Sanjay Khanna
Partner, Strategic Advisor & Foresight Expert
NOW Partners


Strategic advisor. Foresight expert. Risk thinker. Creative educator. Empathic coach. Advises on futures thinking, the era of converging crises, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, and human welfare.

Throughout his career, Sanjay has been a prescient advisor to private, public, and social sectors on risks and opportunities associated with converging crises that encompass geopolitical fragmentation, socioeconomic reordering, population health issues, technological acceleration, and climate change. A highly regarded educator and keynote speaker, he believes that leadership and learning are keys to unlocking an organization’s value. Sanjay has specialized training in scenario planning and is a skilled facilitator and empathic coach. His evidence-informed opinion is that growing economic and environmental uncertainty makes it essential to build social capital. Using this lens, he has enabled numerous organizations to strengthen strategy and build resilience.

Sanjay’s work has been published in academic journals and textbooks. He has also been featured and quoted by media outlets including the Financial Times, CBC, The Globe and Mail, Les Affaires, and Nature. Sanjay holds an MFA in Creative Writing, a BFA in Creative Writing, and a B.Ed. from the University of British Columbia. In 2018, he completed the Oxford Scenarios Programme, Säid School of Business, University of Oxford, the world’s leading executive education program in scenario planning. In 2002, he was trained by pioneering Royal Dutch Shell scenario planners at the Global Business Network. Sanjay received a Global Competent Boards Designation (GCB.D) from Competent Boards in 2020 and is currently a contributing leader to that organization’s ESG certification program for board directors and business professionals.
Sanjay Khanna