Recent media
Victoria Mulligan for interest.co.nz, 4 May 2026
The current oil shock gives business leaders a strong message: to question what they're assuming about the future, and ask what happens to their business if they're wrong?
Stuff Money, 1 May 2026
Victoria Mulligan worries that both young workers entering the workforce for the first time and those in the latter stages of their careers could suffer “learned helplessness,” which leads them to lose hope altogether.
Victoria Mulligan - Linked In
New Zealand’s distance from the world has long been treated as a source of safety. But in an era of fractured geopolitics, contested shipping lanes and weakening global order, that distance can quickly become a vulnerability …
Victoria Mulligan - Linked In, March 2026
New Zealand’s agricultural economy depends on more than productive land and good weather …
Victoria Mulligan, Stuff Money
What happens when spending money takes almost no effort, and what may be lost when decision-making is increasingly handed over to machines?
Responding to a reader facing redundancy, shrinking prospects and deep uncertainty about the future, I explore what it means to live through a structural rather than personal failure …
Ageing populations, climate shocks and labour-market strain are often treated as separate policy challenges, but they should be understood as one converging crisis …
Victoria Mulligan, Linked In, 2025
In a world of volatility, trust is no longer a given — it’s infrastructure.
Victoria Mulligan, World Futures Review, 2023
To design better futures, organisations must first unlearn the past.
Victoria Mulligan, The Spinoff, 2018
We can protect kids from shame — and still take urgent action on their health.
Victoria Mulligan, Linked In, 2022
The future isn’t a destination — it’s a design challenge.
Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2022
Hybrid isn’t a compromise — it’s a chance to redesign how work really works.
Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2023
Small acts, done with meaning, can transform your team’s culture.
Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2023
Not every leader chooses management — but every manager can be taught to lead.
by Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2023
The best innovations don’t start with answers — they start with better questions.
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.
by Victoria Mulligan, Business Desk, 2023
The best facilitators don't give all the answers; they ask the right questions.
Victoria Mulligan, Stuff.co.nz, 2021
Big Soda is borrowing Big Tobacco’s tactics — but public health advocates are pushing back.
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.
Linked In, 2025
Effective engagement requires a recognition that members of a group or network engage in different ways, at different times
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.
Victoria talks to Horizon Shift Lab about “network weaving” - how to grow and strengthen a network of organisations or people with a common purpose
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.