The Future Day
Equip your executive team with strategic foresight capabilities in a single, high-impact day designed for busy leaders.
The Problem
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C-suite leaders face complex strategic decisions amid unprecedented market volatility and technological disruption
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Traditional executive off-sites rarely provide structured frameworks for addressing future opportunities, threats, and uncertainty
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Hectic schedules day-to-day makes it challenging for executives to step back and assess long-term strategic implications
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Leadership teams struggle to align on which emerging trends demand immediate attention versus steady monitoring
Why Now?
- The pace of change is accelerating but the strategic response time is not following suit
- Decision windows for major strategic moves are shrinking, requiring faster executive alignment
- Competing interpretations of market signals lead to strategic paralysis at the highest levels
- C-suite teams that build shared foresight capabilities create significant competitive advantages
The Future Day: What It's Designed to Unlock
A single-day, executive-focused intensive that helps your C-suite:
Understand the movements in your industry
Identify emerging trends and competitive dynamics
Map critical uncertainties
Align on key variables that will shape your future operating environment
Develop rapid scenario frameworks
Create plausible futures to test your current strategic assumptions
Evaluate strategic resilience
Assess how current initiatives would perform across different scenarios
Establish executive sensing protocols
Design lightweight systems for ongoing horizon scanning
Future Day Structure
Morning Session: Strategic Context & Landscape
Frame critical challenges and map key trends and uncertainties
Midday Working Session
Develop scenarios and begin implications discussion
Afternoon Session: Strategic Implications & Response
Stress-test current strategies and identify action priorities
Closing Session: Sensing & Next Steps
Design approach for continued monitoring and determined follow-up actions
What You'll Walk Away With
Shared understanding of critical uncertainties facing your business
Preliminary scenario frameworks to guide strategic conversations
Initial assessment of strategic opportunities and vulnerabilities
Prioritised list of immediate actions and longer-term options
Executive-level sensing protocol for tracking key indicators
Common language for discussing strategic uncertainty in future meetings
What We Need From You
- Full-day commitment from C-suite participants (no partial attendance)
- Pre-session completion of brief executive questionnaire (15 min)
- Key strategic documents shared in advance
- Candid participation and willingness to challenge assumptions
- Appropriate off-site venue conducive to strategic thinking
Who It's For
- Complete C-suite teams seeking strategic alignment
- Newly formed executive teams establishing their strategic direction
- Leadership teams facing significant disruption
- Boards and executives preparing for major strategic decisions
- Executive teams transitioning between strategic planning cycles
Why We Built This Program
After working with executive teams at several global enterprises, we recognised that even the most sophisticated C-suites often lack structured processes for collectively addressing the future. The Future Day emerged from seeing how powerful a focused, facilitated session could be when designed specifically for executive bandwidth constraints.
This intensive format delivers the core value of strategic foresight in a time-efficient package that respects the unique dynamics of C-suite decision-making.
Optional Continuation
Most executive teams use the Future Day as a catalyst for embedding strategic foresight capabilities more deeply within their organisations. However, the day is designed to deliver standalone value with no further commitment required. Many teams choose to continue with a yearly future day to maintain their foresight edge.
Value Enhancers
Expanded Pre-Reading Package
Curated insights on emerging trends specific to your industry
Executive Team Debrief
90-minute follow-up session two weeks after Future Day
Waterfall Workshop
Half-day session to share insights and frameworks with next-level leaders
Executive Signals Dashboard
Customised tracking system for C-suite horizon scanning
Quarterly Foresight Pulse
Brief virtual sessions to refresh scenarios and monitor signals