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Five offerings.
One philosophy.

Short engagements, lasting impact. No multi-month retainers. No dependency on an external advisor. Every engagement is designed to leave your team more capable than it arrived.

Board Engagement · Flagship

Futures Ready Board Retreat

Build strategic foresight into governance — not as a one-off exercise, but as a permanent board capability.

Boards make long-horizon decisions without long-horizon thinking tools. This 1.5-day retreat immerses directors in structured futures methodology — horizon scanning, scenario construction, and strategic signposting — applied directly to the company's most critical uncertainties. Facilitated, not lectured. The output is a board-level foresight map and a prioritized set of strategic responses to alternative futures.

  • A shared futures vocabulary and mental model across the board
  • 3–4 plausible scenarios for the company's environment (5–10 year horizon)
  • A 'Strategic Signpost Tracker' — early warning indicators to monitor
  • Prioritized strategic options across scenarios
  • A commitment to a futures-oriented governance cadence
Operations & Procurement

Supply Chain Futures Workshop

Map your supply chain risk through a strategic foresight lens.

Supply chains are where most global risk materializes first — geopolitical shifts, climate events, regulatory changes, and raw material transitions all hit operations before they hit the P&L. This workshop applies futures thinking specifically to supply chain strategy: mapping vulnerabilities, identifying scenarios of disruption, and designing resilient sourcing and operational architectures. Grounded in 30+ years of experience across global multinationals on four continents.

  • A supply chain vulnerability map across short, medium, and long horizons
  • Scenario narratives for 3 critical disruption pathways
  • A resilience scoring of the current supply architecture
  • Strategic options for diversification, near-shoring, and circular model transitions
  • A monitoring framework for early warning signals


C-Suite Workshop

Foresight Strategy Sprint for Leadership Teams

Replace backward-looking annual planning with a strategy built for uncertainty.

Most annual strategy cycles are backward-looking reviews dressed as forward-looking plans. The Foresight Sprint replaces this with a structured 2-day process: surfacing strategic assumptions, scanning for disruptors across supply chain, regulation, sustainability, and markets, constructing scenarios, and generating concrete strategic options. Fast, grounded, and immediately actionable.

  • An inventory of current strategic assumptions — tested against alternative futures
  • A disruption radar covering supply chain, regulation, markets, and technology
  • 2–3 scenarios for the company's strategic horizon
  • A 'Strategic Options Map' — decisions that hold across multiple futures
  • A 90-day priority action agenda
Strategy & Business Model

Sustainability-Led Business Model Reinvention

From compliance mindset to competitive advantage.


Sustainability is no longer a compliance issue — it is the central business model design challenge of the decade. CSRD, EU Taxonomy, CBAM, and shifting consumer expectations are forcing business model reinvention across every sector. This two-session workshop guides leadership teams from defensive compliance posture to strategic opportunity: using futures thinking to identify which sustainability-driven shifts will reshape their market, and co-designing business model innovations that create advantage from the transition.


  • A regulatory horizon map with business model implications
  • 3–5 sustainability-driven market opportunities specific to the company
  • A business model canvas — current vs. future-ready
  • A transition roadmap with strategic milestones
  • A stakeholder narrative aligned with the future direction

Capability Building · Multi-Module

Foresight Capability Building Program

Build in-house futures thinking capability that outlasts any single engagement.

One-off workshops create insight. Capability programs create lasting change. This four-module program embeds futures thinking as an organizational capability — giving leadership teams the tools, language, and practice to scan, sense, and respond to change on an ongoing basis. Developed from teaching at EPFL, Solvay Business School, and EHL Business School, and adapted specifically for SME leadership contexts.

Module 1
Introduction to Strategic Foresight
Frameworks, mindsets, vocabulary

Module 3
Scenario Construction
Stress-testing strategy against futures

Module 2
Horizon Scanning
Practical tools for signal detection


Module 4
Futures to Decisions
Building the strategic options portfolio

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Strategic foresight for boards and leadership teams of European SMEs.
Short engagements. Lasting impact.

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