ABOUT US
Too little information can be as disconcerting as too much. Patricia Wentworth (inverted)
AUGMENTED INFORMATION
ABOUT AUGMNT
In this Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, it becomes essential for the growth and continuity of organizations to understand how the future is made and to acquire the knowledge and tools to build it, at will. Thus, in order to meet this imperative, AUGMNT has the simple mission of informing, training and mobilizing organizations to build a future that ensures good continuity and prosperity of their businesses, which determines our objective of providing the tools so that they can not only learn how the future is built but also build how they want to learn it.
INFO|TRAINING
BEYOND AN INCERTAIN FUTURE!
Informing and training is a great responsibility and must be done as simply (but not more) and efficiently as possible (and not less) in order to properly convey the principles and distinctions essential to the acquisition of the expected skills.
ASSIST
BEYOND INFO|TRAINING!
When the time comes, we help organizations with their futures work, whether articulating their future, integrating it and/or aligning it with their core decision-making and risk management, continuity and future-readiness programs.
SUPPORT
BEYOND THE PRESENT, BEING PRESENT!
Helping to build the future in these multiple futures that are emerging means continuing to support client organizations in the future, whether in their work of information and continuous improvement as well as that of prospective monitoring (of futures).
ABOUT THE INSTIGATOR
I am Chris (Christian) Royer, the founder of AUGMNT, based in Montreal, QC, Canada. For over 40 years, I hold law degrees from the University of Montreal and have previously held securities and life insurance licenses in Canada. I have lived and worked between Quebec and the United States (1993-2018) and conducted business in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (MENA). I have been engaged in the practice of law, real estate, financial and tax planning, brokerage of traditional and alternative financial products, and international trade. My interests lie in optimization, continuous improvement, risk management, and the model of possibilities or alternatives, as opposed to the great risk of a fixed way of doing things toward a fixed one future. Although not very active on this network (and others), here is a link to my LinkedIn profile.
Augmented Education
Futures Thinking Specialization/Certification – Institute For The Future (IFTF) | Social Entrepreneurship – Copenhagen Business School | Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies – Case Western University | New Models of Business in Society – University of Virginia, Darden School of Business | Age of Sustainability, An Introduction – Columbia University (with Jeffrey Sachs) | Circular Economy, An Introduction – TU Delft and Macarthur Foundation | Entrepreneurship: Financing and Profitability – Wharton Business School | Greening the Economies: Sustainable cities – Lund University | Financing and Investing in Infrastructure – Bocconi University | Impact Investing – Essec Paris | Fundamentals of Global Energy Business – University of Colorado | Financial Markets – Yale University | Introduction to Fintech – University of Hong-Kong.