Publications

Foundational, BIG SHIFTS Discovery Session ARE YOU READY? On February 18, 2025, RSI held its 1st event in the 2025 The BIG SHIFT series—The Future of Work and Education—hosted by Telus. The BIG SHIFT is more than a useful phrase to get your attention. It represents the tsunami of disruptions impacting business, society, and our environment and an urgent [...]

The Future of Work and Education ARE YOU READY? On June 11, 2024, RSI held its third event in the 2024 Futures Action series—The Future of Work and Education—hosted by and in partnership with George Brown College at their Waterfront Campus at 51 Dockside Drive in Toronto. Catalyzed by industry-recognized speakers—leaders and experts from forward-thinking organizations in the fields [...]

The Future of Climate and Energy EXPLORE. LEARN. RETHINK. ACT On March 20, 2024, RSI held its second event in the 2024 Futures Action series—The Future of Climate & Energy—hosted by TELUS at 25 York Street in Toronto. More than 110 industry-recognized leaders and experts from across multiple sectors and disciplines participated in the discovery and rethinking of what [...]

Reimagining & Mobilizing the Future of Buildings, the Built Environment, and Urban Communities EXPLORE. LEARN. RETHINK. ACT The Futures Action Initiative RSI created The Futures Action Initiative to enhance leaders’ ability to understand, prepare for, and mobilize actions to address the challenges of disruptions that impact the future sustainability and resilience of their organizations and communities. It began with [...]

The business environment has changed rapidly since the pandemic. We have all been permanently uprooted—both physically and culturally—from what used to be the status quo. These systemic changes continue to affect everyone, both directly and indirectly. Every company has been impacted, as well as every commercial building owner and landlord, tenant, worker, supplier, customer, and local community. To survive [...]

RSI founder and roundtable moderator, Yasmin Glanville, kicked off the session noting that 15% of Canadians live in food-insecure households (Statistics Canada, 2021). The roundtable’s goal, she said, was to explore the scale of the food crisis, assess the barriers to making food more accessible and affordable, and discuss active, scalable solutions. RSI’s experts met that challenge, offering solutions [...]

St. James Town Journey, A Playbook for Climate Change Action in Urban High-Rise Communities This Community Climate Action Playbook describes a journey of discovery by real people and organizations, each with their different perspectives and interests in the community. Its' strength and value lay in that shared discovery, and through it, practicable solutions that can be used here and [...]

Reimagined Future of Food Security and Climate Resiliency Reimagined Future of Food Insights for Action Playbook Advancing a future of more secure, accessible, health promoting food in today’s increasingly disruptive climate is not just a good thing to do. It’s critical. Over 5.6 million Canadians live with food insecurity, hunger, and poverty every day of their lives! Why address [...]

RSI Leadership Series Fall 2019 - RSI Rethinking and Reshaping the Future of Waste Leadership Report   This thought leadership report features actionable insights from our November 2019 Rethink Waste Action Partners dinner and dialogue, including key takeaways for Rethinking and Reshaping the Future of Waste. You can view and download this report by clicking the above image.

RSI Leadership Series Summer 2019 - RSI_Shaping the Future of Energy and Buildings Leadership Report_2019 This thought leadership report features actionable insights from our June 2019 dinner-dialogue, including key takeaways for shaping the future of energy and buildings. You can download this report by clicking the above image.