In the last couple of weeks I have been around Australia twice, delivering 11 keynotes, on behalf of two different clients, to financial audiences on the new financial health and well being horizon and my belief that as we become digitally reconnected to our finances we will beco.

When signals like 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 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.