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What we do:
We help organizations – companies, business units, communities, agencies, associations – embrace the future. We provide tools for effective strategic planning, inspiration for developing vision, and practical steps to put the preferred future within your reach.
Who we do it for:
- Clients usually call when they want to take a longer-term look at the future than they normally do. A typical strategic planning horizon is 1-3 years. When the organization wants to look further ahead – five years, a decade, sometimes much longer, they call Futurist.com.
- Conference and convention keynote speaking clients usually want something best labeled infotainment – provocative information about the future and a challenge to create the future, presented in an entertaining way.
- Clients have come from around the world, mostly North America, and in addition to companies, government agencies, and communities include associations, conventions, and non-profits.
- Clients come from a full-spectrum of domains that include transportation, technology, energy, telecommunication, retail, manufacturing, health care, entertainment, housing, construction, real estate, banking and finance, investment, retirement, education, travel, tourism, and other industries.
Problems Faced by Futurist.com Clients
…“We are afraid that the pace of change is pushing us further behind.”
…“We think short term, we never look up from the day-to-day problems.”
…“We lack the tools to understand what’s coming.”
…“We’d like to find the time and resources for a 10,000-30,000 ft. view.”
…“We need a new vision, some inspiration, some innovation.”
…“We don’t want pie-in-the-sky, we want a practical but challenging look at our future.”
…“We want to stay in business for the long term.”
…“We’ve recently combined with, merged with another company, and we need to get our vision and plans aligned.”
…”We want an exciting and inspiring keynote for our annual meeting.”
…”We want to know where the economy is going, what the population will look like, what technologies are coming, what is happening with energy, how serious environmental issues are, what millennials want, how we’re going to travel-communicate-shop-recreate-live, how to change, how to actually shape the future.”
How we do it:
- For keynote speeches, we deliver industry-targeted programs, woven around a core message about the most important megatrends and how to shape the future, by internationally recognized futurist, Glen Hiemstra. For occasional topics, audiences or issues of availability, associates of Futurist.com deliver programs.
- For consulting we deliver customized think tanks, scenario planning exercises, strategic planning processes, environmental scans, and preferred future planning consultation. These usually occur in off-site retreat settings, or sometimes involve a series of meetings and consultations.
- For complex consultations involving on-going support for managing change and plan implementation, as well as for certain culture assessments, we join with strategic partners.
- For informing, we offer one of the web’s richest resources for information about the future—especially on our most pressing issues: energy, housing, transportation, and more. We provide a venue for people from around the world to explore what the future means to them: from space travel to emerging technologies to the environment.
- “Thank you for speaking at our customer advisory meeting. Our customers thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. There wasn’t a person in the room who couldn’t identify with one of your scenarios. I hope you will come back and speak to our group in the future.” (S. Marcus, Lexis Nexis, after annual customer advisory conference, Stone Mountain, Georgia)
- “This is not one of those presentations you just file and forget. This is going to change how we think and what we do, for a long time.” (ING VP after Glen spoke in Scottsdale)
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