What if no election is accepted as legitimate by 2040? Exploring emerging risks with Gallagher Security
Victoria Mulligan, Linked In, 2025
In a world of volatility, trust is no longer a given — it’s infrastructure.
The Futures Triangle in the Workplace – Using Strategic Foresight to Anticipate, Plan for and Respond to New Challenges in Business
Victoria Mulligan, World Futures Review, 2023
To design better futures, organisations must first unlearn the past.
Lunchbox shaming matters – but combatting childhood obesity matters more
Victoria Mulligan, The Spinoff, 2018
We can protect kids from shame — and still take urgent action on their health.
On Purpose: What employees want more than anything else, and four ways to give it to them
Victoria Mulligan, 2022
Purpose isn’t a perk, it’s a reason people stay.
What is the future of work? (Hint: it’s not just robots)
Victoria Mulligan, Linked In, 2022
The future isn’t a destination — it’s a design challenge.
Seven habits of highly successful hybrids: how to thrive in an era of flexible working
Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2022
Hybrid isn’t a compromise — it’s a chance to redesign how work really works.
Year-end reflection gives businesses room to grow
Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2022
Don’t just close the year — learn from it.
Workplace rituals: boosting team connectedness and performance
Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2023
Small acts, done with meaning, can transform your team’s culture.
Six steps to help 'accidental managers' grow into their role
Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2023
Not every leader chooses management — but every manager can be taught to lead.
Einstein was right – take your time with finding solutions
by Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2023
The best innovations don’t start with answers — they start with better questions.
The Great Confrontation – employees and their bosses face off over the future of work
by Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2022
Employees don’t want to go back to business as usual — and they finally have the leverage to say so.
How to run meetings your team will look forward to
by Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2023
The best facilitators don't give all the answers; they ask the right questions.
Sugar industry's fight against tax takes tips from tobacco's playbook
Victoria Mulligan, Stuff.co.nz, 2021
Big Soda is borrowing Big Tobacco’s tactics — but public health advocates are pushing back.
The Rise of Strategic Foresight: CEOs go Back to the Future
by Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2022
A growing number of CEOs are embracing foresight tools to meet the challenges and opportunities of an uncertain future.
The Three Circles Model of Engagement
Linked In, 2025
Effective engagement requires a recognition that members of a group or network engage in different ways, at different times
Video: Mapping a National Futures Network, with IFTF
Victoria joins globally recognised IFTF as guest presenter, talking to students about how she created an interactive map of New Zealand’s foresight practitioners and the relationships between them.
Video: Relational Intelligence and Network Weaving
Victoria talks to Horizon Shift Lab about “network weaving” - how to grow and strengthen a network of organisations or people with a common purpose
Changing the Plan is the Plan
Victoria Mulligan for Business Desk, 2022
This piece speaks to the power of adopting an experimental mindset in the workplace. It counsels leaders to treat their organisation more like a garden than a machine, and to treat safe failure as part of their plan for success.