Donna Dupont - Designer and Futurist

Donna Dupont is an award-winning designer, futurist, and the Founder of Purple Compass. With over 25 years of experience collaborating with leaders in healthcare, public safety, defense, and security, she helps organizations develop foresight skills to navigate uncertainty and lead change in today’s complex world. A former healthcare professional, policy advisor, and emergency manager, Donna is deeply passionate about applying foresight to strengthen decision-making, mitigate future risks, enhance preparedness and build adaptive capacity. Her work empowers organizations to seize opportunities for innovation, transformation, and resilience. Donna integrates theory and practice to enhance anticipatory and adaptive capabilities, and curates intelligence to drive impactful future policy and strategy. Her unique approach combines systems thinking and strategic foresight, leveraging both quantitative and qualitative insights to identify patterns and anticipate change over time. Donna’s extensive global portfolio includes advancing insights on climate-risk, international development, environmental security, health security, law enforcement, space sector and national security. Donna has received seven government awards for excellence in policy, strategy, and partner relations. Her futures research, Anticipation in Emergency Management (2020), earned awards from the Canadian Defence and Security Network and the Association of Professional Futurists. Donna holds a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight & Innovation from OCAD University. She is a board member for the Canadian Journal of Emergency Management and the Archipelago of Design defence and security collaborative.