Discover the Future with our Community!
Remember the year 2020?
How did your organization adapt when COVID-19 hit?
What if... and what next?
These are great questions to ask! But don’t let them keep you up at night.
If we learn to navigate uncertainty and change – we can be ready for anything.
That’s why we host the Strategic Foresight & Futures Community.
It’s like they say: Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
If you don’t anticipate and prepare for change – unexpected events will hit harder. Research by Professor Jan Rotmans shows that 70-80% of organizations are reactive: they respond when crises happen, but don’t anticipate possible futures. They are doing the same as yesterday. That is risky!
If you do anticipate and prepare for change, the research (Aarhus BSS Strategic Foresight Research Network) shows that future-prepared organizations are 33% more profitable than the average. Not only do they do better in the possible futures, but also in the present. They are alert and adapt if necessary.
That matters a lot, if we want to transition through the expected systemic change. Our organizations, families, and communities need to anticipate possible future scenarios to become agile, resilient, and successful.
Nice to meet you! We are Marcella Bremer and Marcel Lamers, and we’ve been helping people and organizations change for almost 30 years, onsite and online globally.
We help people and organizations anticipate possible futures and help them change to become resilient and successful.
Do you want to anticipate the possible futures?
What is the Strategic Foresight & Futures community?
We know that you’re busy. That’s why we summarized the needed theories and tools in over 30 short videos and downloads. This is a practical, interactive learning journey around 8 topics:
- Understanding the present
- Futures thinking
- Scanning and understanding
- Systems and change
- Creating scenarios
- From scenarios to strategy
- Resilience and preparation
- Consulting and facilitation
A little can go a long way… Just watch a video every two weeks, or every two days – it’s up to you. We offer you access for a year so that you have time to apply what you learn.
Live group video calls
We host interactive video meetings where we share experiences, ask and answer questions, learn, and work together. We focus on applying theories and tools to real situations: that is often the hardest part.
Imagine how you can be prepared for all kinds of scenarios!
You will have less stress. Mental and practical preparation helps to navigate unexpected change and will make your (client’s) organization more successful: both in the future and today.
SME & Consultants
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) can be more flexible than large corporations, but they often lack a Strategic Foresight team. Our Strategic Foresight & Futures Community can help – we are your external Strategic Foresight department.
Independent consultants don’t have to work alone anymore, but find a sounding board in our community.
All other professionals are also welcome!
Knowledge & Support
More people know more. No futurist can predict the future, but with many different perspectives, we can discern more possibilities. More people support each other with practical examples, moving from insights to taking action and motivating each other to keep going.
This community is for you:
- If you are new to Strategic Foresight and Futures thinking.
- If you could use more colleagues on Foresight.
- If you want to have reliable updates and support.
- If you want to prepare for possible futures and/or help your clients do so.
- If you want to develop resilience, both organizational and personal.
- If you want to develop consulting and facilitation skills - skills that we need for all interactions with others.
Join the Foresight & Futures community to:
- Learn the theories and tools with 30 to-the-point videos.
- Stay up-to-date with our downloads, newsletter, and tips.
- Collaborate with us in the video meetings (at least 20 per year).
- Work on your Futures project: frame your issue, scan and understand signals/trends/change drivers/uncertainties, craft scenarios, adapt strategy & take action.
- Improve your project with the intelligence and support in the community chat.
- Finish with an updated strategy and future-prepared organization.
- Reiterate the process to stay future-prepared.
We work with these theories and tools:
Polak Game – Frederik Polak, Four industrial revolutions model, The world values survey – Ronald F. Inglehart, UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Stockholm Resilience Centre – planetary boundaries, International Futures Forum’s World Model, Political Stress Index, Future shocks – Langdon Morris, Cognitive biases, Growth mindset – Carol Dwight , Social safety – Amy Edmondson, Futures Cone – Josep Voros, Innovation acceptance – Amy Webb , Pace Layering Model – Stewart Brandt, Three Horizons model – Anthony Hodgson, Andrew Curry, Graham Leicester, Bill Sharpe, Andrew Lyon, Ioan Fazey, Future self research – Hal Herschfield , Time perspective inventory – Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd, Horizon and Environmental scanning, Megatrends, drivers, weak signals, PESTEL framework, Futures Wheel – Jerome Glenn, Futures Triangle – Sohail Inayatullah, 2×2 scenario matrix, Complex adaptive systems theory, The adaptive cycle – C.S. Holling , S-curve and X-curve, Transition theory- Jan Rotmans , Berkana Two Loops model – Margaret Wheatley, Deborah Frieze , Overton Window, Circles of Control-Influence-Concern, Change as a social movement theory – Erica Chenoweth, Jim Dator’s archetypical scenarios, Backcasting, Windtunneling your strategy, Business model canvas, Cycles of civilizations – Peter Turchin & Sergey Nefedov, Joseph Tainter, Jared Diamond, Systems – David Graeber & Hyman Minsky, Donella Meadows, Jan Rotmans, Mitigation and adaptation, Rohrbeck’s Foresight maturity research, Aarhus University, Theory U – Otto Scharmer, The sailboat exercise – Phil Balagtas
Investment
We offer a special price for our first members to get our community going! We appreciate you!
Some of our founding members: Chad Roberts (university teacher, USA), Pamela Balou-Nelson (consultant, USA), Kanna Krishnan (HR consultant, Malaysia), Lisa Tabor (consultant, USA), Kathleen Riggs (consultant, USA) and Kirsty Smith (account manager, Netherlands).
You can join us for a year for just 300 Euros (approximately 350 USD, VAT may apply) with this discount code – valid until October 2nd:
FOUNDER-FFC2
The regular price is 900 Euros (1048 USD, VAT may apply) so this code will deduct 600 euros!
In a later stage, the price will go up as our collective intelligence increases when the community grows. Membership entails annual access to our videos, downloads, links to curated resources, updates, and the group video meetings to work with us.
The price will be converted to USD for everyone outside the European Union.
Bonus for our first members: access to the Positive Culture Academy, filled with videos and exercises to develop a positive organization!
What matters is how working on Strategic Foresight will benefit you and your organization. The added value of being prepared is priceless.
What makes this community unique
This community is hands-on and practical. You can work on your (client) organization’s Foresight project (no made-up exercises or just theory) and you can finish with an updated strategy and future-prepared organization!
We include learning on how to improve your consulting and facilitation – crucial skills for engaging your (client’s) organization when doing Strategic Foresight.
Results of working with this Futures community:
- Your (client’s) organization can be prepared for different scenarios.
- You have adjusted and future-proofed your strategy.
- Maybe your organization has developed an innovative service based on future opportunities.
- And you have protected your assets against climate change and other contingencies.
This will also be valuable for your personal life. You’ll see more options for what is possible and how to prepare for anything. Help your family and community anticipate and change as well.
But if you just keep busy with the present, where will you be one year from now, having done nothing to prepare for possible futures?
Remember, even a little can go a long way. Start today. The learning videos and materials are self-paced, and you can attend the video meetings when you have time.
We are looking forward to working with you on our possible futures!
Marcel & Marcella
7-day-money-back-guarantee
If you’re not sure yet, no pressure. We offer a 7-day money-back guarantee. You can join us and see how this works for you and your organization or client organizations. Rules apply (General Terms, section 4.5).
Boost your organization’s change skills, future-preparedness, resilience, and success with the Strategic Foresight & Futures community.
This community helps consultants, and small to medium organizations without a Foresight team.
No one and no organization can do it alone, but together we can navigate the transitions ahead. Let’s get ready!