Tom Rau

Tom Rau is Senior Foresight Lead for Langrand’s transformation practice, where he supports environmental scanning, emerging technology research and strategic synthesis for organizations navigating uncertainty.

Tom brings a multidisciplinary background across software engineering, nonprofit leadership, product strategy and emerging technology. He is a foresight practitioner and innovation strategist who understands both the speculative and practical sides of future-facing work: what may change, what teams can build and what organizations need to do next.

Before joining, Tom served as Director of Code the Dream Labs, the technology arm of a national nonprofit software development shop and apprenticeship program. There, he helped scale the organization from a local apprenticeship program into a national technical training powerhouse, grew the technical team and directed products used across the U.S., including platforms supporting the distribution of federal relief funds.

Tom is also a former developer, and still brings a builder’s mindset to foresight work. His technical background includes full-stack development, UI/UX, cloud architecture, API design, AI tooling, vector databases and LLM-integrated applications.

At Langrand, Tom contributes to foresight research, trend synthesis, scenario development and future-state strategy narratives. His work has supported healthcare, logistics modernization, future mobility and digital transformation initiatives, helping organizations connect emerging change to the decisions they need to make now.

He holds a Master of Science in Foresight from the University of Houston, a BA in English from Virginia Tech and a Jazz Studies Certificate from The Collective School of Music in New York.