Strategic Advisory
Heminge & Condell provides corporate strategic counsel and venture design services to corporations, not-for-profit institutions, and governments worldwide. H&C serves a broad and varied range of organizations on specific assignments, and is involved in on-going ways through its Chairman, Lawrence Wilkinson, with a group of companies that he has helped create. H&C’s principals have expertise earned through over 50 years of combined experience in strategic and entrepreneurial work in the worldwide. H&C also draws on a network of distinguished thinkers, managers, entrepreneurs, and designers. H&C was named for the Seventeenth Century publishers of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Lawrence Wilkinson is Chairman of Heminge & Condell (H&C), and Co-Founder of Global Business Network (GBN), and a pioneer in the development and application of scenario planning. Through H&C, Lawrence is involved in venture formation work, and as a director and counselor to a number of companies that he helped create, among them: GBN, Oxygen Media, Wired, Ealing Studios, Design Within Reach, and Character. At the same time, Lawrence continues to offer strategic counsel to a number of corporate clients and governments around the world. Named a “Jedi Knight of Innovation” by Fast Company, Lawrence is a widely consulted and cited authority on strategic issues, he is a frequent speaker in public, industry, and corporate settings, and is active in a variety of not-for-profit organizations. His clients have included the Walt Disney Co. NBC-Universal, Pixar, Sony Pictures Entertainment, CPB, NPR, PBS, BBC, Internet Archive, Mother Jones/CIR, Wikimedia, EFF, Mozilla, UPS, Wiley, The Capital Group, Ford Motor Company, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Accenture, McKinsey, Proctor & Gamble, ATT, The Coca-Cola Co., Pearson, Harvard University, Oxford University, The American Geophysical Union, Carnegie Science, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, The World Trade Organization, and the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Mongolia, and Singapore. Lawrence co-founded (in 1987), and served as President (through 1998) of Global Business Network (GBN), an Emeryville, California-based strategic consulting firm (now part of Deloitte), where he remains “of counsel” as a Network member and strategist. GBN has been central to the development and spread of the Scenario Planning technique, an approach to addressing very large decisions and long time horizons that has become a critical component of organizational and project planning worldwide. Lawrence serves as Director and Advisor to Ealing Studios, Ltd. Ealing, which celebrated its Centennial in 2002, is the oldest continuously-operating film studio in the world. Lawrence served as Vice-Chairman of Oxygen Media, Inc., a cable television programming service that he co-founded in June of 1998 with partners including Geraldine Laybourne, Oprah Winfrey, Carsey-Werner, and Disney, providing a cable television service reaching over 80 million households in the U.S. and award-winning web services www.oxygen.com and www.oprah.com. He co-conceived the company, and led Oxygen's planning and formation. Lawrence also helped form, then served as Director and Chief Architect of Wired Ventures, the partnership that built and managed Wired Magazine, Wired Digital/HotWired, and other ventures. And he helped form and served as a director, of Design Within Reach, Colossal Pictures, Broderbund Software, and a number of other companies. Lawrence co-founded and serves as Vice-Chair of Common Sense Media; he is a director of The Institute for the Future, PRX, B612 Foundation, and an advisor to the boards of Landesa and the Long Now Foundation. He has served as both a Trustee and president of the Board of Visitors of Davidson College. Lawrence has authored and edited numerous publications and Harvard Business School case studies ranging from Public Broadcasting in the U.S. (Harvard Business School Press) to The Cambridge Milton (Cambridge University Press). He is the author of "How To Build Scenarios" (Wired, 1995) and of The Future of Shopping (forthcoming). He has produced and executive-produced numerous television programs, multimedia titles, and feature films, including the award-winning Crumb (Sony Pictures Classics). He also has contributed regularly to general and business periodicals and national television, cable, and radio business news programs, including Wired, Backstage, Business Times, Nightly Business Report, and The Wall Street Journal Report. His articles and essays have been anthologized in a number of collections, most recently in Strategy Bites Back (edited by Henry Mintzberg, et al., Pearson/Prentice-Hall). Lawrence is a frequently featured speaker at business and industry meetings, and has served as a McKinsey Prize judge. Lawrence graduated with honors from Harvard Business School, Oxford University, and Davidson College.
