Heather Benoit

Heather Benoit is Director, Foresight + Innovation Design for Langrand’s transformation practice, where she helps institutions make sense of uncertainty and turn future-facing research into clearer strategic choices.

A strategic foresight leader with more than a decade of experience across the private and public sectors, Heather works across environmental scanning, driver synthesis, scenario development and implication mapping. Her work helps executive teams see what is changing, what it could mean and which near-term decisions need to account for longer-term consequences.

Before joining, Heather built and led a strategic foresight consulting practice serving public-sector leaders. She also developed foresight and trend capabilities for product, service and technology innovation, bringing an engineer’s rigor to the messy work of imagining and preparing for different futures.

At Langrand, Heather leads foresight strategy and innovation design across major healthcare initiatives, including future-state strategy, scenario-informed planning and executive workshops. She is known for making complexity teachable without making it simplistic.

Heather is also an adjunct professor in the University of Houston’s Foresight program. She holds a Master of Science in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston, an MBA from Quantic School of Business + Technology, a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Baylor University and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Baylor University. Her work has been recognized by the Association of Professional Futurists, including a first-place award in 2020 and multiple nominations for futures research.

Outside of work, Heather is usually thinking, thinking while hiking, chasing toddlers or attempting to think while chasing toddlers. When she gets a clear window, she can be found rock climbing, scuba diving, backpacking, building synthesizers, painting or playing ukulele.