Dr. Candice Chow
Assistant Professor / Director of the Foresight Lab
Assistant Professor / Director of the Foresight Lab
Dr. Candice Chow is the Director of the Foresight Lab and an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the DeGroote School of Business. Prior to becoming a full-time academic, she held senior management positions across continents for over 25 years, leading enterprise transformation projects and strategy development at scale. Candice earned her DBA at Henley Business School, UK, and her MBA at the Ivey School of Business. A graduate of the Directors' College, she holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. Her research sits at the intersection of strategic leadership, values-based management, foresight, and governance — with a focus on how organizations navigate uncertainty while remaining anchored in human-centric and sustainable principles. She brings a practitioner's lens to her academic work, emphasizing experiential learning and leadership development. Current projects examine how strategic foresight and futures thinking enhance decision-making in complex environments, and how pedagogical innovation in teaching foresight to executives and MBA students can advance organizational resilience. Her latest academic contributions include research on the future of business education in the era of Gen AI — in collaboration with scholars at the British Academy of Management — and on professional judgment as a driver of anticipatory capacity.