For more information: lawrence [at] hemingeandcondell.com
Heminge & Condell provides corporate strategic counsel and venture design services to corporations, not-for-profit institutions, and governments worldwide. H&C serves a broad and varied range of organizations on specific assignments, and is involved in on-going ways through its Chairman, Lawrence Wilkinson, with a group of companies that he has helped create. H&C’s principals have expertise earned through over 50 years of combined experience in strategic and entrepreneurial work in the worldwide. H&C also draws on a network of distinguished thinkers, managers, entrepreneurs, and designers. H&C was named for the Seventeenth Century publishers of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Lawrence Wilkinson is Chairman of Heminge & Condell (H&C), and Co-Founder of Global Business Network (GBN), and a pioneer in the development and application of scenario planning. Through H&C, Lawrence is involved in venture formation work, and as a director and counselor to a number of companies that he helped create, among them: GBN, Oxygen Media, Wired, Ealing Studios, Design Within Reach, and Character. At the same time, Lawrence continues to offer strategic counsel to a number of corporate clients and governments around the world. Named a “Jedi Knight of Innovation” by Fast Company, Lawrence is a widely consulted and cited authority on strategic issues, he is a frequent speaker in public, industry, and corporate settings, and is active in a variety of not-for-profit organizations. His clients have included the Walt Disney Co. NBC-Universal, Pixar, Sony Pictures Entertainment, CPB, NPR, PBS, BBC, Internet Archive, Mother Jones/CIR, Wikimedia, EFF, Mozilla, UPS, Wiley, The Capital Group, Ford Motor Company, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Accenture, McKinsey, Proctor & Gamble, ATT, The Coca-Cola Co., Pearson, Harvard University, Oxford University, The American Geophysical Union, Carnegie Science, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, The World Trade Organization, and the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Mongolia, and Singapore. Lawrence co-founded (in 1987), and served as President (through 1998) of Global Business Network (GBN), an Emeryville, California-based strategic consulting firm (now part of Deloitte), where he remains “of counsel” as a Network member and strategist. GBN has been central to the development and spread of the Scenario Planning technique, an approach to addressing very large decisions and long time horizons that has become a critical component of organizational and project planning worldwide. Lawrence serves as Director and Advisor to Ealing Studios, Ltd. Ealing, which celebrated its Centennial in 2002, is the oldest continuously-operating film studio in the world. Lawrence served as Vice-Chairman of Oxygen Media, Inc., a cable television programming service that he co-founded in June of 1998 with partners including Geraldine Laybourne, Oprah Winfrey, Carsey-Werner, and Disney, providing a cable television service reaching over 80 million households in the U.S. and award-winning web services www.oxygen.com and www.oprah.com. He co-conceived the company, and led Oxygen's planning and formation. Lawrence also helped form, then served as Director and Chief Architect of Wired Ventures, the partnership that built and managed Wired Magazine, Wired Digital/HotWired, and other ventures. And he helped form and served as a director, of Design Within Reach, Colossal Pictures, Broderbund Software, and a number of other companies. Lawrence co-founded and serves as Vice-Chair of Common Sense Media; he is a director of The Institute for the Future, PRX, B612 Foundation, and an advisor to the boards of Landesa and the Long Now Foundation. He has served as both a Trustee and president of the Board of Visitors of Davidson College. Lawrence has authored and edited numerous publications and Harvard Business School case studies ranging from Public Broadcasting in the U.S. (Harvard Business School Press) to The Cambridge Milton (Cambridge University Press). He is the author of "How To Build Scenarios" (Wired, 1995) and of The Future of Shopping (forthcoming). He has produced and executive-produced numerous television programs, multimedia titles, and feature films, including the award-winning Crumb (Sony Pictures Classics). He also has contributed regularly to general and business periodicals and national television, cable, and radio business news programs, including Wired, Backstage, Business Times, Nightly Business Report, and The Wall Street Journal Report. His articles and essays have been anthologized in a number of collections, most recently in Strategy Bites Back (edited by Henry Mintzberg, et al., Pearson/Prentice-Hall). Lawrence is a frequently featured speaker at business and industry meetings, and has served as a McKinsey Prize judge. Lawrence graduated with honors from Harvard Business School, Oxford University, and Davidson College.
For more information: lawrence [at] hemingeandcondell.com