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Dan Healy:Managing Director, FTI Consulting

Award winning strategist and researcher, fusing together primary research, analytics, psychology and behavioral economics techniques to understand behaviour and forecast future scenarios. Working with various governments, corporates, investors and NGOs, he was one of the few to forecast the fault lines that lead to the Arab Spring, Trump’s conquest of Clinton and the legacy of Covid-19 on both consumer behaviour and corporate business models. Back to back winner of Holmes Report SABRE award for best thought leadership with ‘True Cost of Financial Crime’ for Refinitiv/LSEG and ‘Resilience Barometer’ for FTI Consulting.

Students studying Business Studies and History took part in online polls to see how quickly data can be collected and used.

Dan gave the students a valuable insight into the research that politicians and businesses use to guide their decision making, including sharing research that had been presented at the World Economic Forum, Davos. Students were shown survey responses that revealed people are more influenced by fear, anger or distrust in their voting decisions than by economic ideas. The students were also interested to see the data showing that people will form opinions about the news from social media posts, and reshare as facts, rather than doing their own research.

Several Year 11 students with interest in politics, starting their own business, and going into marketing, were able to talk to Dan about their future careers. Seeing real world information gave the students a deeper understanding of how the world of business and politics operate.

Ms Nye

Deputy Subject Lead for History and Year 8 Tutor