Empowering potential
Think into the FUTURE
A strategic foresight tool to reconcile short and long-term decision-making.
The methodology blends role-play, strategic thinking, and collective intelligence to stress-test decisions and foster innovation. Invite silenced stakeholders to co-create future-fit solutions for your organisation.
Be ahead of the pack
Boards and leadership teams are built to represent the stakeholders in the room: shareholders, employees, customers, and the upcoming year's plan.The stakeholders who aren't in the room — future clients and employees, next generations, or nature that inherits what you build today — get outvoted by default, every time, in every meeting.Not because leaders don't care. Because no one in the room speaks for them.
Most strategic decisions are optimised for the next quarter.Few are built to survive the next decade.
Co-create with all stakeholders in mind
Every decision has stakeholders who aren't there to speak for themselves — future generations, the environment, competitors, employees not yet hired.Think into the Future Workshop and Canvas give them a seat at the table, so your team decides with the full picture in mind.
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UNDERSTAND & INTEGRATE RISKS
The perspectives missing from the room are exactly the ones most likely to expose a blind spot. Name them early, and risks surface in the workshop — not in the market.
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FOSTER INNOVATION
Arguing a decision from a perspective you don't usually hold — a future customer, a partner, the planet — is one of the fastest ways to find options your team wouldn't otherwise consider.
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UNLEASH COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Role-play lowers the stakes of disagreement: people voice things in character they'd hesitate to say as themselves, so the room's full judgment gets used — not just its loudest voices.
The workshop
A role-play board meeting for your leadership team: 5–15 people, in person or online.Participants debate one real decision on the table from several future perspectives — including shareholders, future employees, next generations, and nature. You leave with a roadmap the whole room endorsed.Facilitated by our team of facilitators, the methodology is based on business practice and research about non-human persona (NHP).
3 hours • 5 to 30 participants • In-person or online
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DEFINE THE INQUIRY
We frame the real question on the table with you beforehand — specific enough to debate, big enough to matter — and who it affects, now and in fifty years.
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ROLE-PLAY THE FUTURE
Several seats and perspectives. Your team debates the decision in character, surfacing what a single-perspective meeting never would.
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CO-CREATE THE ROADMAP
We close by converting the debate into tangible commitments the whole room signs off on — the action plan you actually implement afterwards.
The canvas
A foresight tool and methodology driven by 9 principles and key questions to reflect on the decisions that matter most.It's built to help you be ahead of your time: making pioneering choices to flourish, become a good ancestor, and support your organisation.
Self-paced • Solo or Team • Leadership tool
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PURPOSE
What is your unique contribution to the future?
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HUMILITY
How do you consider the difference you can make for future generations to thrive?
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CONNECTION
How do you ensure that every decision you make honour and enhance life on Earth?
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OPPORTUNITIES
What opportunities are you creating to respond to risks you could likely experience in the 5, 10 and 30 years to come?
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IMAGINATION
How do you hold space where you and others can collaborate to dream about a thriving future?
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POWER
How do you welcome the potential of empowering others and building strong partnerships?
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OUTCOMES
What does success look like for you, nature, and future generations?
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EMOTIONS
How do you welcome emotions and foster empathy when making decisions?
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PRIVILEGES
How do you take responsibility to put your privileges in service to others?
The keynote:
guardians of the future
Led by Niels de Fraguier, creator of Think into the Future and expert in the field of foresight, the keynote unpacks the main pitfalls of short-term thinking, proposes a new intergenerational approach, and reveals how foresight can contribute to greater decision-making.The talk blends an inspirational vision of leadership with actionable practices to embed long-term thinking as an antidote to transform current crises into opportunities for shared prosperity.
30-45 minutes • 15-500 participants • Inspirational & Actionable
Shall we talk and partner?
What if the future generations could speak? What if non-humans could speak? What would they call on us to do?There has never been a better time to join forces. Facing old wicked problems, creativity and collaboration are our best allies to birth future-fit organisations.Reach out to our founder, Niels de Fraguier, to collaborate and lead into the future.