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Peter Evans-Greenwood is a strategist, systems thinker, and Senior Fellow with the ADC Forum. He works at the intersection of emerging technology, institutional change, and business transformation—helping leaders make sense of complex environments and unlock new paths to growth.

Drawing on a background that spans software engineering, management consulting, and applied research, Peter integrates insights from diverse domains to map unfolding system shifts. His work focuses on how institutional legitimacy erodes, how ecosystems adapt, and how we might lead collaboratively through uncertainty—not by predicting the future, but by noticing the patterns already reshaping it.

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