Andrew leads Eminence and Insights for Deloitte Consulting, which develops Deloitte’s perspectives on the most important cross-cutting issues shaping organizations and markets. He also leads the firm’s Strategic Futures practice, advising executive leadership teams with scenario planning and other tools that help organizations navigate macro and market uncertainty. Previously, he launched and led Deloitte’s Strategic Risk Solutions practice, created to help senior executives and boards spot and prepare for disruption and other threats to their competitive position and business model.
He joined Deloitte in 2013 as a partner in The Monitor Group, a global strategy consultancy, and President of Global Business Network, world famous for the use of scenarios and other tools that help organizations thrive in complex, uncertain environments. In that role, he led the largest dedicated scenario practice in the world, helping leaders in industry, government, and philanthropy develop new strategies and adapt to the long-range forces that create unexpected risks and opportunities.
His work has ranged widely across topics and sectors, covering issues from the future of transportation to the future of energy, the future of food, the future of media, and the future of health and healthcare. He co-wrote Looking Out for the Future, which explored how social challenges could be successfully addressed over the next generation, and he co-led the team that developed “The Equity Imperative” about the role of business in promoting a more equitable society.
At the invitation of the Clinton Administration, he organized the first White House summit in Washington DC on internet and digital media policy, and he was appointed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to its committee on the future of the internet. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and published and lectured internationally about the trends shaping business and society. He was also the founding president of the board of directors of WITNESS, an international human rights organization founded by the musician Peter Gabriel, and was elected Chairman of the board of the Urban Libraries Council, the national membership group of the nation’s largest public libraries. He has served on numerous other nonprofit boards and advisory groups, including for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Library Association, the City of Seattle, the City of New York, and the Center for Children and Technology.
