Next year, on one page.

Five worksheets, about an hour, your diary and a pen. Before the Year Turns is my year-end guide, A$39.

The turn of the year is a natural moment to gather your thinking. It's my end-of-year planning guide, for getting ready for 2027: where you'd like to be, what's already on its way, and the first steps you'll take. You'll come away with a clearer head and a plan that lasts well past January.

Morris Misel

From me, Morris Misel, foresight strategist.
This guide distils my thirty years of guiding leaders into what comes next, and the year-end workshop I run for teams.

Nine chapters and thirteen worksheets.
Use it for twenty minutes, or over a week or longer, on your own or with your team.

Look inside

Ninety seconds, with captions: a flip through the guide.

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The cover of Before the Year Turns

Thirty years of foresight.
Thousands of clients, 2,800+ keynotes and workshops, more than 1,000 articles, 160 industries, 25 countries, and heard by more than a million people a year, on stage and in the media.

Thinkers360 Top Voice 2026 · 14 International Awards for Foresight and Innovation

Some of the organisations I've worked with

  • NAB
  • IBM
  • Mastercard
  • ANZ
  • Allianz
  • EY
  • UBS
  • RMIT University
  • Visa
  • Bupa
  • Lufthansa
  • Deakin University

Heard and seen on

  • ABC
  • Nine
  • CBS
  • The Australian
  • Herald Sun
  • The Daily Telegraph
  • The Times of India
  • Mashable
  • 3AW

“I learnt more in 90 minutes about my future, myself, my business and what I really need to do to move forward than I have in the past five years.”

Hamish Macqueen, Director, Cleancorp (NSW)

A year-end guide that looks ahead.

You start with where you are right now, your numbers and what's on your plate, and then you build next year from there.

Then the guide turns you round to look at what might head your way in 2027, and what you'd like to do about it, one question at a time, with thirteen worksheets to guide your thinking.

  1. Start with youYou start with where you stand right now, which means your numbers, how your time is going and whatever's on your plate.
  2. Your inhabitable futureWhere you're heading: where you'd like to be by late next year, pictured as an ordinary working day you'd be glad to walk into.
  3. What's holding you backMost of us have a decision that keeps coming up and never gets a clear yes or no. This is where you work out what's been holding it up.
  4. What no longer fitsEverything you're still carrying, sorted into what you'll act on, what you'll keep an eye on, what can wait until a date you name, and what you'll stop.
  5. What's already arrivingSome of 2027 is already on the calendar, like a lease ending or a new rule starting, and some of it has started in another industry and could reach yours.
  6. What it sets offEach of those sets off ripples, and you follow them past the first, obvious one to the second and third.
  7. Who decidesFor every decision your team makes, who really decides? Some have a clear owner, some have drifted to nobody in particular, and some have quietly been handed to a machine.
  8. Who does the workYou take one task and walk it through step by step, and work out which parts are best done by a person, which by a machine and which by AI.
  9. Your immediate futuresYour immediate steps, the ones you can start this week, each with a name, a date and a way to know it worked.

And at the back, I've written up what I'm telling my clients and audiences about the year ahead, so you can see where I'd put my own attention first.

What's in the 101 pages.

Here's what you get for A$39, counted from the copy that lands in your inbox when you order.

That's what every buyer gets, as of 30 October 2026.

Get the guide, A$39 Read the free sample

Twenty minutes to a week or longer.

It's the same guide whichever way you use it, and it's built to fit the time you've actually got.

On your own

Dip in and out

Open the chapter that matches what's on your mind, maybe that decision that won't go away. Every chapter stands on its own, with one worksheet, in about twenty minutes.

On your own

An hour

With a pen, your calendar and a rough idea of this year's numbers, five worksheets get you to one page: your numbers, where you're heading, what you're stopping and your two immediate steps.

On your own

The full run

All nine chapters in about three and a half hours, over four sittings, plus some time to find your numbers.

With your team

A week, then one meeting

Everyone works through the first two chapters on their own during the week, so everyone is heard evenly. Then you meet for about three hours, or two meetings, on the chapters worth talking through, and finish on the one page together.

With your team

Over several days

A leadership team or a board can take a chapter or two each session, find the facts and figures they need in between, and finish the plan together.

What you'll get out of it.

  • You'll know where you stand before you start planning next year.
  • Your decisions sorted: what you'll act on, what you'll watch, what can wait and what you'll stop.
  • A picture of what might arrive in 2027, and what it could set off.
  • One page that holds your plan.
  • Your immediate steps, each with a name and a date.

And with it

  • A worked example on every worksheet, so you can see what goes in the boxes.
  • Step-by-step guidance on every worksheet.
  • Stuck? Email me your question, and I'll answer you personally within two working days.
  • My read on the year ahead, at the back.
A made-up example

Leah's café

There's also a completed guide for a made-up café, so you can see what to look for, what to find out, and how someone else worked it through.

