World Economic Forum
Talent shortages got you down? This toolkit shows how to use the Global Skills Taxonomy to find the right talent, and help with reskilling initiatives with the necessary training and resources
Innovation's Edge
Wired
This report unveils the "micro-trends" that could reshape our world from bio-bots swimming in our veins to hyperspectral imaging for environmental monitoring. It's about the future, but more importantly, it's happening right now.
Megatrends
PwC
This report explores 5 key trends transforming our world - climate change, tech disruption, demographic shifts, global instability, and social unrest. Discover how these forces are connected and what we can do to navigate this complex future.
Slower, Surer, Stronger
The Lab
Feeling the pressure to constantly hustle? This report delves into the growing desire for a 'slowdown' amongst Australians, with many actively pushing back against hustle culture to reclaim leisure time. Discover how the pursuit of comfort, confidence and a more balanced life is reshaping priorities and consumer behaviour.
Political Trends
The world faces rapid change, with economic fragmentation, geopolitical risks, and a decline in global freedom due to conflict and flawed elections. Explore these articles about the impact this has on our world…and how we can build a resilient future.
Trade in 2050
Dr. Parag Khanna
How will trade evolve? Explore the regionalisation of the global economy, the impact of climate change on migration, and how technology can revolutionise logistics and sustainability
Global Economic Prospects
WBG
Global economic outlook - trends, risks, policy challenges. Covers trade, commodities, inflation, regional growth, forecasts for low-income countries, and public investment impacts.
The Year Ahead 2025
Natwest
What's coming in 2025? Prepare for volatile markets navigating fiscal activism and global protectionism. Discover key forecasts for monetary policy and economic growth across regions
Economic Outlook 2025
EIU
Navigate the global economy in 2025. Discover what countries will lead major economies, how geopolitics impacts growth, and when central banks will shift rates
Chief Economists Outlook January 2025
World Economic Forum
Global economy in 2025: Will it strengthen or weaken? Discover what chief economists predict for growth, inflation, trade fragmentation, and policy shifts across regions.
Global Cooperation Barometer 2025
World Economic Forum
Is global cooperation crumbling? Explore the five pillars of cooperation—trade, innovation, climate—and how leaders can rebuild trust for shared solutions in a fractured world
What will be the flashpoints of 2025?
Chatham House
From the devastating wars in Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza to Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland and the Panama Canal, what are the places to watch this year?
Freedom in the World
Freedom House
Is freedom declining? This report exposes how flawed elections and armed conflicts diminish global freedom, with key findings, regional trends, and policy recommendations for a world in crisis.
Environmental Trends
The future environmental landscape is complex, shaped by big tech's energy demands, the global push for sustainability, and geopolitical shifts. A collaborative approach that considers technological innovation, behavioural science, and policy frameworks is essential. Explore the articles below to understand more.
Big tech will scour globe for cheap energy
Wired
Big tech firms are seeking locations with abundant, low-cost energy to power data centres required for AI, which may lead to a shift in global influence. Discover how nations are competing to attract AI investments
Financing the Energy Transition: Meeting a Rapidly Evolving Electricity Demand
World Economic Forum
Investment in the energy transition needs to increase to $4.5 trillion a year to align with net-zero emissions by 20504. Explore regional perspectives and solutions to secure investment and lower financing costs for energy transition technologies
Big Picture 2025 Commodities
S&P
The AI-driven data centre boom is rekindling interest in nuclear energy. Read about the critical minerals that support the entire ecosystem
Sustainability Trends 2025
EIU
A decade on from the Paris Agreement, what trends are shaping the sustainability landscape and its investment opportunities for the year ahead?
Navigating a world in transition: Power shifts: what next for energy and geopolitics?
Economist Impact
The demand for electricity is growing much faster, even in the developed world14. Discover why the most consequential thing about AI for the energy sector is less likely to be how much energy it takes as what this tool can do for the energy sector
Mind shift, green lift: Six behavioural science trends for environmental policy
OECD
This policy paper discusses how pivotal trends in the policy use of behavioural science can help governments catalyse the people-centred transformations needed to reach net-zero goals10. Discover how governments are using behavioural science to increase the demand for sustainable goods, services and technologies
Five trends shaping the energy and commodity industry
Publisis Sapient
In 2025, AI adoption will accelerate as energy and commodities companies gain confidence in use cases that promote optimisation and innovation. Learn how companies must balance their portfolios, incorporating more renewables while maintaining profitability
State of the Climate Report
CSIRO
Provides an overview of Australia’s weather and climate has continued to change, with an increase in extreme heat events, longer fire seasons, more intense heavy rainfall, and sea level rise.
Call to Action on Extreme Heat
United Nations
Explore how extreme heat will impact our world and workforce. New data from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) warns that over 70 per cent of the global workforce – 2.4 billion people – are now at high risk of extreme heat
Technological Trends
AI is reshaping everything—from therapy to finance. AI therapists offer affordable support, while automation supercharges software, data, and healthcare. But AI’s rise sparks big questions—privacy, fairness, compliance, and a talent crunch. The twist…do companies now value AI skills over experience? Explore the articles below to find out more.
The Rich can afford personal care - the rest will have to use AI
Wired
As the affluent embrace human connection in healthcare and education, AI steps in to fill the void for the less privileged, raising questions about the stratification of care
McKinsey Technology Trends 2025
McKinsey
This report highlights 15 key technology trends, including generative AI and electrification, offering insights into their potential, adoption, and impact across industries, to aid executives in future planning and strategy.
The State of Cryptocurrency
Triple A
Cryptocurrency is making waves. This report dives into global crypto ownership in 2024, highlighting adoption rates, demographics, and the drivers behind the crypto surge, like regulation and inflation.
Global Trends in AI
S&P
This report examines AI adoption, leadership, value drivers, and infrastructure, based on insights from 1,500+ AI decision-makers and senior IT executives through surveys and interviews.
AI at Work is Here: Now Comes the Hard Part
Microsoft
This report explores AI's transformative potential in the workplace, noting how "AI power users" are more motivated, creative, and productive, while also addressing digital debt and the need for strategic AI implementation
Future Tech Trends
OMG
Explore the future technology shifts that will change the way we live, work and interact as we move closer to the 2030s.