We are delighted to announce the promotions of Ben Randall to Director and Nicola Doyle to Senior Consultant.

Compared to other sectors, philanthropy lacks practices, structures and cultural norms to tackle confirmation bias. In this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Andy Martin and Kecia Bertermann describe why this is a problem, and an opportunity to do better.

In partnership with the RSPCA and its Animal Futures project, Firetail has developed The WIlberforce Report.

It is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of society, technology, and the environment—and the future of the animals with whom we share the planet.

Firetail supported the Mathematical Futures Programme Board of the Royal Society in the delivery of the evidence and generation of the scenario planning for this programme.

We are recruiting. Consulting at Firetail gives you the opportunity to make a positive contribution towards social progress. The deadline for Associate Consultant applications is Friday 16th August 2024.

Sandra Tasić, with a distinguished career in social progress and strategic thinking, joins Firetail as a new Director. Sandra brings deep experience from the Gates Foundation and Booz Allen Hamilton and will support across all of Firetail’s strategy and impact engagements.

March is B Corp month. The annual campaign runs through the month, uniting over 8,000 companies across 96 countries and 162 industries to show how the B Corp community is moving business forward. Firetail has been a certified B Corp for just over a year and we’re proud to be a part of a growing global movement.

We are proud to announce that we have published our first Impact Report marking a significant milestone in our journey towards social and environmental responsibility. In 2023, Firetail became a B Corp.

Firetail has joined 1% for the Planet, the global network of businesses and environmental organisations committed to supporting people and planet. Members of 1% for the Planet pledge to donate at least 1% of their annual revenue to environmental non-profits and related causes.

Firetail is proud to have been appointed for a second time to the Government Office for Science’s (GOS) Futures Framework. We are just one of 35 specialist futures agencies selected to do this work.

This week at the 2023 Women Deliver Conference in Rwanda, The Fred Hollows Foundation launched its new report, “Women Deliver Eye Health: Let’s Reframe Who Leads It”.

We are delighted to announce that we are now officially certified as a B Corp. Firetail was set up to help clients working on the world’s most challenging problems. Our purpose is to help impact-driven organisations realise their ambitions for society.

People at Firetail come from different backgrounds, but share common traits. We are practical optimists, working openly and with purpose towards social progress.

Ben joins us after 10 years working for and with the UK Government delivering a wide range of strategic analysis, futures, and organisational design projects.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and adoption is growing rapidly. The Department for the Economy of Northern Ireland (DfE NI), which promotes the development of a globally competitive economy, recognises the potential of AI.

We are pleased to welcome Michael Alberg-Seberich, author of the new book The Corporate Social Mind to a Lunch & Learn on November 26th, 2020.

If you have recently received an unexpected invoice from Firetail, and do not trade with us, you may be a victim of an invoice fraud attack (also known as “CEO fraud” or “Business email compromise” fraud).

An international conference, now in its 43rd year and rotating to Bratislava, chose this theme and we’ll be sharing our thoughts about it at the conference on Thursday.