Most of us are bad at anticipating the future.
You don’t have to be.
We bring 40+ years of experience in strategic foresight, business, strategy, research and innovation to help you navigate uncertainty with clarity and confidence.
Anticipate change and build resilient strategies through future-oriented tools, methods and practices.
Tailored guidance to CEOs and leadership teams to support confident decision-making and long-term strategic positioning.
Curate and deliver high-impact events that align teams, engage communities, and turn ideas into action.
Research by utilizing futures methods, processes and tools that connect with global experts.
Custom presentations as well as on stage moderation, discussions, panels and much more.
Facilitated community, business and stakeholder engagements, events and gatherings
Placemaking and regenerative futures focus on creating environments where people, communities, and ecosystems thrive together. Placemaking shapes spaces of connection and meaning, reflecting the cultures and ecologies they serve. Regenerative futures is about how we restore and renew systems that sustain life. Together, they reimagine how we live and create community through interconnection, resilience, and renewal.
Strategic foresight is a discipline that helps organizations and leaders make better decisions in the present by exploring what the future could hold. The goal is not to predict the future, but to prepare for it; to give companies, governments, cities and communities the clarity and confidence to act proactively rather than reactively in the face of uncertainty.
How do we do it?
We bring foresight to life through a blend of consulting and convening. We connect global trends to the specific challenges our clients face, and we design workshops that stretch perspectives, build shared vision, and translate scenarios into actionable strategies. Our thought leadership makes complex futures tangible, while our follow-through ensures insights move beyond theory into projects, partnerships, and policies that deliver real impact.
What sets us apart is our focus on positive and regenerative futures. Foresight, for us, is both about identifying risks and inspiring bold possibilities. By weaving imagination with action, we help clients design strategies that are resilient, regenerative, inclusive, and future-fit.
Your Future
Work with leaders to create compelling visions for their teams
Develop scenarios to aid direction setting and decision making
Positive narratives to radically transform future trajectories
Create engaging and dynamic pathways to achieve your goals
Align with teams, partners or clients for impact
Thematic topic areas.
What does a regenerative future look like? How can your organization get there? What steps are needed?
What does the future of work, industry, education and business look like?
What can ancient cultures teach us about how to live to leave a thriving world for the next generations?
How do the spaces and place(s) you live in shape your daily patterns, life and engagements?
How will demographic and cultural changes play out where you are?
How will the world look when we are living in a 2.9 degree world? How will we adapt at scale?
Work presented here has been delivered by [Y]our 2040 and/or its founders.
Thought Leadership
Card set which brings together 250+ emerging global trends to show the forces shaping our world and prepare for what’s ahead.
Outlines 20 regenerative actions that cities can take today to stay within ecological boundaries and restore natural systems.
This piece explores four divergent futures to spark bold thinking and guide leaders in shaping resilient, sustainable pathways forward.
Client Work
Identifies 10 key trends shaping transport across Asia-Pacific up to 2050 and proposes multiple future visions along with principles and strategies to guide long-term policy, investment and planning.
Explored industrialized construction technologies and systems to address challenges of scale, speed, cost, and flexibility, generating insights and recommendations to improve future construction processes and products.
Reimagining streets as adaptable, tech-enabled spaces helps cities improve efficiency, meet diverse community needs, and advance the smart city transition despite challenges.
International gathering of experts in sustainable construction to exchange ideas, showcase innovation and explore solutions for resilient and environmentally responsible building practices.
Chris hosts a lecture series bringing world-leading thinkers to explore big ideas shaping our global future sparking insight, debate, and innovation.
