Jeff De Cagna, AIMP, FRSA, FASAE, is a long-time association community contributor and executive advisor for Foresight First LLC, located in Reston, Virginia. Jeff is an association contrarian, foresight practitioner, governing designer, stakeholder/successor advocate, and stewardship catalyst. Jeff is the originator of both the board’s duty of foresight and the stewardship, governing, and foresight (SGF) board capacity-building methodology.
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities, Jeff has continued his learning with the future at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Oxford University, Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, BoardSource, Competent Boards, Diligent Institute, the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Management, and the Institute for the Future.
In 2019, Jeff was named the 32nd recipient of ASAE’s Academy of Leaders Award, the association’s highest individual honor given to consultants or industry partners in recognition of their support of ASAE and the association community.