  • Leah owns two cafés and has nine staff.
  • What's arriving in 2027: paid parking on her main street in March, and a big chain café opening at the station in April.
  • The ripples she followed: commuters try the chain, her casual staff lose hours, and the landlord wants more rent when the lease comes up.
  • Her inhabitable future: two shops that run well without her on the floor every day.
  • Her immediate steps: order-ahead by text for regulars at the station from 1 March, before the chain opens, and a four-day week trial for two key staff from 1 February.

Leah, her cafés and every number are made up.

See Leah's finished guide

What people say about my sessions.

Tiffany English

Owner, Access Offshoring

Straight after my session at the Civil Contractors Federation Queensland conference, September 2026.

“Your presentation was incredible; I wish I had seen you earlier. We have made such monumental changes in such a short amount of time, and it is absolutely because we saw, and now see, our business through your eyes. It is the most profitable time we have ever spent…”
Philip Dunn Q.C.Chairman, Foley's List
“…the "ripple effect" concept helped demonstrate how one change can create consequences across project costs, workforce planning, safety, procurement, equipment and operational delivery. It was a thought provoking and practical session…”
Leanne WeierManager Client Services, Civil Contractors Federation Queensland, 2026
“Just as I thought I'd lost my way and didn't know where to next for my business, I walked into your presentation and within ten minutes found my purpose and was reinvigorated and excited to achieve it.”
Milton WigdorowitzCertified Financial Planner, GMP Financial
“Morris, your session was well received by the group and opened up their minds as leaders…”
Stewart DellarChair, Vistage KEY131, 2026
“What is perhaps even more impressive than his unquestionable intelligence is his ability to cogently and meaningfully distil what the world … will look like at any given point in time beyond now.”
Anton Barnett-HarrisCEO, Australian Physiotherapy Council
“Expanding our mental models of what is possible and having us re-think our ideas, Morris is thought provoking, at times provocative, and always insightful.”
Desmond WheelerManaging Director, Maverick Life Sciences

Five ways to do it.

The same guide, from doing it yourself to having me in the room.

1 · Do it yourself

The guide

  • Nine chapters, thirteen worksheets.
  • A worked example on every worksheet.
  • Step-by-step guidance on every worksheet.
  • A fully worked example to use as your template.
  • At the back, my read on the year ahead: the ripples I'm telling clients, audiences and the media to watch for in 2027.
  • Stuck? Email me your question, answered personally within two working days.

A$39
2 to 5 copies, A$27 each

Get the guide, A$39 Paperback on Amazon, A$39

Paperback elsewhere: US · UK

2 · Made for you

Your edition

Everything in the guide, plus:

  • The guide works for everyone. Your edition goes further.
  • Answer a few questions about your industry, your business and its size, and the guide changes to fit you.
  • The questions and examples are chosen for your world, and you get the ripples I'd be watching in your industry.
  • Your name goes on the cover too.
  • It's with you within three working days.

A$199
Team licence A$399, up to 20 people

Your edition, A$199 Team licence, A$399
New

3 · With Mo

Made with you

Everything in Your edition, plus:

  • Mo, my AI double, and his digital team as your thinking partners until the end of March.
  • Tell me about your business first, and if you'd like your edition after that, you pay then.

A$299

Tell me about your business

4 · For your people

A copy for everyone

The guide, for a whole team or client list:

  • Everyone gets their own copy, so they can work through it whenever it suits them.
  • Your organisation's name and logo go inside every copy, at no charge.
  • The more copies you buy, the less each one costs, and once you're past 200 it comes down to A$9 a copy.
  • If a bigger order would cost you less, I'll charge you for the bigger order and send you the extra copies.
  • From 21 copies, your firm's name can go on the cover too.

2 to 5 copies A$27 each
6 to 20 A$24 · 21 to 50 A$16
51 to 200 A$12 · over 200 A$9

Copies for your team

5 · Me in the room

The workshop

  • I take your team through the guide.
  • A half day, a full day or over several days.
  • Online or in person.
  • Your team leaves with a one-page plan and immediate steps.
  • It can carry on into ongoing advisory work with me.

Let's talk about what suits you

How the workshop runs

Not ready yet? Start with the sample.

The free sample at the top of this page is six pages, ripples worksheet included, and you can read it right now.
And if you'd like a nudge later, leave your email and I'll write to you once more about the guide before the year's out.

You'll get one note to confirm it's you, then that one email from me.
You can unsubscribe any time.

Want a taste first? The free sample gives you:

  • the full ripples worksheet, with a worked example;
  • the five steps of an hour's way in, with a time for each;
  • a look at all nine chapters.

Read the free sample now (PDF)

Questions people ask.

How do I plan for next year in my business?

