Planting a Future for our Community

Mark A. Konlock, Director of Horticulture, Green Bay Botanical Garden

Plants build community – we understand that. For 27 years, the Garden has connected people with
plants through educational and recreational experiences in an environment that engages, inspires, and
refreshes. But how can we plan for the Garden’s best possible future? The Garden’s leadership team has
been working with Envision Greater Green Bay to anticipate internal and external changes over the next
few decades and to craft a plausible future that successfully moves the organization forward. Read
about the Garden’s futuring experience.

Teamwork + Structure = Success

John Werner, Sr. VP & Chief Strategy Officer, Schreiber Foods

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” This statement, often attributed to Mark Twain, has been written on the wall in my office for the past four years. Around that time, Schreiber Foods had implemented a new organizational structure to support a recently developed, long-term growth strategy. Along with my teammates, I had the opportunity to take on new challenges and learn new skills to deliver growth for our company and impact to our communities. At that point, I felt like I had a lot of things figured out in life. Little did I know, when I wrote those words on the wall, the volume of change I was about to face: a pandemic, supply chain shortages, inflation, and more. Click Success with Strategic Foresight.

…A Future Not Our Own

Resurrection Envisions the Future of Spiritual Growth
Tony Pichler, Mission Outreach Director, Resurrection Parish

On March 1, 2023, the entire leadership team from Resurrection Catholic Parish attended Envision’s World Futures Day at the KI Center in downtown Green Bay. Our minds were stretched as we learned more about artificial intelligence, bots that can create a speech and so much more, and other futuristic changes that were predicted on the Jetsons cartoon show sixty years ago. Yet, as our team listened, engaged, and grew, the same questions came to each and every one of us: Where is the spiritual in these signals of change? What does the future hold for religion, spirituality, and institutions and communities like ours that promote spiritual growth and development? Click Spirituality Futures Day.