Better decisions today.
Your listeners can feel it. The world is changing faster than their strategy. Most leaders are executing plans built for a world that no longer exists.
Robert Yi names the global shifts that are shaping their customers, congregations, and communities. Then he turns each trend into a decision: the strategy to rethink, the investment to make, the team to build now. This conversation will reframe how your audience sees the future… and the present.
Robert is uniquely qualified to deliver this perspective. As COO of the Global Leadership Network, Robert leads a ministry that equips 380,000+ leaders in 110+ countries each year. His new book, Future-Perfect: 8 Megatrends Revealing the Future—and God's Call for Bold Leadership, is a critical strategic briefing endorsed by respected Christian leaders, including Craig Groeschel, Peter Greer, Tami Heim, and David Ashcraft.
With biblical grounding and remarkable clarity, Robert helps leaders lift their eyes above short-term pressures and fix their gaze on the long-term vision God is calling them toward.
Most books about the future leave you anxious. This one leaves you prepared.
Future-Perfect gives us a glimpse of what's coming from a man who is well educated, lives a life of integrity, and has navigated experiences that earn him the right to speak about the future.
Future-Perfect provides provocative and informative insights into where the world is going, while inviting faith-fueled leaders to press into the shifts required.
Robert goes beyond analysis—he empowers us. Future-Perfect provides readers with the tools to thoughtfully steward their choices and proactively shape a better tomorrow.
Robert Yi equips leaders not only with a clear lens for understanding the present but with binoculars to see far ahead.
If you want to prepare your church or organization for the generations that will shape the world through 2100, you need the profound insights found in these pages.
We can assess the past and look toward the future with confidence if we use the resources given to us. Let this book be a guide to help you prayerfully and boldly move forward.
Christian leaders around the world are deeply committed to making a difference. In this book, Robert shifts our focus with thoughtful and researched insights to consider now what we need to do for greater long-term impact.
S. Robert Yi unveils eight megatrends that will shape the world through 2100, offering a compelling vision of how leaders can navigate these shifts with wisdom, courage, and faith.
This book should be mandatory reading for all leaders who have to make decisions in order to help their business, organization, or ministry have relevance and impact in the years ahead.
Leaders ignoring megatrends plan in a vacuum. Future-Perfect: urgently recommended.
Too many leaders are building strategies for a reality that is already shifting beneath our feet. Future-Perfect gives leaders the long-range vision and practical wisdom to get ahead of that curve.
Future-Perfect thoughtfully connects today's realities with tomorrow's possibilities and offers a hopeful vision for faithful leadership in a changing world.
Your Strategy Won't Last
Most strategies are built for yesterday. Robert shares the trends defining the future and guides leaders to reframe their plans so they stay relevant for tomorrow and for decades to come.
3 Strategic Bets That Will Pay Off for Generations
Three moves a leader can make this year that compound for generations — in their people, their reach, and their model. Where to place each bet, and why the window is now.
4 Shifts Every Leader Needs to See Coming
Four forces already reshaping who you lead and who you serve. Robert names each shift, shows where it's heading, and hands leaders the first decision to make in response.
Steady Leadership When AI Is Changing Everything
AI anxiety is everywhere. Robert brings a grounded, data-driven view of what's actually changing in work, ministry, and the marketplace — and how leaders stay steady, and even get ahead, while the ground moves.
Robert Yi is a strategic futurist who has spent years researching global megatrends and helping leaders understand what's coming so they can make better decisions today. He is the author of Future-Perfect: 8 Megatrends Revealing the Future—and God's Call for Bold Leadership.
Robert serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Global Leadership Network, which equips more than 380,000 leaders in over 110 countries each year through the Global Leadership Summit.
He previously served as President and COO of Westfall Gold, Managing Partner of Ten Talents Partners, and COO and General Counsel of ECCU. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, a JD from Loyola Law School, and a BA from UC Berkeley.
Robert and his wife, Kelly, live in Johns Creek, Georgia, and have two college-aged daughters, Karis and Christina.