Start with where you stand: your numbers, your time and the decision that keeps coming back.

Then think about what an ordinary working day in late 2027 would look like if you were glad to walk into it.

Look at what's already on its way, like a lease ending or a new rule, and follow what each one could set off.

Finish with two or three first steps, each with a name and a date.

That's the order the guide takes you through, one worksheet at a time.

What should a plan for next year include?

Start with where you are now, then where you'd like to be by the end of next year, and then work out what's already on its way and what your first few steps are, each with a name and a date.

Keep it to one page if you can, so it stays in sight and you actually use it.

Is there a simple planning template for a small business?

Yes, and this is one. Thirteen worksheets, each with an example in every box, and Worksheet 9B puts your whole year on a single page.

Is this for planning next year, or looking back at this one?

It's for planning next year, and getting ready for 2027.

You do start with where you stand, because a plan needs something real under it, and then everything after that looks ahead.

Can I use it for a team planning day?

Yes. Everyone works through the first two chapters on their own beforehand, so everyone is heard evenly.

Then you meet for about three hours, or two shorter meetings, on the chapters worth talking through, and finish on the one page together.

The guide sets out the order. If you'd like me to run the day, that's the workshop

Can I type into it, or print it?

Both. You get a copy you can type straight into, and one on white pages to print at home.

There's a paperback on Amazon too, A$39.

Is there a free sample?

Yes, six pages: the hour's way in, the contents, and the full ripples worksheet with an example.

You can read it right now, with no email needed. Read the free sample (PDF)

Does it work outside Australia?

Yes, the thinking works anywhere, and Leah's café could be on any main street. Prices are in Australian dollars with GST included, and your card converts it.

Is there an online session I can come to?

Yes. On Thursday 19 November, from 11 to 11.45 am AEDT, I'm running a free online session on what 2026 set off and what 2027 could mean for you.

See the online sessions

Who's it for?

Anyone who makes or moves decisions in a business, whether it's your own or your part of a bigger one.

It's my annual year-end guide, a self-paced manual, and it works for one person or many.

How long does it take?

As long as you've got.

  • Dip into one chapter in about twenty minutes.
  • Five worksheets get you to a one-page plan in an hour.
  • The full run takes about three and a half hours.
  • A team can take a week, then meet to finish it together.
  • A leadership team or a board can take it over several days.

Can I do it on my own, or with my team?

Either. On your own, you go at your own pace.

With a team, everyone works through the first two chapters on their own beforehand, so everyone is heard evenly. Then you get together for the chapters worth talking through.

If you're buying for a team, two to five copies are A$27 each, and the price per copy falls at every step after that. See what it costs for your team

What's in it?

  • Nine chapters and thirteen worksheets to guide your thinking.
  • A worked example and step-by-step guidance on every worksheet.
  • It starts with where you stand now, then looks at what might arrive in 2027, what it could set off, and your immediate steps.
  • At the back, my read on the year ahead: the ripples I'm telling clients, audiences and the media to watch for in 2027, so you plan for what's likely to come, not just what's been.
  • It all comes as a PDF you can print at home.

Is there an example I can look at?

Yes. There's a fully worked guide online, filled in for a made-up café, to use as your template.

Have a look at the café example

When does it arrive?

Straight away: it's yours the moment you order, and the link comes to your email too.

If you've ordered your own edition, it's with you within three working days, because that's how long it takes to make it yours.

What does it cost?

  • The guide: A$39.
    Two to five copies are A$27 each, and the price keeps coming down the more you buy, until it's A$9 a copy once you're past 200.
  • Your edition, the guide reshaped for you, your industry, your business and its size: A$199.
    A$399 for a team licence, up to 20 people.
  • Made with you, with Mo and his digital team until the end of March: A$299.
  • The workshop: let's talk about what suits you.
  • If it doesn't suit you: tell me why within 14 days and I'll refund it. Once you've signed off a proof of your firm's edition, it's been made just for your firm, so I can't refund it after that.

What's Your edition?

It's the guide made for you.

  • You answer a few questions about your industry, your business and its size.
  • You get your own edition, worked through for you.
  • Your name is on the cover.
  • It's with you within three working days.
  • Each edition is for one person. The team licence covers up to 20 people in one business.

Get your edition, A$199

I also run this as a workshop for teams, as a keynote, and as ongoing advisory through the year.

If you'd rather I was in the room to plan your team's year ahead, for a half day, a full day or over several days:

How the year-ahead workshop runs

Rather start with an hour online? I run free online sessions to talk the year through, and the next one is on Thursday 19 November.

See the online sessions

A year-end guide that asks what you've noticed and what might be on its way to you, and the decisions stay yours.

Choose Forward.

Signature: Morris Morris Misel

Morris Misel

Foresight Strategist · Business Futurist · Keynote Speaker

morris@morrisfuturist.com · morrismisel.com