Insights Newsletter: May ‘26
And just like that, it’s almost winter.
It’s been a heads-down, get-to-work kind of month at RobinsonHewitt Consulting, where we’ve been refining the rhythm and flow of our public-facing work, particularly our podcast and Instagram.
Behind the scenes, we’ve also been laying foundations for the future from a broader social impact perspective across a range of topics. We strongly believe that if we build technology today without understanding where the future is heading, then we’re still building for the past.
Because of that, we’ve made a conscious effort to stay broad in the conversations we’re exploring before diving deeper into some of the more futuristic, idealistic, and exciting ideas we see coming to life over the next few years.
Catch up on our latest episodes from this month:
The Future of Work: Why AI taking your job may not necessarily be a bad thing.
The Founder’s Journey: A quick overview of our research into founders and the patterns they all seem to follow.
The Future of Smart Cities: Why technology itself may not be the biggest challenge, but ensuring our cities continue to feel like home.
The Future of Education in the Age of AI: What we should be focusing on to ensure education systems create lifelong learners, not simply people prepared for the workforce.
We’re currently publishing new episodes every Tuesday, so make sure to follow along on YouTube or your preferred podcast platform to stay up to date.
And for the future-facing leaders, founders, and curious minds following our work, make sure to follow us on Instagram, where we share daily insights and ideas designed to keep you inspired as you build the future.
Introducing The Water Project
This month, we also officially launched our first in-house venture, The Water Project, our initiative focused on helping enable a more equitable future of water for all.
It’s been our founder’s bread-and-butter concept for many years, and we finally felt it was time to bring it under the RHC umbrella and begin properly building it out into the world.
At its core, The Water Project is about rethinking how we manage and care for one of the world’s most essential resources. Globally, water systems are facing increasing pressure from climate change, ageing infrastructure, resource strain, and growing inequities around access and governance. In many regions, enormous amounts of water are lost before they even reach communities.
We believe the future of infrastructure needs to be smarter, more transparent, more community-driven, and more regenerative by design.
The project combines advanced metering and software solutions with future-facing strategic thinking grounded in ecological, cultural, and bioregional principles. It’s not simply about technology for technology’s sake, but about creating systems that better support people, communities, and the environments they exist within.
We’re currently scouting for a technical lead, so if you have experience across electrical and software engineering, particularly someone interested in blending traditional infrastructure with where the future is heading, we’d love to chat.
We’re bringing this venture under the RHC umbrella because it reflects so much of what sits at the heart of our work: blending emerging technology with a broader social understanding of the world, while also supporting our long-term pay-it-forward goal of bringing innovation beyond the boardroom.
Long term, our hope is for this to become a global initiative that can eventually support developing nations and communities where water scarcity and infrastructure challenges are most prevalent.
Read more about The Water Project and our Pay-it-Forward goal.
Make sure to stay warm this winter and keep your eyes forward.
The darkest eras are often the ones where we find that little bit of light we’ve been searching for. Find it this winter, and it will all be sunshine again soon.
Best,
Alison Mackie
Founder, RHC