One-day executive foresight workshops for leadership teams seeking clarity on future risks, opportunities, and strategic choices.
Strategic advisory engagements helping clients navigate uncertainty, create shared vision, and identify the decisions required to shape what comes next.
Scenario development and action-oriented roadmaps that help clients explore possible futures, define preferred directions, and translate foresight into priorities, initiatives, and next steps.
Focused briefings and reports on emerging trends, risks, opportunities, signals of change, and strategic implications for leadership, investment, development, or transformation.
Curated futures events that bring stakeholders together to explore long-term change, imagine preferred futures, and generate actionable insight.
Tailored foresight and strategic advisory engagements designed around a client’s specific context, challenge, ambition, or opportunity.
How we work:
Strategic foresight helps leaders make better decisions today by exploring how the future could unfold. It is not about predicting what will happen. It is about understanding change, preparing for uncertainty, identifying opportunity, and creating the confidence to act before the future arrives.
How we do it:
We bring futures to life through a blend of advisory, research, facilitation, scenarios, and roadmapping. We connect global trends to the specific decisions our clients face, helping them move from insight to direction and from direction to action.
What sets us apart:
Our work is possibility-led and action-oriented. We do not stop at identifying risks or imagining scenarios. We help clients define preferred futures, build shared vision, and translate long-term thinking into practical strategies.
Create compelling future directions that leaders and stakeholders can align around.
Explore possible futures to support better decision-making under uncertainty.
Turn future direction into clear stories people can understand, believe in, and act upon.
Translate foresight into priorities, initiatives, timelines, and next steps.
Bring leaders, stakeholders, and communities together to generate insight and momentum.
Whether you need a workshop, advisory engagement, futures event, intelligence briefing, scenario process, or bespoke strategic support, we can help you shape what comes next.
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.
