The past decade has been a remarkable chapter. In 2016 we made the decision to pause the work that Urban Futures was doing and move in-house with rennie Marketing Systems. Over almost a decade with rennie I had the privilege of building the rennie intelligence team and then later its advisory services division. I am incredibly proud of what we built together, and grateful to the many colleagues, clients, and partners who made that work memorable and impactful.

Beginning in May, I will once again be providing advisory services under the Urban Futures name, as I continue to build sector-specific, data driven research to help a range of clients interpret what lies ahead. Given the broad range of challenges we face locally, provincially, and nationally, I’m also looking forward to reigniting some publicly available research through the Urban Futures Institute. The Institute’s original mandate of providing strategic research to manage change seems all too fitting almost three decades later.