Introducing STEER | Your entry point to systemic risk thinking and action
In today’s world, risks don’t exist in isolation. We live in a time of polycrisis, where risks cascade and compound across systems. STEER (Systemic Tool for Exploring and Evaluating Risks) is a first-of-its-kind tool designed to help individuals and organizations understand these complexities and respond effectively. Built to support action, not just analysis, STEER enables systemic thinking in a world where everything is connected.
What is STEER?
Shaped by ASRA’s global network of over +90 experts with the underpinning methodologies trialled and tested through real-world pilots, STEER reflects ASRA’s commitment to principles-based decision-making, collaboration, and participatory approaches. With no AI-shortcuts, it offers a collaborative alternative to automated or siloed approaches, supporting systemic thinking for our interconnected era.
Through a guided, evidence-based process, STEER offers two powerful entry points:
- Systemic Risk Assessment (SRA): Map how risks arise, interact, and spread across systems
- Systemic Risk Response (SRR): Assess, strengthen and develop responses, using 14 practical criteria.
Together, these pathways offer a structured, evidence-based way to build more resilient strategies in the face of cascading and compounding risks.
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STEER is available as a demonstration version today. Announced at the “Currents of Change: New Horizons in Systemic Risk” symposium, the tool is being tested and refined with a small group of early adopters ahead of its full public launch in October 2025. This phased approach allows ASRA to collaborate directly with users to shape STEER’s development and ensure it delivers both depth and usability at launch.
One early application of the tool will be in partnership with McKnight Foundation. ASRA’s approaches will be applied to help users generate preliminary assessments of agroecological food systems across multiple regions, helping them design interventions that address root causes of risk, rather than symptoms. Food systems—deeply entangled with climate change, human rights, biodiversity loss, political instability, and financial insecurity—provide an ideal first testbed for STEER's capabilities.