Matthew Higgins is a researcher in positive organizational psychology whose work examines resilience as a dynamic, meaning-making process across individuals, teams, and organizations. His research integrates communication theory, futures thinking, and prospection to understand how people and institutions imagine, anticipate, and prepare for change under conditions of disruption and uncertainty. Drawing on mixed methods—including longitudinal designs, ethnography, autoethnography, and applied evaluation—his scholarship explores team resilience, meaningful work, leadership communication, and organizational adaptation in contexts such as higher education, sport, and complex organizations. In parallel, he studies prospective cognition and futures-oriented sensemaking, investigating how imagined futures shape present action, collective resilience, and institutional capacity to endure and evolve. His work is interdisciplinary, practice-engaged, and oriented toward producing theoretically grounded insights that inform real-world interventions, leadership development, and organizational decision-making
