On the back of two around Australia speaking tours I’m currently on, for two different Financial industry clients, speaking on the Future World of Financial Intimacy, David Dowsett of ABC Bay Wide and I chatted about the new connect consumers will have with their money and financ.

When signals like A brave new financial intimacy emerge, organisations that engage early have the advantage of choosing their response rather than reacting to events. That gap between those who prepared and those who did not is where competitive positioning is actually made or lost.

The most important question is not whether A brave new financial intimacy will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.