Author and Advisor to F500 C-suite execs

When I was Microsoft's U.S. AI Strategy Lead, it was my job to help F500 C-suite leaders create a strategy for how they would use AI. I quickly learned that there were four major gaps in most academic and on-the-job training:
1. No resources for creating a vision
2. The process for strategy was too convoluted
3. Systems thinking was missing or too impractical
4. Storytelling was seen as a nice-to-have
Being a former internationally competitive and multi-state champion chess player, I dug into the literature on vision, strategy, systems thinking, and storytelling. I interviewed over 50 C-suite executives, thought leaders, including luminaries such as Seth Godin, Roger Martin, etc.
I combined everything that could be practically applied and developed new frameworks to address key gaps to create a new system: Future Solving™
Future Solving™ has since been adopted by dozens of Fortune 500 companies and thousands of leaders. Over $20B has been architected on the Future Solving™ frameworks, and this work has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, etc.
Now I'm sharing the blueprint with you.
“Future Solving will be the foundation of the next reinvention of our company.” - CLO, Fortune 10 company
Learn the new system for taking the future into your own hands: create a vision and develop the strategy to make that vision inevitable
Envision the future of your team, organization, or market in today's context
Score your vision to understand and finetune the level of ambition and feasibility
Develop the habit of seeing farther into the future and with more context than your peers and competitors
Learn to create a simple, visible strategy for getting from where you are today to your bold & achievable vision
Identify what components of your strategy align to your core competencies and determine where to monitor, partner, or invest
Harness opposing views to sharpen your strategy and build momentum
Reframe complex problems as systems, identifying boundaries, stakeholders, assumptions, and unintended consequences
Diagnose root causes of persistent problems by identifying reinforcing and balancing loops rather than surface-level symptoms
Identify high-leverage intervention points where small, well-designed actions can produce meaningful system change
Learn the craft of storytelling as a strategic lever for sparking action across your organization
Analyze audience's context, needs, and motivations to shape story content and tone
Apply frameworks for storytelling within complex organizational and market systems to build momentum, get investment, and drive change
Learn the governance frameworks for developing a sustainable program that creates tangible value in your organization
Identify common pitfalls most organizations face when rolling a program like Future Solving out, and how to overcome them
Develop a strategy & plan for implementing Future Solving in your rhythm of work
Work in small teams to create a vision, develop a strategy, a systems map, and design a storytelling approach for a real business context
Present your final project to Brian and your cohort peers
Select capstone projects will be featured in the Future Solving newsletter and as case study examples in Brian's writing and lectures

Leading Author, Advisor, Keynote Speaker, and Podcast Host
Leaders ready to become visionary leaders.
See what Future Solving™ can do to advance you, your team, and your organization in the era of AI
Senior managers and managers who want to level up.
Learn the exact playbook used by thousands of C-suite execs and VPs at F500 companies
Entrepreneurs looking to outplay their competitors.
Make sure your vision and strategy are as good as your product or service

Live sessions
Learn directly from Brian Evergreen in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Templates for implementing Future Solving
Bring Future Solving to life with your team and within your organization.
Slack community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals across cohorts.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Exclusive Bonus Content
Take advantage of 10+ hours of bonus private content after the course, including some of the best material on vision, strategy, systems thinking, & storytelling.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
12 live sessions • 12 lessons
Feb
23
Future Solving Course start: Join 15 minutes early for any Zoom quirks
Feb
23
Future Solving Course Class 1 with Brian
Feb
23
Optional: Q&A with Brian
Feb
24
Future Solving Course Class 2 with Brian
Feb
24
Optional: Q&A with Brian
Feb
25
Feb
27
Feb
27
Mar
2
Future Solving Course Class 3 with Brian
Mar
3
Future Solving Course Class 4 with Brian
Mar
6
Mar
6
Live sessions
20 hrs
12 hours of instruction, 3 hours of capstone presentations, 6 optional hours of Q&A
Wed, Feb 25
6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, Feb 27
12:00 AM—1:00 AM (UTC)
Fri, Feb 27
6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Capstone Project
6-10 hrs
The time commitment depends on you and your team's level of effort.
Async content
1-10 hrs
This time commitment depends on your level of interest in digging deeper into research, frameworks, and case studies.
$1,990
USD